Homework Help Tips
As part of this program you will be helping students to complete their homework. There is a chance that the ways that students learn have changed from how you remember learning.
Here are a few tips that will help you to coach your students effectively while working on homework.
Homework Help Tips
-Ask the students what they can do of their own homework first
-Help the students look for examples
-Help the students look for clues to what they should be doing
-Give positive encouragement
-Have the students get all of the materials they need prior to sitting down (this will help them to be less distracted)
-Try to find a quiet place to work on homework (still in the room and within site of the staff, but potentially away from other students)
-As a tutor, observe another student (one who seems to know what he/she is doing independently) doing the same worksheet to learn how the teacher might expect the homework to be done
Journal Response #6
Thinking about your style of teaching and your style of tutoring, please rank the tips above in the order you would use them when working with a student. In addition, please add two more tips that you have used or can find online and place them where you think they would fit in your order. Provide a link to your online sources if applicable.
Do not put your journal responses in the comments section below. Please use the Google document that we shared with you on Google Drive to respond.
For more information on helping students with tutoring you may want to try some of the tips from these blogs (you are not the parents of these children, but for the most part the advice is the same): http://www.ldonline.org/article/5606/
http://www.zooktutoring.com/tips-for-how-to-help-your-kid-with-their-math-homework/
http://voices.yahoo.com/tips-strategies-being-effective-tutor-5315671.html?cat=25
http://www.studygs.net/tutoring.htm
You may also wish to take a look at this example of teaching study tips, especially if working with older students: http://www.sedl.org/afterschool/toolkits/homework/pr_study_skills.html