New academic year, new homework strategies that work

Ready or not, here comes – home duty! Regardless of their age, our children, adolescents and youth will need to have their tasks. It is a skill, in fact, a strategic skill that requires Executive performance You can make a difference between a school feeling like torture room or anything confident of your child.

Create dedicated space

Our children and adolescents need a dedicated place, unlike their bed, as they have a space for their plan, books, laptops and folders. Extension if you want it. Maintaining the surface is free of any elements. Place all pencils, paper, mail, pens, tape, etc., inside the office. Take one topic simultaneously with its elements. Upon completion, put these elements again inside the backpack, and go to the next task. Your child or TeenagerThe S office should be placed away from a window, entrance, against or between two ordinary walls.

A specific place clearly for homework, study and writing leaves help create a file border About space and its purpose. It also gives a feeling of controlling the space and the goal that will be accomplished while it is in this space. There is no time or energy to answer the question, “Where do I work in my home duty?” Every day, there is a little time spent trying to prepare the space for a task. It is reset at the end of each night and is ready again for the next day.

Start

At the end of the school day, our children are spent and they do not want to work on more school work. Our children of all ages can take a kind of collapse of the movement before the start of the homework, which may mean riding a bike, jumping on trampoline, walking, lifting weights, walking crabs, and crawling bear – something that creates a material organization and brings attention Return to the target – the homework is done.

Now that you and your child/teenager/young man have a custom space, it is time to get a certain start time. Starting, or getting a task like home duty (low preference mission) is really difficult. Our children and adolescents often Stall Because the task looks boringOr it seems that it will take a long time.

After the movement break and a light meal, let’s start! Work on some problems simultaneously, write one paragraph at one time, read a few pages at one time, and dismantle the task enough until it is accomplished.

Motivation control: Think before arrival

What is the relationship of control of the motivation with homework? This means stopping notifications on the phone and placing the phone in another room or on the other end of the room; Basically, away from hand. All electronics are far -fetched, so there is no chance of distraction.

The transition to school often comes with a sigh due to the limited free time. The goal is to accomplish the work so that the rest of the evening can be eliminated in engaging in self -directed activity or at least in the tasks not associated with the school.