Ways to Help Students

Homework Help Tips for Parents:

• Create a homework routine for your child if you don't already have one. Open binder reminders to review and discuss homework each night.

• Provide a quiet, well-lit place for your child to do homework. Help your child to set up the homework zone in a way that’s comfortable for his/her style.

• Encourage your child to do his/her best work and let your child know that you believe he or she can succeed with time and effort.

• If your child gets stuck on a problem, have your child access his/her online textbooks for homework help and hints.  Their math notebooks and toolkits are excellent resources as well.

• Some assignments may be easy, and others, quite challenging. Help your child to learn to persevere rather than shut down when challenged by a difficult task. Suggest using a different approach or suggest he/she give the problem a rest and come back to it after thinking about it for a while.   

Growth Mindset:

Research has shown that we must help our children to develop Growth Mindsets rather than having Fixed Mindsets.  Watch the following videos to understand what a Growth Mindset is, as well to gain insight on how we can help our children to develop this mindset.

What is a Growth Mindset?

Three Ways to a Growth Mindset