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Joanna Argys

To ensure that your child has the best year possible, The Vocational Educational Journal offers the following tips for homework:

1. Have a regular place for your child to do homework.  Select a location where there is quiet, a desk or table, and plenty of light.
2. Establish a regular time for your child to do homework.  You may want to make a rule - no television until homework is finished.
3. Help your children plan how they will use their homework time productively.
4. Set a good example.  While your child is doing homework, you spend some time reading or working.  When homework is done, talk about how much both of you accomplished.
5. Teach organization.  If your child can't find their homework, they can't complete it.  Give them folders to keep their subjects separate, and a notebook or pocket calendar where they can write down assignments.
6. Refresh them on the basics.  It may be be Internet age, but your child still needs to know how to use reference books.  Help them brush up on the "how-to's" of dictionaries, atlases, encyclopedias and other references.  If you're not so sure about these things yourself, ask a librarian.
7. Use a checklist.  Each afternoon, run through a homework chcklist with your child.  Ask:  What are today's assignments?  Do you understand what you're supposed to do?  Do you have a study plan?  Help them get started if they are having trouble getting organized.
8. Turn off the TV.  Don't buy your child's argument that TV is "just background noise."  Research says that too much time spend in front of the television affects school performance.  Keep homework time distraction-free.