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How Do Orange Parents
Help With Homework?
“Frequent and monitored homework” is one of the guidelines for excellence set forth by the president’s “Nation at Risk” commission on education. Model school Prospect Heights in Orange sends home an eight page pamphlet telling parents exactly what’s expected.
In this middle school, teachers assign approximately 30 minutes of homework per night to 6th graders, 60 minutes to 7th graders and 90 minutes to 8th graders. Parents are asked to supervise homework in the following way:
Every family has different circumstances, and therefore, hard-set rules for the schedule are impossible. Guidelines are possible.
1. Do not make students do homework as soon as they get home from school. Children need exercise, fresh air, and involvement with other children. The schedule should not keep children from having fun with their friends and their brothers and sisters.
2. Plan the quiet time to be when all members of the family are usually home. Monday through Friday, right after the evening meal, is an example. Try not to run study time right up to bedrime. Continuing the study time to include Friday night actually works out better than leaving homework until Sunday. Sunday has too many unexpected reasons for breaking the schedule. There is also a nice feeling on Sunday night knowing that all homework is already done.
3. Reward the child often for staying with the schedule. A reward included in the schedule could be a break before bedtime.
4. In the schedule, plan the time and the place where each child will do his homework.
5. If the child finishes the homework early or has no homework, the schedule should still be kept and the time should be used for reading or some similar activity.
6. Stick to the time frame until it becomes evident that it is consistently too much or too little. Then get everyone to agree to a change in the schedule.
7. At the end of the homework period, parents should plan five or ten minutes for checking homework.
8. Keep on the positive side. This can be a good thing for the family.
(Reprinted from “Parents and Homework" by the Prospect Heights Middle School administrative staff, approved by the Parent-Teacher Organization executive committee.)
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