Overusing Teachers’ Websites
Posted on February 25, 2008
Filed Under Helping Parents Help Kids, Improve Your Skills, Learning Tips, Teaching Tips |
Getting homework assignments on-line from teachers’ websites is wonderful. However, overusing the service has a down side—it erodes responsibility.
The old-fashioned way of copying assignments from the board, legibly, and gathering the books and materials, requires a variety of valuable life skills. It also requires responsibility, the ‘R’ on our acronym STRONG.
If assignments are available only on-line, or if your children overuse the service, here’s a suggestion. Talk to the teacher(s). Encourage them also to write assignments on the board.
Then, encourage your children (and if necessary, help them develop strategies) to:
- copy the assignments from the board,
- remember to bring them home, and finally,
- remember the required books and materials, too.
These simple tasks contribute to building valuable life-long organizational skills and responsibility.
For additional information, there are numerous books and programs on study and organizational skills, such as our Improve Your Study Skills series. Also, you may find our book Why Bad Grades Happen to Good Kids valuable, because it contains numerous tips and strategies.
Linda & Al Silbert
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