| Homework: Be a Stage Manager |
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| Ditulis Oleh: Lani Harac | |
| Saturday, 17 January 2009 | |
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Dr. Harris Cooper, a psychology professor and
director of the Program in Education at “There are lots of things a parent can do that
don’t necessarily tell a child what to do but help them study,” he says. Think
of yourself as a stage manager, Cooper recommends: providing a well-lit space,
making sure there’s a dedicated time for homework, having all the necessary
materials gathered in advance. And as much as possible, he adds, do
complementary activities of your own when your child is tackling homework. For
example, if your 10-year-old needs to read three chapters for English class,
you could say, “Let’s turn off the TV. I want to read”—then pick up your novel
or catch up with a professional journal. Likewise, math homework is the perfect
time to balance the family budget. Once your child gets started on homework,
monitor him to make sure he doesn’t start feeling frustrated. Let him know it’s
OK to ask for help. “If they walk away from the work, if they’re fidgeting,
they’re verbalizing frustration,” Cooper says. “Ask questions of your child
while they’re doing the homework. Not frequently, but enough so the child knows
you’re available.” Sometimes it might seem like your child is
spending too much time and effort on homework based on the assignment he’s been
given. If it does not happen often, Cooper suggests having the student walk
away for a quick break or work on something else for a while. But sometimes when it seems like an assignment
is taking hours, the child has only spent 30 minutes of dedicated time on his
work. The rest may have been lost to instant-messaging with friends, getting up
repeatedly for a forgotten tool, or other distractions and time-wasters. If
it’s more serious than that—if a child has spent two hours trying to work out a
single math problem—there may be more at play. “In the best of all possible worlds, before it
got to that point the parent would call the teacher and talk about what’s going
on in their house,” Cooper says. When you call, he adds, “the first thing is to
not be confrontational and to make sure that the problem your child is having
with the homework doesn’t relate to something other than the assignment itself.
If parents do that, if they then go to their teacher and say ‘We’ve looked at
these issues, and we don’t think the problems lie in how our own lives are
structured or how the homework is done, but it seems to be more to do with the
difficulty of the assignment’—if you do that, I think educators will respond.” Whenever homework troubles arise, guard
against the desire to avoid your child’s frustration altogether. Cooper
stresses that helping kids with homework is different from doing the work for
them. “Parents have to recognize that the only thing that kids learn when
parents do projects for them is that when the going gets tough, Mom gets going.
And that’s not a lesson we want our kids to learn.” Instead, he recommends helping your child work
through the steps of a problem. Give guidance, Cooper says—don’t give the
answer. That’s the best way to help your child learn. Be a stage manager. Make sure your child has a quiet, well-lit place to do
homework. Make sure necessary materials (paper, pencils, dictionary) are
available. Be a motivator. Homework provides a great opportunity for you to tell
your child how important school is. Be positive about homework. The attitude
you express will be the attitude your child acquires. Be a role model. When your child does homework, don’t sit and watch TV.
If your child is reading, you read, too. If your child is doing math, balance
your checkbook. Help your child see that the skills he is practicing are
related to things you do as an adult. Be a monitor. Watch your child for signs of failure and frustration.
If your child asks for help, provide guidance, not answers. If frustration sets
in, suggest a short break. Be a mentor. When the teacher asks that you play a role in
homework, do it. If homework is meant to be done alone, stay away. Homework is
a great way for kids to develop lifelong learning skills. Overinvolvement can
be a bad thing. |
The last bell of the day rings and classroom
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