Homework Completion Strategies
Strategy 1
All students receive a homework tracker/planner at the start of the school year. Teachers model how to use this planner using the Focus 5 strategy during period 7 NEST. Using the the Team BLAST online homework board on this site, students are taught how to build a prioritized list of 5 assignments/tasks to record in their tracker each day. Students utilize this list as they work during NEST and complete remaining items for homework.
Other students have found the weekly tracker below to work better for them. Feel free to take a look and print a few to try if you feel this system may benefit your child.
All students receive a homework tracker/planner at the start of the school year. Teachers model how to use this planner using the Focus 5 strategy during period 7 NEST. Using the the Team BLAST online homework board on this site, students are taught how to build a prioritized list of 5 assignments/tasks to record in their tracker each day. Students utilize this list as they work during NEST and complete remaining items for homework.
Other students have found the weekly tracker below to work better for them. Feel free to take a look and print a few to try if you feel this system may benefit your child.
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Strategy 2
Sometimes homework completion becomes an issue at home or you may discover that your child is reporting that they have done all homework, but Skyward grades are telling a different story.
A strategy that has worked for some students is to use the words expectations and rewards instead of punishment. For example, set the expectation that homework must be completed at night. You may find making a visual checklist for meeting this expectation is helpful.
Include items on the checklist, such as:
Expectation: Nightly Homework Must Be Completed
1. Sit at the kitchen table in adult’s view.
2. Log on to the Team Blast assignment board.
2. Show adult all work that is already completed either paper copy or submitted online.
3. Begin completing unfinished assignments that are due the next day or have a daily component (reading log).
4. If time allows, work on upcoming or missing assignments.
5. Pack up all school belongings neatly in the backpack.
When the work is completed, give a daily reward of gaming time or another enjoyable activity.
If the expectation is not met, a reward is not earned. This means no gaming time or whatever the agreed upon reward is.
Breaks are ok! If you notice struggling on the homework or working on a long assignment, offer a short break, (10 min. max) before returning to work.
The goal is to try and extinguish the unwanted behavior and reinforce a desired behavior. This can take a few days to a week to work, and there will be rough times along the way. While homework has been an expectation in the past, your child may believe they can get out of completing the work and avoid it. But, this plan does work if the plan is adhered to.
A Few Tips:
1. Choose a reward that has a big impact on your child having access to it.
2. Keep your child in your view so that you can monitor whether avoiding of work with a preferred task occurs.
3. Your child may fight this. They may cry, argue, and try to reason why it is unfair. They will push all of your buttons because it may have worked in the past.
4. This part is very hard...Let your child cry, argue and avoid work while you remain calm and ignore the behavior. Your only comment should be, "When you meet the expectation, you will be rewarded. Your reward is in your control."
5. Within a few days, your child will realize they cannot force you to give them what they want, and will begin to do work to earn the reward.
6. Again, the hardest part of this will be on you, not your child. You will have to make sure that the plan is followed to the letter and you will need to be strong enough to not give in to the child’s preferred activity until the expectation is met.
Sometimes homework completion becomes an issue at home or you may discover that your child is reporting that they have done all homework, but Skyward grades are telling a different story.
A strategy that has worked for some students is to use the words expectations and rewards instead of punishment. For example, set the expectation that homework must be completed at night. You may find making a visual checklist for meeting this expectation is helpful.
Include items on the checklist, such as:
Expectation: Nightly Homework Must Be Completed
1. Sit at the kitchen table in adult’s view.
2. Log on to the Team Blast assignment board.
2. Show adult all work that is already completed either paper copy or submitted online.
3. Begin completing unfinished assignments that are due the next day or have a daily component (reading log).
4. If time allows, work on upcoming or missing assignments.
5. Pack up all school belongings neatly in the backpack.
When the work is completed, give a daily reward of gaming time or another enjoyable activity.
If the expectation is not met, a reward is not earned. This means no gaming time or whatever the agreed upon reward is.
Breaks are ok! If you notice struggling on the homework or working on a long assignment, offer a short break, (10 min. max) before returning to work.
The goal is to try and extinguish the unwanted behavior and reinforce a desired behavior. This can take a few days to a week to work, and there will be rough times along the way. While homework has been an expectation in the past, your child may believe they can get out of completing the work and avoid it. But, this plan does work if the plan is adhered to.
A Few Tips:
1. Choose a reward that has a big impact on your child having access to it.
2. Keep your child in your view so that you can monitor whether avoiding of work with a preferred task occurs.
3. Your child may fight this. They may cry, argue, and try to reason why it is unfair. They will push all of your buttons because it may have worked in the past.
4. This part is very hard...Let your child cry, argue and avoid work while you remain calm and ignore the behavior. Your only comment should be, "When you meet the expectation, you will be rewarded. Your reward is in your control."
5. Within a few days, your child will realize they cannot force you to give them what they want, and will begin to do work to earn the reward.
6. Again, the hardest part of this will be on you, not your child. You will have to make sure that the plan is followed to the letter and you will need to be strong enough to not give in to the child’s preferred activity until the expectation is met.