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Sitting but not doing homework
My daughter can sit for hours and not do her homework… says the bewildered mother.
A child can sit for hours and not do homework if he does not know how to do it well and is afraid to do these incomprehensible lessons. Why strain and do something difficult when you can just do nothing? In this case, you first need to sit next to your daughter and build her every action and every word, show where she should have a notebook, what she should do with her right hand, what with her left, what action is now and what is next. You sit down, take out a diary, take out a notebook, look at the diary for what items for tomorrow. You take it out, put it in, like this … Set a timer: practice for 20 minutes, then take a break for 10 minutes. We sit down again, look at the diary again. If the task is not written, we call a friend and so on. If a child often forgets something, write it down on a piece of paper, as a rule, and let it be in front of the child’s eyes.
If the child is distracted, set a timer. For example, we set a timer for 25 minutes and say: “Your task is to solve this math problem. Who is faster: you or the timer? When a child begins to work at speed, he, as a rule, is less distracted. If that doesn’t work, look elsewhere. For example, using a timer, you note how much time the child took to solve the example, and write this time in the margins (you can even without comments). The next example is still time. So it will be — 5 minutes, 6 minutes, 3 minutes. Usually, with such a system, the child has a desire to write faster, and later he himself can get used to marking the time, how much he copes with this or that task: it’s interesting!
If you teach her in this way — by actions, in detail and carefully — for the rest of the years you will not need to deal with the child’s school problems: there will simply be no problems. If you didn’t teach her how to learn in the beginning, then you will have to fight for your child’s academic performance for all subsequent years.
Teach to learn
Teach your child to learn. Explain to him that rote homework does not provide good knowledge. Tell me what your child needs to know in order to complete tasks as efficiently as possible:
- make notes when reading chapters and paragraphs;
- learn to compress the material to the main ideas;
- learn how to use tables and charts;
- learn to convey in your own words what you read in the text;
- teach him to make flashcards to quickly repeat important dates, formulas, words, etc.
- also, the child must learn to write down the teacher not word for word, but only important thoughts and facts. You can train your child to do this by arranging a mini lecture.
What’s the problem?
What does learning problems mean?
- Contact with the teacher?
- Making work in a notebook?
- Forgetting a textbook at home?
- Can’t decide, is he behind the program?
If the latter, then additionally engage in, catch up with the material. Teach to learn. Or very strongly motivate the child to figure it out and solve his own problems.
Learning from the end
Material memorization
If, when memorizing a poem, a melody, a text of a speech, a role in a play, you divide the tasks into, say, five parts and start memorizing them in reverse order, from the end, you will always move from what you know weaker to what you know more firmly, from material of which you are not entirely sure, to material already well learned, having a reinforcing effect. Memorizing the material in the order in which it is written and should be played leads to the need to constantly wade from the familiar path towards the more difficult and unknown, which is non-reinforcing. The approach to memorizing material as a chain behavior not only speeds up the process of memorization, but also makes it more enjoyable. See →
Consult with a psychologist
Seek help from a school psychologist.
Teach
I explained all the lessons myself — since elementary school is not so difficult, and he only went to school to get marks ..