Organizing Tips For Your Homework Binder
For students to be successful in school, especially older students with more homework and paperwork, it is important for them to have good organizational skills.
Need help with studying? Make a rulebook!
When students need help memorizing rules for your subject, one of the best study tips is to make a ‘rulebook’ for the topic you are teaching. Using a rulebook helps students remember key facts the same way that a rhyme or other method does,but may help students that do not find other methods helpful.
What is Working Memory?
When students struggle with memorization or memory in general, it is often a sign that their working memory is overloaded.
Please Help Me With My Homework – Spanish Translation
I've had my book, "Please Help Me With My Homework: Strategies for Parents and Caregivers" translated into Spanish. I was advised to have it translated into Castilian Spanish so that it would be universal. So, that's the dialect the book is presently in. I am not Spanish speaking. I had the book translated because of the need for Spanish speaking parents to have a resource to support their students. I do a lot of work with schools that have a significant bi-lingual population and believe this book may help some familes.
About Types of Intelligence
As long as classroom instruction is primarily geared to reach only one or two of these different intelligences, a lot of kids will struggle to process the information being offered them and experience a serious disadvantage in achieving success.