Balancing the Big Stuff

Balancing the Big Stuff
Author: Miriam Liss
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2014-08-07
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1442223367

While the current conversation about work-family balance and “having it all” tends to focus on women, both men and women are harmed when conditions make it impossible to balance meaningful work with family life. Yet, both will benefit from re-evaluating what it means to have it all and fighting for changes in their relationships and society to make greater equality possible. Here, Miriam Liss and Holly Hollomon Schiffrin discuss the ways in which we all define “having it all” and how we can obtain it for ourselves through a better evaluation of what we want from ourselves, our families, our jobs, and each other. Determining a 50/50 division of labor around the house may not be the thing that works for everyone. Working from home or not at all may not be the thing to bring us satisfaction, but learning what studies show and how to feel balanced and make those decisions to bring balance is crucial. The authors argue that people can find balance in their roles by doing things in moderation. Although being engaged in both parenting and work is good for well-being, people can avoid the pitfalls of over-parenting and over-working. They show that balance can come from a meaningful consideration of what happiness and contentedness mean to us as individuals, and how best to achieve our goals within the limitations of our current circumstances. They illustrate that balance is not simply an individual problem. Social issues such as the lack of parental leave, flexible work schedules, and affordable, high quality child care make balance difficult. With attention now on the issue, they argue that it’s time men and women advocate for better services and better opportunities to achieve balance, happiness, and success in all their roles.

Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities

Strategies for Teaching Students With Learning Disabilities
Author: Lucy C. Martin
Publisher: Corwin Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2008-12-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 145229612X

"I wish I had this book when I started teaching! Every teacher starts out with an empty bag of tricks; it is nice to peek into someone′s bag!" —Nicole Guyon, Special Education Teacher Westerly School Department, Cranston, RI Classroom-tested strategies that help students with learning disabilities succeed! Teachers are often challenged to help students with learning disabilities reach their full academic potential. Written with humor and empathy, this engaging book offers a straightforward approach to skillful teaching of students with learning disabilities. Developed for K–12 general and special education classrooms, this resource draws on the author′s 30 years of teaching experience to help teachers gain a greater understanding of students′ learning differences and meet individual needs. Strategies are organized by skills—including reading, writing, math, organization, attention, and test-taking—helping teachers quickly identify the best techniques for assisting each student and encouraging independent learning. Readers will find: More than 100 practical strategies, interventions, and activities that build students′ academic abilities Recommendations on appropriate accommodations, assessment techniques, and family communication Support for complying with recent federal mandates related to learning disabilities, including the ADA, Section 504, and the reauthorization of IDEA 2004 Helpful guidance and stories from the author′s own classroom experiences Ready-to-use tools, forms, and guides Discover innovative, easy-to-implement teaching methods that overcome barriers to learning and help students with special needs thrive in your classroom.

The Case Against Homework

The Case Against Homework
Author: Sara Bennett
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-08-28
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 030734018X

Does assigning fifty math problems accomplish any more than assigning five? Is memorizing word lists the best way to increase vocabulary—especially when it takes away from reading time? And what is the real purpose behind those devilish dioramas? The time our children spend doing homework has skyrocketed in recent years. Parents spend countless hours cajoling their kids to complete such assignments—often without considering whether or not they serve any worthwhile purpose. Even many teachers are in the dark: Only one of the hundreds the authors interviewed and surveyed had ever taken a course specifically on homework during training. The truth, according to Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish, is that there is almost no evidence that homework helps elementary school students achieve academic success and little evidence that it helps older students. Yet the nightly burden is taking a serious toll on America’s families. It robs children of the sleep, play, and exercise time they need for proper physical, emotional, and neurological development. And it is a hidden cause of the childhood obesity epidemic, creating a nation of “homework potatoes.” In The Case Against Homework, Bennett and Kalish draw on academic research, interviews with educators, parents, and kids, and their own experience as parents and successful homework reformers to offer detailed advice to frustrated parents. You’ll find out which assignments advance learning and which are time-wasters, how to set priorities when your child comes home with an overstuffed backpack, how to talk and write to teachers and school administrators in persuasive, nonconfrontational ways, and how to rally other parents to help restore balance in your children’s lives. Empowering, practical, and rigorously researched, The Case Against Homework shows how too much work is having a negative effect on our children’s achievement and development and gives us the tools and tactics we need to advocate for change. Also available as an eBook

Homework

Homework
Author: Neil McNerney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2011-11-15
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780983990000

Offers strategies for helping children with their homework that involves getting parents to balance their involvement, overcome their fixed parenting styles, adopt a positive leadership role, and figure out their child's approach as a student.

Homework Made Simple

Homework Made Simple
Author: Ann K. Dolin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2010
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780971460980

Provides homework tips, tools, and solutions for parents and their children customized by the child's homework profile: the disorganized, the rusher, the procrastinator, the avoider, the inattentive, and the easily frustrated.

Homework EducationA Powerful Tool Of Learning

Homework EducationA Powerful Tool Of Learning
Author: Arbind Kumar Jha
Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2006
Genre: Home and school
ISBN: 9788126906475

Very Fundamental Thing About Learning Is To Be Willing To Learn And Homework Provides A Good Opportunity To Learn. Homework Opens The Prime Window Of Opportunity For Students To Reinforce And Recreate Learning, For Teachers To Extend, Create And Facilitate Creative Learning, For Parents To Be Involved And To Observe Child S Progress In Education, For School To Disseminate And Implement Homework Policies And Practices And For Administrators To Review And Monitor All Teachers Homework Guidelines And Make Appropriate Recommendations For The Development And Progress Of Students Learning Capacity And Capability. All The Guardians Of Education Administrators, Schools, Teachers And Parents Through Homework Can Spark Enthusiasm In A Child And Help Teach The Most Important Lesson Of All That Learning Can Be Fun And Is Well Worth The Effort.Some Of The Questions Most Frequently Enquired Are: " Why Do Teachers Assign Homework? " Why Is Student Supposed To Do His/Her Homework? " Do Homework Assignments Really Help The Child Learn? " Why Is He/She Getting So Much Or So Less Homework? " How Can I Get My Child To His/Her Homework? " How Can I Help My Child With His/Her Homework When I Myself Do Not Understand It?The Book In Hand Helps Answer These Questions And Many More That Parents And Others Who Care For Children Most Often Ask About Homework At Various Levels Of School Education. It Examines The Efficacy Of Homework As An Instructional Method, Develops A Sequential Model Of The Factors That Influence Homework Outcomes And Proposes Homework Policy And Guidelines For Teachers, Schools, Students And Parents. Included Are Pragmatic Ideas For Helping Students Complete Homework Assignments Successfully, For Teachers To Create And Assign Creative And Challenging Homework That May Make The Students To Think.In Short, It Has Been Tried To Traverse The Whole Terrain Of Homework Education. Without Presuming To Be Encyclopedic, An Attempt Has Been Made To Take Cognizance Of The Predominant Elements, Concepts And Assumptions That Have Characterized Homework As An Intellectual Discipline.

Helping Your Child with Homework

Helping Your Child with Homework
Author: Kristen J. Amundson
Publisher: R&L Education
Total Pages: 20
Release: 1999
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780876522448

Noting that students' homework provides an opportunity for families and schools to work together to help students be successful in school, this booklet, designed for parents, offers suggestions for ways parents can use homework to become more involved with their child's education. The booklet discusses reasons for assigning homework, including helping students learn better and faster, informing children of their school's high expectations, and helping students develop self-discipline and responsibility. The bulk of the booklet discusses ways parents can support their child's homework: (1) make homework a priority; (2) show interest; (3) know the teacher's homework policy; (4) help your child set aside studying time; (5) work with your child to pick a study spot; (6) eliminate distractions; (7) help your child keep track of each day's assignments; (8) check your child's finished homework; (9) help your child develop a study plan; (10) teach your child to ask questions while studying; (11) make sure your child understands assignments; (12) help your child with time management; (13) learn how your child learns; (14) help your child visualize success; (15) emphasize the importance of hard work; (16) help your child study for tests; (17) give honest praise; (18) help your child work through confusion; and (19) remember whose homework it is. Finally, the booklet discusses what parents can do if their child is having problems, when they no longer understand their child's homework, and when homework involves a computer and the parents do not own one. (Contains 23 references.) (KB)