Ann K. Dolin
Autor de Homework Made Simple: Tips, Tools, and Solutions to Stress-Free Homework
Sobre El Autor
Ann Dolin, M.Ed. is a former Fairfax County, VA public school teacher with a Master's degree in Special Education. She has over 20 years of teaching and tutoring experience. After a successful teaching career, Ann founded Educational Connections Inc. with the goal of providing individualized mostrar más one-to-one instruction based on each student's learning style. Today, her company employs over 140 tutors, serves the entire metropolitan D.C. area, and has worked with over 4,000 students. She currently resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children. mostrar menos
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With over twenty years of teaching and tutoring experience, Dolin has written Homework Made Simple to help parents help their children to learn how to do their homework, thus taking the stress out of the homework experience. In the preface, she recognizes that “there is no one cure-all for homework challenges.” Thus, she seeks to share solutions that are diverse and reflect the specific problems that different students encounter. The book is divided into three sections. In Part I, “Getting Started,” the three chapters deal with finding the real problem, how parenting styles affect homework, and some principles that will work for all kids. The six chapters of Part II contain almost 100 ideas to choose from for solving frequent, but challenging homework problems for the disorganized, the rusher, the procrastinator, the avoider, the inattentive, and the easily frustrated. Part III concludes with three chapters discuss improving study skills, which includes a very interesting discussion of learning styles, handing difficult situations, and putting it all together. There is a list of resources at the end for those who would like more information. Did you know that studies shows that students who go to bed right after studying retain more information than those who engage in activities such as listening to music, watching TV, or playing video games? That’s just one of the tips that you’ll find in this very useful book.
Homeschooling families probably don’t have much problem with actual “homework” per se. However, I have heard complaining by frustrated homeschool parents about how their children were not doing their homeschool work, and even as a homeschooling father myself have experienced the same thing, so the tips, tools, and solutions that Dolin suggests in the book can undoubtedly be applied to the homeschool situation to great benefit as well. I highly recommend this book for parents of any school-age children, whether in institutional schools or in homeschool.… (más)