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Homework Made Simple: Tips, Tools, and Solutions to Stress-Free Homework
This book is for any parent who has ever experienced stress, self-doubt, and anxiety over their child's homework. In Homework Made Simple - Tips, Tools, and Solutions for Stress-Free Homework , Dolin, an educator with over 20 years teaching and tutoring experience, reveals the core problems that commonly lead to homework stress. She identifies six key student Disorganization, Rushing, Procrastination, Avoidance, Inattention, and Frustration and provides tips and strategies to deal with the each type. The reader will find over 100 proven solutions to tackle difficult situations and the challenging homework problems that accompany them.
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272 pages, Paperback
First published September 16, 2010
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About the author
Ann K. Dolin
4 booksAnn K. 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 one-on-one instruction based on each student's learning style. Today, her company employs over 200 tutors, serves the metropolitan D.C. area, and has worked with over 8,000 students. Ann also provides presentations to parents on homework, motivation, and other educational topics. She currently resides in Northern Virginia with her husband and two children. Contact Ann at ann@ectutoring.com.
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August 12, 2013
Homework is not made "simple" in this book, but it's a really good book on homework, the best I've read, very helpful.
August 26, 2019
Found some useful tip to guide my child in the homework process this year!
March 10, 2020
Lots of great ideas and breakdown of various types of issues. Now to implement them
December 8, 2011
Do your kids have problems with their homework? There seems to be great disagreement about the question of homework. Some believe that students need more and more homework so that they can be prepared for the workforce and our nation can compete in the global market, while others feel that too much homework places undue pressure on children, takes away from other equally important activities, and just keeps them from being kids. Regardless of the debate, if students are in public, private, or parochial school, they will likely have some degree of homework. A lot of students have little difficulty with homework, but there are those who find that it is very stressful both for themselves and for their parents. Author Ann K. Dolin has an undergraduate degree in Child Psychology with Teacher Certification for grades 1-8 and an M.Ed. in Special Education. After a successful teaching career, she founded Educational Connections Inc., to provide individualized one-to-one instruction based on each student’s learning style.
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.
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.
November 6, 2013
After seeing Ann speak at my son's elementary school I picked up a copy of Homework Made Simple. I found it to be practical and easy to implement! It has drastically changed our homework routine.
My older son Parker aligned completely with the rusher and we've never had a great solution for dealing with this bad tendency. But with Ann's advice we've been able to get Parker to slow down and focus on the task in front of him.
I've recently revisited the book as my son, Chester is getting older. Chester is always fidgeting which drives me insane, but it was good to know that this is normal in kids his age.
I found Ann's book so helpful that I called her company to get a tutor for my step-daughter. We were matched with a great tutor, Betsy, who has really been able to help her work on her organizational skills! Overall I can't say enough great things about this book and the strategies it provides.
My older son Parker aligned completely with the rusher and we've never had a great solution for dealing with this bad tendency. But with Ann's advice we've been able to get Parker to slow down and focus on the task in front of him.
I've recently revisited the book as my son, Chester is getting older. Chester is always fidgeting which drives me insane, but it was good to know that this is normal in kids his age.
I found Ann's book so helpful that I called her company to get a tutor for my step-daughter. We were matched with a great tutor, Betsy, who has really been able to help her work on her organizational skills! Overall I can't say enough great things about this book and the strategies it provides.
March 16, 2014
My husband's colleague's wife wrote this book and he brought it home from a business trip. There is an easy assessment at the beginning so you can try to determine what type of learner your child is. It was easy to identify my oldest as one who gets easily distracted. We immediately followed the simple advice and it made a huge difference in the form of results. My son could see his own behavior in the assessment so it was easy for him to buy into the system recommended for his learning style.
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