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Enhancing Homework Help Program: Strategies for Success

Learn effective strategies to support students in the homework cycle, track progress, create conducive settings, and interact supportively. Develop skills in communication and study habits to optimize homework help time.

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Enhancing Homework Help Program: Strategies for Success

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  1. homework help Gary Glasenapp & Candi Scott May 5, 2017 Western Oregon University 21st CCLC 2017 Spring Conference

  2. Objectives Participants will • understand the homework cycle and where there is need for supports. • have opportunities to develop strategies to make homework help time productive. • gain experience using a variety of ways to track students work and design the homework space.

  3. Agenda • Welcome • The Homework Cycle • Tracking, Settings, Routines, and Study Skills • Supportive Interaction • Homework Help in your program • Closing

  4. Housekeeping • Materials • Bathroom location • Take care of yourself (eat, drink, stretch, etc.) • Please silence your cell phone

  5. Homework Help and the Youth Program Quality Assessment (PQA)

  6. Make a group that contains each of these cards: • Teacher assigns homework • Student records and tracks assignment • Student completes assignment • Student hands in completed assignment • What is it supposed to look like? • What are some potential obstacles?

  7. The Homework Cycle

  8. The Strategies Communication • Communicate with teachers • Track individual students • Track the group Productive setting and routines • Establish a setting conducive to learning • Establish productive routines Supportive interaction • Be nice • Be available • Circulate • Ask rather than tell • Listen and encourage • Explicitly teach Homework and Study Skills

  9. Form 4 New Groups Strategy: Communication • Expert Group: Tracking Strategy: Productive Settings and Routines • Expert Group: Setting • Expert Group: Routines Strategy: Supportive Interaction • Expert Group: Study Skills Become an Expert • Use the guidebook and your own experiences. • Create a short presentation or demonstration (skit, role play, poster, etc.). • Highlight and explain a short practice activity from the guidebook.

  10. Strategy: CommunicationExpert Group: Tracking • Pages 12-16

  11. Strategy: Productive Settings and RoutinesExpert Group: Setting • Pages 4 and 27-28

  12. Strategy: Productive Settings and RoutinesExpert Group: Routines • Pages 4-5, 26, and 28

  13. Strategy: Supportive InteractionExpert Group: Study Skills • Pages 18-19

  14. Double Circles • Pair up

  15. Robot Activity • One tap to the upper mid back means “Go”. • Two taps to the upper mid back means “Stop”. • One tap on the right shoulder means to do a ninety degree turn to the right. • One tap on the left shoulder means to do a ninety degree turn to the left.

  16. Robot Activity • Who was the leader and who was the follower in this experience? Was it always like that? • When you thought you were the leader, did you ever do any following? • When you thought you were the follower, did you do any leading? • How does the Leader/Follower experience relate to tutoring or mentoring youth? • What does it mean to be a mentor/ tutor? • How can your interaction style influence youth engagement and success?

  17. Supportive Interaction • Page 17 • Be nice • Be available • Circulate • Ask rather than tell • Listen and encourage

  18. Application • Pages 20-22 • Choose an age group and a content area • Trade with a partner • Create a scenario for your partner • Trade back and respond • Share and provide feedback

  19. Design your Homework Help time

  20. Implementation • Close your eyes…. and imagine what your homework help session could be…

  21. Reflection • Write down one change you’ll make in your program for each of the ingredients: • Communication • Productive Routines and Setting • Supportive Interaction

  22. Be sure to check out these resources in your guidebook. • Sharing Homework Help With Others (30-33) • Tracking (12-16) • Interaction (17) • Study Skills and Self Regulated Learning (18-19) • Across Age Groups & Content Areas (20-22) • Research Review (36-40)

  23. Thank you! • Lingering Questions? • Evaluations • Contact Us… 124 Pearl Street Suite 601Ypsilanti, MI 48197734.961.6900 comments@cypq.org

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