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 • What Parents Can Learn From Homework

What Parents Can Learn From Homework: How to Give Help So Your Student Works Harder Than You

Homework is a fact of life throughout your child’s school years.  Homework is often a burdensome chore which disrupts family life and causes daily battles.  It can be a stressor which negatively affects a child’s self-image and attitude toward school.  With the right skills and understanding, parents can minimize homework struggles and use it instead to gain insight into the student’s learning style and true academic level.  Homework can be a positive experience for both parent and child.

Parents and child-carers taking this workshop will learn:
Specific tools for dealing with homework battles
How to reach kids who don’t seem to care about school
How to identify and use the child's learning style to enhance achievement
Find and use homework resources
How to give help so that the child works harder than you do
June Conley has over forty years of experience in child advocacy and parent education.  As a parent and grandparent, school director, teacher, tutor, guardian ad litem, and lobbyist on school issues, she has worked to promote the understanding and protection of children in seven states.  As director of an adult literacy program she recruited and trained volunteers to help children by increasing their parents literacy skills and parenting information.  June has unique experience working with international students and adoptees, teaching them language and acculturation, and has trained and supervised childcare workers and au pairs.

Ramesh Conley, Ph.D, NCSP is a Pennsylvania and National Certified School Psychologist.  In addition to private practice, Dr. Conley works with Elwyn Services Nonpublic School Program in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania providing psycho-educational evaluations and consulting to children in grades K-12.  Dr. Conley works directly with parents, teachers, and each child to determine the factors contributing to behavioral, emotional, or academic problems.