Foster Better Homework and Study Habits

Help families support their students' homework efforts without taking over. This Meeting Resource Kit helps you provide families with practical and effective ways to foster student independence, improve routines and address common homework struggles.

This 100+ page Resource Kit serves both elementary and secondary levels and includes guidance and age-appropriate materials for engaging families at meetings and throughout the year.

Give Families Strategies to Use at Home

Reproducible handouts and newsletter articles cover important topics such as test preparation, time management, organization, responsibility, note-taking, listening, motivation, learning strategies and homework problems.

The Kit also includes guidance for effective homework policies, answers to common questions families have about homework and ideas families can use to reinforce classroom lessons and guidance for effective homework policies.

Educators can share handouts and newsletter articles during a family meeting and continue using them to provide consistent communication throughout the year. This repeated support helps families establish and maintain effective routines and habits.

Ready-to-Use Materials Keep Families Engaged All Year

Show the professionally narrated videos, or lead your own session with the PowerPoint presentations, scripts and Leader's Guide. Use the included announcements and invitations on social media and websites, and in email and backpack flyers.

The presentation materials help staff explain how families can support effort, motivation and student responsibility. Handouts give families clear actions that match their student's grade level and learning needs. 

What's Included

The Kit includes:

• Two professionally narrated videos on effective homework and study skills: one for elementary families and one for secondary families
• Two ready-made, customizable PowerPoint presentations, each with a script and Leader’s Guide
• Reproducible handouts and newsletter articles on test preparation, time management, organization, responsibility, critical thinking, note-taking, motivation, learning strategies and overcoming homework struggles
• Answers to common homework questions, activities for reinforcing learning and guidance for establishing effective study routines
• Announcements and invitations for social media, websites, emails, backpack flyers and other channels
  

Reproducible Kit components are provided digitally via an online portal and the printed Kit comes in an organized storage binder for easy reference year after year.

Plus, you receive supplemental printed publications to distribute to your families:

• 50 copies of the Top Five Study Skills Every Student Needs booklet
• 50 copies of the Homework Time Made Easier And More Effective tri-fold brochure

Kits are available in English and English with a Spanish supplement.

Resource Kit Pricing

For quantities not listed, please email customer service at customer@parent-institute.com.