Homework Solutions- Innovative Solutions for Teachers, Parents and Children for Managing Homework.
Parents and teachers have referred to this program as "The Missing Link" Between School and Home.
Victoria's proven methods will help your child:
- gain confidence, feel responsible and independent
- learn "How to Learn"
- improve test scores
- succeed, not only in school but in all aspects of life
- learn Time Management skills that help students get "real about time."
- establish communication skills that create situations where teachers teach to their style of learning
- strategies for over scheduled students
- about the brain's function and its impact on learning
- how personal personality styles impact learning
- strategies for benefitting from mistakes
- develop an organizational system that guarantees success
Christine Allcorn, Fountain Valley School Board Member, summarizes the value of Victoria's seminars:
"I recently had the good fortune of attending a seminar presented by the Homework Doc, Victoria Olivadoti. She began her presentation with the question, "How many of you think homework is a bonding experience for parents and children?" After a good laugh from the audience of Fountain Valley teachers, she proceeded to tell us the importance of homework in the education of children and the role parents, teachers, and students must play in the process.
The idea I found most compelling was that students must take ownership for their learning, and it is the job of teachers and parents to empower children to ask the right questions and take responsibility for the homework task. She retold stories that we all could relate to and about overambitious parents taking over school projects, such as science experiments and California mission building, to the detriment of the children. Sure the lights worked in the fully functioning replica of Mission Santa Barbara, but the ten year-old was not allowed to touch it and felt no part of the process. Ms. Olivadoti emphasized the importance of allowing children to fail on occasion for the benefit of learning. If a parent is always "fixing" the problem for the child-running to school to get a forgotten book or editing a paper to the point of rewriting-then what is a child to do when the parents are not there in the classroom or at college?
She also stressed the importance of teachers allowing children time to begin homework in class so that, if it is not understood, there is an opportunity to ask clarifying questions. It is the child's responsibility to know what is expected and what supplies are needed.
School is much more than academics. We have the opportunity to help children develop into responsible, critical thinkers who are ready to take on the challenges of adulthood. The Homework Doc shared how parents and teachers can use the mundane task of homework to accomplish just that."
Here are just a few comments Victoria has received over the years on the success of her program:
