with my students i make them take home any marked assessments to show their parents-they need a parental signature on them which they bring back to show me their parents have seen their work, and i record this in my markbook.
I would make sure she is using her diary to record homework, and check that she is doing it. Every subject should give her an assessment schedule -it is worth having a large desk planner and writing all the due dates straight on it so you can clearly see when major things fall due.
Email is the best way to catch most of us since we are usually in the classroom-some subjects may have homework books depending on the school eg maths, science.
One of my girlfriends is a teacher and she has some students who have homework issues, the parents now get the homework assignments emailed to them on a daily/weekly basis, which ever is applicable due to the subject matter.
Have you sat down with your extended family and discussed the issues you are having. Maybe in a "family forum" style meeting, letting them know the issues, you may be able to solicit help.
Also would it be possible for you to study something as well, so the both of you sit down to study at the same time? Just a thought. I know that sitting down with my cousin to study at the same time helped me focus, even though he was doing an adult education type course, from memory he was doing a stonework course so was reading up about the theory of stoneworking, but it helped me see others studying.
I'm glad I popped into this thread. It's given me some great ideas for helping my eldest DSS (almost 13) with homework compliance.
Last year he was in year 7. We had a great relationship with his home room teacher, and we would ask him every single night if he had homework. His reply more often than not, was "no". He would tell us he either finished it in class, or that he wasn't given any. Then we got his end of year report and almost every single class report mentioned his failure to hand in homework, grrrrr! When we confronted him he basically admitted to lying all semester about homework. We basically told him to enjoy his school holidays, because next year (this year now) we were going to be very strict with homework. We've already hold him that if he tells us he has no homework then he only gets 1 hour of electronic entertainment for the night (playstation/computer etc). If he has homework, then once he completes it he can go nuts on the electronics as long as he can prove to us that he's finished the homework and that it's an appropriate standard.
I love the idea about asking his teachers if they can email us his homework though! We haven't found out his home room teacher yet, or what teachers he has for classes, but we'll have to make an appointment with his home room teacher as soon as we find out.
Sorry to hijack your thread! I hope things improve for you a little this year
Do check with the school about the email contact. Some schools are implementing this in various forms.
DD is doing VCE and she can access information she needs and submit it directly to the school.
Another thing you may like to investigate is maybe a youth group/teen group in your area. DD was tapped into one through Anglicare when she was about the same age. She didn't cope very well with my miscarriage and the councellor used to see her after school and drop her home. Because DD was involved in this service she was also eligible for these awesome leadership/confidence camps in the school holidays. It cost me nothing (sole parent), and she really enjoyed herself.
I think kids need sources of friends outside school esp in the teen years. Things aren't so hard when you have people on the outside
thanks for that lulu. this is my youngest of several children. with the others they did go to various things that sound similar to what you are talking about. i dont know if it helped them. but definitely having outside hobbies sports interests helps at that age. she is interested in drama which is quite costly and not necesarily so local either so i have not chased it up.
thanks for all the hints everyone has been really helpful and i will chase this all up thank you.
Gosh, this sounds like my DS who is in yr 7. He has had a few little projects here and there but no consistent homework.
Luckily next week he gets his school report and we have teacher inteviews on the thurs. So will def. be asking abt the 'homework' issue. I remember going to highschool in the 80s, Im pretty sure we had maths/english every night. My DS - nothing. I also put it down to a 'boys' thing...
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