Strategies for Setting Up a Positive Homework Environment
- Provide a comfortable place in which to work without distractions
- If possible, use full-spectrum lighting
- Calm the homework beast with music at 60 beats/minute or less
- Helps with attention issues and sensory processing
- Supports organized body movement
- Assists in actively engaging the learner
- Increases the brain’s alpha and beta waves, which are associated with a quiet, alert state, ready for learning
- Helps to provide structure for organized thinking, ex. writing reports or papers or doing activities that involve planning
Music suggestions:
- Native American Flute
- Peruvian Mantra
- Mozart for Learning (Caution: Some Classical is too rambunctious. The key is 60 beats per minute or less.)
- Enya
- Typically, music without words (which may be distracting)
You can easily determine the beat of the music using the second hand of your watch or clock.