Setting Up a Homework Environment

While even the perfect working environment cannot guarantee that a student will want to do homework, creating a better place to work can help them focus on the task at hand.  Setting up such an environment at home is as easy as following these simple strategies:

• Provide a comfortable place in which to work without distractions, like a desk or table.  Homework should be done in the same ‘space’ as much a possible.
• If possible, use full-spectrum lighting.
• Calm the homework beast with music at 60 beats/minute or less to help with attention issues and sensory processing, support organized body movement, and assist in actively engaging the learner and providing structure for organized thinking

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)