Dry-erase boards can make a fantastic homework tool for any child. Whether you and your child are battling a learning disability or simply a lack of interest in school, dry erase boards can help check off those assignments with much less hassle and a lot more interest.
All day long, your child sits in a classroom and handles paper, pencils, and erasers. Coming home to more of the same can be tedious and can create a sense of foreboding when it comes to getting the homework done. With the simple change from paper to dry-erase boards, the content might be the same but there is a new light that shines on the work itself.
One of the biggest drawbacks to homework is the frustration. A single piece of paper can end up mangled, ripped, crinkled, and messy thanks to the process of figuring it all out. Your child writes it down, finds a mistake, and erases it. He tries again. He erases again. Once again he takes a stab at it. He erases again. He looks at his paper which gives him the direct feedback of "not getting it" and he leaves the table in search of something to do that will give him better feedback.
Dry erase board offer more structure to help figure it all out. With the ability to practice first, to write it out in visually discriminating colors, and the clean erase factor, homework can be looked at like a whole new learning experience. There is no need to struggle through the erase and forget it aspect because it can be highlighted right there on the dry erase board in several fun colors.
It not only gives your child a platform to practice everything from drawing to math problems, but it helps you get the visual image across of what comes next. Have a difficult math problem? Doing each stage in a different color marker on the dry erase board provides the visual imagery necessary to create the problem in each stage. This helps to break it down into smaller more manageable chunks.
Naturally, there is something much more fun about colors and being able to work it out on the big white board. Just like the chalkboard has a draw for most children in the classroom, the dry erase homework board can make things just a little less tense. When you're talking about homework frustration, anything that can be less tense is huge. There is no reason why a child should feel as though they are failing when success is right at their fingertips.
When the problem or assignment is completed through each stage, your child then transfers the work to paper, giving him a second reinforcement about how it was done and why it works well this way.
This doesn't just apply to math. Reading, social sciences, and other subjects can be covered in the very same way. With the environmentally friendly, kid friendly, and homework friendly addition of the dry-erase board, after school homework time may very well turn into much less of a struggle.
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