The students who did the homework did well on the tests. My parents were very confused because their children told them that there wasn’t homework and when they asked me, I told them that there was optional homework. A small percentage of students completed their homework. Another year, I assigned optional homework. My parents hated it and I found that my students were not as successful on tests than students the previous year. Most of my students loved this, although a few still asked for homework. Over the last couple of years, I’ve played educational whiplash on the issue of homework. The research on homework is a confusing mess of reasons for and against assigning homework. Should math teachers still be assigning homework? Many parents feel insecure about helping their children with their homework. Also, the common core standards and the backlash against them have created math homework issues. This puts students in poverty at a disadvantage against more affluent students when it comes to homework. So many of our students today may not have anyone at home to help them with their homework. If you haven’t read it, you really should because it’s amazing. Eric Jensen’s book, Teaching with Poverty in Mind: What Being Poor Does to Kids’ Brains and What Schools Can Do About It looks at this issue. I’ve taught in schools with high poverty for most of my career and that has shaped my outlook on homework. No Homework Day encourages students to take a break from homework for a day and focus on other rewarding activities like sleeping, reading a good novel, creating art, playing a sport, or any other such activity.Let me start by saying that I haven’t graded homework in years.
The No Homework Day isn’t about removing homework completely from the picture, but it is meant for everyone involved to take a step back and relax. Professors at Duke University have suggested that the 10-minute rule should apply to homework. Homework eats up children’s free time for other activities necessary for development, and its importance in learning is rather obscure. Research has shown that homework can lead to stress, thereby being counterproductive to the learning process. It is expected that on this day, parents give their children a break from homework and that teachers at school equally take a break from giving homework. No Homework Day was created by couple Thomas and Ruth Roy as a means to help students focus on activities other than homework.
0 kommentar(er)
