The Truth About Homework - Alfie Kohn.
Students should not be assigned homework on concepts and skills they do not grasp. DataWORKS Educational Research recommends assigning homework to provide additional repetitions of the content to promote retention and automaticity. The reason for homework is to practice the content, NOT to learn the content. Students learn the content (skills.
Parental involvement in homework should be kept to a minimum. Parental involvement should be limited to facilitating the student’s work such as providing a structured time and place. Of course, the implication is that teachers should assign independent level homework. The purpose of the homework should be identified and articulated to the.
Homework shouldn't be banned! I think that homework should not be banned because it is useful and it can be a helpful because if you get it wrong then your teacher can help you and then you will learn that. Because with ever mistake there is a learning to deal with it! Those are my supporting reasons on it!
Consequently, they have re-evaluated the rationale for assigning homework. Even though research by the Brookings Institution's Brown Center on Education Policy has shown that students did not increase the amount of time spent on homework between the mid-1970s and mid-1990s, parents and educators have become more insistent on modifying the system.
That's not to say, however, that homework does not have a place or a purpose, but if it is given it needs to be done with purpose and teachers need to make clear to the students what that purpose is.
In August 2017, it rolled out an updated policy, which emphasized that homework should be “meaningful” and banned due dates that fell on the day after a weekend or a break.
But today it has become a hard and fast rule that books need to be filled with homework whether or not it pays off.Not only high school kids but secondary and primary schools kids aren't spared from it. Whatever the age of the child is, he is often seen carrying a schoolbag much heavier than his own body-weight!. homework should be restarted.