MileHighBronco
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Protesters Demand No Homework
Fit, what subject(s) do you teach and what grade?
I taught for 25 years and homework was necessary. If you use instructional time to have students grade work, you are losing instructional time which is precious with all the administration demands on testing, testing, testing, practicing for the big stakes test, and testing, testing and more testing.
I am really curious as to your answer.
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RE: Evergreen State Protesters Demand No Homework, College President Hurries To Oblige
(06-01-2017 12:56 PM)LeFlâneur Wrote: (06-01-2017 12:04 PM)Fitbud Wrote: I never gave my students homework for two reasons.
1. I didn't believe in it. I never take work home and therefore shouldn't expect them to. They put in their 7 or 8 hours in school. Let them be kids after school.
2. They never turned it in anyway. I saw other teachers struggle with it all the time. What little they did get would be graded at home. They were simply giving themselves more work.
Back in the early 1990s, a study from the University of Michigan, found that the number 1 predictor of how well students do in class, was the time spent on homework.
And other studies have shown homework has very little impact on learning. Maybe your study compared students who did their homework vs. those in the same class who skipped it!
I have not talked to any educator (someone in administration as opposed to a teacher) who thought a lot of homework was beneficial. Note that I am talking about K-12. In college, you are expected to spend a couple hours of reading and other work for every hour in class.
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RE: Evergreen State Protesters Demand No Homework, College President Hurries To Oblige
I agree that a LOT of homework is counterproductive. At most, one hour because there are other teachers giving homework, too and kids need time to be kids.
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RE: Evergreen State Protesters Demand No Homework, College President Hurries To Oblige
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RE: Evergreen State Protesters Demand No Homework, College President Hurries To Oblige
(06-01-2017 12:18 PM)VA49er Wrote: Nothing wrong with homework. Now, 5 hours every night is asinine, but an hour or so of homework each night is a good thing. Helps kids reinforce what they learned that day.
Of course. Short reinforcement of the daily lesson is appropriate. It also allows the parents to have insight into what is being taught and allow them to help if needed. Homework used properly is great learning tool. I agree though that it should not take but a few minutes to complete.
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RE: Evergreen State Protesters Demand No Homework, College President Hurries To Oblige
Washington state.
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RE: Protesters Demand No Homework
(06-01-2017 07:44 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: Fit, what subject(s) do you teach and what grade?
I taught for 25 years and homework was necessary. If you use instructional time to have students grade work, you are losing instructional time which is precious with all the administration demands on testing, testing, testing, practicing for the big stakes test, and testing, testing and more testing.
I am really curious as to your answer.
Sounds like study hall
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RE: Evergreen State Protesters Demand No Homework, College President Hurries To Oblige
(06-01-2017 08:32 PM)maximus Wrote: (06-01-2017 07:44 PM)MileHighBronco Wrote: Fit, what subject(s) do you teach and what grade?
I taught for 25 years and homework was necessary. If you use instructional time to have students grade work, you are losing instructional time which is precious with all the administration demands on testing, testing, testing, practicing for the big stakes test, and testing, testing and more testing.
I am really curious as to your answer.
Sounds like study hall
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RE: Evergreen State Protesters Demand No Homework, College President Hurries To Oblige
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RE: Evergreen State Protesters Demand No Homework, College President Hurries To Oblige
(06-01-2017 12:59 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote: (06-01-2017 12:04 PM)Fitbud Wrote: I never gave my students homework for two reasons.
1. I didn't believe in it. I never take work home and therefore shouldn't expect them to. They put in their 7 or 8 hours in school. Let them be kids after school.
2. They never turned it in anyway. I saw other teachers struggle with it all the time. What little they did get would be graded at home. They were simply giving themselves more work.
Do you teach metal shop or are you just a bare minimum to keep the job sort of guy?
My wife taught for 2 decades and took work home nearly every evening.
Having to grade papers and do prep work at home at night was always one of the arguments for why teachers should only work 9 months out of a year now that w are no longer an agrarian based society which used to require summer off for field work...they all say that the 9 months should stay in place because they put in the extra 3 months at night...
This thread makes it sound like they don't put in that extra three months working at home at night.
Maybe it's time to revisit year round school and make teaching a true full time 12 month a year job. Otherwise teachers are getting paid for 12 months of work for only doing the equivalent of 9 months.
How does not assigning homework because kids won't do it or because they've put in their 7-8 hours even remotely prepare them for the rigors of college...unless they go a crap college like Evergreen CC?
BTW as an employer, if a resume from a grad of Evergreen CC crossed my desk, I will now toss it in the circular file.
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