Homework

role in student achievement. Although parents can become involved in children’s education many different ways, according to Catasambis (1998), parents who regularly and actively help and monitor children’s homework have the greatest impact on their children’s academic achievement. Homework gives an extra practice of what students learn in the classroom, but it can serve other purposes as well. It can provide opportunities for parents to know what their children are learning at school and to…

just how important not having homework is, and to suggest how FIAS could be more successful if not giving us homework. Do you know just how much homework we, year 8 students at FIAS get? Well we get heaps! Firstly, it’s very tiring and boring, and we are just going over what we learnt that day, and we are just writing it out again! That’s silly. Some teachers even yell at FIAS students for not paying attention in class. That is because kids stay up late doing homework and study all night hardly…

the massive amount of homework given out? For every high school student, homework is a very large part of his or her lives. Schoolwork given to do outside of school has a negative impact on students; it destroys an individual. The government should illegalize homework on account of the stress put upon teenagers, how futile it is as well as how it confines students from being themselves. Pupils are experiencing immense amount of stress because of homework, therefore homework should be…

room to complete a homework assignment assigned by his math teacher. But when he begins to dig through his backpack to find this homework assignment, he finds the other assignment from his math teacher and the other four assignments he had also forgotten about. The student is immediately overcome with a surge of anger due to stress and never seeing an ending to the long tunnel of homework. Just then his father walks in and the child snaps at him. Excessive amounts of homework can create an…

While I was still studying in middle school, I usually played a lot of games and refused to do any homework. For example, I would play on Saturday and Sunday and did all of my homework on Sunday night, which was a really unwise decision. However, I have changed after one time when I had to give up my sleeping time and did homework. It was a painful night, which I would never forget. I remember on that weekend, I played for the whole Saturday and half of the Sunday. My mom yelled at me while I…

Homework should be reduced because it affects parents more in many aspects. Parents are the staple in any child 's life. They hold together the bulk of everything and are responsible for a whole lot. Homework does not only take a large toll for children parent’s suffer from the large amount students get also. Parents have a ton of responsibility, their child 's homework should not create bigger problems for them. Household and parents stress levels are affected maining because of homework. This…

Introduction Recognizing the value of homework and what it means to students is essential when developing a homework intervention. Considering the age of the students sampled and the demographic, it was also important to consider the pre-established research of parental participating and expectation for lower income families. Homework also needed to stay within the science discipline and the intervention strategy required thematic elements that reflect those of science standards. This…

I have a homework policy in my classroom. Students must write their homework assignments in their agendas every day. If a homework assignment is not completed, a student will receive a code and complete the assignment at recess as well as stand on the fence for 5 minutes. I do not give homework every night. My policy follows Marzano’s suggestions/recommendations for providing productive homework because the instructions are clear and provide specific as to what they should do. I also go over the…

Ending Homework At Carson Junior High School administrators at Maria Yates saw that they were fighting a loosing battle outside their walls. Teachers were assigning homework but kids were not doing it. (Chicago Tribune Schools Lesson Plan no More homework 5/8/05 by Jo Napolitano). People have been debating the academic value of homework for over a decade. Mike Burman who teaches high school said "If students are in school 7 hours a day, what right do I have to interfere with their family…

parents have began to wonder whether or not homework was beneficial to their children or not. After spending their entire day in school, children are usually given extra assignments to complete at home when they could be spending that crucial time with family. There are said to be both positive and negative aspects of this topic. The article I chose to analyze was “Rethinking Homework” by Alfie Kohn. This article talks about the so called pros and cons of homework. It also talks about the…