What are your thoughts on homework?

This is far, far more manageable than the work my daughter, who is in the fourth grade, brings home. There has seldom been a day since kindergarten that she has not brought home homework until this year.. Now they do homework M,T,W,Thu, and on a rare occasion, on a Friday. Their worksheets are from lessons that can be downloaded from the internet. When she was in first grade, however, she was enrolled in a dual-language program, which I soon found out was focusing more on the second language as opposed to the primary language. Her homework came home, from the first day of school, written entirely in Spanish. Although her father can read and speak Spanish, he does work and was unable to home to help her. I cannot read or speak more than a few short and not so polite phrases in Spanish. They were also having to do double the work, as opposed to students not in the dual language program. I quickly yanked her out of classes. This year, homework is almost always math or spelling, something that most parents can help the student with at home easily, in most cases. The assignments usually have 10-12 questions in math problems or comprehension lessons over their spelling words. I am glad that her assignments are kept reasonable, so that I can help her with them at home if needed.

Homework is beneficial. It gives the student time to try the work on their own. Independent learning is great it also allows them to discover some self assessment which is critical to learning. I think u to an hour each night is not too much for students. Especailly starting in the third grade. There are math and reading that have to be learned. REading is always beneficial.

i used to be an assistant lecturer and i love to teach as well... for me, homework is essential to teach about responsibilities to the children as early as we can... this quality is needed when they get out into the real world later on in their lives and i had seen that this quality had been declining a lot especially in the teenagers nowadays... i had seen so many irresponsible people everywhere and it annoyed me... take care and have a nice day...

I think that homework is very important in re-enforcing the lessons from school that day. It also serves to teach responsibility. My second grade son gets homework every night, but Friday. He has had to learn to plan when he wants to do the work. Some days he will do it as soon as he comes home. Other days he waits and does it in the morning because he gets up early and has time. He is not a big fan of homework, but it does not that long, about 20 minutes, and helps him remember what they did in school that day.

First of all, thank you for being such a sensitive teacher!!! It is difficult to teach and I don't think any of you make enough! The time to worry about the amount of homework you give out is when you notice a lot of stressed out kids. I always performed better for the kind, sensitive teachers. I worked harder to gain their respect. Not enough people remember their childhood years. Amazingly enough the teachers who were tyrants in class were the ones who would say things like, "you better be prepared because in high school you will get even more homework" and "both adults in a family have to have a college degree or you won't be able to support your children". I was lucky enough to know when I entered high school I would also be more mature. I was right. And neither one of us have a college education. I have worked in the financial world for 15 years and my husband is an area service manager. We have a lovely home and three grown sons. We both have learning disabilities and were personally blamed for them in school. Who's laughing now! You go girl, your students will remember you fondly. Tough teachers and tyrants are two different things!

No problem with homeworks thought. The problem comes in when teachers of different subjects give out homework simultaneously where children have to submit them all on the following day or on the day after. This gives pressure not only on the students but on the parents as well. Worst if the parents are both working. Everyone's energy is already drained after a day's work. Thus, parents tend to do all the homeworks by themselves just to meet the short notice for deadline. In this way, a homework is not teaching the students from becoming responsible. Worst if all teachers from different subject give out homeworks & projects to work on days before the exam. I just couldn't understand how teachers' minds work nowadays. Probably they are being pressured by the school to do these things that they forget the essence of quality over quantity. Worst, again when teachers would ask their students to cut out pictures from the books (which can be donated to poor school in remote areas) for a Social Studies project. I wonder what the teacher is trying to teach the kids here. Can't he/she come up with one common picture and show these in his class instead of students cutting lots of pictures from books? A homework is not teaching the students much when they are pressured to work on a lot of things for different subjects.

Hi. asyria51. My thoughts are that the teacher can give too much homework everyday and expect it to be turned in everyday. My son has homework that has to be turned in every Friday. My daughter on the other hand has homework every Friday that has to be turned in on Monday of that following week. My son has a whole week to complete his homework before he has to turn it all in on Friday. Sometimes it is a lot of homework, but he gets it done when he has to though. He may do some of it on one day, then the next day, he does the rest. Homework is a great essential because it gives the student extra practice.

For me, I have nothing against homework. You're right that it is one way to develop the sense of responsibility and valuing education. To inculcate to students that it's not ending in school, but education must be valued wherever we are. That would also be a good way to refresh them of their previous lessons and to learn how to focus on what they should have learned. Giving homework atleast twice or trice a week is not that bad anyway. Just keep on doing your responsibilities as long as it concerns the benefit of the students.

I think that homework os important. it is a way of proving what students are learning or not learning. It can show what teachers may need to spend more time on. I think the higher grades should have more homework to do than those studentds in the elementaary grades. It may be too much to put the younger students.

Well Homework does have its useless. As long as students get some value from it, then it is more than okay. The problem is that I really did have so many teachers who assigned homework just for the sake of assigning homework. That's a very real trap that you can fall into so be careful about that. Still if you can get a lot of value out of something that takes a short amount of time like you said, then go for it for sure.

Practice makes perfect. No doubt, teacher likes to give many homework so that their student can practice it at home. A few question will do a great job. There are studies shows that repeating homework can really work. Homework not only train the student to be independent and also train the student to be able to complete the assignment on time. This will be useful when you go to work. So, homework actually a good training method to prepare you to a better future.

Giving homeworks to students are not problems. It is why they are students and why you are a teacher. Some of them may complain about these. But it is just their laziness. Seeing them complain might cause you to think that you should lessen their tasks. But you should also save in your mind that a person can never learn without difficulties. I think it is just fine letting them bring their stuffs because most or all of them may have school buses or fetchers.

As a educater, I think you did an excellent job, cause I want to be a teacher when I graduate from school. You give them assignment just two night, that is just proper amount I supppose.And you want your students to command their studies. I think you are good educater! Thank you on behalf of the teacher!

In my opinion the homework that you prepared for the fourth graders are absolutely manageable. Homework is a great way for students to be independent allowing them to teach themselves. Homework isn't just about responsibility of taking stuff home and bringing it back to school. Comprehending what the material is about is the most important. It's a great way for you as an educator to understand what the students are able to understand, and what they don't understand. Then you can move on from there.Ask the students what they don't understand and say feel free to ask? It also allows you to have a better student and teacher relationship by doing that. They will be more willing to open up to you and not scared to ask questions if they don't understand. Other great tips besides just correcting the homework, is have intuitive teaching. Let students take turns discussing the homework and share strategies. If no one speaks up then you can step in. Another important thing I must point out is plan out the due dates accordingly because it can be stressful for the student if they have to pass in homework all at once. Spread out the homework evenly.

My daughter is in 1st grade and she gets homework. She has a short story book to read each night as well as a story in her big reading book. She has two homework sheets one is a math sheet and the other is math and other things. She has to study her spelling words and vocabulary words each night as well. Doing all that takes under an hour I would say. After they have been in school all day learning they probably dont want to do homework at home but I love the time my daughter sits down and does her homework with me. I like to see how she does and help her with it.

Don't be give up to finish your homework... We can learn so many things if we do seriously. Good luck have a nice day :D