Sunday, September 24, 2006
We Don't Need No Homework
Interesting article, for those of you looking for some pedagogical tidbits. I'm fascinated by what folks say about the usefulness of homework -- I never want to be the busywork teacher. If you have any advice from a teacher that you remember assigning particularly good homework, please do share!
2 comments:
that's really interesting. we didn't have homework in my elementary school, and i seem to have turned out ok. ;-) but then, we're just a bunch of crazy liberals from massachusetts. hehe.
I dunno...We had hw in grade school, and it did help teach responsibility etc. But it wasn't outrageous -- for example I think in first grade (or third?) it started, with "word of the day," you were assigned a word and you had to go home and look it up and write a sentence using it. But then again, that was assuming that everyone had dictionaries. And depending on the home/society the kids are living in, they may have plenty of responsibilities already. (Then you have MY little brother, who is in his 3rd week of college, but forgot to ever finish his hs papers so never technically graduated...great lesson on responsibility there!!!) What kind of hw have you been giving your kids?
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