[Repetition and further study doesn’t improve performance?]
Practice makes perfect. The more that you practice the better you’ll be.
Homework is important.
Maybe this is a reaction to the modern trend of too MUCH hw. Which does not work any better than a moderate amount.
I’m sure it depends on the child’s age.
Does it?
Depends on the kid.
I rarely did any at home. I did mine during lunch in high school.
In college, I did it on my days off of work or if I had a gap between classes.
Taking it home doesn’t make it more “special”, nor did it give me some amazing insight. I suppose some people here love the concept of homework just because they get off seeing a kid getting tied down on something they hate doing because it “builds character” or something, even though the same people would be livid if their boss told them to take some of their work home every night and it would be considered off-the-cock.
But homework has to be graded ... And THAT takes up the teacher’s time!
Yes, the emphasis and the lesson must be repeated several times, and it MUST BE REPEATED after a separation of time and envirnment to be effective (you re-learn it) each time, until “it sinks in.”
That is why the old multiplication tables and the old “printing” and cursive repition lessons wqere HARD. They were needed to drive the lessons into the mind.
Like running, hitting, fielding, or any other sports, music or dance. No one would seriously take any of these for advice, would they?
“Yeah, I saw a piano played once. I can do it myself now.”
“Yeah, I saw a major league game once. I can play like Michael Jordon now.”
The two greatest lessons I ever learned about homework and studying:
Of course it helps. Only a government worker would say otherwise. It’s crazy talk so they don’t have to teach anything of value.
Figuring out how to logically solve math problems through logical deduction? “Research” demonstrates that homework doesn’t help? isn’t homework a type of research for some subjects? She presumes that the time spent in class is all the time necessary for a student to learn all he or she needs to learn. That is really, really stupid on her part. That is exactly why students are not prepared to be adults these days. And to think that message is being taught to the students themselves is ridiculous. This teacher must be tossed from the education community, and be forbidden from having any contact with anyone under the age of 21.
The REAL question should be “If there is valuable information my child can learn, would homework benefit him/her?”
If it is homework in new math or BS sociology and PC engineering, then the less of it the better.
QUALITY not quantity (nor political value).
The classroom lecture is merely an introduction to concepts. Homework let’s you dig into the concepts and ruminate on them at length. The better textbooks lead you through problems that are increasingly challenging and conceptual.
Homework helps parents know what and how their children are being taught.
If designed properly, homework always helps. In the late 60’s, I moved from a school where I was doing two to three hours of homework a night, to a rural school where the district did not have sufficient funds to allow students to take books home at night, and so did not require homework. The difference in performance between the two school districts was significant. For an example of the difference, study hall would sometimes have 4 or 5 students in the back of another class. I was in 7th grade study hall, held in the back of the 8th grade Math class. It was the “B” section of the 8th grade. An exam was being given and I was bored, so I asked the teacher if I could take the test. I scored 12 points higher (92 of 100) than the highest grade in the class. It was all material I had covered before the end of the 5th grade (I started the rural school district in 6th grade).
Later, I earned a degree in Mechanical Engineering. There is no way a person could complete such a program without self-study and homework. Self-study and homework skills must be developed in elementary education. They can not be learned overnight.
Very few of our best and brightest enter education as a career. When they do, they are prize jewels to be cherished and adored. When you see something like this, where a “teacher” says homework is bad, you are seeing the results of a broken educational system. It is not the individual who is the problem, but the system itself has failed.
My dog sez it helps with his digestion. Good roughage.
I saw on Facebook a note from the teacher going home with students at an Anaheim Hills elementary school. She wrote that she was trying something new this year. The only homework would be something the student didn’t finish during the allotted time at school. She asked, instead, to have more family time with the student, more sports, and dinners together, and board games, and walks. I absolutely love this.
The only “homework” should be projects and reports that simply can’t be done at school, that take days of planning and preparation.
The busy work of reading chapters and answering questions, the too many math problems, not needed. I’ve homeschooled for years and there is enough time in school to have children participate. They shouldn’t just be lectured to.
That just has to work better, one would think. Except that you actually should try, at least briefly, to do the homework before you view the video. Then you will understand better what issues the lecture addresses.
Perhaps the teacher should tease the night's lecture by having the students try, for a bit, to work the problems before they have seen the lecture.
By this logic, eliminate school altogether. It’s not improving anyone’s performance either.
In our experience, homework for pre high school grades is nothing but inane busy work which reflects on the general IQ of the teachers involved.
If parents were somewhat intelligent, careful and alert, schools would back out of the homework business and allow parents to teach their children the basics of constitutional Republic civics, reading and math one hour per day. But so many parents are illiterate and brain washed.
Someone should come up with a parent’s guide to homework for the basics. Summers are a great time for alert parents to teach their children what is missing from the socialist and racist public re-education centers. No time should be wasted. If parents understood what is at stake, they would engage.
The only service public school homework does, is wake up parents to the incompetence they are dealing with.
It also teaches discipline, something many kids are incapable of.