Work on time management together - designate a time
for nightly homework and help your child stick to this schedule.
He suggests that parents can be involved in their child's classroom learning without coaching them
through nightly homework, and makes a valid point that type of responsibility and self - discipline that homework promotes might not really be what we want our kids learning after all.
The minor academic benefits to assigning
mandatory nightly homework simply do not outweigh the substantial drawbacks, which include potentially turning young children against school at the beginning of their academic journey.
featured Stephanie Brant, principal of Gaithersburg Elementary School in Gaithersburg, Md., who got rid of
nightly homework in exchange for nightly reading and longer projects.
My response: If a struggling math student told his teacher that
nightly homework proved too laborious, or that it took too long to complete, in most cases, that student wouldn't get excused.
McDougall Littell California Algebra, for example, relegates multiple representations to optional, separate «activity» pages, instead of integrating multiple representations into
nightly homework questions.
We need local and state school boards to investigate more fully the psychological and educational impact of laws and procedures so that the counterproductive ones are discarded (ie — tracking, whole class punishment, and too
much nightly homework).
So only a small sliver of the overall population has as much as three hours
of nightly homework.
Do not assume that, because a teacher directs students to seek answers to their own questions, doesn't
assign nightly homework, and isn't using a lot of multiple - choice assessments, he or she is not teaching.
It's a web service hosted at WPI that allows teachers to assign
nightly homework or daily class work.
Give yourself permission to deviate from the expectation of
nightly homework.
She told the Washington Post that she has based her decision on research that clearly shows the benefits of reading, both silently and aloud, for young children, whereas the benefits of
nightly homework have yet to be backed up by legitimate studies, despite the fact that many schools and parents act as if it is.
I feel it is essential to address all the areas in which children and their families encounter difficulties including
the nightly homework fiascos which make family harmony almost impossible.