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| Subject: | RE: Homework |
| Author: | lindaparmenter |
| Date: | Aug 10 2006 |
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activities. Students have often indicated to me that they were unable to
complete a homework assignment because of a game or pactice. It seems some
parents are more interested in their child's extracurricular activities than
their academic performance.
On Aug 10 2006, Mathman wrote:
> On Aug 9 2006, Craig wrote:
> Why do you have your students do
> homework at all?
>Homework is a difficult issue (for lots of
>
> different reasons) for most teachers.
It should not be. Why not
> put the issue, if it exists, back where it belongs, with the
> parents? One must presume that the teacher is at first
> conscientious, and assigns homework for specific and good reason,
> and that the work assigned is both reasonable and sufficient for the
> particular course of study.
Beginning students practicing the
> piano do not quit when they have to practice their scales and
> arpeggios at home every day other than the day of the lesson.
> Students of martial arts don't sit around eating chips and gallons
> of pop the rest of the week if they want to progress at a reasonable
> pace, and they daily do the most boring of exercises. All lead
> towards a specific goal, which has rewards big-time in their future
> endeavours. Homework does the same. Students can look and listen,
> and perhaps learn, and even perhaps understand. However, in order
> to be able to use what they have learned with some skill in later
> years, they should practice, and put it into a wider perspective
> with numerous applications. Homework allows the time for that.
> Without it, they have simply flash courses during which some appear
> to be temporarily successful, but have in fact learned nothing in
> the long run.
Parents should demand homework, not question it.
> It allows not only for understanding, but if diligent, allows for
> mastery and simple ease of use. As in long distance running, the
> initial struggle is painful, but it soon becomes much easier
> through force of habit. When students are studying calculus, they
> should not have to think for a moment about the structure of the
> rational expressions they encounter and then deal with. That must
> then be simply the bricks on which they build bigger ideas.
Just
> an opinion, but I firmly believe that homework, either assigned or
> voluntary is essential for imminent success. Ideally, that is a
> habit that they will apply as adults in their daily work for similar
> results.
David.
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