How do you feel about homework? Do you think teachers should give homework every night? Should elementary school children have homework? In some countries, parents are trying to ban homework. Many parents think children should have the freedom to explore, discover, and read for pleasure after school. Some teachers agree. Other people think reviewing lessons after school is an important stage of learning and preparing kids for the workforce.
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well.. I've had students that ask for homework, or extra practice, but when you assign them a homework, or bring worksheets, or online exercises, they don't want to work.
In other cases, they don't bring their homework for a or b reason, and of course, there are some who "pay" others to do the homework for them. And of course there are those who like to "copy & paste".
So, I guess it's better to have lessons in class. Then you can see they are working.
May we aren't intrest in learning all o f usefull knowledges,but it's usefull!
For children (and for not so children) almost every day, specially if it is about learning lenguajes.
You don't know the fighting I have with my children every day to do the homework, but sure it makes them to avance faster.
I agree, there needs to be a happy medium.
In our country there is so much homework letf for the children after school,if the teacher didn't give home work to the children,their parents will ask the teacher why not?Believe it or not,the truth is so brutal,because the competition is so fierce,nobody can escape,even the children!!!
PS: If the child didn't want to stop playing that means that he didn't meet the right of
pleasure.
I would like to tell one of my teachers when I was a kid. She use to give homework for all students. But she give light homework such as filling the blanks, True or false, reading paragraph, etc. but all of the homework could be done in a few minutes.
She use to give more homework for weekends. She use to recall the previous lesson on every Monday. So all student need to review the lessons. She use to make a rivalry for all group which include 6 students. It was very funny and all students willing to percitipate.
Now a day, teacher like this one is very rare and also the students who really want to do like that.
Students is responsible for doing homework. Teacher is responsible for choosing and using any method to give homework....
yes. teachers should give homework to students so that they will study at home. it may be an advance activity or reading for the next lesson or an assessment of the previous one. studying at home is very important. so teachers should give homework. but not every night. the students might get exhausted. once or twice a week will do just fine. :)
It depends. Homework can be used to assess students' skill some way. When teaching a prep course for English exams for example, homework is a must. Classroom time is used for corroborating the students' weak points. For an adult communication course, it's not necessary to give homework; however some forms of homework, for example asking learners to watch a Youtube clip and later in class, having a discussion, can be adapted to increase students' fluency.
All my idea is about English teaching only.
Yes, definitely. Homework assignments are important to students since most of them are free after school.
They definitely need to review what you have learned in their schools daily. In other words, doing their homework is an effective way to review their new lessons. =)
Giving homework is good for every student! I am in favor of teachers who assign homework.
Thank you them so much!
Former Student,
TK
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