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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It seems the winter is too long in Canada - you can hardly wait to see the spring. Out of nowhere, green trees or other plants are already everywhere and you can take a deep breath. Enjoy the spring and the nicer summer there. So, I agree with the teacher's decision. But, that is not the case here in China where so many students are in a so fierce competition. Forget it!
My daughter's teacher (Grade 3) stopped giving homework this week! She won't be giving any homework (other than a project and a weekly poetry reading) for the rest of the school year (7 weeks). She said she is doing this because the weather is finally nice and she wants kids to have more time to play outside. What do you think of this decision? My daughter is thrilled!
I agree that in some schools students get overloaded with homework. That being said, it is still important to study beyond what is covered in the classroom.
Maybe language classes are in less need of homework than some other subjects. I think that I would have not have survived mathematics without doing my homework. That was the only way to work enough problems to fully understand new concepts.
My answer is yes, homework is necessary but teachers need to avoid overloading the students.
I think as a teacher we should give the students some guided home work so that they can practice and understand easily.
This is a very interesting response about the homework question. When the weather is nice out, my kids are so busy with their friends after school that I don't see much of them. They come in for dinner and go back out until bath time. Homework time is sometimes the only time I see them after school. You have given me something to think about!
I think the kids should feel easiness and comfort. So they should be given less and guided homework so that they can do easily and eagerly.
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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....
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