Poor teaching leads to struggles with homework, struggles with homework lead to more time spent correcting/fixing it, which in turn leads to poor teaching. When the bulk of a class period is spent correcting and reviewing homework, little time is left to teach the next concept.What takes 15 minutes in school can easily take an hour at home when a student is exhausted. Late afternoons and evenings are even worse. We all know how hard it is for kids (and teachers) to engage in lively and productive work at the end of the school day. Appropriately challenging work requires good energy.Appropriately challenging work requires the coaching of a good teacher. Few students have access to high-quality math support at home.Talking with other parents and educators has led me to the conclusion that in too many math classrooms almost all teaching and learning revolves around homework. My children have developed more of a fixed mindset and have learned to dislike math in the years when homework is too much of a focus. Some grades have been better than others, but in the bad years, there can be regular meltdowns. I also know that 10 minutes of work for one student can be an hour of work for another.Īs a parent, I’ve watched my own children struggle over the years with unwieldy math homework. Then again, assignments that are challenging don’t work either since I’m not there to support students when they need coaching. I hate the idea of busywork, so work that seems too easy feels like a waste of time. The main aim of the National No Homework Day is not to ban homework entirely it is a day to give kids little time to do the things that they like.I have always struggled with assigning math homework. Thus why Thomas & Ruth Roy created this day to help the children to spend some time other than doing homework. A study from Stanford University has stated that the students who spend too much time on schoolwork outside of the classroom have higher levels of stress and problems with their physical health.
This number doesn’t include the hours that they spend in school. According to the reports, the Kids in the United States are spending nearly 17.5 hours a week on homework alone. Thomas & Ruth Roy created the National No Homework Day. There’s no time left to be creative.” – Tom Petty History of National No Homework Day They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they’re dragging a suitcase.
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