Helping with Homework: A Sneak Preview
Homework...does that word make you cringe?
Homework is probably the most talked about idea in education today. Is it an unnecessary waste of energy for student and parents, or a useful tool for teachers?
This article is a sneak preview of the SuiteU course Helping with Homework. Two-week interactive courses begin each month, And the course is also available as a Quick Course - enroll anytime for $19.95, but you'll miss out on the discussions!
Overview
This course will take a look at the idea of homework and offer some ways for teachers, students, and parents to make the most of it and use it to their advantage. It will provide ideas for students and parents on how to approach homework, ideas for teachers on how to assign homework, and tips on doing homework, for both students and parents.
You'll also find links to online homework resources within each lesson, and a section on Homework Help sites online.
Who should take this course?
This course is designed for parents, homeschoolers, teachers of elementary aged students, and the students themselves.
Objectives
After finishing this class teachers and parents will:
*Know and understand why homework is assigned and what teachers hope to have students gain
*Know how to organise at school and at home *Learn teaching incentives, tips and games to promote good homework habits and study skills
*Learn ways to help at home - for parents and students *Know how to develop report writing skills
*Know how to develop good library skills
*Know how to get homework help on the Internet
Here's a peek at one section in Lesson One:
Lesson 1: The Homework Dilemma
The Dilemma
The dilemma of how much homework to assign and why has been with us for a long while.
Traditionally homework has been considered part of the school experience. If you look at the history of homework, you can see that it has fallen in and out of favor with the public over the past decade. Often in response to the position of United States schools in the world, homework has been seen as a panacea for our ailing schools or a crimp on the social lives and life-styles of our children. Homework has been seen as a way to accelerate learning or an endless drudgery for children, depending on which homework view was in vogue. Homework had a resurgence in the early 1990's, but in recent years there has again been a growing cry to "do something about homework" from everyone involved in the school community.
