tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413213147692532190.post14740849611430599..comments2024-03-15T03:38:22.132-06:00Comments on Real teaching means real learning: Meaning first, homework secondDavehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13790571271386459698noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413213147692532190.post-13612377848808711382011-11-12T19:32:23.327-07:002011-11-12T19:32:23.327-07:00I am with you-read my blog entry at http://empathi...I am with you-read my blog entry at http://empathiceducation.wordpress.com/2011/11/12/351/ about student homework personality types.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413213147692532190.post-76574819583201239142010-12-03T09:35:28.863-07:002010-12-03T09:35:28.863-07:00I am not in the habit of giving homework, I always...I am not in the habit of giving homework, I always allow for time in class for students to complete any assignment, that way if they are struggling with a concept they can come to me and ask questions. If students do not use their time effectively though, I cannot reward them by allowing them to not complete the assignment, nor do I want to penalize them and take an unfinished assignment in. Some kids need more time to complete tasks, and some kids can finish tasks quickly. <br />Practice only makes perfect if the student is practicing the skill perfectly. I read this somewhere and it really makes sense. So even though athletes may need to practice a skill to get it perfect, if they are practicing it imperfectly they will never master it perfectly. <br />I think for all subjects things are different. How does the English teacher not assign homework, like independent reading of an independent novel? You have to give the students some responsibility, but where do you draw the line. Where does education become the students responsibility to learn and the teachers responsibility to lead them to that learning?Jenn Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285222437647306000noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413213147692532190.post-44151255032601700772010-12-03T02:45:46.976-07:002010-12-03T02:45:46.976-07:00I am a teacher with 120 precalculus students and 6...I am a teacher with 120 precalculus students and 60 calculus students, all of whom I see on alternating days. I KNOW that better results would happen if I assigned homework very conservatively and graded it all---how on earth could that possibly happen? With 90 students a day if I spent only 10 minutes on each student's work, it would be 15 hours. Even if I do this only once a week, the idea is ridiculous.In public education both the student and the parent must take a great deal of responsibility for their learning and adapt the teacher's instruction to fit them. When I make an assignment, I am making the same assignment to the very bright honors student and to the poor kid who got pushed into honors by an aggressive parent. I can't help that. They have to modify what I give them to fit their needs.However, I do know that if I never expose even the brightest kids to a style of thinking (induction for example) and give them time to practice, they won't just "osmose" that learning. To the student who just previously made a comment, I try to make my students realize the benefits of homework early on, but for some kids maturity just takes time. Try thinking seriously of being in charge of the math education of 180 different people and see what plan you come up with. Nothing fits perfectly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413213147692532190.post-42232120611202406882010-12-02T19:34:50.547-07:002010-12-02T19:34:50.547-07:00I agree with Dave to an extent. Homework is someti...I agree with Dave to an extent. Homework is sometimes harmful to students but it all depends on the level of learning the student recieving the homeork is at. A student with a LD may find homework as unbeneficial to their learning experience. However a student participating in an academic course, such as math 31, need prectise outside of the classroom whether they know it or not. assigning homework is great incentive for the student to get this practise and achive a greater understanding for the material. when it comes to taking homework in for completion, I disagree. In highschool i would work my ass off to complete the homework assigned the previous day and was pissed off when classmates would copy from the back or from peers and recieve the same score as i did. eventually i found myself doing the same and it wasnt untill during my first year in college that i realized that if i would have carried on doing the homework i would be much better off right now. The idea of marks for completion distroyed any modivation i had to continue working hard during that course. In my opinion howmework should be given out consvervatively and be taken in for full marks everytime.Chris Hnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413213147692532190.post-42313703626527944792010-12-02T14:29:40.775-07:002010-12-02T14:29:40.775-07:00Hey Dave! Enjoyed this blog! I totally agree with ...Hey Dave! Enjoyed this blog! I totally agree with you about the homework. My daughter, as you know, has a learning diability and it is such a struggle for her to do homework no matter what time of day when she gets home from school. She falls apart! Her doing or not doing homework does not seem to make her learning any better or worse. It is just more pressure on her after she has 'kept it together' for the entire day. She is over whelmed and over stimulated and the last thing that is beneficial for her is homework! I wish all the teachers would learn your concept and adopt it for 'normal' kids and for ones that have troubles learning things in school. Her doing math and spelling drills is not going to make it easier for her (or for me as her mom who has to deal with all the meltdowns!)<br />Thxjunehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01231451603361674377noreply@blogger.com