Here are some benefits that you should know: Summer homework is a perfect opportunity for students to learn how to work independently.
The summer homework helps to prevent students from forgetting what they learned. Students are able to develop time management and problem-solving skills.
A great opportunity to review and synthesize what was taught in class. Students learn how to set priorities and stay organized. Learners can easily identify their weak points and improve on them. Start your homework early. The worst thing that you can do with summer homework is procrastination. If you start late, the chances are that you could get stuck when trying to do the homework in a hurry and miss points. Therefore, try to start as early as possible.
Reward yourself for progress achieved with homework. By rewarding yourself, you will be motivated to complete the assignment and practice various skills. You can reward yourself for various milestones such as completing a chapter of the assignment, collecting the right materials, and formatting the assignment. Good rewards can include your favorite movie or treat in the favorite restaurant. Stay in touch with your teachers and other students. When teachers release homework for summer vacation for college students, most of them remain accessible to offer any assistance that their students might need.
Therefore, you should not hesitate to reach them and even other students for help with tough parts of assignments such as: Calculus. Use online libraries to access relevant materials. If you are far from your school premises where you can physically access the library, consider using online libraries. This will make it easy to read the latest journals and books, among other resources.
Combine Summer Homework with Leisure You know what? Use your tablet or laptop to access different materials that you need to do the homework online. If you are in a holiday hotel, relax in your room as you do your homework. In order for one to be successful, must one have to be tired? Thanks for joining in the conversation. This is a really thoughtful and engaging post!!
Thank You. You know what I never would have thought would happen? I never would have expected this!!! So assuming she has the right teacher, which I am not entirely sure she does, something most have gone right in my class even though I was totally unaware of it. All NO problem if I build community and capacity in the first 5 days of school. It starts with a genuine smile and a handshake which freaks some students out and hopefully ends when they know I care about them more than I care about how good they do in my class or how many physics problems they get correct.
Once we have that going for us, even complex circuit problems that students would never even dream of attempting, become something I have a hard time getting some of them to stop doing. I do have to give a test the first week or so of school. The test is boring, mundane and mind numbing but necessary. I apologize and tell them they can outsmart the test and beat the system. They always do. If you are in a situation like this, my advice is to be totally transparent with your students.
So we spent about weeks before the CST gaming the system. My student teacher and I made a game out of the review questions that involved wagering points, the greedy doughboy and tower building. There was always a really dumb factoid question on transistors the students needed to know just a few buzzwords to get right. I was honest told them all this mattered for was the test and I need you guys to get it right for me. They did, and we went on our way and tried to have fun inspite of it.
I say the first thing you should think of is how can I make this fun, creative and meaningful for my students?
The slide idea the David put up in this post is a beautiful example of that. What standard was that for? Start with something that matters then bring a standard into it and ask how does this demonstrate our help us to apply this standard. We give them too much power. Focus on building the qualities that truly make a difference and a difference will be made. This post is so great! I was going to just leave a comment, but as I got to writing it, I realized it was much too long to be considered a comment.
Instead, I wrote my response on my own blog. I feel like some classes are so overwhelming that you cannot fit the entire curriculum in the school year. For example, your student said the AP Bio homework was actually necessary. I teach a year long class that gets one semester credit so I have plenty of time. At least something complicated. Like you said, the classes they had before provided the weeding process.
As far as summer being an opportunity for freedom and no cares? I would LOVE it if we had a community service requirement every year and way more than the 10 hours our students need to complete their senior year.
What a great way to learn and give back! What if we could do some cross curricular stuff? Or what if we scheduled our testing to minimize student stress. Some of my students have 4 tests on the same day. So getting rid of summer homework as policy? However, I have some issues with your issues. Issue 1: Students can read or review or learn things without the direct involvement of teachers. This is a good thing and something that all lifelong learners can do.
Issue 2: Gina answered this pretty thoroughly. This also prevents me having to grade it in a rush the first week of school. I then give the work back a week before school begins so they can see what they need more help mastering before our first test.
Obviously, I write my summer work to help them learn a few, particular things that they probably would not otherwise encounter like contemplating adding insects to their diet! The Ideas sound like lots of fun — I might just one of those next summer instead — thanks for the ideas!
Thanks for your thoughtful reply. Do all the students in your school do this summer enrichment or just the AP students? Just chill out. There will be plenty of education, and stress, come September. It just started this year, which means I am used to having normal, care-free summers.
This year however, students have to read a book suggested for third graders on amazon. Some of the required projects make the students post on a certain website. A friend of mine has, but is unable to send me the link due to the individual accounts we have to use to sign in. In fact, the school website is set up very poorly, and it is extremely difficult to even find the homework in the first place.
There is no way the teachers will believe that. Where is the vacation in summer vacation? Thank you for writing this. Sometimes I wish all parents and students would unite in protest. Are they going to give everyone an F? This is definitely food for thought. Some of my kids with or without the encouragement of their parents will order every book on the list, which I think is cool.
I am a former summer work assignment teacher. I am happy for report that I am fully recovered, proud to say. Thank you for posting. Thank you for stopping by. By creating specific homework assignments, it becomes possible for students to make up for the deficiencies in time. Students might like to read leisurely or take up new hobbies but homework takes away their time from painting, learning an instrument, or developing new skills.
Homework creates a negative attitude towards schooling and education, making students dread going to their classes. Not all students care about the history of homework, but they all do care about the future of their educational pursuits. Maybe one day, homework will be fully removed from the curriculum of schools all over the world but until that day comes, students will have to burn the midnight oil to pass their requirements on time and hopefully achieve their own versions of success.
By ThroughEducation February 14, Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on linkedin. It makes one wonder, who in their right mind would invent such a thing as homework? Who Invented Homework? Retrieved from Pexels Online, there are many articles that point to Roberto Nevilis as the first educator to give his students homework.
Horace Mann: The Father of Modern Homework In the 19 th century, Horace Mann , a politician and educational reformer had a strong interest in the compulsory public education system of Germany as a newly unified nation-state. The History of Homework in America. Katherine Lee July 9, Is the D Important in Pharmacy? Why Pharm. Katherine Lee September 17,
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