tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339910176549966696.post5795661784231462403..comments2023-06-16T09:50:28.728-04:00Comments on I am a teacher et cetera: Thoughts on HomeworkJennifer Wardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01459363843692965338noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339910176549966696.post-27014748684362188442008-03-07T19:04:00.000-05:002008-03-07T19:04:00.000-05:00Anon-I'm curious about your reactions to the curre...Anon-<BR/>I'm curious about your reactions to the current homework debate happening over at the <A HREF="http://www.authenticeducation.org/wordpress/" REL="nofollow">Faculty Room</A> blog. Check it out. It's all about this issue and whether or not homework is assignment effectively.Jennifer Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459363843692965338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339910176549966696.post-92031735579622822422008-03-06T22:47:00.000-05:002008-03-06T22:47:00.000-05:00In my math class our teacher barely establishs a n...In my math class our teacher barely establishs a new concept, and just before the bell rings assigns us homework for the new problem. About half the class doesn't grasp it initially, so when we go home to grapple w/ the project at night we make our own conclusions. Then we come in the next day and hope he doesn't call on us. When he does find wrong answers the teacher puts the kid on the spot, and acts like we've been familiar with the idea for a long time. I think a lot of the homework we receive, at least in my district, is material we should be covering in class. Honors is inbetween a rock and a hard place, b/c so much is said to be expected of us that we feel asking questions in Maths and sciences only provokes exasperation. So we try to work it out on our own, and even after the teacher explains it, and the ,method seems clear as day, one hour later your mind has reverted to the way you taught yourself. Instead of the brief truth laying in the periphery of the mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339910176549966696.post-2078100766364640252007-10-08T17:19:00.000-04:002007-10-08T17:19:00.000-04:00What an innovative idea that Mr. Frye has! Others...What an innovative idea that Mr. Frye has! Others should check out the linked New York Times article from Jillzilla's post. A teacher is assigning the parents of his students homework! What a cool way to keep parents involved.Jennifer Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459363843692965338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339910176549966696.post-74593362373750110092007-10-08T17:10:00.000-04:002007-10-08T17:10:00.000-04:00This is similar to what I've seen, too. I'm surpr...This is similar to what I've seen, too. I'm surprised by the book bags I see elementary students lugging home. The other day on my drive home I noticed one unfortunately youngster with a bag so heavy that she was dragging it around by wheels. It looked like a piece of luggage rather than an elementary student's back pack! <BR/><BR/>As students get into the upper grades, homework becomes even more of an issue. With so much information readily available via technology, I wonder if we are trying to teach too much. And in the effort to teach breadth, are we forcing students to take home the work that we do not get to in school. I wonder why homework seems to be increasing.Jennifer Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01459363843692965338noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339910176549966696.post-21534634069626892172007-10-08T11:25:00.000-04:002007-10-08T11:25:00.000-04:00Hey Jen,I tried your hotmail account, but I'm not ...Hey Jen,<BR/><BR/>I tried your hotmail account, but I'm not sure if it still works as I recently sent something there and didn't hear a response.<BR/><BR/>Here's another arrow flung in the homework debate: giving parents homework - via the NY Times <BR/>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/04/education/04homework.html?_r=2&ref=nyregion&oref=slogin&oref=slogin<BR/><BR/>What do you think?Jill Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09767474723270904436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1339910176549966696.post-88054316138930389082007-10-06T15:14:00.000-04:002007-10-06T15:14:00.000-04:00I'm not an English teacher, but as a parent, I see...I'm not an English teacher, but as a parent, I see my 4th grader come home with more than an hour of homework each night. I've been following the homework debate since Kohn's book came out, and wonder about all those moms - and dads - who work full time and don't have the resources to do extra-cirricular activities, family time and homework all in one 3-hour evening.<BR/><BR/>I even heard one mother say that homework seems to have been reversed: now the teachers get to do all the fun stuff at school, and leave all the boring drudgery for the hours after school (though maybe it was always that way to some extent...)Jill Wardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09767474723270904436noreply@blogger.com