...Eliminating Homework An Italian teacher named Roberto Nevilis lived in a city of Venice, in 1901. Roberto Nevilis made homework as a punishment for his students to fully understand and comprehend the lessons that Nevilis tried to teach the students’ in school. If the homework keeps affecting students in a negative way, than not a lot of students will graduate because of having low grade point average (GPA), which requires students to graduate from school, or students going to start dropping out of school because of not containing enough interest in finishing or doing homework. Students can not understand homework without some help from a teacher, if students have a hard time understanding work in class than the homework will make no sense...
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...Ugh! Homework! Everyone feels differently about it. Some people think homework has benefits for Kid’s learning. People like me, think it does more bad than good. Which is why I think that my school should ban homework. First of all , doing homework doesnt give enough time for other activities. It can also cause harm to a child's attitude towards school. Lastly homework can cause health problems like stress and sleeping disorders. I think my school should get rid of homework because it takes time away from other activities. The article, The case for and against homework, says that too much homework can cause damage to a students family time. I know that when me and my sister have too much homework and studying, sometimes we don’t even see each...
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...A teacher want to work at the high school in New Jersey but the principal said that she has to spend two days being a 12th grader and a 10th grader . So she did now she knows what a student has to go through. The teacher didn’t like how they boss her around and how they gave too much homework and how the test piled up each week. I think that teacher don’t know what we are going through. School has change over time and school is getting harder. The reason I’m saying this because kids have to go through hard times like there parents broke up. They have to do a lot of things and they don't have time to do a lot of homework. Waking up in the morning at 7:00am is bad because we don't like that. Also scientific research says waking up...
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...Do you think schools shouldn’t have homework? Well a lot of kids and a handful of adults think schools should get rid of homework altogether. I believe schools should stop giving homework to students for these reasons: First homework causes health problems, and secondly takes important time away after school. The first reason is, homework causes health problems. For example, It causes stress, by family conflict. It also limits sleep, high level stress, and extreme weight loss. An example of extreme weight loss is, when kids are spending hours on homework and not having fun or exercising outside. Furthermore, believe it or not homework can even cause stress to teachers. According to, BBC NEWS | UK | Education | Teachers call for ban on homework...
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...The Influence of Homework on Primary and Secondary school students As population grows, the world is getting a lot more competitive than few years ago. Chiefly the students who are accepting basic education are all making great effort to achieve academic success. In the process of working hard to get to their aims, homework is always the steps lead them there. To a great extent, school assignments have not only greatly influenced elementary and high school students’ educational improvements, but also their health conditions. Firstly, assignments after school have brought primary school students both advantages and disadvantages educationally. To begin with, every adult believes that elementary school students are still too young to be able to manage themselves reasonable and keep themselves in good control. First, it can be imagined that an 8-year-old child would not review the knowledge he learnt 2 days ago if he is not asked to do any homework. In that case, his score would definitely decline. Second, still using the example above, people can predict that even more serious than the retrogression of academic work but degeneration of living. He may waste a lot of time on other things like playing computer games and even get involved in some bad peer groups which educate him negatively and would lead him to a dark future. Therefore homework has been playing a greatly important role in primary school students’ academic work and is an efficient way to prevent them going astray...
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...do their homework right after school. Maybe they think good study habits mean kids should study in the same quiet place every day. Maybe they think that you should sit still until all your work is done.Well, parents aren't always right!A lot of new research shows that the usual ways of studying may not always be the best ways. Different kids study best in different ways. Here are some twists on study tips and good study habits. You just have to figure out what works for you. Study Tip: Move Before You Study Maybe your mom or dad tells you to do your homework as soon as you get off the bus. Ask if you can shoot hoops or run for 15 or 20 minutes first. Explain that you're not trying to put off your work. It's just that exercising your body may help your brain.Kids in a Chicago-area school do PE first if they're having problems with math or reading. They do much better on tests after they exercise. Moving before you do homework can help get your brain ready to study. Study Tip: Pick Your Study Spot Your parents may have set up a great desk in a quiet room. But you feel better doing homework on the floor in the living room or in your bedroom. The important thing is to find a place where you'll pay attention.Your bedroom might give you privacy. That's great if you have annoying brothers or sisters. But if you start looking at the stuff in your room instead of your math problems, find another place to work. It may even help kids study better when they do homework in different...
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...Four Basic Principles to Enhance Study Skills 1. Make doing homework a positive experience: associate it with love and affection, freedom, fun and self-control. 2. Make homework a high priority. 3. Use homework to teach organization skills and improve learning skills. Remember that the primary purpose of homework is to improve learning and foster work habits. 4. Set expectations for homework, then provide and enforce logical, meaningful consequences if those expectations are not met. Make Doing Homework a Positive Experience • Provide support and praise for homework completion. • Be available to provide non-critical assistance. • Give children choice in when, where, and how they complete homework assignments. • Encourage your children to complete homework well enough that they have a sense of pride and control over their own learning and levels of competence. • Maintain a positive and helpful attitude: avoid criticism and anger. • Help children understand what types of homework they enjoy, and encourage them to choose assignments accordingly. When given a choice, some students prefer written reports; others prefer hands-on projects. • Use homework preferences in developing a homework schedule. Some children prefer to complete the assignments they like least first, while others prefer to do their easier or favorite work first. • If a child dislikes a subject, find ways to make it less frustrating. For example, set a goal of doing five math problems and...
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...by allowing some of the homework assignments to be developed by the class as they go along. In the 7th and 8th grade students are becoming more social and this gives them to opportunity to work together to come up with creative homework solutions. This not only allows them to be engaged in the class but also with each other and keeps a relaxed and pleasant work environment (Wong, 1998). Mr. Collet also encourages self-motivation by having the students keep a day planner and to be responsible for copying their homework assignments down rather than having it handed to them. In the 7th and 8th grade students begin preparing for college and by teaching them early to set aside study time by keeping a planner builds good habits for the rest of their education (Savage, 2009). They have a concrete manner in which to copy homework assignments but also to manage their free time which may be less and less as they get older and participate in more activities. Mr. Collet encourages active engagement in his class by working with the students on their day planner, picking up and turning in assignments on time and by giving them an opportunity to dispute and grading mistakes. In the 7th and 8th grade students are becoming more independent and building study skills that they will use later on. By working with them on their day planners, the teacher can show the students how to manage their time. Since they are also using their planners to copy down homework assignments, the students...
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...There are many issues that today’s teenager has to deal with, and this causes stress. The most frequently cited reason for this stress is school related and often out of the teenager’s control. Teachers assign them “absurd quantities of mostly pointless homework that force students to work a second shift after having spent all day in school” (Kohn “Reconsider Attitudes”). A study done by Mediamark Research Inc. found that 60.2% of teens surveyed are stressed all the time or sometimes, and that 72.4% of the teens surveyed are stressed because they had a lot of school work ("Teens Want to Enjoy" 2-3). American teenagers are not the only ones with school related stress. In a survey done in Hong Kong, students were asked about what stressed them out, and school and standardized testing were the top two answers, with 25 of 40 and 27 of 40 students agreeing that those things stressed them out (“Are Teenagers Too Stressed?” 8). However, fretting about standardized testing isn’t just limited to teenagers in Hong Kong. It stresses American students out so much that it is not uncommon for a student to vomit during testing (Kalish). While these experts and studies have suggested that schoolwork and standardized tests are the specific problems that teens face, some teens might not agree, and it is necessary to find out; for this reason, my survey asks what is stressing teens out. While vomiting during a test is certainly a side effect of stress, there are many others as well. Teens experience...
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...Book Review The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing by Alfie Kohn University of Montevallo EDF561: Evaluations in Education Susan Scott Alfie Kohn’s (2006) book, The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing, gave me food for thought. Kohn opposes homework of any kind in any form for any grade level. He explores each commonly given, pro-homework argument in an attempt to persuade his readers, both parents and teachers, of the uselessness and possibly detrimental effects of the long-standing educational tradition. The first claim Kohn (2006) makes is that our children are “missing out on their childhoods” (p. 3). His opinion is that children spend seven hours in school everyday; that should be enough. He argues that kids need more time to be kids. Such time would include family time, friend time, time spent in extracurricular activities such as sports, music and art lessons, and play groups for younger kids. I agree. Kids do need time to enjoy their childhood. It is the most carefree time of their lives, relatively speaking. Does that mean they should have no homework at all? I am not yet ready to agree completely with that attitude. “Does homework improve learning?” Kohn (2006, p. 25) asks. The most significant issue he raises, in an attempt to answer that question, is regarding the kind of homework about which we are talking. Assignments can range from useless, fill-in-the-blank worksheets to extended projects that...
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...have formed during your school years. Study habits can be good ones, or bad ones. Good study habits include being organized, keeping good notes, reading your textbook, listening in class, and working every day. Bad study habits include skipping class, not doing your work, watching TV or playing video games instead of studying, and losing your work. The manner with which you consistently use to study for school or college or even for next day lesson plans if you're a teacher. It means you are not distracted by anything, you have a certain place to go where it is quiet everyday where you study and do homework. Basically it means that you are doing the best you can to get the grades you want. It means you are not distracted by anything, you have a certain place to go where it is quiet everyday where you study and do homework. Basically it means that you are doing the best you can to get the grades you want. The manner with which you consistently use to study for school or college or even for next day lesson plans if you're a teacher. Study habit is the regular tendency or practice in studying. It is the one that is somehow hard to give up. Study habits can be good. Some good study habits are: 1. Setting a particular time and place to do home works, school assignments and projects. 2. Outlining and rewriting notes. 3. Studying with friends. 4. Be resourceful. == Answer == The manner with which you consistently use to study for school or college or even for next...
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...School finishes at 2.30 p.m. Nowadays, there is an argument about finishing school earlier than usual and there are some different reactions on this. The one who agree think that it will give students more free time and they will get benefit out of this. Others think that students will have too much time relaxing so there is still a question if this solution will truly benefit students. Those who agree with finishing school at 2.30 p.m. would say that it will make students have more free time. They can not only relaxed but also do something else that they are interested in such as sports and music in those free time and that will make students have their own talent in either spots or music. Moreover they can review and studying on the subjects that they are not understand when they are in classes. If they have any question they can also go and ask teacher in those free time which will benefit students a lot. On the other hand, it is widely accepted that not every student is interested in playing sports, music or reading books. Those students would have too much time relaxed and doing nothing anyway. Moreover, too much homework that they are given on each day will make student too busy to do sports or something else and normally students should finish their homework before doing other activities. Furthermore, Thai education system wasn’t built to be able to support every student interest which is different from America that students have opportunities to do sports and clubs...
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...Effective Study Habits and Study Skills Mean Good Grades Now Effective study habits and study skills lead to good grades. One can, also, reward students for better grades. However, never forget that making learning fun so children discover learning is fun will create the most return over the long term, as far as learning and better grades are concerned. For more information pertaining to good grades, click here. Although effective study skills and study habits result in better grades, do you know what effective study habits and study skills are? They are regular, consistent study habits that good students use every time they prepare for a test or do homework. In this section, effective study habits and study skills that help primary school students get good grades will be emphasized. Effective study habits are learned at home. Parenting means teaching our children these skills and making them habits. Study skills are so important to improving grades that some think grades really measure how well parents teach their children to study, particularly in the primary grades. The purpose of this section is to help parents teach their children effective study habits, not only to improve good grades, but to make education easier and, even, enjoyable. Despite the fact effective study habits are, largely, a discipline we instill in our children, we must always bear in mind that learning through play inspires children to learn more. So, any opportunity...
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...Positive Affirmation 1. I am able to complete my school work and weekly tasks in a timely and stress-free manner without procrastination being an issue. 2. I have chosen this particular affirmation because I have found that I am an expert in the art of procrastination. Procrastination is something that has always been a factor in my life regarding school work. For as long as I can remember, I have been putting off the completion of writing papers and doing homework for all subjects in school. I also procrastinate when I need to study for a test, and I end up cramming at the last minute. I have been using procrastination in regards to writing papers, doing homework, and studying for tests for so many years now that it seems to work for me as I am able to complete all off my assignments by the due date, and do well on tests. The reason I want to change my procrastinating ways is because of the immense, unnecessary stress that it physically, as well as mentally, puts upon me. Procrastination also affects me outside of school. One example of this is the way that I put off doing any of my closing tasks at work until the last ten minutes we are open, which causes me to have to stay at work after hours in order to complete them. Procrastination has kept me up all night, caused me untold amounts of stress, and has also gotten me into trouble at my job. It seems as if it is only a major factor regarding school, but in reality it affects everything. Procrastination is something...
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...Come home, log in, 4 or 5 hours later it’s bed time. For most teenagers it’s a routine and for others it’s just a bad habit. They come home from school and instead of doing homework or hanging out with friends, they get on Twitter. Taking some time away from tweeting and putting more time in studying or socializing could help them in the future. Teenagers spending too much time on the internet and not having time for school, family or friends is a very common problem. For a lot of teenagers it could seem like an addiction or daily routine. Some teenagers that spend most of their time on the internet may be suffering from depression or problems at school, such as bullying. Some may agree that the internet is good for the people who have socializing issues or depression because it gives them their own space. Sometimes keeping to yourself and having too much of your own space can lead to not knowing how to socialize when it comes to it in person or in the future. Spending so much time on the internet takes time away from school work and homework. They even stay up past midnight to tweet that one last “goodnight” post, leaving them too tired to focus in school the next day. Being too tired and unable to focus makes it hard to get good grades in class. A lot of times teenagers tend to get caught up in the chat sites with people from all over the world, which could lead to very dangerous situations. Others may disagree and say that chat sites help the ones who have socializing problems...
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