...“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.” Actress Lily Tomlin is correct. When students get home after a six-hour school day they are often overwhelmed with outrageous amounts of homework. This extra and sometimes unnecessary burden adds only anxiety to the average student leaving them a slave to their homework. This is a problem that can be alleviated with time and patience. Students are not happy with their current homework loads. Sixty-one percent of students in a recent survey concluded that they had to drop out of an activity because of their school workload (Galloway et al 2013). Obviously, homework affects students’ lives more than it should. It is not just something that a student would just finish in five to ten minutes. It takes hard work and brain dedication to finish homework at the time that it is required. One of the reasons that homework should be banned is because it is...
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...Why do teachers give homework and does it even help?”Ideally homework should be about taking something home, spending a few curious and interesting moments in which children might engage with parents, and then getting that project back to school — an organizational triumph," she says. "A nag-free activity could engage family time: Ask a parent about his or her own childhood. Interview siblings." Teachers give too much non effective homework. Margot Steinberg of White Plains, whose children are in the Ardsley district, said: ''The kids get so much homework, they're not getting something out of it. They're doing it to get it done.''If this were to happen in our school there would be a tremendous change and happier students. Homework causes students to...
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...After watching the video from Chris Haskell-Blowing up the grade book I found myself agreeing and disagreeing with some of his points. 1. Homework- I agree with Mr. Haskell on this subject, my boyfriend has two old kids twelve and ten when they are at our house (every other week) homework is the first thing they have to do when they get home. I double check some of it and I am always getting updates from PowerSchool to let me know their progress. A lot of the times they have to make up homework that they didn't do at their other house so we are always playing catch up. I strongly agree when he says that homework is more to see which parents are involved with making sure its getting done. I think teachers should focus more on getting work done in class instead of making sure that they have something to do at home. I do understand that technology is taking over but the fact that teachers allow kids to text in class I also strongly disagree with, if that's the case they should be doing...
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...Should Homework Be Banned or Not? Homework is just simply not helping the kids in this upcoming generation. Should homework be banned? Yes, homework should definitely be banned from giving them to the children. Many parents have gone to the school’s boards with concerns of the homework, they believe that their kids should be more productive and play outside every once in a while, they should also have more time to spend with family and friends and socialize more often. By canceling the homework you’ve basically given kids the extra time of the day to spend with family and go outside. Etta states in her article “If Parents want their children to be actively engaged with grandparents and more church activities in the evening. Those things would compete with homework time.”. Also is a teacher is said to be assigning work the best idea is to find the best possible solution to finish the work during school hours. Many kids understand what their supposed to do in their work but the kids that don’t understand struggle and fall back and have difficulty learning it. Parents would rather they don’t have homework at all or finish all their work in school. Children rather spend more time doing something else like a sport or afterschool fun activity then be stuck in a chair for a matter of many an hour or two doing school work. Etta Kravolec pointed out in her article that in the 1920’s physicians were concerned about the homework that’s being...
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...Too Much Homework? It's all over the news: kids are spending a lot of time on homework. And, according to some, it's way too much. With the current emphasis on high-stakes testing, educators are trying to do more with less, which can result in an overabundance of schoolwork outside of school. Some critics say there is no evidence to suggest that homework is helpful to student achievement; on the contrary, too much of it can overwhelm students and cause them to disengage. Others, however, claim that homework is necessary and helpful, designed so students can practice the concepts taught in class, build good study habits, and reflect on their own learning. As an eleventh grade student who is in advanced and ap classes, I think that homework is the cause of my depleting grades. Now, you’re probably going to think that I’m like any other kid in high school that hates homework and that to even spend another second reading this will be a complete waste of time, right?Even so, just hear me out because I have several reasons that might just change your mind. I have thousands of assignments every week; most of them homework assignments. As a result, I’m cascaded with homework every day, causing me to stay up until 11 o’clock at night more often than not. Obviously, this is a threat to my health as a developing teenager. It could stunt my growth, and result in fatigue and stress because everyone knows that no good sleep leads to no good grades. Even if I were...
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...from specific things such as a profession or skill or career path or something general such as learning life skills or to impart culture. Furthermore, the aim of education is to prepare the next generation so that they may make progress in the fields of science, literature, engineering, the arts and,...
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...Thursday, February 5, 5 p.m. After dinner I returned to my dorm and felt like I had something that I forgot to do. Eventually I remembered that I had math homework to do that was due the next day. I forgot because of absent-mindedness failure. In class Wednesday morning I was tired because I didn’t get enough sleep the night before. So by the end of class when my professor was explaining the homework I was not paying attention. I believe I remembered to do this because of priming. My roommate asked me to help him with his calculus homework, then making me remember what I had to do. This self-observation did not help me remember my homework this time. Friday, February 6, 11 p.m. When trying to leave for dinner I could not find, or remember where my wallet was. After thinking about the last time I had it, I found in my pants I had worn the previous day. I forgot this because of absent-mindedness. When I changed the night before I was distracted by being tired and wanting to go to sleep. Because of that I forgot my wallet in the jeans I wore. I remembered where it was by re tracing the steps my night before and remembering the distinct times I knew I had my wallet. When looking for it I thought of this project hoping it would create priming and help me find a way for me to find my wallet. Saturday, February 7, 9 p.m. When given a list of things to do at work, I failed to remember all of them. I found that I only remembered the first and last task I was given to do. I failed...
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...tell me they didn’t have homework and leave after their 20 min of reading was done. After about an hour they returned saying they had homework. I sat down with them and started to work on it but they acted like they didn’t know anything about the topic that was being covered. The topic was words that end with –ing. The children had to write sentences using the word and then take a spelling quiz. When they were writing their sentences I had them draw a picture of what the sentence was about because I knew that they loved to draw and color. So they got through the sentences quickly so that they could color. After they were done coloring it was time to do the spelling...
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...The Habit Jane Doe PSY250 10/23/2014 University of Phoenix The Habit As far back as Jane could remember, he would always wait until the last minute do his homework. Even though he did, he still did pretty well for himself academically. He probably could have done better but was not motivated to. He never really knew why he did this, but through behavioral and social/cognitive theories, this behavior could be explained. In his mind, there was nothing positive in doing something early. In a way his procrastination was reinforced and associated with having fun. This student has been procrastinating since his elementary days. He would always wait until the last day to do an assignment. He probably developed this habit watching his mom. Every morning he would watch his mom with just enough time to get ready and still make it to work on time. He then made the generalization that this could also be done with homework from school. He continues this habit into his adulthood because he values having fun more than completing an assignment. There have been some events in the past where procrastinating made him feel miserable due to lack of sleep and stress, but he continues to do it. He is always under the illusion that he can get it done right before it is due and still get a good grade, so why not have fun now and do the assignment later? This has worked for him in the past. The reason why he still does could probably be explained through positive reinforcement...
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...never had the opportunity of having someone that could help me with my homework, play with me and help me when I needed something. My parents once in a while could help me with homework, but once we moved to the United States I was definitely on my own considering my parents didn’t know enough English to help me. From this moment forward, I can say I’m very proud of myself for being where I am now without any help throughout my school years. Yet, I know I could have done better with the help of someone. I figured with the opportunity to do community service, I could take advantage of this situation and choose something that would help kids with whatever they needed and maybe even play with them if I had the chance. Looking through the long list of places to do community service, the YMCA Child Care Center caught my attention. I knew this was going to be a great choice but I didn’t think it could make such an impact in my life. This child care is an educational and fun place for kids after school to stay at while their parents get off of work. They have a certain schedule where they eat snacks, do their homework, go to a Sumba class, play outside and other activities. I had the pleasure of meeting a group of wonderful little kids. Within the first week of me being there as soon as they walked in they would give me a hug to greet me. When they needed help with their homework or to tie their shoe they would come running to me to ask for help...
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...style, strategies, and the VARK learning strategy guide. This essay will go into depth with the writer, ways a person can improve their learning strategies, their learning styles, and other learning style. The writer thinks it is important that learning styles is thought about often, because it could help you with tests, essays, and homework assignments. It helps to know a person’s strong points, and know to strengthen your weaker points, so a person can pinpoint ways to help them flourish in their studies. The learning style mainly used by the writer are reading and writing. This helps when there is a hard homework assignment or essay comes up and when the writer is unsure on what to do. The writer starts by reading the material that was given to the writer of this essay. Having a reading and writing learning style helps improve writing, because this writer sometimes rewrites things to get a better grasp on it. The writer also proofreads her work to see if there are any mistakes in spelling, grammar, or punctuation. The learning strategies the writer uses involves reviewing things by writing things out, rereading material that either was homework, or given to help with the...
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...What will you do to ensure your academic success each term? Well at Concorde Career College there are not really any terms, but set education plans. You take classes that equal three credits each in a four-week time frame. There are six courses and only one is eight weeks instead of four. In all, it is a grand total of eight months. Each week there will be a total twenty hours in class, fifty hours of homework, and about a ten hours commuting to and from school. Knowing that, I just bought myself a laptop that I can use to homework while I am going to and from school. I plan on doing homework for at least five to seven hours a day. If I can, I plan to get as much done as possible while at school. I plan on taking as many notes as possible,...
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...way to explain plagiarism. There are different ways to plagiarize something; you can plagiarize by copying someone’s work such as story from a book or a magazine, information’s, paintings/drawings, songs, movies/dramas, or anything that is an idea of someone without giving them credit of their work. People copy others work because of various reasons, those reasons includes less time needed in doing the work. Some people are lazy and some don’t like spending too much time doing one thing. Some would decide to do the work the very last minute to the point where they don’t have enough time to finish without copying. And others want to have a better quality work than what they came up with so they search and copy or modify a better one, they don’t have knowledge of the work so they copy, or they don’t have the patience to do the work. Procrastination, laziness, lack of knowledge of the topic, writes block, low self-confidence of own work can lead someone to plagiarize. There are times when plagiarism is done without the knowledge of that person. They could have an idea, turn it into reality but end up realizing that their idea is exactly or almost similar to someone else’s. You can borrow the work of someone as long as you give credit to the people or person who created them. No matter the reason is; it should be common sense that it is bad to copy and steal someone else’s work. It is better to create something knowing that it is unique and it came from your own hard work. People...
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...”cubing” Is homework harmful or helpful? There are lots of discussions going on today about whether homework or harmful or helpful. Many people have studied children’s ability to concentrate, their mood and their test results, but they haven’t come to a conclusion. * Some people say that homework is a good way to see how well a pupil is in the different subjects, when they don’t have a teacher to help them. The problem is that when a pupil doesn’t have anyone to show them how to do an assignment, they might never get it done. How can students learn new things if they don’t have anyone to help them. Some children might not have fully educated parents to help them if they have a problem with their homework, that makes it harder for them than other children. * Some students don’t even bother to do their homework because no teacher will ever check that they did them. Then it would possibly be smart to rather let them stay at school for an hour extra and make sure that they finish them. If they were supposed to do the assignments at school, the teacher could make sure that they did it and help them if there was something they didn’t understand. * Though homework still is normal in this country, there is still a chance that the people in our government will come to their senses and end it once and for all. Homework robs children of their spare time, and makes them sit inside for hours instead of being outside playing with other children. End homework so that children...
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...success, because it gave me my social savviness. According to The Trouble with Geniuses Part 2, parents being more involved with their children’s education and extracurricular teaches their children to be accustomed to their environment, the ability to communicate with adults making them less afraid of authority, and giving them a sense of “entitlement.” This relates to me, because my parents are involved with my life, and it caused me to be accustomed to any environment I endure. Disadvantages/Oppressions: I believe my primary disadvantages are: my low attention span, and lack of time management for school work. Ever since I was a kid, I always struggled with giving my undivided attention to my homework. I would get distracted by the most little things, and end up finishing my homework late at night. My low attention span ties in with my lack of time management. Since I am constantly distracted, I...
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