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Chapter 1:\u00a0 The Cult(ure) of Homework<\/h2>\n
In the first part of this series, we analyzed our beliefs about homework.\u00a0\u00a0 What is homework exactly and what is it’s purpose?<\/p>\n
Homework means different things to different people, though it seems there are some commonalities that exist within this culture and education system.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Parents expect their children to have homework, and being graded on their homework is also expected.\u00a0\u00a0 We are all familiar with the parent conference question that comes up repeatedly:\u00a0 “Does he\/she do his homework?”<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 Homework seems also to be associated with success, many believe that a child who does his homework is more likely to be successful and to get good grades.\u00a0 This assumption may or may not be true, depending on the type of homework assigned, classroom policies, and weight that is given to homework.<\/p>\n
So, let us assume that #2 is accurate, that homework does equal success, as a whole, we should examine how we approach homework and evaluate the purpose of homework.<\/p>\n
Think about the following questions and respond if you are brave enough….<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 What kind of homework do you assign and how frequently?<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 What weight or grade is given to homework assignments?<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 What is the penalty for not completing an assignment?<\/p>\n
4.\u00a0 How many students in your class are failing due to incomplete assignments?\u00a0 How many are passing because they complete all the assignments but fail tests?<\/p>\n
5.\u00a0 What is the purpose or the point of the homework you assign?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Introduction I had the opportunity to listen to a seminar presented by Cathy Vatterott (and yes, her family was at one time affiliated with Vatterott college) on Monday, March 15th.\u00a0 The seminar outlined her book “Rethinking Homework” and offered some thought provoking ideas and statistics.\u00a0\u00a0 In this facultycorner blog series, I wanted to\u00a0 share some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,18],"tags":[98,97,95,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/facultycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/facultycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/facultycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/facultycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/facultycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/facultycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"http:\/\/facultycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/facultycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/facultycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/facultycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/facultycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}