Homework Help On-line Guide for Teachers

Homework is a valuable way for teachers to provide reinforcement and enrichment for students on classroom material. The following are useful tips and suggestions for teachers to encourage better homework.

  • Communicate your homework policy to both students and parents and include clearly defined expectations about completing daily assignments.
  • Assign regular homework for younger students to help them develop a home study routine.
  • Ensure all homework relates to classwork, has a meaningful purpose, and is appropriate to the student's age and skill level.
  • Have a daily routine for assigning and collecting or checking homework. Choose a highly visible, consistent area for posting assignments.
  • Assess all homework, either formally or informally. Avoid assigning grades for daily homework in the early grades. Remember, the variety of assistance at home may vary! Grading is appropriate as children get older for assignments such as book reports, term or research papers, and other outside projects.
  • Try and make assignments students can complete well independently.
  • Provide specific outlines and due dates for long-term assignments to help students avoid "last minute-itis." Intermediate stepping stone dates for parts of an assignment can also help.
  • Assign homework for instruction, not discipline.
  • Coordinate the allocation of homework with other teachers to avoid conflicts.
  • Be consistent!

Links

 The US Department of Education published a document called Helping your Students with Homework that details things you can do as a teacher to help your students do better work.

Teacher Resources


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Homework Help On-line is an initiative sponsored by the National Science Foundation - Comprehensive Partnerships for Math and Science Achievement (NSF-CPMSA). For more information about this and other JPS-NSF initiatives, contact the NSF Project Director.

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 9625139. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

 

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