Tag: Homework

The Pros And Cons Of Mixing Technology And Homework

TeachThought StaffJul 27, 2021

Remote school and work have blurred the lines between work and home. How does this shape the debate over homework?

Why Students Don’t Do Their Homework–And What You Can…

What contributes to homework resistance?  How can we better support students in not only completing, but learning from assigned homework?

It’s Time To Treat Homework Like Any Other Lesson

TeachThought StaffApr 20, 2017

Imagine observing a lesson in which you see a teacher give the students 2 or 3 or 4 times more work than…

Education & Our Strange Culture Of Bad Homework Assignments

In a culture so heavily invested in progress, the anomaly of unattended and unmoderated homework assignment seems scandalously peculiar.

The Thing About Homework

Drew PerkinsAug 30, 2016

Ideally, assigned homework should be less frequent and hopefully more personalized to the needs of the student and their ongoing work and…

Thinking About Improving Homework

TeachThought StaffJun 20, 2016

I used to think that I had to give students homework every day and that homework had to be the same for…

Using Homework As Formative Assessment

Grant WigginsDec 8, 2013

Homework is only formative if it recurs as a task in which I can learn from feedback to improve at the ‘same’ task.…