{"id":161,"date":"2012-03-05T03:55:53","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T03:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/?p=161"},"modified":"2012-03-05T04:30:33","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T04:30:33","slug":"how-important-is-homework-vladimira-michalkova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/how-important-is-homework-vladimira-michalkova\/","title":{"rendered":"How important is homework? &#8211; Vladimira Michalkova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vladka-cokoladka.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-162\" src=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/vladka-cokoladka.jpg\" style=\"margin:0 0 15px 15px\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a>I recently asked my students what they think about homework and how effective it can be. The result was a lovely informal discussion and lots of great ideas. After all, homework\u00a0 (as part of learning and life) should be about students and not about me as a teacher. One of my students said:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cEvery homework that is not done is a bad one.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>No matter how harsh it may seem, I do agree with him. Just think about it. If a student doesn\u2019t do homework, it is probably boring, irrelevant or too difficult and frustrating.<\/p>\n<p>As a teacher I have inspiration and encouragement as my main goal and so it means I can\u2019t make my lessons fun and exciting and then give my students boring routine homework to fill\u00a0 in and hand me back next time. Learning is a natural, life-long process and most of it happens outside the classroom and that\u2019s why I think homework is important if it is interesting, meets students\u2019 expectations and needs and is even better when students don\u2019t even think about it as homework they have to do.<\/p>\n<p>Thinking of homework I keep in mind:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>there is a life outside the classroom walls \u2013 do not separate it from learning<\/li>\n<li>build on students\u2019 background and prior knowledge<\/li>\n<li>include their personality<\/li>\n<li>make them curious<\/li>\n<li>homework can\u2019t be a burden for anyone (students, teachers or parents!)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And maybe a little more advice from me:\u00a0 Do not give homework and then ignore the efforts your students have made. That\u2019s the first thing. Then there\u2019s this: the next time you are about to announce the homework, be creative and avoid using the word itself. Don\u2019t say the word homework. Instead how about saying \u201cI am curious to know what your story is\u2026?\u201d or \u201cDo you think you could find that and share it with us next time?\u201d\u00a0 If you do this, then it\u2019s not homework. It\u2019s just learning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Vladimira<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently asked my students what they think about homework and how effective it can be. The result was a lovely informal discussion and lots of great ideas. After all, homework\u00a0 (as part of learning and life) should be about students and not about me as a teacher. One of my students said: \u201cEvery homework &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/how-important-is-homework-vladimira-michalkova\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How important is homework? &#8211; Vladimira Michalkova<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homework"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itdi.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}