amanda conrad post 3

I’ve noticed in my classroom that the students rarely get homework. If the students do get homework they complain about it, don’t bring it in the next day and then the teacher will sometimes give the students time to do it even though they were supposed to have finished it already. Homework is definitely not used as a tool in the classroom, and I do not think the teacher is letting it help students at all. She uses homework as a punishment often times and I think that it shouldn’t be that way. Marzano says that the more homework students do, the better their achievement. Studies have been done that show that when students do a little bit of homework every night their over all GPA goes up. Maybe the teacher I am with should be using homework to help her students instead of using it as a punishment tool when they are behaving badly during class. When I have my own classroom I will try to establish a homework schedule and policy and stick to it. I know that if I assign homework one night and the kids didn’t do it I will not give them more time to finish it like this teacher does. In order for these students to take homework seriously the teacher should tell them why they are doing the homework because the purpose of homework should always be identified and articulated. She should establish a homework policy and provide feed back as quickly as she can, and let students know that mastering a skill requires practice.