Steve Weller's List: Rethinking Homework

• Designing quality tasks
• Moving from grading to checking
• • Using completion strategies
   
  • Establishing support programs
• clear academic purpose
• promote ownership (personal)
• sense of competence
• not be a commodity
• make sure student understands and is doing
• ifferentiated based on the difficulty
• Grades should reflect learning
• Late policies should be about learning, not simply compliance
• academic labs, independent study, teacher advisory time, extended school day, after school/Saturday support programs

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• Reviewing Cathy Vatterott’s “Rethinking Homework”
• the culture of homework
• • Belief #1: The role of the school is to extend learning beyond the classroom.
   
  • Belief #2: Intellectual activity is intrinsically more valuable than nonintellectual activity.
   
  • Belief #3: Homework teaches responsibility.
   
  • Belief #4: Lots of homework is a sign of a rigorous curriculum.
   
  • Belief #5: Good teachers give homework; good students do their homework.
• No Child Left Behind
• Parent involvement in homework
• Economic realities
• “Renegotiating the Parent-School Relationship
• Revise expectation of parental support.
• Establish formal methods of parent-teacher communication
• Quality Teaching Matters
• Skills Require Practice
• Learning Is Individual

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