Posted on March 26, 2009 by Ben Kestner
Homework. You either love it or you hate it. Most students you talk to hate it.
Avid readers of this blog will already know my views of homework for middle school students. If it is Relevant, Interesting and Personal then there’s a good argument for it. If it’s Boring, Repetitive and Impersonal then it can be [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2009 by Ben Kestner
Homework is a hot topic in the middle school at the moment. I have introduced the idea that we need to think about why we set homework and if students do take learning home, what should it look like. After reading much research, articles and books such as Alfie Kohn’s “The Homework Myth”, Sara [...]
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