Homework

[Woodsey]

Its a pain in the arse, and I never found it particularly useful.

If you find it difficult you need to keep going to ask the teacher anyway, it means you spend forever doing school work, and most of it doesn't feed into feeling like its worthwhile.

I didn't mind doing coursework because it was substantial and had a point to it, and I'd be graded properly at the end. Regular homework I just mostly stopped doing halfway through high school.

And its always the useless subjects (I'm looking at you RE, don't run off!) that give you the most.

Homework was always handled differently to the various revision techniques too, so its not like it could be argued to be much a prelude to that.

 

[Aidinthel]

I tried to do as much homework as possible at school to leave me as much free time as possible. That and I'm pretty smart so the work usually didn't take me very long.

But I do agree that ideally a teacher should be able to convey the lesson during class. I intend to go into teaching myself so this is something I spend time thinking about and based on my own experience as a student when you make a worksheet-type assignment for pretty much anything except math the goal switches from learning to just getting it done. I took five years of Spanish classes, tested out of the university language requirement and I can't speak Spanish worth a damn.

 

[ms_sunlight]

You think this is rough. Wait 'til you have an actual full-time job. Homework is a doddle.

 

[eggy32]

I always thought that getting a lot of homework was counter productive because it forces you to use a lot of your short term memory and will make you forget about the stuff you learned earlier faster. But what the hell do I know right, this is just my opinion and it's most likely wrong but I don't even want to think of how much homework I'm gonna get this year.

But you'll be rehearsing, or going over, information you learned in class and using it in the homework. This way the information is put into your long term memory, through what is called "elaborative rehearsal."

 

[teisjm]

It really depends on what kind of homework you get, and how the teachers implement it in class.

Say you're assigned a book to read as homework, and are supposed to analyze it in class.
You don't need your teachers help to read the book, so reading it in class would be a waste if the time the eacher is avalible, and would either result in less time where the etacher actually teaches you something, or a more expensive education, if you just added the homework hours after normal class and had the teacher there.

If used right, homework will increase the ammount of stuff you you learn durring the time spend with the teacher, and reduce the ammount of time the teacher just stands idly by, while you prepare for what you're about to learn.

If you're just assigned stuff you've done a hundred times before, you'll learn nothing new. This'll most often happen, when you're at the top of the class, and while you're just doing what you already know how to do, someone else might need the prectice to learn it proberbly, and then the problem isn't the homework, but the fact that the level of the class is too uneven, so the good students will be slowed down by the bad students, or the bad students will be left behind, cause they couldn't follow at the pace of the good students.