Description
Turn homework into a meaningful learning experience that excites students!
This step-by-step guide shows teachers how homework assignments can connect with the curriculum and with students’ lives. Moving beyond the current “homework debate,” this resource provides:
- Effective homework strategies, sample assignments, and classroom-ready tools for all grade levels and numerous subject areas
- Richly detailed vignettes describing how real teachers have changed their homework practices, including do’s and don’ts
- Insights on how to use homework to promote parent involvement
- Guidance on how assignments can build 21st-century skills such as inquiry, problem solving, and collaboration
Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
1. Introduction: What Is so Important About Homework?
Part I. Realize the Purpose
2. What Is the Rationale for Homework?
3. What Do the Experts Say about Homework?
4. How Does Changing Homework Impact Your Practice?
Part II. Assemble the Plan
5. How Can You Design Meaningful Homework?
6. How Can You Put Meaningful Homework into Action?
Part III. Examine the Possibilities
7. How Can Meaningful Homework Look in the Early Elementary Grades?
8. How Can Meaningful Homework Look in the Upper Elementary Grades?
9. How Can Meaningful Homework Look in Middle School?
10. How Can Meaningful Homework Look in High School?
11. Still Not Convinced?
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
A Guide to Your Professional Learning
References
Index
