The homework given to primary school children is ineffective and is robbing dyslexic children of the time they need to experience success, illustrator and educator Danielle Sheehy argues.
Thanks, Mairead! Yes, very interesting stuff from Danielle that really gave me pause for thought. I suppose my own personal take might be that many studies appear to have assessed the impacts of quantity of homework but not quality, and that lots of teachers are using homework time to get kids to do original learning and stuff not covered in class, whereas the purpose of homework is supposed to be recall.....however I don't have experience of kids with dyslexia. And homework for primary seems a relatively new phenomenon anyway: both my parents just told me they never had homework in primary school, and it certainly does seem to be a huge burden on an age-group that needs to be developing other skills too.
If students are linked up online to teachers then learning new stuff at home with teaching time then focused on where they get stuck is beneficial. Khan Academy do modules in many subjects, go at your own pace and repeat as often as you need. It’s free. But this should be linked into their teachers for it to be effective. I think this happens in California in some areas
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Thanks, Mairead! Yes, very interesting stuff from Danielle that really gave me pause for thought. I suppose my own personal take might be that many studies appear to have assessed the impacts of quantity of homework but not quality, and that lots of teachers are using homework time to get kids to do original learning and stuff not covered in class, whereas the purpose of homework is supposed to be recall.....however I don't have experience of kids with dyslexia. And homework for primary seems a relatively new phenomenon anyway: both my parents just told me they never had homework in primary school, and it certainly does seem to be a huge burden on an age-group that needs to be developing other skills too.
If students are linked up online to teachers then learning new stuff at home with teaching time then focused on where they get stuck is beneficial. Khan Academy do modules in many subjects, go at your own pace and repeat as often as you need. It’s free. But this should be linked into their teachers for it to be effective. I think this happens in California in some areas