Teachers do you know, or care, that your pupils are not doing their homework?

Question

If you switch your attention to the "homework help" section of this site you will no doubt recognise some of the work set by you for your students to do on their own at home. By asking Yahoo Answerers to help them are they "playing the game" or do you care?

If as many of you seem to say (UK teachers that is) homework plays such a little part in final assessments why do you set it?

Answer 1

there only cheating themselves.

Answer 2

I know who does their homework and who doesn't. The only person who suffers is the student. My daily grades (in class work) and test account for the larger portion of their grade. I very rarely put homework assignments as grades in my book because often, if it's not yahoo answers, it's the parents, or siblings doing the work. We check homework together in the mornings so kids can see their errors and ask questions and then I usually give a quick 10 problem (speaking in math specifically) assignment that reflects what was expected of them in the previous night's homework. If someone else helped them, it doesn't take long to figure it out.

Answer 3

My sister is a teacher and she said that teachers DO care about homework being done and how it is done. Teachers are also smart enough to realize that if "Joe" can't spell in classwork, he isn't likely to turn in a quality paper unless he receives help. Plus, if the grammar and language are so stilted that it is obvious the child didn't do it themselves, she gives them the "F" they have earned. She actually DOES grade the homework herself and can sniff out a plagiarist a mile away.

She said the biggest problem is that students who think they are "smart" by scamming the system will get caught sooner or later and it really ruins their future opportunities because they haven't done the legwork required to excel in college or the workforce.

Eventually, they are exposed for who and what they are.
Cheaters.

Answer 4

I care when students are not doing their homework; however, when I assign essays they tend to be highly specific. Thus, cannot be purchased on-line.

Worksheets tend to be independent practice of skills recently taught; so as long as the kids were awake in class, they should have no trouble completing the work.

I teach eighth grade American History and English.

Good Luck....

Answer 5

It doesn't matter where they get the answer from. In most cases the teacher gives all the answers in class, prior to assigning the homework. A teacher actually prefers to receive unenlightened, pre-sanctioned, regurgitated responses; instead of unique, individual perspectives on the assigned topic. That's why you have to credit your sources.

It's the teachers game; not the students.

Answer 6

That is why you put more weight on class exams and quizzes and very little weight on homework when it comes to determining a final grade.

Answer 7

Are you serious? Of the thousands of classrooms in the US alone how could you expect anyone to have the time to track down work that was shared in yahoo answers.

Answer 8

http://youtube.com/watch?v=cAsz_uX4UTI


~ sorry, i just had to...lol..