y do teachers give us homework?

Question

it a waste of time + they cant dictate what we do at home& we have school to work

Answer 1

Actually the entire idea of homework is that you are practicing the skills that you learned in the classroom. While it may seem like a waste of time, the fact that you have to recall information later, or look up and answer questions is very very helpful to the learning process.

Answer 2

I give homework for four reasons:

1. Revision. If you've ever played a musical instrument or sport, you'd know that you need to practise. It's the same with school work. It's rare to find someone who is naturally good at school work and doesn't benefit from practise.

2. Extension. There just aren't enough hours in the day, so teachers set the groundwork in class and ask you to fill in the blanks later. Kind of like building a house - a teacher lays the foundations but asks you to do the brickwork. The last few questions given for homework should always be a little bit more challenging than classwork to encourage independent thinking and problem solving skills.

3. Information. Another benefit of homework is that it informs your parents of what you're up to. Also, (in a perfect world) it gives your parents time to interact with you in an academic setting, working together to acheive an outcome.

4. To cover stuff that would just be too cumbersome/impossible in class. When I teach certain things, I set special homework about it. For example, when I taught my second-graders last year about procedures, I asked them to learn how to cook something from their parents and bring in the recipe. When I was doing graphs with the fourth-graders this year, I asked them to conduct a survey so that we could graph the results. Research topics and projects would also consume too much class time or be extremely difficult to teach to 30+ kids at once (particularly if they were doing different topics).

The reasons above show that homework is never a waste of time, as it always serves a purpose. As for dictating what you do at home, teachers don't do that either. Nobody holds a gun to your head at four o'clock and demands that you do your homework. When, where and how you do it is entirely at your discretion, provided it's done on time.

Answer 3

well for me, i didnt need to do any of my homework back in highschool because i was an extremely fast learner and i understood almost everything the teacher taught us in class...but now in college, the material is extremely hard and profs teach at an extremely fast pace so that class time just becomes a time and place for students to know what we should be studying and learning ourselves at home so we don't fall behind.

If you can 100% understand the material being taught in class then yes homework is useless...but if there are certain topics u dont understand, then homework is just a second chance for u to study and learn at ur own pace.

Projects and assignments, however are different...they become homework when u aren't able to finish ur work at school and have to complete it outside of school....or it could also be that ur teacher would rather spend class time teaching rather than free time to do ur projects. Projects and assignments are ways the teachers use to make sure the students are actually learning the material...since everyone has their own learning preference, it is best for the teacher to cover all of them.....teachers use visuals and lectures for those students who learn better by seeing and listening.....for the remaining students who learn better by doing, require homework to help them learn.
For some teachers, projects and assignments are ways for them to grade the students. Some students aren't good test takers or may just be having a bad day when a test comes up. If such students ends up failing the test, then the projects and assignments the student completed should help keep the student's grade at a passing level.

Answer 4

From Wikipedia:

Homework is generally given about 1-5 school days for completion, but more difficult work can have a completion date of several weeks or even months after the date on which it is assigned. Depending on the case, larger take-home assignments are usually referred to as projects, including essays, book reports, presentations, or generalized as "major assessments" or "major evaluations". Policy on how to treat students who don't hand in their assignments on time, or who are discovered handing in other student's work as their own, is usually left to the discretion of each teacher or the school.

In the United States, the amount of homework some students receive relative to others (for example, those taking higher-level classes) comes under frequent criticism by education experts


Good Luck....

Answer 5

You need to use something many times before it becomes a part of your long term memory, You also need to use things independently without direct guidance. Homework is part of the learning process. Would you rather they school kept you an extra couple of hours a day? Mandatory? Thats what it would come to if we didnt trust students to do homework.

Answer 6

As with anything else, if you want to perfect how to do something (and help to remember it) then you need to practice it. That is why musicians spend so much time practicing. And athletes practice daily. Homework is NOT a waste of time. It is a very important part of the learnng process.

Answer 7

Basically to waste our own time by giving us work that should be done in class. Less work at home, more work at school, that's what I say.

Answer 8

I know i wonder the same thing. I guess so we will learn even when we are at home. To me, it would be a lot better if they would give us enough time to finish our work at school instead of having to take it home.

Answer 9

Homework reinforces what you learned in class. Also, not enough time for classes is a major reason you have homework.

Answer 10

Believe it or not, it builds character.

BTW, I give no credit for homework that has been copied/pasted, or completed by a parent.