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What do u think this essay writen by me, as a Form four student??
Title: Do schools rely too much on homework?
Contemporary learning theory suggests that homework is a poor way to advance student learning. Not only do students progress at different ages, but they also do not all go through the same unchanging set of stages. Just as not all students are naturally right-handed and should not be made to write in this fashion, distinctive learning styles are developed and often persist over an entire lifetime. Sending work that is crucial to core learning home — where resources differ and where teachers can gain little sense of who did the work or why deficiencies occur — often impedes learning.
A modest amount of independent work, say two hours a day, is appropriate for high-school students, but teachers with adequate resources and experience in assessing individual learning styles should be available to aid children. Even many of homework's defenders now concede that homework does not advance test scores for elementary-school students. They fall back on the claim, for which they don't offer proof, that homework sows good study habits. Yet play could be a better way to encourage good habits. In fact, some research has shown that when children study because they enjoy it, they learn better, and what they learn stays with them longer.
Both students and adult workers deserve time for the kind of unstructured play that encourages creativity and fosters interest in learning. Work as the solution to all our woes is reform on the cheap and at the expense of all. Children, like all of us, are more than recipients of school knowledge. They are siblings and community members, budding artists, musicians and athletes. They are natural inventors and scientists and spiritual beings. Do we allow our children to exercise these selves?
Japan is often cited as an example of the effectiveness of longer school days and extensive homework. Yet Japan's economy is in deep trouble today. Even some of its leaders now concede that workaholism among workers and students is a barrier to innovation. Workers who spend so much of their lives in narrow cognitive tasks are unlikely to be broadly creative in redesigning existing products or revising national economic priorities. The Japanese educational ministry apparently now recognizes that the emphasis on long school hours must be re-examined. |
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發表於 8-3-2009 19:31:04
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