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Thursday, March 30, 2017

Alternatives To Homework

I will be honest, I would rather my students spend 15 minutes reviewing what we covered in class than doing a worksheet, but sometimes homework is inevitable. In history, I try to assign homework no more than 2 times a week. (I don't count studying as homework). I am going to be covering the material in class, and most of the times they don't do it anyway, so I have decided that there are better ways to assess learning. In English, I do assign homework on a regular basis, but it is usually reading a story at home that way we have time to discuss it in class. If I didn't teach multi-grade classrooms I probably wouldn't assign reading homework. 

I came across this chart about alternatives to homework, and I really liked some of the ideas. 
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Would you incorporate these ideas into your classroom? I would like to use some of them once a week to replace a traditional assignment. 

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