Adults who have had years to develop coping and time-management skills to be able to deal. Their brains are not finished cooking yet. Also, even though I teach high school, they are children. When I taught English, the only homework would be to read from a book of their choice for 20 minutes.Įspecially now, during this pandemic, our students are overwhelmed and stressed beyond belief. My students only have work to do at home if it is to rehearse for a presentation in class, a project they wanted to film at home rather than in school, or they used their time poorly during class. Really excited to hear other opinions on this Rephrasing the question i posted earlier: do you think its possible to change the class setting and the style we teach currently to something where all the work gets done in school? If only that would happen more frequently. Im totally fine with the situation where all the necessary work gets done in class. Thats the only argument i can get behind and support. Part of preparing students is for them to learn to organize and set priorities. Setting aside the issue if it actually does achieve that goal, the amount of stress a young adult is put under is orders of magnitude bigger than it is in school. Im of the opinion that school has some sort of responsibility to prep kids for the real world. Most of us have either family to care for, prep to do for the next day, answering mail, (.). Now, let me give you my opinions on those:Īdults dont really go home and relax. No need to burden them with extra workĪs long as stuff gets done in class, there is no need to do (potentially) unnecessary work at home Teachers should keep in mind that students have sports, band, jobs, caring for other family members (.) to contend with. Let me give you some of the arguments i have heard on the side of not giving homeworks:Īdults work 9 to 5 and then go home and relax.

How would teaching look without homework? What would need to happen (in class) to do away with the need of work to be done at home? As a math teacher, that idea sounds horrible, but it also got me thinking: I recently came across some teacher video on Tik Tok from a high school language arts teacher describing why she does not give any homework.

Schools without homework