Homework Task Force - St. Timothy's School
Revision "D" 03/09/03
Topics Under Consideration
- Homework Load Leveling
- Categorizing student workload
- activities effectively done in the home environmeent
- activities best done in the classroom environment
- use of technology to improve homework tasks
- How are the teachers and the general curriculum currently evaluated?
- An "org" chart indicating responsibilities would be helpful.
- An online syllabus is required; one with links would be helpful.
- Is St. Timothy's a school for the gifted or a family school?
- Paragraph comprehension timed tests should be implemented.
- Eval form sent out twice per year.
- individual class web pages
- Evaluate use of computers in assignments
- Research (do away with note cards)
- Typing skills
- Spend more time in class (rather than home) teaching learning skills.
- If work must come home it should be basic skills, i.e. math, reading, spelling, science.
- Daily Homework
Better use of time for learning.
- Avoid busy homework such as:
- Word search
- Coloring squares
- Drawing pictures
- Coordinate quantity with other subjects
- - Flexibility to do homework
- Post homework on internet
- Post homework on Thurs/Fri for following week
- Allow multiple days to finish 2 weeks to read 5 stories.
- Evaluate appropriateness to grade level
- Load-level – schedule projects to not overlap
- Better definition of project expectation
- Excessive number of projects
- Topics should be worthy of being researched and interesting to grade level.
- - Most work done during school
- - Teach research skills in school
- - Outlining
- - Researching
- - Typing
- - Organization
- Moderate "makeup homework" - Only makeup what really needs to be done (no busywork) in order to stay up with the class.
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