Do Your Homework

As soon as children go to school, homework comes with it.

Students know they have to do homework almost every night.

But they aren’t taught “how to do” homework.

Should they do homework on the bus home, immediately when they arrive home, after dinner, before bed, or the morning before school?

Should they do it with the TV on or with music on in the background?

Should their parents do it with them? Or is it better they learn alone or with a friend?

Should their parents correct their homework or leave it up to the teacher to correct it?

Should the child do their homework and then check their answers?

We all go to college to learn, but do we ever learn how to learn?

One of the most popular courses in the world is called, “Learning How to Learn.”

The course explains techniques to improve learning.

Spaced repetition is a learning technique that involves reviewing the work over different intervals to strengthen long-term memory.

The Pomodoro Technique is a method to improve focus by setting a timer to do productivity work and then breaking with a reward.

Many other tactics can reinforce learning such as testing yourself at the end of a chapter or doing the questions in a different order when preparing for a test.

It’s time we don’t just give homework, but teach homework.