1. How long does your child spend on their homework at night? do you think this adequate, too long or too little?
1 hour
2. Do you prefer your child to have written homework, research based or active 'at home' learning activities? or a mixture of all?
Research based assignments, provided the school is able to equip them to do so.
3. Can homework generally be completed independently or does your child need a lot of support.
Support and motivation is required, as they see this to be another tiring thing for the day and they lack competitiveness when it comes to homework.
4. In your opinion, does your child benefit from the standard of homework given out?
well not really
Dev
Dear MT
these are personal observations about my child. In fact i am running a consultancy in Qatar (www.matmac.org) and am trying to introduce alternate thinking systems to children as well as encouraging them to be competitive and challenging themselves. this is a unique system and is unique because this is the only system that encourages participation from the teachers, the students, the parents and the school management alike. We hope to bring about a radical change to the system by our program known as the "EXCELLENCE" I would appreciate if you could share your observations on these kinds of unique research and we will be more than happy to discuss our findings as well.
Hi MT
pls find responses to your query:-
Age of the child is 7 yrs
1. How long does your child spend on their homework at night? do you think this adequate, too long or too little?
1 hour
2. Do you prefer your child to have written homework, research based or active 'at home' learning activities? or a mixture of all?
Research based assignments, provided the school is able to equip them to do so.
3. Can homework generally be completed independently or does your child need a lot of support.
Support and motivation is required, as they see this to be another tiring thing for the day and they lack competitiveness when it comes to homework.
4. In your opinion, does your child benefit from the standard of homework given out?
well not really
Dev
Dear MT
these are personal observations about my child. In fact i am running a consultancy in Qatar (www.matmac.org) and am trying to introduce alternate thinking systems to children as well as encouraging them to be competitive and challenging themselves. this is a unique system and is unique because this is the only system that encourages participation from the teachers, the students, the parents and the school management alike. We hope to bring about a radical change to the system by our program known as the "EXCELLENCE" I would appreciate if you could share your observations on these kinds of unique research and we will be more than happy to discuss our findings as well.
Cheers
Dev