Appropriate homework can add the equivalent of at least one additional year of full-time education for secondary pupils and can be what learning is at its best: grabbing hold of the world and making it make sense for you. Here the author illustrates how teachers can set more effective, interesting and well differentiated homework, how schools can best support homework, how parents can support the educational progress of their children, and how everybody can make the best use of their time.
There are practical ideas for use in the classroom, stimulating ideas to inspire the reader's own creativity and well over 200 examples of homework tasks covering every subject in the National Curriculum. This allows for the different ways in which teachers and parents educate their children and makes a liberating and welcome book for primary and secondary teachers, policy makers and parents.
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Part 1 What is Homework and What is it For?;
Chapter 1 An Introduction
to the history, purpose and current use of homework in schools;
Chapter 2
Homework related to wider issues of supporting study, independent learning,
distance learning and flexible learning;
Chapter 3 Homework and equal
opportunities: the forgotten year;
Chapter 4 Homework and special needs; Part
2 A Teachers Guide to Homework;
Chapter 5 Introduction: Setting, monitoring
and assessing homework;
Chapter 6 English;
Chapter 7 Maths and Science;
Chapter 8 History, Geography and Religious Education;
Chapter 9 Modern
Foreign Languages;
Chapter 10 Art, Music and Design and Technology;
Chapter
11 Physical Education and Personal and Social Education;
Chapter 12
Cross-curricular issues and Information Technology;
Chapter 13 Coursework and
examinations;
Chapter 14 Teachers doing their own homework: Organising your
own professional development and study; Part 3 A Managers Guide to Homework;
Chapter 15 Developing policies and practices in departments;
Chapter 16
Developing whole-school policies;
Chapter 17 Partnerships with parents and
the community;
Chapter 18 Managers doing their own homework: Organising your
own professional development and study; Part 4 A Parents Guide to Homework;
Chapter 19 Introduction: Homework is Hell;
Chapter 20 Supporting Reading,
Writing and Oral skills;
Chapter 21 Supporting Maths and Science skills;
Chapter 22 Supporting History, Geography, Religious Education, and Modern
Foreign Languages;
Chapter 23 Supporting the Arts, Technical and Physical
skills;
Chapter 24 Coursework and examinations;
Chapter 25 Communicating with
the school;
Chapter 26 Making the most of leisure time; Part 5 Resourcing
Homework and Study Support;
Chapter 27 School libraries and public libraries;
Chapter 28 Homework centres;
Chapter 29 Community facilities: Beyond
homeworking; Part 6 Sharing Information about Homework;
Chapter 30
Researching homework in schools;
Chapter 31 A short guide for teachers (for
use in INSET courses);
Chapter 32 A short guide for pupils (for use in
Personal and Social Education and study-support time);
Chapter 33 A short
guide for parents (for use in preparation for meetings at school);
Chapter 34
Books for researchers, schools, parents and pupils;
Julian Stern
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