This book reveals the types of homework activity that are most beneficial to pupils’ attainment and makes practical sense of the research on homework and how it can be used most effectively.
This book reveals the types of homework activity that are most beneficial to pupils’ attainment and makes practical sense of the research on homework and how it can be used most effectively. Suggesting ways in which the impact of homework can be improved, this book offers practical ideas, strategies, and activities that teachers can implement, trial, and adopt in their own classrooms.
Linking current evidence from cognitive psychology on retrieval practice, spacing and interleaving to the setting of homework, the book includes:
- suggestions for effective preparation tasks
- a discussion on metacognition and how this can help pupils revise and complete schoolwork independently
- an overview of how we can effectively check homework
- the importance of feedback
- how schools can support pupils and parents with homework as well as the importance of having a crystal-clear homework policy.
This is essential reading for all teachers and school leaders wanting to ensure their homework activities have a real impact on student’s learning.
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"This book addresses which types of homework and their content have the most positive impact on learning, outlining practical ideas, strategies and activities that teachers can implement, trial and adopt in their own classrooms. It also explores how organisations can support learners with homework as well as the importance of having a crystalclear homework policy." - Dr Anne Davis, inTuition (Society for Education and Training)
Chapter
1. Why homework matters
Chapter
2. What does the research say?
Chapter
3. Which types of homework task have the most impact?
Chapter
4.
Knowledge, memory and retrieval practice
Chapter
5. Preparation, flipped
learning and independent learning
Chapter
6. Checking homework, assessment
and feedback
Chapter
7. Planning, spaced-distribution and interleaving
Chapter
8. Supporting pupils and parents
Chapter
9. Writing a homework policy
Chapter
10. Final thoughts Appendix
1. Understanding the use of effect sizes
and educational coefficients in educational research Appendix
2. An analyse
of the research into homework types by The Reach Free School and Teacher Tapp
Appendix
3. A brief analysis of parent and pupil surveys Bibliography
Andrew B. Jones is Assistant Headteacher for CPD and Professional Mentoring at The Reach Free School in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, and a Founding Fellow of The Chartered College of Teaching.
