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To: bentway who wrote (260542)	9/14/2014 6:47:58 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542597

That discussion is moronic. But there is a serious point there. Homework, or no homework? I come down in the middle. I send work home when 1. I want to reinforce skills that I know my students know, but fear they might forget without some strengthening 2. I want to add rigor and depth for honors students who will be going to college where work outside of the classroom is onerous and expected and 3. when I want to offer extra credit for students who do some practice with skills I think they could afford to practice. I also feel free to assign reading as homework, if I know the students can do the reading, because I want them reading more- and there is no way we can read everything aloud in class- not with the amount of literature i am trying to cover. On the other hand, if i am iffy at all about whether or not my students have mastered a skill I never send it home as homework- because the worst thing I can do is have students practicing something wrong. I drill this idea in- and so my students come to me when they do not understand things, and thus no one practices at home with incorrect ideas (allegedly is 7x harder to unlearn something you've learned, even incorrectly, than it is to learn something right the first time- it's why we continue to make mistakes with things we learned wrong the first time, even though we "know" better)