Homework Done Right: Powerful Learning in Real-Life Situations - Softcover

Alleman, Janet E.; Brophy, Jere E.; Knighton, Barbara L.; Ley, Robert T.; Botwinski, Benjamin C.; Middlestead, Sarah C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1412976537 ISBN 13: 9781412976534

Publisher: Corwin, 2010

Synopsis

Turn homework into a meaningful learning experience that excites students!

This step-by-step guide shows teachers how homework assignments can connect with the curriculum and with students’ lives. Moving beyond the current "homework debate," this resource provides:

• Effective homework strategies, sample assignments, and classroom-ready tools for all grade levels and numerous subject areas 
• Richly detailed vignettes describing how real teachers have changed their homework practices, including do’s and don’ts
• Insights on how to use homework to promote parent involvement
• Guidance on how assignments can build 21st-century skills such as inquiry, problem solving, and collaboration

About this title

About the Author

Janet Alleman is a Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at Michigan State University. She is author and coauthor of a range of publications including Children’s Thinking about Cultural Universals and a three-volume series entitled Social Studies Excursions, K–3. In addition to serving on a host of committees at the state and national levels, she has been a classroom and television teacher, actively working in school settings, and has taught at over a dozen international sites.

Jere Brophy was a University Distinguished Professor of Teacher Education and Educational Psychology at Michigan State University. A clinical and developmental psychologist by training, he conducted research on teachers’ achievement expectations and related self-fulfilling prophecy effects, teachers’ attitudes toward individual students and the dynamics of teacher-student relationships, students’ personal characteristics and their effects on teachers, relationships between classroom processes and student achievement, teachers’ strategies for managing classrooms and coping with problem students, and teachers’ strategies for motivating students to learn. Most recently, he focused on curricular content and instructional method issues involved in teaching social studies for understanding, appreciation, and life application.

Barbara Knighton is an elementary school teacher with over 20 years of experience in the classroom, including 16 years concentrating on the early grades. She currently teaches fourth grade in the Waverly Community Schools in Lansing, Michigan. Barbara has coauthored or contributed to several books on education, including two with an in-depth look at teaching in the primary classroom.

Rob Ley has taught third and fourth grade in both urban and suburban districts. He received his BA and MA from Michigan State University and is currently teaching in the Haslett Public Schools in Haslett, Michigan. He has presented research at state and national conferences related to making curriculum more meaningful for students by integrating community resources. He also directs an enrichment cluster learning context that focuses on creating a time and place for real-world, student-driven learning. Outside the classroom, he leads hiking and cycling adventures in various locations throughout the world.

Benjamin Botwinski is currently enrolled as a full-time graduate student at the College of Education, Michigan State University, where he is studying educational policy and administration. Prior to becoming a full-time student, Botwinski served as a high school social studies teacher in west Michigan. He currently lives in East Lansing, Michigan, with his wife and two children.

Review

"Homework Done Right takes a fresh look at how to create homework assignments that students will be motivated to complete, not based on the grade alone, but on the real-life applications of the assignments. I have already begun using the information presented in this text to tweak existing assignments to make them more intellectually rewarding for my students!" Author: Jessica Purcell, Science Teacher Published On: 2010-01-05

“The topic of homework is an important discussion for educators to be having in this age of increased competition and higher standards. What is the best way to extend learning for students of all ages? This book, based on a set of beliefs about teaching and learning, manages to address this topic in a well-considered and carefully researched format that will be useful to educators who are looking to improve their results with students.” Author: Mary Johnstone, Principal Published On: 2010-01-05

"The book caused me to reevaluate my own homework assignments in a new light and begin to think about what I can do to get my own homework ′done right′!" Author: Sally Koczan, Science Teacher Published On: 2010-01-05

"Just like their students, modern teachers want to know how what they learn is going to help them. Homework Done Right shows readers exactly why meaningful homework is best for students and provides teachers with answers to those perennial student questions: ‘Why do we need to know that?’ and ‘When am I ever going to use this?’” Author: Tim Tharrington, Sixth-Grade English teacher Published On: 2010-01-05

Edition details

• Publisher: Corwin
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1412976537
• ISBN 13: 9781412976534
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216