What is your opinion on the issue of whether or not homework should be banned? Do you think that it teaches students responsibility and accountability, or do you believe it is a waste of time for those who are struggling to keep up with their studies? In this blog post, we will discuss 10 reasons why homework should not be banned that are sufficient to justify why the movement to end homework is wrong. We hope that by the end of reading our article, you will have a better understanding of what each person's stance might be on this controversial topic!
It improves presentation Skills
Assignments are meant to boost students' performance in their studies. One of the ways that this happens is when they get to prepare and present on different topics. They are required to gather information, write notes, and organize them into specified formats. These presentation skills will be beneficial when students join the workplace.
It teaches responsibility and accountability skills
Teachers set tight deadlines for homework that often means that students have to strive as much as they can and observe punctual submissions. If they fail to deliver on time it is indicative of their irresponsibility in time management and lack of discipline. In such instances, students will have to be accountable for their failures to deliver their homework. As such, in the course of students continually exerting themselves to deliver homework on time they build their responsibility and accountability skills.
It teaches important life skills
If you understand the benefits of homework especially how it teaches important life skills, you will never give homework excuses.
To answer homework questions, students have to study and research. Pupils learn to manage time effectively, set priorities, and improve self-discipline. Such life skills are essential in exceling not only academically but also in career, sports, and relationships.
It boosts memory retention
Homework often requires reviewing concepts learnt in class, class notes, and course material. In the course of a semester, students will do multiple homework that will require reviewing the same concepts or advancing concepts. The repetition of the review of concepts will build awareness and long-term memory.
Enables Parents to Track a Student’s Performance
Parents should not do assigned homework for their children. It defeats the purpose of giving homework to students.
Rather, parents should be monitoring the progress of their children through reviewing their performance when doing homework. Homework provides guidance on a student's future performance in final exams. Based on a student’s performance in homework, their parents can assess whether they are excelling or floundering in school while also providing them an opportunity to offer guidance.
Promotes Self-Learning
Researching is critical when doing homework. It is necessary since some homework questions require students to have knowledge on concepts taught in past topics, which the student may not be knowledgeable about. In the course of research and studying, student gain insights on a range of concepts that they had not grasped when taught in class or had not been taught about at all. Banning homework will withdraw this opportunity for students to self learn their coursework.
Allows Students to Revise Content
Whenever a student is allocated homework, their fist step should be reviewing their class notes to see where the homework questions are derived. They should follow up this with reading associated topics around the coursework. After the homework is completed and marked, students should check to see the questions that they failed against class notes. Essentially, this will uncover insights on concepts they failed to understand, which if studied thoroughly will ensure the mistake is not repeated. As such, in the course of doing homework students will be undertaking revision of content learnt in class.
Practice Makes Perfect
Even after understanding the concepts in a math or physics topic, students may still fail when presented with a calculation exercise. To overcome this failure, students have to do multiple questions exploring the same concepts until they can get an academic edge in the topic. Banning homework will lead to students being alarmed when they are given their final exams and encounter questions discussed in class but they did not practice them.
Helps in Building a Positive Attitude Towards Learning
Learning is quite boring. Consistently doing homework will change this attitude. Students will gradually build interest in learning the more they do homework. They will see the possibility of concepts learnt benefiting their life and future career, they will be impressed by new perspectives, and they will be awestruck with discoveries in their field. Eventually, the poor attitude towards learning will shift towards curiosity and interest in their studies that will be reflected in improved grades.
Build curiosity
Not only are topics interrelated in a subject but across multiple topics. During studying for homework, students may uncover such interrelations. Keen students will follow the rabbit hole to gain insight on how far the interrelationship between concepts goes. Additionally, students can build curiosity through homework by researching how developed a topic is.