homework becomes so time-consuming and frustrating that it turns students off to classwork more broadly.
Before teaching 2nd grade I worked with students that did not see a meaning into finishing high school and did not care about finishing homework and I can make this connection with those students.
Grading homework for completion—or not grading at all, Wormeli said—can help students focus on the real task at hand of consolidating understanding and self-monitoring their learning.
This could help students take risks and try harder problems without fear of failure.
I encourage reading every night,” Thomas said, but he doesn’t use logs or other means of getting students to track their completion.
I found this very interesting and something I never thought because when I was teaching 2nd grade we had them track and sometimes it was a pain to get students to read
“The depth and exploration that can come from one single problem can be richer than 20 routine problems.”
This shows the idea of quality over quantity also focusing on meaningful learning rather then busywork