Your child will bring home a variety of reading materials. Please aim to make reading together enjoyable and successful. If your child is struggling with a book, read along with them...and tell the teacher. Please make sure that children return their reading books in their bags each day.
Homework is based on current school learning. Class teachers will advise on what regular homework will be expected. Please try to make this a positive time. If you think the work set is too hard for your child, let the class teacher know. Current Research In John Hattie's work he
has tried to find what makes the biggest difference to children's achievement
(Visible learning. A synthesis of over 800 meta-analyses relating to
achievement, 2009).
He has identified a 0.4 effect size as being the level where we can start to notice the impact of an innovation on achievement ("real-world differences"). In his analysis of homework (5 meta-analyses, 161 studies and 105,282 people) he calculated that homework has an effect size of 0.29. However, this is made up of 0.64 effect size for high school students and only 0.15 for primary students. He thinks this is because primary children are less able to ignore relevant information or stimulation in their environment, have less effective study habits and receive little support from teachers or parents. Other findings include: * short, frequent homework that is closely monitored by teachers is better * task-orientated / surface feature homework is better than deeper learning / problem solving homework (probably because deeper learning needs greater feedback and monitoring, while surface learning can happen with minimal teacher supervision) * less complex (or novel/innovative) is better (high level conceptual thinking or projects were less effective) *often homework reinforces to children that they can not learn by themselves and that they can not do school work - this can undermine motivation, reinforce incorrect strategies etc * Hattie found no evidence that homework improves time management skills |
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