A good homework

is…..

Learning Objectives:

• To understand why homework is important and why different types of homework are set • To know what we need to do to achieve homework success

Starter: With a partner, completethis sentence in as many ways as you can think of in 1 minute.

Make a list on rough paper.

Which group came upwith the most?

Homework is for….

Homework is for…..

Homework is for…..

• Keeping what we did in class fresh in my mind

• Teaching me how to plan and manage my time

• Teaching me how to research

• Giving me time to complete coursework or finish long pieces of work e.g. projects

• Getting new work to stick in my mind by repetition

• Giving me more practise at new skills I learnt in class

• Doing outside work I couldn’t do in school e.g. research in a supermarket

How many of these did you think of?Which of these are skills for life?

• Letting my parents see and help with my learning

Can you match the hwk with the reason?

Letting my parents see and help with my learning.

Giving me time to finish long pieces of independent work.

Teaching me how to research.

Getting new work to stick in my mind by repetition.

Doing outside work I couldn’t do in school.

Giving me more practise at new skills I learnt in class.

Interview someone about life in the 80s

Use the Internet to find out what deforestation is.

Learn to spell key words from food topic

Do ex 4b and 4c using the same method as we did in class in ex 4a

Find + bring in 5 product labels showing energy in calories.

Write up your final Shakespeare essay

Can you match the hwk with the reason?

Letting my parents see and help with my learning.

Giving me time to finish long pieces of independent work.

Teaching me how to research.

Getting new work to stick in my mind by repetition.

Doing outside work I couldn’t do in school.

Giving me more practise at new skills I learnt in class.

Interview someone about life in the 80s

Use the Internet to find out what deforestation is.

Learn to spell key words from food topic

Do ex 4b and 4c using the same method as we did in class in ex 4a

Find + bring in 5 product labels showing energy in calories.

Write up your final Shakespeare essay

With a partner, look again at your list of reasons for setting homework

Go through your partner’s planner for the last 2 weeks of term.

Find 5 homeworks, and decide why you think they were set. Explain these to your partner.

Pick one particular one to explain back to the class.

(If your partner doesn’t have 5 homeworks recorded, find out why. Is homework being set? You should be writing down the homeworks you are set)

Interview someone about life in the 80’s

This homework might be set to….

To be successful at thishomework I would need….

•Teach me about life in the 80’s•Get my parents involved in what I’m doing at school

•Teach me interviewing skills•Get new facts to bring into class and….?

•Someone to interview.

•Half an hour set aside for the interview.

•To have written my homework down properly.

and ….?

An example of an aims & needs chart

Research the Art Deco movement

This homework might be set to….

To be successful at thishomework I would need…

Now make a similar aims & needs chart for either the homework above or one that you have been set this week.Make it as detailed as you can.Then check with a partner for ideas you might have missed.

Swap your aims & needs chart with a partner.Did you come up with different things?What about the rest of the class?

Plenary:If you had to give 3 pieces of advice on how to achieve

homework success, what would they be?1)2)3)

Have we met our objectives?Learning Objectives:

• To understand why homework is important and why different types of homework are set• To know what we need to do to achieve homework success