“BEST HOMEWORK PRACTICES”

Practice homework should not be assigned until the teacher has assigned homework to

check for understanding. According to Dr. Vatterott (2009), homework should be used as

formative feedback about learning, not as a summative assessment of learning. When homework

is used as assessment of learning, and students are penalized for incomplete or incorrect

assignments, it's often easier or less embarrassing for them to not attempt the work. If homework

is understood by students, teachers, and parents to be formative feedback about learning, we

remove the shame of not understanding as well as the temptation of parents to complete or correct

homework. According to Kathy Ruhl and Charles Hughes (2010), Practice can be provided via

homework in two ways, single-skill or cumulative. Single-skill assignments are appropriate when

students are mastering the taught skill itself; cumulative assignments are valuable when students

are learning to determine which skill to use and then applying it. The example about teaching a

math algorithm is a single-skill format. If the assigned homework included the newly learned

algorithm along with some previously learned skill, it would be considered cumulative.

Cumulative practice is critical for skill maintenance and is included in any model of effective

teaching practices. Skill maintenance is especially difficult for students with LD.

Best homework practices is very important because it’s help them and advance to their

lesson. Homework encourages students to take initiative and responsibility for completing a task

and also homework is that it helps the student develop essential skills. It can help a student

comprehend the material. It is an assignment that teaches you valuable life skills.