Homework is designed to help you find value in learning for learning’s sake. Just as with sports athletes, practice can make perfect. In the same respect, academically speaking, homework completion is an opportunity for you to develop your own understanding of a concept, evaluate your own abilities, and obtain direct feedback and support to improve your learning over time. Achievement may be incremental and struggle is certain, just as practice in sports.

Homework is intended to be practice. What you can (or cannot) do at home on your own, will shape classroom instruction and help me differentiate instruction where needed. In this classroom, homework may be scored, graded, or rated using a rubric, and it may even be reported as practice on Google classroom or Gradelink. However, it will not be counted in the report card grade since it is intended as practice when skills are still emerging in your understanding of the content of each subject/class.

Additional information about homework:

• It will directly connected to what we are doing in class
• Should be done by the student, independently with little or no guidance
• Should be done in a space that is designed for quiet with all the needed supplies at hand
• Use the timer app on your phone. Set it for 30 minutes, and try to remain focused on doing what you can in that time. (it’s ok if you don’t finish.)
• Come prepared to discuss your homework the following day.

I will try to stick to a regular schedule when assigning homework. You will have homework most nights, probably not on Fridays. It may vary in length but the time needed to accomplish it should not exceed 30 minutes. If you cannot complete an assignment in that time, please write your questions on the assignment or email them to me. It is alright if the assignment is not completed, as long as you make an attempt and work as far as you are able to independently.

Remember, homework plays a role in helping you to practice your learning and grow in confidence so that you can establish responsibility for your own learning and grow as a learner.