Should Our Time be Colored by The Homework?

Should Our Time be Colored by The Homework?

Homework can be defined as a task assigned to students by their teachers to be completed outside of class. This is usually given by the teacher when the teacher has not completed explaining their material or maybe the teacher want to give the extra task for enhancing the student skill. Homework is such a bridge that joins teachers and parents. From the teacher’s perspective there is the opportunity to monitor students' independent progress. For parents there is the potential to gain a greater appreciation of education and to express positive attitudes towards their children’s achievement. However, by the time passed, there are some complains from the student about their homework. Mostly, their protests are about the huge amount of homework which has to be done in a very short time. This might be a worst condition for the student because they will be under-pressured by that kind of condition. By discussing those problems in this short article, we do hope that we can determine which one is the best solution for this homework problem.

As we know that some of students think that homework is very useful for their life. They say that homework is good for time management skills and is useful for reinforcing what students learn in the classroom. Unconsciously, by doing the homework, we are trained to use our time efficiently and also enhance our understanding about what have we learned in the school. In the other words, we can say that homework can reduce our laziness. We will feel busy when we have homework because we still have something to do. Beside, some of teachers usually use the homework as the increasing scores recommendation for the student whose score is below the standard. So, with this, homework can help the student to lift up their score.

However, sometimes, the students refer to the homework as a boring job. This is caused by a huge number of homework that is given in a short time. Usually, the homework is not even better when it comes in a huge number. As a quote said, ‘something who wins in quantitative doesn’t mean they win in qualitative’. It is meant that a huge number of homework does not determine the quality of that homework. It can be worst or vice versa.

The study found that 75 percent of students said they did at least 30 minutes, while 45 percent said they spend more than an hour on homework each “regular school day.” Yet, 90 percent of students surveyed reported that homework caused them additional stress, specifically students who received “average” or “below average” grades. Based on the fact above, we can see that most of the students think that homework can bring an additional stress for them. If the students have got their stress earlier, so they can’t study for the specific topic of their material in the available time. It is meant that their time for study specific topic is captured by the time they use for doing their homework. It is also meant that their spare time will be deducted because of doing this homework.

                Moreover, the teachers usually do not check the homework they give to their student. It will make the student feels terribly disappointed because the teachers seem like not giving any appreciations for their student’s work. If the student disappointed, it will reduce the trust of the student to their teachers which is a very dangerous problem for the teacher-student’s relationship.

                 

After having a lot of explanation above, we can know that homework have some benefit for us. That is what things we can take from the homework. We can use it for our useful life. However, we could not bear the fact that too much homework is going to be a useless thing for us. It can make our thinking overload, our leisure time is gone, and also our stress level is becoming higher. So, should our time be colored by the homework?

Source of facts : http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/September-08/Is-Homework-Helpful-or-Harmful.html