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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stewart, who has three children who attend Wakefield High School, says grading homework assignments is vital.

“It gives teachers a sense of what students learned before progressing to the next unit or the next topic,” he said.

Teachers are not using homework to guide their topic pace in the classroom. This is a flat out lie. They have X units to cover and the pace accordingly. If kids' HW shows they need to slowdown the teachers do no such thing. I just left a 9th grade transition night where a biology teacher said, we have 12 units to get through and SOL prep so we do a new unit every 2 weeks and test every 2 weeks. Pretty sure if HW showed the kids were not grasping unit 5, she would not slow down. She has her year set and she has to meet it due to the demands of her higher ups. [/quote]

Teachers should be using formative assessment to gauge what students understand and/or can do. That is not the purpose of homework. Formative assessment can include an entrance/exit ticket, a warm-up, a mini-quiz, a short recording or video (like in a language class), a problem or a prompt to respond to on a white board, or some other short, narrowly-focused task for students to demonstrate what they understand and/or can do. Not homework. Homework is for practice and should be counted for completion only. [/quote]

We do. Thanks for the “mansplaining”.[/quote]

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