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Re: UK Teachers: Ban Homework For Kids Under 11 - April 18th 2009, 05:48 AM
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Originally Posted by Grizabella View Post
I think we need to find a method of teaching where the students actually learn the material, rather than learn how to do good on assignments and tests. I have no idea what that method might be, but I think we need one. In almost all of my classes in high school, I rotely learned the material (through the homework my teachers threw at me), retained it just long enough to pass a test or exam, and then it was in one ear and out the other. I didn't learn very much content in high school, I learned how to beat the system.
That is SO true! I mean, the things I'm learning in science now I have been learning every grade for at least three years now, maybe four. It's ridiculous how many times we end up having to re-learn things!