but i don’t wanna do my homework

but i don’t wanna do my homework

The Importance of Homework

1. Benefits of Homework

Exercise is another important factor in the benefits of homework. Students who have an excessive amount of homework every night are not able to balance their life with sports and other activities. This can cause physical harm and even damage cognitive functioning in a student. However, when given an appropriate amount of homework, the child is able to exercise and to balance their cognitive function in accordance with their physical well-being. Completing homework has its positive effects regarding cognitive learning and understanding the material taught, however exercise has its positive effects as well, regarding mental and physical health. When balanced, the two will go hand in hand.

Another benefit to doing homework is the development of responsibility. With homework, a student learns to complete work on his or her own. Children also learn to take responsibility for their actions. With homework, though you do the work on your own, the teacher can see what you have done. Children are assigned the task and must take the responsibility to complete it on their own. The student also learns to budget time to complete the work.

2. Developing Discipline and Responsibility

One of the main objectives of assigning students with various kinds of homework is to aid in the development of critical skills which will be required later in life. One such skill is time management. When an individual is assigned a task, he will have to estimate the amount of time it will take to complete and adjust his schedule to complete the task. This is a critical skill to develop, as the ability to manage time effectively is vital to success in any walk of life and will be an expectation of prospective employers. Failure to demonstrate the ability to manage time effectively can result in poor performance in a given task and the perception of poor quality of work. By completing homework, students will learn to manage time, meeting deadlines and developing a solid work ethic for the tasks of tomorrow. Time management also aids in successful progression between tasks. This is known as transitioning, and humans do this every day of their lives. An example of this would be when a person prepares to leave the house, locking the door and then proceeding to walk to the end of the driveway. The last task there is to check for mail and then shutting the gate when done. Failing to remember the first task of locking the door (unless the person has left the door unlocked as a reminder) would require returning to the house, thus wasting time. By solidifying the current homework to school transitioning, students will retain focus and overtime learn how to divert attention back to a previous task using a similar method to their current homework to school transition.

3. Enhancing Learning and Retention

Homework also encourages students to seek help if they are having difficulty. For the above scenario with the topic of photosynthesis, if it isn’t fully understood while reading the given notes, the student can see their teacher at the next available opportunity and ask for further explanation. This active effort to understand the topic is something learning must be done for knowledge to be delivered in a student’s memory. Without seeking some sort of further explanation, a student can easily forget and misunderstand a topic. Homework is beneficial for the development of understanding and retention so that if a student is absent from school, they are still able to learn the material. A study done at a US high school provides new evidence that could help settle the long-standing debate over the effects of homework. A researcher analyzed data from a variety of students by comparing test scores and grades of students who, due to a teacher’s strike, received an abundance of homework, and others who didn’t. Test scores maintained and for some groups were even higher than previous tests. The same result occurred for the high-grade earning students, so there was no evidence that homework was contributing to an achievement gap. In fact, many students performed better than usual, matching the evidence of active learners and those who seek understanding of knowledge.

Homework enables students to learn and retain new information. For example, students might not fully understand the classroom lesson on photosynthesis. The teacher might provide notes and a step-by-step guideline on performing the process. The student can take this home, read and understand it. They would then be asked to apply their knowledge by completing an active task. For the above scenario, the student might be given a worksheet with a brief synopsis of the process and some questions for them to answer. The student can check this against the notes taken from the given steps, and if they are incorrect, go back and try to understand the concept until they can do the worksheet correctly. This makes the student learn and apply the process of photosynthesis through a process of parts which they fully understand. Homework requires students to be active learners.

4. Improving Time Management Skills

In addition to the impact on study habits, the idea of time management can also be applied to developing a regular (and realistic) homework schedule. By allocating a specific amount of time to study each day, students can plan their workload into smaller sections, making it seem more manageable. If a high school student is spending an hour a night on homework, but is putting it off until 10 pm, this will cause the work to become more fragmented and take longer in the long run. A plan to have the work done and dusted by a certain time may result in the student having some free time on their hands. This is often a more efficient way to use the available time and will provide the student with some form of reward if the work is completed to the set standard within the set time frame. Committing to a homework schedule can also free up extra time at the weekends, allowing more time for extracurricular activities and socializing – and we mustn’t forget the importance of a healthy balance between school and play.

5. Overcoming Challenges and Achieving Success

When a regressive student completes his homework on his own successfully, he feels a sense of accomplishment and self-worth. This instills inner satisfaction and builds confidence. He feels that he has proved his worth. This psychological effect is very useful even in the case of elders. He gets a faint glimpse of the saying “practice makes a man perfect”.

Another challenge is that of completion of work on time. Homework teaches a student to meet deadlines. This is very useful in the future when he takes up a job. It teaches values of responsibility and time management. Homework also enables a student to produce work using his own abilities for there is no teacher present to guide him along his way. This enables the development of skills and logical thinking.

Homework plays a very important role in overcoming challenges. It serves as a revision to whatever is being taught in the class. It enhances the knowledge gained in the class. The biggest challenge in doing the homework is to understand the concepts used in the work and learn them not by rote but by understanding them. In case of any difficulty, the student can refer to the textbook which is not possible in a classroom. Full concentration is possible on a topic. This is very useful in the case of weak students.

Challenges are a part and parcel of life. It is commonly said that “a man is a bundle of problems.” To some extent, it is true as no one has yet escaped the clutches of time without being defied by problems.