Is it right for teachers to leave homework for parents to check and sign?

I am a little teacher gossiping, let me answer this question.

I often sign my children’s homework, mainly in elementary school. Occasionally, I will also write comments on my children's homework. The child's homework is carefully written and elegantly written. Every time I sign, I sign my name neatly. If I sign in a sloppy handwriting, I always feel that I am not serious.

I am also a teacher, and I give students homework more or less every day. Not only did I ask the parents to sign, but I also asked the group leader to check whether the parents had signed. If the parents do not sign, I must urge the students to take the homework home and ask the parents to sign it.

1. Today’s teachers assign homework every day: Assigning homework is a good way to review and consolidate

Confucius, China’s greatest educator, said that you can learn the new by reviewing the past. Only by reviewing old knowledge can you experience new knowledge. The ancient sages knew that review and consolidation is the best way to learn knowledge, so today's teachers must learn from the good practices of their ancestors. German psychologist Ebbinghaus has a famous curve that discovered the law of forgetting. A person's forgetting always manifests quickly first and then slowly. This law of forgetting can be effectively used in students' learning, that is, the knowledge students have learned must be reviewed in time, so that the speed of forgetting will become slower and slower, and the knowledge learned can become more and more consolidated.

The purpose of teachers assigning homework is to review and consolidate the knowledge that students have learned in a timely manner, so as to achieve the goal of students not forgetting the knowledge they have learned, that is, internalizing it in their hearts and forming skills and talents. Use skills to solve problems. And the teacher will always review the knowledge points that have been learned in the past after a period of time, so that the children can truly master the knowledge they have learned and achieve the purpose of truly learning.

2. Parents must check and sign homework: Parents’ check and signature is the best way to understand their children’s learning situation.

Many parents may not understand or be happy when their children have their homework signed by their parents. Sometimes my eyes are fixed on my favorite TV series, and sometimes I am surfing the Internet with my mobile phone, and I seem impatient, "You are the only teacher who has a lot of things to do, and your homework needs to be signed by parents, so what do you need your teacher to do?" The parents are unhappy and the children are also uncomfortable. Because the child's task has not been completed yet, and the child has worked hard until the end and you still have to sign.

In fact, when teachers ask parents to sign their children’s homework, it is not just about parents writing their names with a stroke of a pen. If parents don't even care about their children's writing, whether their children's questions are right or wrong, and whether their children's homework is clean and tidy, I suggest parents not to sign. It would be meaningless if you signed.

The purpose of the teacher asking parents to sign is for parents to truly understand their children's mastery of knowledge, where their children have not learned well, and where they need more practice. When parents sign, they must check whether their children have done it correctly and whether they have written carefully. Parents gain a comprehensive understanding of their children during the examination. It is always more direct and targeted than parents always calling to understand their children's learning situation.

3. Home-school cooperation is an important concept in modern education.

Parents are their children’s first teachers, and children will be like the kind of parents they are. The attitude of parents determines the attitude of their children. Parents' education is subtle and a silent example. Parents' value orientation also determines their children's values.

Suggestions and wishes: Parents and teachers work together to hold up our common hope - children. We want our children to thrive and we grow with our children. More understanding, less complaints; more effort, less regrets.

My eldest is in the second grade, and I have to sign every day. I feel like my name is much more handsome, haha! The child's teacher requires the child to sign after completing the homework and some unit test papers, but does not require parents to check the child's homework.

However, I think as a parent, if your child has written his homework and is more responsible, he will take a careful look at it to see if he has made any mistakes. The handwriting is very neat and there are no more mistakes. This phenomenon is very common, especially for children in lower grades.

I correct a few typos for my child almost every day, and then ask him to write these typos in an error-prone notebook. I usually dictate to my child, so I can focus on dictating these words, which is very useful for reviewing and consolidating knowledge. help.

In addition, there is another benefit of checking children's homework frequently - knowing clearly the child's mastery of knowledge and knowing where the child is not learning well, parents can check and fill in the gaps in time for the child. My eldest son will have his midterm exam tomorrow, and because I know how he is studying, I will be on target when reviewing.

Some parents may be disgusted with teachers asking parents to check their children's homework, and feel that this should be the teacher's business. I have to say that some teachers really want to save worry, but as parents, it is also necessary to understand their children's homework in a timely manner. As for the learning situation, if you want your children to study well and improve their grades, you can't just rely on teachers, parents must also pay more attention.

To take a step back, even if the teacher is not responsible (I believe most teachers are still responsible), the child is still our own, and we have to be responsible for him, right? Therefore, I think from the child's perspective, it is not a bad thing for the teacher to ask parents to check the homework and sign it.

Teacher Mark believes that this approach is not advisable. First let me talk about my experience. My wife and I are both teachers. I am a middle school English teacher, and she is an elementary school teacher. We can teach both languages ??and numerals regardless of subject. After dinner every day, it is basically time for WeChat remote teaching and Q&A.

My sister-in-law’s child is in the fifth grade of elementary school. From the first grade onwards, the teacher has clearly required parents to watch their children do their homework, check it and sign it. If the teacher finds that there are mistakes in your homework, and the number of times is too high, you will be called out in the parent group, saying that the parents do not check the homework seriously, and if it is serious, you will be criticized at the parent-teacher meeting, and you will be put on the stage in front of all the parents. So, not only did the child’s mother stay with him for five years, but we as a couple also stayed with him for five years. My sister-in-law has not graduated from junior high school and has little education. She is often stumped by questions that her children don’t understand. Sometimes she doesn’t know what is right or wrong when she encounters a problem when checking homework, so she posts difficult questions to WeChat almost every night. Let’s start with Explain it to her, and she will explain it to the child.

As a teacher, I have also reflected on this approach of my colleagues. Their original intention is to establish close ties between home and school, so that home and school can work together to help children develop good study habits and improve academic performance. Indeed, this approach plays this role to a certain extent. Some primary school students, especially those in lower grades, have not developed the habit of completing homework independently. At this time, parents should cooperate with teachers to plan the time for their children to do homework at home every day, and supervise their children when to start doing homework and when to take a break. , when to complete, form a pattern; it is to supervise children to concentrate on doing homework, not to be half-hearted, and to play while doing homework; it is very important to cultivate children's willingness to think, serious and rigorous learning attitude.

However, Teacher Mark believes that this approach has more disadvantages and cannot be ignored:

1. This approach is a manifestation of the lack of teacher ethics and destroys the harmonious home-school relationship. It is the teacher's job to check and correct homework. To impose the work that he should do on parents is an abuse of educational power, causing parents' resistance and dissatisfaction, actually destroying the relationship between home and school, and triggering social conflicts.

2. This approach is a manifestation of teachers’ lack of professionalism. Today's teachers, especially young teachers, always emphasize that this method is adopted because there are too many students and the homework cannot be corrected. This is a complete excuse. As old teachers, we were class teachers when we were young. We taught two classes, with 5 or 60 students in each class. The teacher would grade the homework on the same day. If the homework was not finished after work, he would go home late or take it home for correction. There is also a quiz in class, and feedback will be given on the same day after approval. At that time, almost every teacher carried a square cloth bag in his hand when going to and from get off work. It was natural and normal to take homework home for correction. The particularity of a teacher's work determines that it is simply not enough to be limited to only 8 hours. Therefore, if a teacher lacks professionalism, he will not be able to do a good job as a teacher.

3. It is not conducive to the improvement of teachers’ teaching effectiveness. Correcting homework is a continuation of teachers' classroom teaching, a part of classroom teaching, and an important way to test their teaching effectiveness. A good teacher likes to see the students' problems in their homework books. Only by knowing the students' problems can they understand the pulse of the students, and only then can the teaching be targeted and have practical results.

If the homework that the teacher sees is corrected by parents who checked and helped correct it, then how can you, teacher, find out where the student's problems lie? How can you reflect on your own teaching? The role of homework has not been played at all.

4. Increases the burden on parents. Since parents have varying educational levels and cannot check their homework themselves, they send their children directly to after-school classes after school, where tutors will help them complete their homework and then pick them back up. This virtually increases the financial burden on parents. At the same time, it also gave birth to such abnormal tutoring classes, which destroyed the educational environment.

I really don’t understand why it has become a problem for my own children to supervise their homework!

Those parents are all eloquent and talk about how to love their children. They all talk about what kind of education they want to give their children and why they should take action. But they are not willing to spend more time educating their children. Make a little effort?

Sign and check your child’s homework. It is a way to educate children together with the teacher, and it is the most direct way to understand the learning situation of the child.

In the world, what education is more important than family education and better than family parents? How can parents show their care and responsibility if they are not involved in their children’s education? How to prove that you are a qualified guardian?

Teachers focus on a group in class, while students are individuals at home. Why there is such a huge disparity between students in the same classroom is because family education is not good enough.

The teacher leaves the homework to the parents for them to check and sign. This method is only suitable for the lower grades of elementary school. We can make a clear result and try to apply it to the first, second and third grades of elementary school. It is not applicable to other grades. not applicable.

If parents just ask the teacher to check the homework and complete all the tasks of checking the homework, it is very unrealistic for the teacher. We don’t need to give some excuses, everyone knows the reasons well. That is, there are many students in the school, and it would be very difficult for a teacher to check all the homework of the whole class.

For parents, if they check their children's homework in the first to third grade of elementary school, they can understand the quality of their children's homework, the progress of their children's learning, and their children's learning abilities. His classroom learning can be reflected in the quality of his homework, and parents can learn a lot of knowledge.

However, if there are special circumstances, for example, parents of senior primary school students cannot check and provide counseling at all, then asking parents to sign is a bit excessive, so we still need to be objective about such issues. We hope that teachers and parents can better understand and communicate with each other in this regard, and try to limit homework checking and signing to the lower grades of primary school, and not raise it too high.

This is my view and opinion.

My task is that parents should not help students check their homework.

I believe that checking for errors in homework and correcting them is part of homework and that parents should not do it for them. The simplest question: Now you can help your children check and supervise the correction after each homework, but can you help your children check after they finish writing the papers in the examination room?

Some parents may see this as an opportunity to help their children develop the good habit of checking. But in fact, the feeling you give your children is: Anyway, my parents are helping me check. Even if I make a lot of mistakes, after checking them out and correcting them, the homework will still be excellent or have a score of 9. The child's own attitude towards homework and even learning changes. Once a child fails to get a high score in an exam because there is no inspection, it will inevitably cause pressure on himself, his parents and the school teacher. Because the homework is completed well, the teacher does not know the student’s true situation, so he cannot take targeted measures to help. Parents are bound to be more strict in homework checking, but as everyone knows, this will make students more resistant to the learning task of homework checking.

Among all learning theory studies, one is very important: the purpose of learning is to allow students to develop learning autonomy (Autonomy). This means that children should slowly complete the entire learning process by themselves: learning knowledge, completing exercises, reflecting on mistakes, learning from mistakes, and correcting mistakes. I think the parent-managed examination process is one of the forms of counterproductive measures. The flawless homework now is of little use. It is impossible for parents to help him check even a little bit in the college entrance examination more than ten years later.

I have asked many teachers and principals in Australia for their opinions on this issue. They all wondered why checking homework was the responsibility of parents. One of them even told me that it is normal to have flaws in homework. This just proves the possibility of students learning and growing, and checking homework is a good way to cultivate a learning attitude. one. Therefore, this is not to cultivate parents’ learning attitude, but to cultivate children’s own learning attitude.

I implore parents: Accompany your child when doing homework, but give him his own space to complete the homework and check it by himself. What we can give is this feeling: Mom and Dad care about your learning status and encourage them. You learn. Of course, if you are still worried, you can record the mistakes your child makes in his homework, encourage him when the mistakes are reduced, and encourage him to check and correct his behavior. Parents can also sign for their children after checking their homework. The message here is: Mom and Dad believe that you can complete the homework and check it yourself, and also believe in the quality of the homework. This is undoubtedly a good way to cultivate trust between parents and children.

So I object to parents checking their children’s homework, but I agree with your logic of trusting your children and signing.

This should be a way of communication between parents, schools and children.

Modern education is not only about learning cultural knowledge, but also focusing on the connection with parents and schools, because we are not isolated individuals, we are all social.

By using this method of communication, you can not only know the situation of your children at school at any time, but also understand the changes in your children's thoughts at any time.

Parents, don’t find it troublesome. This is also a kind of writing training, which is beneficial to parents, students and schools.

This is a matter of course!

Note that this is for parents to check the homework, not to correct it, so as to avoid further comments! So how should parents check? First, parents should check whether their children's homework has been completed; secondly, parents should check their children's writing. Is the handwriting clear and correct? Is the writing neat? Based on this, parents can know their children's attitude towards homework. Finally, parents can look at the corrections made by previous teachers and see if there are more " "s or "Ⅹ"s, so as to understand their children's learning status.

The child is your own. If you don’t care about him, who should you care about? There are many benefits for parents to check homework.

First of all, parents checking their children’s homework every day can increase the time spent with their children, making them feel that mom and dad care about me and love me, which can deepen the relationship with their children. emotion.

Secondly, parents check their children's homework, which invisibly urges their children to develop the good habit of being careful and attentive in homework, which indirectly improves the child's learning efficiency and has a huge impact on his future study or work. benefit.

Finally, you can keep an eye on your child's learning situation at any time, so you can communicate with your child and teacher in a timely manner to correct chaos.

A few years later, when your children grow up and recall their youthful years, they will not only think of the word "study", but also the deep love of their parents.

In short, improving children’s academic performance is not just a matter for teachers. It should require schools and families to work together and cooperate with each other. Only when parents from home and school cooperate, can children's learning be more effective with half the effort!

The above is my opinion. If you are not convinced, come and argue! !

To train students well, three aspects must be closely combined, namely, parents, school, and society. Among them, parents and schools should take the lead. Therefore, teachers are completely inseparable from the work of students' parents in education and teaching. However, the main job of parents of students is to support "education" (education), not "teaching" (teaching knowledge). Because: 1. The level of knowledge of each student's parents is different. Some can tutor their children, while others cannot. 2. The work situation of each student's parents is different. Some students' parents have time to tutor their children, while some students' parents work exhaustingly during the day and are listless at night. They have no energy to tutor their children at all.

Therefore, in view of the above two reasons, I think it is not appropriate for some teachers to ask parents to check and sign after assigning homework. Because the teacher's purpose is that after the students' parents check and sign, it can greatly reduce the burden on the teacher, and the teacher can no longer read and correct one by one.

Just imagine, if the parents of a certain student are uneducated or have low education, how can they examine their children? If a student does an assignment wrong and the parents sign it casually, how will they deal with this kind of assignment again in the future?