Should parents check their children's homework?

Once, a news that a teacher criticized parents for not correcting their children's homework in a group caused a heated discussion on the Internet. Originally this is a very common thing, and many parents have seen it in the group. Only this time, because of the teacher's fierce words, such extreme remarks as "your child will be as sad as you in the future" were hyped up, which caused a heated discussion on whether parents should correct their children's homework.

There are many comments on Zhihu:

A reporter made a random survey among parents. According to the survey, only 6% of parents said they had never approved homework, and as many as 48% said they approved homework almost every day. However, when it comes to whether parents should correct their homework, although more than 50% parents admit that correcting homework makes them feel "burdened" and their lives and studies are troubled, and even some parents are very angry because of teachers' criticism, 48% parents say that they should do it without any trouble.

According to online data, at least seven provinces have stopped parents from correcting their children's homework. But I don't agree with this one-size-fits-all approach, just like the ban on "Pinyin and arithmetic are not allowed to be taught in preschool education" and "homework is not allowed in lower grades". If we don't change the exam-oriented education mode of "emphasizing knowledge over practice", whoever really lightens the burden will eventually regret it!

My opinion on whether to change children's homework is that it should be changed, at least in the current environment. It takes about 10 minutes for parents to carefully correct an assignment for their children, about 60 students in a primary school class, and 600 minutes for teachers to finish correcting it, that is, 10 hours. Is this realistic? So, don't talk about what should or shouldn't be. The key is how to be good to children.

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Parents can check their children's homework and keep abreast of their learning. Children study hard, lack knowledge, and have difficulties in learning. Can be reflected in their homework.

Many times, the reason why children make mistakes in their homework is not necessarily that they are not serious, but that they really don't understand and master it. If you wait for the teacher to explain the problem in class the next day, the teacher will know the answer directly and understand it, but he will not think deeply and may make mistakes next time. If the teacher didn't talk about this problem, he may have corrected his mistakes through classmates or other means, but he didn't really solve the problem.

There is an important link in the learning method of deliberate practice-immediate feedback. The more timely and clear this feedback is, the better the effect will be. Parents' immediate feedback to their children by checking their homework is the fastest, most accurate and most targeted.

Therefore, parents should not pay attention to the final result, but find out the shortcomings or problems in their children's learning through daily homework. These problems and solutions are different for every child. Teachers can't be expected to teach students in accordance with their aptitude, only parents can work hard.

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Parents should also pay attention to strategies when checking their children's homework, otherwise they may really lead their children astray, or let them develop the habit of dependence, and even cause chickens to fly and dogs to jump at home because of homework problems.

The following points must be noted:

First of all, parents must put their minds right. We don't want to find fault and have a crackling meal. You should respect the objective law that learning is a process and cannot be achieved overnight, and you should accept the reality that your child is neither a genius nor a schoolmaster. It's normal not to master the knowledge you just learned, and it's normal to repeat it. After all, we can't guarantee that once we learn, we will definitely learn something, and the mistakes we made will never be repeated. How can there be so much anger when you put your mind right and lower your expectations? Respect and acceptance are prerequisites for a good relationship.

The second is gradual and gradual liberalization. Helping children check their homework should be a phased behavior, because parents can't help their children check forever. The younger the students are, the more they need the help of their parents. Because people's abilities are not born, they need to learn. In the process of checking homework, parents can give specific demonstrations to their children on the ideas, methods and habits of doing problems.

Third, don't do everything, just tell him the answer. For example, "this word is not written like this." "This question is wrong." This is definitely encouraging children's laziness.

After the third year, we should focus on checking children's problem-solving thinking. For example, in mathematics, we only check whether the formula is correct, and the calculation results are generally not checked. The children themselves confirm and practice to test the calculation ability. For another example, if you check your Chinese homework and find a typo, draw a small dot below, and the child will check the word to correct it. Only in this way can we cultivate children's responsible and serious learning quality.

You must ask this sentence more often: "What do you think?"

The fourth is to let the child talk about his understanding and thoughts. "I don't know if I understand right. How did your teacher explain it? Can you tell me about it? " When the child repeats the teacher's explanation, it will become clearer and clearer.

Two days ago, a story about a farmer's father exploded on the Internet. One of his three children went to Tsinghua and two to Peking University. His only way is to let the children tell him what they have learned after school every day. In fact, the father inadvertently used the famous "Feynman learning skills"-a teaching-based learning method.

Fifth, parents can use some tools. When children upgrade step by step, homework becomes more and more difficult, and parents begin to feel that checking homework is not enough. At this time, they might as well use an APP similar to homework help to help you verify right and wrong, and then remind children to rethink right and wrong questions. Of course, children must not be allowed to use these apps, otherwise they may rely too much and give up their own thinking.

These are some specific ways to help children check their homework. In any case, we should remember that our ultimate goal is to improve the accuracy of children's homework and let children develop the habit of self-examination and independent learning. Before that, let's applaud him!