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Homework PolicyTypes of HomeworkTeachers assign different types of homework to accomplish specific purposes. Practice homework helps students master specific knowledge and skills that have been presented in class. This type of homework includes completing worksheets, playing learning games, writing short papers or sentences, reading together, and studying for tests. Sometimes students need to communicate their mastery of knowledge and skills by using different media. To provide such opportunities, teachers assign extension homework such as writing compositions, preparing a demonstration, and making dioramas, maps, models, or other visual displays. Other times teachers want students to complete projects that combine many skills and require a depth of knowledge. They assign projects, called integrative homework, such as preparing oral reports, written reports, science projects, class newspapers, or artistic productions. Preparation homework, on the other hand, is designed to motivate or prepare students for knowledge and skills which they have not yet mastered. Teachers may assign students to read text, take notes on reading, work on solving a problem that will illustrate the need to learn upcoming material, or gather information from resources outside of class. 1. Goals |