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Getting the Buggers to Do Their Homework
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This book does precisely what it says on the tin. Did you realise that properly structured homework can add the equivalent of one year to a student's full-time education? This invaluable guide provides teachers with a wide range of practical techniques that can be used to motivate pupils of all ages to do their homework. Julian Stern equips teachers with a variety of strategies for setting more effective, interesting and differentiated homework. He offers dozens of examples of homework tasks covering every subject in the National Curriculum. Brimming with innovative ideas, this book will prove essential reading for every teacher and trainee teacher.Author description
Julian Stern is Head of the Centre for Educational Studies at the University of Hull. He spent fourteen years as a schoolteacher and much the same time as a teacher trainer.Table of contents
1. Introduction; 2. Expansion homework: extending the school; 3. Application homework: making school subjects important; 4. Capture homework: bringing the world into the classroom; 5. Homework that dares not speak its name; 6. Resources.Stock Information
General Fields
- : 9780826473998
- : cipg
- : cipg
- : April 2006
- : 216mm X 138mm X 12mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Illustrations
- : 160
- : 371.30281
- : Paperback
- : Julian Stern
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