(07 Dec 2014, 6:39 pm)AdamY Children react differently to different methods of teaching and all children have different levels of teaching needs.
For some the current method of teaching in the UK will work best. For others the methods employed in Sweden may prove to be more beneficial. However it's impractical to have a mix-and-match approach to teaching children on a national scale. A national policy therefore needs to be decided upon and implemented to ensure children get the best possible educational experience. Homework, unfortunately, is essential for development and transition into the working world. Unless you're in a low-paid, dead-end job with no prospects you'll soon find out that homework pervades into working life. If one decides to venture into the world of academia - at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels - homework is essentially all you do. Doing homework at school prepares children for this and encourages the development of a broad range of transferable skills relating to time-management and work prioritisation.
Young children are currently getting at least a piece of homework a night, then loads on a weekend, then teachers and the government wonder why the education system is failing, they also wonder why it doesn't get done, and grades are falling, reason why.... they don't have time to be children no more.... the government want schools to be more like Asia, where they get brilliant grades.......... we will never be like Asia!
All children learn different ways, and at a different speed, we can't forget that, we can't have 10000000 different versions of the curriculum but i think children from the age of 3-7 should be allowed to be children, meaning going out to play etc and not get any homework at all or be under pressure for tests.
The EYFS for children aged 0-5 is the worst, i bloody hate that document so much - so many targets for children at such a young age - this also brought 2 year checks in, these are done when the child is at 2, to see if the targets are being meet in the area's of development.
Here is the EYFS 2012 document -
http://www.foundationyears.org.uk/files/...MENDED.pdf
Iv'e used this document the last 5 years from when it was launched to the changes to it in 2012 so i know it well , maybe people on here can't see the faults and problems of it, this maybe because you's haven't used or even seen it, not saying you's might not be able to, i'm not looking down on people!
I'll not go on because of the faults i find in it, it will get boring to read after the first paragraph! lol
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