
Getting the Buggers to Do Their Homework
Julian Stern(Author)
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published on 6. April 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-8264-7399-8 (ISBN)
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Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-7399-8 (9780826473998)
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Julian Stern
Getting the Buggers to Do Their Homework
Book
01/2009
2nd Edition
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
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Person
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.
Content
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.