If you wanted to learn how to do something --- fly an airplane, swim, play a violin --- you would probably spend a lot of time practicing. If you buy a whole bunch of Karate books and spend lots of time just reading them carefully, you will not become very good at Karate. You actually have to practice Karate ... practice a lot of Karate ... for many years ... before you become any good at it.
. Reading about doing something, or watching someone do something, is not the same as doing it onesself. Would you want to be operated on by a surgeon who had read about and observed but never done the operation? The brain is economical, and will only develop the ability to do things that it is regularly called on to do. So if a student reads and watches, he will develop the ability to ... read and watch. But not do.
Typically, I find that students who do most of the homework assignments do a lot better in exams than those who do just a few, and I don't mean by a little bit. Quite often in a calculus test, all the students who did most of the homework do better than all the students who did little of the homework. The graph of test scores sometimes shows two big mounds: one mound (mostly grade B-ish) of scores of students who worked hard on the homework before the test, and one mound (mostly grade D-ish) of scores of students who did not. The reality is this: while homework may officially count for little (if any) of the grade, unofficially homework drives the grades. This should not surprise anyone who looks at exams as performances, and homework as rehearsal: as any musician, actor or athlete will tell you, if you do not practice, you bomb on stage.
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IT'S SIMPLE WE NEED TO DO THE BEST IN ALL THE THINGS THAT WE MAKE.
In my opinión this articule is very important in my life who estudent and personal but in any activity, occupation or lenguage that I want learn is very necesary practicing a lot, becouse if we only see, we aren´t sure of the we made. Thanks for this comentary I´m going to try of practice this recomendations
I think that sometimes of the life we forgot what we want do of our personals lifes and we loose interested
THANKS FOR THIS ARTICLE. BYE
I don´t like homeworks, because I have another 7 classess, and its a very hard work, but its true, if we want to learn something new, specialy idioms, we must practice a lot.
I Agree with the article but sometimes the homework is a lot that the mind could be block.
sometimes the teachers exaggerate and is horrible because I don´t learn nothing with the worry of finish on time.
Is much better do little things for learn.
I KNOW THAT IS BAD BUT SOMETIMES IS NECESARY BECAUSE THE ORIGINALLY CDS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE.
I THINK THAT IS BETTER GO TO THE CINEMA THAN BUY A MOVIE BECASE WHEN YOU GO TO THE CINEMA YO CAN READ BETTER THE SUBTITLES , YOU CAN HEARD ALL THE SOUNDS AND YOU CAN SEE THE MOVIE IN A BIG SCREEN.
I AM AGREE WITH THIS ARTICLE , BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK YOU CAN PRACTICE AND YOU CAN UNDERSTAND.WHEN YOU HAVE TO STUDY FOR YOUR EXAMS IS MORE EASY TO UNDERSTAND .THE THEORY IN NOT ENOUGH.
FOR ME DO HOMEWORK IS THE BEST WAY TO LEARN.
IF YOU PRACTICE IS MORE EASY UNDERSTAND. PEOPLE ARE "AUDITIVA, VISUAL AND KINESTESICA".
PEOPLE WHO ARE KINESTESICA UNDERSTAND DO HOMEWORK.
FOR THE ENGLISH CLASS IS IMPORTANT DO HOMEWORK FOR PRACTICE TODAY.
That is true, all the people think that homework is boring, but they do not that the homework is left for something, for be good in all that we do and practice all that we learn.
So, homework some times is boring but we need to be open mind and think that it is for our life and it going to help us in the future.
Lo dijo ELIZABETH 813-A ESCA
HELLO!!!!
IN MY OPINION IF YOU WANT DO BETTER SOMETHING YOU SHOULD PRACTICE ALOT BECAUSE "THE PRACTICE DO THE THEACHER"
REMEMBER THAT THE BIG THINGS HAVE A PRICE....
HURRY!!!!! COUL BE SPENDING YOUR BETTER TIME......
MELISA 613-A ESCA
Well. I agree with you about practice a lot if we want to become someone very good in something, I really enjoy doing somethings which are like a sport games, but a don´t like a lot doing homework which is writting, but I think that is important to do most of the homework, because if we don´t do anithing, we wont to have any questions, so if we don´t have quiestions we going to think that we understand all. So that why is importat to do homework and practice a lot.
Actually the homework is very helpful because all your doubt will become in that moment and not in the exam, but sometime it is not graded so the student said " if the homework is going to have an extra pont, I will do it otherwise is a waste of time", that is one reason, but in my case in not that the homework doesn´t care me, but really I don´t have some and someother I forget the homework so I don´t do it. But I practice the english at work, the only problem is that I usually use the same world to answer my mails as.
" I got the docs", please send the docs asap, please keep me posted, etc; so I can´t practise the leson at job.
HOMEWORKS CAN MAKES YOU A GOOD STUDENT,BUT STUDING DAILY IS BETTER.
I AM NOT AGREE WHIT THE FACT THAT WHEN EXAMS ARE ARRIVING , ONE DAY BEFORE, AT TIMES WE SPEND ALL NIGHT TRYING TO LEARN WHAT WE DIDNT ALL MONTH.
Hi:
I think that it is good for having task when one this studying, but are times that give so boring tasks that one does not do them, or also are times that one does not make task by the lack of time but a task that as person must do is to update itself, to prepare itself, to know because of which this happening, must read and investigate of some events that have happened to cultivate themselves and to have ample knowledge.
Hi, in my case, I thik that homework it´s necessarym because practice diferents skils, and improve your level of Knowledge, for example studying English, in my case is horrible -I hate this language-, but it´s very necessary for a good eduacation, especially if you want to go with other majors or master degree, the english it´s a essential tool to develop another skills. To sump up, homework (English)is terrible, but it´s necessary to grow up.
HI!!!!!!
I THINK THAT THIS ARTICLE IS VERY INTERESTING AND, FOR ME, IT GIVES TO ME SUPORT, BECAUSE NOW I WANT TO GIVE ALL MY EFFORT TO BE BETHER.
THANKS.
In my case, i don't have much time to do homework but when i do it, is good because i'm practicing and learned, and finding doubts.
homework is a good way to learn more, and if you do it, really learn more, it's my experience, anyway I don't do homework very often.
plus: thanks for your classes george,really I learnt a lot with you i wish see toy again, take care, and thanks again.
George,
I agree with this articule, in my case, I do not have much time to do the howework but always I try to do it because a way to remmember what I learnt in the last class and also it helps me to understand more and it is useful to know if there is something I did not understand well and of course I take note to ask in the next class.
I think that the important thing in the education must be do that the students develop his( aptitude to think and not of being able to copy or taking notes. To do a homework or to pass an examination with 10 does not allow do to one person of a criterion, I believe that the important thing will be to discuss topics of interest and to be able to give your points of view and it is something that it is not necessary to to qualify because everybody have his own criterion.
HI EVERYBODY
I think if you want to learn and to be the best in something is really necessary to practice it as many times as you can.
All is with practice, in this case the homework is a dood way to learn more about something, try to do it and you can prove my ideas.
Specially when you are learning languages is a good way to practice in your home and do your homeworks.
Yes I accept that i have to do my homwork if I want to get good grades, because practicing is very important, is just sometimes I don`t have enough time, most of the times is very difficult studying and working at the same time.
I am agree whit you, if you want to lern something very well you must to proctise a lot, is the only way that you succeed.
That is why I think we need to speack with a forange people, we can learn a lot of things, in order to have another kind of pronuntation.
For me the best way to learn is doing the homework. Sometimes it could be hard, but it's better than try to learn all the lessons from the bimester in one night in order to have a 10 in an exam wich doesn't reflect anything, just maybe your memory capacity.
hello.
i agree with you because most of the times if you want to learn you have to practise. the experience is most important, but too you must have the basis, and you can have this studying very hard, doing homeworks, proyects, participating in class.
for example for me is dificult the lisening and the fluency for speak, and i try to improve all. if you know how can i be better help me please¡¡¡
I believe that if you really like to study something you won´t be a lazy person in order to do the homework, because you are going to enjoy doing it.
So, all depends on how much you are interested in the theme.
And finally we have to practice a lot ,if we want to improve our habilities in a specific subject.
Hi¡
Well, i know that attempting anything is good, but is better if your homework or your activity produces you joyness. And if you practice something is for pleasure and we can passs our life without pain and shame for us doing something.
I had an experience with knowledge: if you know something you must apply it inmediatly.
Knowledge without action doesn´t work.
Hi everybody:
I think that homework enriches your mind meanwhile you take it seriously. But don't do homework because you consider it an obligation, do it because you FANCY to do it !!!! I'd be better to think in that way than to think it's something forced. If you don't have enough time to do homework at least try to keep ten minutes of your day (maybe when you go to the bathroom) and take with you some vocabulary, i don't know!!! at least 10 minutes and enjoy them!. Remember that your brain needs to do exercise and by reading or doing homework will start excercising and moving!!!
Paulina L Hernández A.
level 1015 Integrated Skills
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Homework is better for practice grammar or improve our knowledge, because you need to reforce all things that your learned.
is necessary to practice all kind of things that we enjoy, in my case I love speak languages specially french and I need to do some exercises for improve my skills .
and how Juan Manuel Said if you know something you must apply it inmediatly
hi goerge!!!!
for me, homework is a very important part of our development in the school. but in the level that I am I think is more important practice what the teacher teached me than read how can I do that things.
Read is very important but practice is the best way.
Hello George,
I totally agree with all the coments about this topic.
It happened to me once, I was studying French and I did never practice because I was afraid of my pronunciation. I was very sad because most of my classmates really spoke it nice and I didn't.
On the other hand, when I started to study English, I did practice a lot with my cousins an I think that it helped me to have a better fluency.
So it's true that if you really want to lean something you have to practice it so that you can manage to handle it as perfect as an expert.
Hi teacher!!!
Good strategy for impeling us to do homework!!!
I agree with you, if we, the students don't practice our english, in this case, if only we assist everyday to take class, and we only try to learn something in 2 hours, and all day don't make another thing related with our english, certainly, we will be bad in this subject.
HI GEORGE!
Yes, in my opinion, if you don´t practice something you're going to know only the theory, and of course this is important but you need the complement, you have to deal with the reality, if you don´t do it your going to have problems. You're not going to know what to do.
So, please, practice your English with your friends or someone else.
I agree with you , because when you do the homework you realize if you understood & if you have any doubt.
Doing homework is also studying, and in this way you are not only preparing the exam iif not really learning and getting real skills.
Homework is the secret to be the best. but is not a secret that if you do your homework everyday you understand better all the topics even difficult topics.
Some time we don´t realize about the importance of doing homework but it is a good way to put into practice your knowledge.
Certanly you will be able to do your exam in the best conditions and of course pass it with a good grade.
HI¡
WELLL I KNOW DOING HOMEWORK IS THE BEST WAY TO IMPROVE SKILLS AND HABILITIES. UNFORTUNATELY THEACHERS THINK THAT THEIR CLASS IS THE UNIQUE, IN SOME CASES THEY EXAGERATE.
PERSONALY I LIKE THE DINAMIC CLASSES, BECAUSE IS EASIER TO REMEMBER THE INFORMATION.
Hi,
I think that when you are doing your homework, your are practicing.
It is a good way to learn and practice something at the same time. When you are doing the exam, you remember how did you do it and it is easier for you.
On the other hand, some homework is boring and you have to speend a lot time to do it. Also there are days that I have a lot homewok and I do it quick and I feel that I didn't learnd and practice anything.
Well, I hate doing homework, I think is a bad way to show how much you know about any subjet, I know that we have to practice our knowledge, but in many ocassions it's not necessary, it makes me loose my time.
I know that teachers have to qualify but... it's better to qualify our knowlwdge based in performances or... teach us in a good way!!
Well, they are my thinkings about homework, I hope you don't get angry with me.
Hello Jorge.
As you said in you comment, people who make an effort doing their homework is most common that they get better results in their studies, however I think there are some people who doesn’t like homework because some times teachers don’t justify the action, I mean this people don’t see what is the aim in some activities. In the other hand when a teacher explain perfectly the activity and it is accord to the topic, students don’t see the homework as an obligation, they see the activity as a tool that they are going to use in their lives and careers.
Thank you
I think it depends in everyone´s capacity, because I have met people who spend hours doing mathematics problems in order to learn more about the topic or maybe to obtain extra points but in the other hand we can found people who learn easily only with one example, they just check their notes one day before the exam and they obtain good grades only with the exam not with homework or extra points, I don´t know why, but also I know that exists a lot of lazy students who only want to cheat on the exam and obtain 10 or 9 of total average but what do they learn? Anything they are lazy people and that´s not easy to change. I´d rather prefer not a lot of homework because I think that you can learn more by a teacher or a person who explains you than doing and doing lots of excercises.
Thanks. Bye Anita
Hi's to everybody!!!
well George, i have to tell you, even matter you all ready realiced, i dont like to do homework, its a matter of costumes. since i was in highschool i dont like do homework. but, its true taht if you want to be better in something you have to practice it a lot, so, if you dont, you will never be as you want, but, itr tru as well, that if you learn pretty good something you wont have problems. i thimk that your example of body learning and exercises are not the same that brain exercises. you can learn how the world is without be in a foreing country, you can imagine how is. im not telling that is the only way to leran, i think that both methods complements each other.
I don't agree a lot because everybody have different forms of learn things, and some people learn without doing homework, and in the exams they have the ability, lucky or knowledge which they have good grades.
When we are working and we don't have time to do homework we have to learn to do things through other ways, however I think that homework gives you the oportunity to practice and test if you have understood and it's also a way to learn of your mistakes.
But as I said before doing homework not means that you have learned and you'll have good grades.
OK Homework is practice, but do you think all the time is?
Some cases bad teachers (I`m not talking about you, I really consider you like a good one, truly) don`t know how structure a homework in order to make the student practice his knowledge.
Well I`d like add somethig to practicing, it will be succesfull when the student practice conciently, and is another mind problem.
Hi George
First of all: the homework is not the only way to learn more about a topic, yes you are practising but if you apply the knowledge that you get in your school you learn more.
I know people who get an excelent average but didn't know how apply this knowledge to the real world, it is patetic.
Maybe I am not the best student, but I know more than others because I go to the study to learn not to do homeworks, of course I do homeworks but some people get obsessed about do all the homeworks.
Unfortunately all the people thinks that the average represents the capacity and this persons get the best jobs in the market.
When the companies, teachers and people realize that the qualifications is not equal to quality the situation will be change.
Thank you
George:
I think that the homework is importan for all the subjets but is not the only way to learn; the student have to enjoy the thing that is learning, because the student can only memorize and not learning and memorize and learning are diferent.
Homework is only for help and improve somthing.
I agree with this article, I know that paracticing you could improve your ability of doing something.
For example when I was younger than now I liked to dance but I never practiced, so I didn't know how to dance, when I started with classes of jazz I improve it. Another example is our english language, if we practice it speaking, writing and listening to songs we could improve it a lot.
I know that doing homeworks sometimes is very boring but I know too that is useful.
HELLO,
I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU,BACAUSE IF WE WANT TO LEARN SOMETHING.WE NEED TO MAKE AN EFFORT.FOR EXAMPLE A SUBJECT.WELL ACTUALLY ANY SUBJECT IS LEARNT FIRST WITH THEORY AND THEN PRACTICING A LOT AS YOU SAID.
AT THE END WE ARE GOING TO PUT ALL OUR KNOWLEDGE IN PRACTICES.
WHEN WE ARE WORKING. WE DO NOT NEED TO LEARN BY HEART THE MEANING OF WORDS.WE JUST NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT AND DO THE THINGS.
THE HOMEWORK TAKES PART OF THIS LOBOUR.
that's right, if we practice that we learnt, it will be more difficult to forget it, we are going to learnt how to use that we are practicing.
When we do the homework is when we realise if we know how to do it or we don't.
Practicing is going to help us to reinfore the knowledge that we have in that moment.
I think homework is to remind what we´ve learned in classes.
I find homework very usefull becouse sometimes when we are in the school, we think everything is clear and that we understand everything, but when we do our homework we realized that we have a lots of doubts, so I think it´s the way to be sure that we had learned.
It supossed that we do homework as a way to practice what we check on class, but sometimes teachers just let us homework in order to "learn" what they did not give us in their classes.
In the ohter hand, if we do our homework we would have better results.
So, lets do our homework!!!
Regards,
Olga
Hello.
Well, I agree with the idea that doing the homework you have the oportunity to get knowledge by yourself, because you practice and sometimes, when the questions come, you feel the necesity to find the answers inmediately.
In my case, sometimes I don`t have enough time to do all my homework, but when I have, I try to do it in the best way.
I totally agree with you. I have expirienced that. I didn´t know a thing in accounting and my teacher asked to read many of the main accounting rules. I certainly dind´t understand at all. When I had to make an accounting practice I realise it was more difficult than the rules said. But when I started practicing I learned more.
The truth is that is not enough to know how something works, you should know how to make it work!