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Excessive Written Homework Wastes Everyone's Time --_|, zpmoxrow ccr)--mie ou» By GARRY C. MYERS, PhD jrarely over 200 words in length.|Portunities to combat mental One of the most wastefullWe think we are getting some|illness, says Aelian Ebert of the things done by many teachers|good creations 'is that of making excessively|However, most offerings by ment. long home assignments which|children under 12 are returned | because of excessive length, |"urse not only can help emo- require writing. The 'teacher in ihe grades\some 1,960 words or more. assumes that if the child must write at home according to an|probably practised at writing assignment, she can make sure|for length rather than for qual- ari Lag a eu ; a a the child does it. He must handjity. As you know, it may take] | ra ie Oe ian of the Vic- it in to her whether she has|far longer to prepare a good viThe 4 iin of Nurses. the time to examine it or not./extemporaneous speech of five)... "al tips Ht uibiienee din As a rule, after recording that|/minutes than one of 40 minutes, fiitidioes- arithin a home and it was handed in, it is ready for her wastebasket when its/be approached if the student in|); writer is not in sight. the upper grades or high school pa gral jp A Hn job, |. I'd be willing to bet an ice|were required to hand in al" smne panid' Sarneves in Sas cream cone that not a fifth of|theme of not more than 250 or tients in. mental:hosoltals di al written homework is really}300 words and at school re-\ih5+ jarge wiahene of tients examined carefully by thejquired to write on this same may reels follow-up porin at teacher. Many children, suppos-|topic without seeing his home- home ing it won't be checked, don't/written paper. This might rule} «1, her friendly contacts she have a strong motive to preparejout grades on the homework can establish a secure relations well. Which 9 'parent did. ship with the patient and the Check on the amount of time required by your child to do thejinduce the student to learn far written assignment or assign-|from printed pages at home the oF che them support: and ments. Sometimes it is an hour|facts and ideas he may be|" «pe nurses also can help the 'or more, especially in the upper|ready to express at school. This community to understand men- grades and high school. How|means the school will try|ja) jliness." can a teacher find time and|harder to teach the child to poitias energy to read 20 or 40 of such|read and study effectively when|takes and shortcomings in his 'written units Even if she at-|not in the classroom. presence? tempted to read them faith-| ANSWERING QUESTIONS A. Certainly not. Yet how fully, would her doing so have much sense How could she be | tell visitors of our. child's mis-,cruel practice? VON Worker Can Help Combat Mental Illness lic health nurse has many op- by 'children. |Alberta public health depart- The visiting or public health | tionally disturbed people and their families, she can do pre- AL Scheel these children are ventive work before serious Perhaps an ideal plan would act as liaison between the pa- A desirable objective is to) amily. She can help the family Q. Can we parents afford to|many parents engage in this well-fitted for her other work?! BE MORE HUMANE In order to be more humane to herself and to the pupil and student, and to get most desir- able results, the homework as- signed for an evening should hardly require more than 15 or 30 minutes to do. If such were adhered to, most written home assignments would be cut to one-fifth or one- tenth of their present length. In the elementary grades the most prevalent assignment, perhaps is that of drill problems in arithmetic. School books in arithmetic usually have an abundance of such which are easy for the teacher to assign. Of all wasteful assignments, this, I think, ranks foremost. , When it comes to writing themes, as in junior and senior high schools and college, the requirement more often is a 1,000 words than 250, I recall a writing assignment I had in secondary school. It was to be 800 words. When I finished it I had only about 700 words. How I worried over the other 100 words. A better plan would be to set an upper limit--not more than 200 words or not more than 500, implying they well might number far fewer. Then the student might strive harder for quality than for quantity. 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