Half of Russian parents (48%) spend 3-4 hours a day preparing lessons at school, and one in five parents (22%) agree that doing homework is emotional and stressful for the family. This was demonstrated by the survey of the Aktion Education service (part of the Aktion group), the results of which were reviewed by socialbites.ca.
That’s why 40% of parents claim to help their kids with homework every day. Another part of the participants (33%) reported that they only get involved in homework when the child comes with questions. At 14%, tasks that have already been completed are checked. Only 13% of respondents do not help their children with homework in any way.
48% of parents spend three to four hours on homework. 46% of parents devote one to two hours to preparing lessons, and 6% take up to 30 minutes. At the same time, one in five parents admitted that doing homework with their child is emotional and stressful (22%). 18% of the parents stated that the lessons were handled in a constructive and calm way in the family.
According to parents, children spend most of their time preparing homework in Russian language and literature (67%), mathematics (51%) and a foreign language (45%).
“Unfortunately, many parents take on the role of teachers, checking homework, forcing kids to rewrite what they did with mistakes. As a result, the already large volume of the task is doubled. But will it help the child? Unlikely. Thus, the parent deprives the child of space for learning errors, and the teacher deprives the opportunity to understand the difficulties faced by a particular student, ”commented Natalia Romanova, a specialist from Aktion Education.
One-third (33%) of teachers surveyed believe it takes more than 30 minutes to prepare their homework on a topic; about 20 minutes – 26% of teachers think so; 15 minutes – 10%.
“The main problem with homework is volume. 60% of teachers expect students to do this for half an hour or more. Although half an hour may seem like an acceptable time at first glance, a harmless half hour turns into three hours of torture for children and parents when tomorrow is not 2-3, but 6 lessons with voluminous homework.
Several solutions can be suggested here. Teachers may be advised to engage more with colleagues on homework to develop a unified strategy,” says Romanova.
For every tenth teacher, only half of the class does homework (11% answered that way). A third of the class comes with lessons prepared for 9%, 2/3 – 16%. More than half of the teachers (64%) said that almost the entire class came prepared.
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