It is perhaps the dream of every school child in the land – a day when teachers abandon homework. In the media, several high-profile celebs, including Kirstie Allsopp and Gary Lineker, have called for just that – a National Homework Boycott Day, believing that “traditional” homework has been detrimental to their own children’s wellbeing.
But abandoning homework, as it is currently understood, simply isn’t going to transform the learning experiences of our students or help them to develop the much-needed skills they require to succeed in the world beyond the school gates.
At ACS International Schools, which has three campuses in Surrey and Greater London, the teaching team collaborated on a research project, which ultimately highlighted that for homework to be truly beneficial, it has to be highly personalised for each student.
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