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Various education and school issues in Poland. Opinions, stories, controversies. [1006]
thank you for all the pics and the info
Thanks for your thanks, it will encourage me to work harder in this thread. :):):):)
In practice it means that a lot of teachers stopped assigning any homework to avoid confrontation and arguments in class.
This means they are considered bad teachers in this conservative, traditional Polish education system. Not only by parents who had to do homework when they were students themselves. Also by students! I learnt about it a few times while doing replacement classes for teachers who went on a maternal leave or quit the job. Students complained they had learnt nothing under those previous teachers and one of the reasons was they had barely assigned any homework or tests.
Parents love it when students are a little busy with school work at home (of course within reasonable limits). Instead of playing with their smartphones or PCs all day long, they can do some useful stuff at last. The immortal question: Nothing for school??? is asked in tens of thousands of Polish home every day.
I am fully aware of those expectations, that is why I assign a lot of homework and tests. Students hate it but when they finish school, they are immensely grateful that they didn`t waste time. :):):)
Most of books I use at schools come in two volumes: SB for classwork and Workbook for homework.
Here, a book for 4th graders. 2 pages from SB and two from WB.
