Teaching Tips

Whether you are ‘for’ assigning homework or ‘against’ assigning homework, there are definitely a few advantages to assigning homework to upper elementary students.

Human beings have an attention span of under 8 seconds. This is less than a goldfish. 

Therefore, if you want to keep your students engaged you should ensure that you think creatively about your teaching methods.

Such classroom conflicts are familiar in elementary school life. For years, resolving such conflicts for children filled my days. I lost valuable teaching time, and the children learned nothing about resolving their own conflicts—or preventing conflicts from happening in the first place.