Use interactive homework assignments that require students to discuss class learning with someone at home¶

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Description¶

The strategy is to design homework that structurally requires family conversation: "teachers provide students assignments that require them to talk to someone at home about something interesting that they are learning in class." This keeps "school on the agenda at home so that children know their parents believe schoolwork and homework are important and worth talking about." Assignments are provided by grade level and subject.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Assignments must require students to talk to someone at home about what they are learning in class

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• elementary, middle, and high school students

Target Learning Goals¶

• increasing family involvement in homework across subjects

Affordances¶

• Tips Interactive Homework Program

Related Strategies¶

• Family Engagement In Homework
• Structured and Sustained Family Engagement Programs

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Teachers Involve Parents in Schoolwork (TIPS): Evidence Rating. (2011). Evidence for ESSA. https://evidenceforessa.org/program/teachers-involve-parents-in-schoolwork-tips/