Posts tagged Homework

One of the key findings from Ofsted inspections show time and time again the impact, consistency, clarity and routines have on students.

Our readers are made up largely of senior leaders and middle managers, so  this won’t be ground breaking information in the first instance but what I’m about to tell you will certainly help you improve homework and get support from parents.

As an aspiring leader myself, I know the difficulties we share of embedding new new policies, processes and tools. It’s certainly not easy within a school but do this right, the benefits can be incredible for your colleagues and for the learning experience students receive.

My tool, Show My Homework is being embedded into school policies as a must have for the provision of homework for over 33,000 students. If homework is important to your school and you want to improve it or get it to work the way you want to, it needs to be consistent,  tracked and monitored across the school. Can you do that right now? More often than not the honest answer is ‘No’. Its ‘No’ because its difficult, painstakingly time intensive and requires a lot of effort. This leads to situations where students can get away with not doing homework, teachers can get away with not setting it and opens the door for parents to complain at Parent evening about the lack of homework.

I’m really passionate about introducing classroom tools that work for me and work for my colleagues who teach, day-in, day-out.

If you’d like to find out more about Show My Homework, please read Horndean Technology College’s Case Study or visit http://www.showmyhomework.co.uk

If you find this post of genuine interest and would like to explore options to put in place consistency, clarity and routines with homework, please get in touch. 

I know together we can make an immediate impact.

(Source: showmyhomeworkblog.com)

Dear colleague,
Would you consider an alternative to Fronter? Show My Homework provides a simple VLE where teachers can post homework questions, attach worksheets, set deadlines and assess work online. Since Feb 2010 over 300 schools have installed Show My Homework painlessly. 

In the current economic climate it is worth looking at alternative solutions. Show My Homework is £4,000 less than Fronter and will provide a VLE that will work and transform e-learning at your school.

To learn more, please visit http://www.showmyhomework.co.uk

If you would like us to visit your school and talk about how you could use Show My Homework, please send an email to naimish@showmyhomework.co.uk with your preferred dates.

Many thanks
Naimish Gohil

http://www.showmyhomework.co.uk

PS. I am currently looking for teachers / ex teachers interested in earning extra money in 2011 to sell Show My Homework - Please get in touch!

I have to admit, when I first signed up to Twitter, I was not expecting how 

I’ll be the first one to admit, I’ve forgotten to collect homework in the past. One of the neat things Show My Homework does, is send you a morning email reminder to let you know you have homework  to collect for each of your classes. For me this really helps as I’m sure like many of you, there are lots of other things going on and it’s quite easy to forget.

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Hi Naimish,

Here’s a quick reminder of the Homework you need to collect today:

ICT
• Class 8 / H - set on 20th April, 2010 
Practice creating organised filed structures and file names in your shared area. 20 minute activity during tutor time

Here’s your School Calendar Page: http://www.showmyhomework.co.uk/henrycompton/
We hope you’re enjoying using ShowMyHomework
Good luck collecting your Homework and for your class tests … and keep posting more!

- The ShowMyHomework Team

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If you are not getting your homework morning reminders, please check your junk mail folder. I’m sure Outlook is filtering some emails sent and putting them into your junk mail folder. If you do see an email from Show My Homework, that is filtered as junk simply click the “Not Junk” button. You only need to do this once.

Show My Homework is a brilliant tool to use right now if your school has been effected by the Icelandic Volcano. At Henry Compton, we have a number of staff out at the moment and have had to send certain year groups home. To provide home education teachers at my school are using Show My Homework more than ever and it’s been a big hit with parents.

Visit the Henry Compton School website to see how we are using it

Visit the Show My Homework website to sign up if you have not already done so!

PS. Remember the Best things in life are Free :-) Show My Homework I hope is one of those things :-)

We are experiencing a small glitch at the moment with the Year Group and Subject filters. Rest assured your Show My Homework heroes are working on it! I will update this as soon as the issue is fixed!

Thanks

Update: Fixed and working as usual :-) about 6 hours ago! Many Thanks

Over the past few hours, I’ve had some users let me know about subjects missing from the subject field when posting new homework. If there is any subject missing, drop me an email at help@Showmyhomework.co.uk and I’ll do my best to add it to the list asap.

Why can’t I add my own subjects?

For the moment, I want to control the quality of subjects we have in Show My Homework, as I’m afraid, we’ll end up with subjects with spelling mistakes and inconsistent with existing subjects. Honestly, the easiest thing right now will be to drop me a quick email and I’ll make it happen for you!

Happy Posting and enjoy the remaining few hours of your Easter school break!

PS Remember you can post your school GCSE exam schedule right now on Show My Homework. Make it easy for the Year 11 students! Watch the how to video

It’s worth pointing out that Show My Homework is still in public Beta. That essentially means we’re still adding the final touches and tweaking it before we can really say, this is the final thing. I normally think of it as a Ferrari that is close to coming out of the factory with just a few things to do like polish it off and add the legendary badge :-).

Welcome to the Show My Homework Blog. My name is Naimish Gohil and I am delighted to be writing our first blog post! I’ve been working on Show My Homework over the last 9 months. It’s been a thrilling ride so far and it’s about to get even more exciting as more and more people start to discover Show My Homework.

I’m actually a teacher working full-time at Henry Compton School in West London. I created Show My Homework from my own experiences. If you’d like to read a little bit more about me, please check out my short bio on the About Us page.

In a couple of lines, Show My Homework makes it easy for teachers to post homework questions, attach worksheets and set deadline. For students, they get to see all their homework on one page. For Parents, they can keep track of all their child’s homework.

I’m working on a number of new features all the time working hard to ensure they are useful and important to the Show My Homework community. 

Recently I added a new feature to let teachers add class tests and national exams. I guess perfect timing, considering GCSE exams are just around the corner…

Happy Homework posting!

Naimish Gohil

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