Topics Under Consideration

1. Homework Load Leveling

2. Categorizing student workload
   1. activities effectively done in the home environmeent
   2. activities best done in the classroom environment

3. use of technology to improve homework tasks

4. How are the teachers and the general curriculum currently evaluated?

5. An "org" chart indicating responsibilities would be helpful.

6. An online syllabus is required; one with links would be helpful.

7. Is St. Timothy's a school for the gifted or a family school?

8. Paragraph comprehension timed tests should be implemented.

9. Eval form sent out twice per year.

10. individual class web pages
11. Evaluate use of computers in assignments
    • Research (do away with note cards)
    • Typing skills
12. Spend more time in class (rather than home) teaching learning skills.
    • Alphabetization
    • Outlining
    • Research
13. If work must come home it should be basic skills, i.e. math, reading, spelling, science.
14. Daily Homework
    Better use of time for learning.
    • Avoid busy homework such as:
      • Word search
      • Coloring squares
      • Drawing pictures
    • Coordinate quantity with other subjects
15. - Flexibility to do homework
16. Post homework on internet
17. Post homework on Thurs/Fri for following week
18. Allow multiple days to finish 2 weeks to read 5 stories. Projects
    • Evaluate appropriateness to grade level
    • Load-level – schedule projects to not overlap
    • Better definition of project expectation
    • Excessive number of projects
    • Topics should be worthy of being researched and interesting to grade level.
    • - Most work done during school
    • - Teach research skills in school
      • - Outlining
      • - Researching
      • - Typing
      • - Organization
    • Moderate "makeup homework" - Only makeup what really needs to be done (no busywork) in order to stay up with the class.

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