Teacher should mark the hwk

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DD (y5) gets homework set and it gets collected once a week. It has not been marked since they started in September. DD even made a comment about how she doesn't want to do it anymore as it doesn't get marked anyway. Aibu to think it should be marked.

What happens at school if they don't do it?

They have to do it during break time

Have you seen the school's marking policy? Maybe that has changed, if it's not what you're used to.

Ofsted consider marking to only be of value now because of 'value added'.
Unfortunately schools have not caught up and the amount of marking in primary is absolutely crazy and you can face capability if you fail to keep up. Since something has got to give, as teachers need to, you know, sleep, often it's homework as it's not a true reflection of what the child can do. Homework is meant to be practise, not new learning and marking it is therefore not going to add much depth to learning, particularly if the parents and tutors help them anyway, which is fairly common.
An acknowledgement is what is necessary but can be done with verbal feedback or whole class discussion and maybe visualising a few pieces where the children have tried hard. Individual every question marked feedback is time consuming and has very little role in actual learning so I wouldn't be particularly expecting that to be a priority.

By all means complain but remember this for when you come back in April to say your teacher has left due to stress and overwork later in the year and unqualified cover are being used.

The point of the homework is for your daughter to independently practice something she has learned to help to embed it in her long term memory. It's likely to be very low stakes compared to the work they do in class, which is more worthy of detailed scrutiny from the teacher.

A teacher can assess whether something has been learned just by looking at the work. They can then decide whether it's secure and they're ready to move on, or whether it needs going over again.

I don't mark homework.
I only set it because I have to.
I would have to take it home to get it done and I do so much at home as it is, I've drawn a line.

I mark my daughters homework - at least I do when it’s a worksheet with obvious answers. She gets immediate feedback, I get to see what she’s doing well/needs to improve, and I can write notes to the teacher if I can’t help or if my daughter needs more resources.

The value is in doing the work, whether for practise or thinking.

If you can do the same it will help your daughter AND the teacher.

I'm a secondary teacher and we mainly do whole class feedback for tasks like this now, or set something that they can use to discuss in class. It's a shame she feels like this but try to encourage her that the point is in the skills she is learning, and not that she is doing it for a tick and a "well done" comment from the teacher

I teach Y4, set weekly homework and mark it the day it's handed in. I can't imagine not doing so. I wouldn't be impressed either OP.

@Whee exactly

There is very little value in marking a bit of home practise when the teacher will have marked the work in school in detail.

A teacher can glance at a piece of work and know if the child needs further support. Spending hours writing comments helps no ones.

I set homework because I have to.
I don't agree with it.
There's little point marking it, as it informs nothing. It doesn't show me what that child can or can't do.

The point of homework is to practise skills in their own time (in an ideal world with a parent on hand for 1:1 support). I know that homework is regularly set and not marked and don't really see an issue with this.
Agree with PP that you should feel free to complain, but given how many teachers are currently resigning, you may well find your child's teacher also packs their bags!

As someone has said before, it's merely a practice and verbal feedback is perfectly acceptable as an alternative to marking (I taught for years). Teachers can't necessarily mark thirty pieces of homework daily on top of everything else, and Ofsted do not support this either.

You might be interested to know that in the latest research, across many different studies, homework has been shown to have no appreciable impact on learning and attainment. It's a habit they want them to get into, fine. But it's really not what's important.

Good teaching and learning during the school day is what makes the difference for children's achievement. If the teacher isn't marking the homework, they're likely choosing to spend the little time they have prioritising the things that have the biggest impact on pupil learning. And that's what they should be doing.

I would leave it for this term, then ask next term about homework feedback. For what it's worth, if they make the kids stay in at break if it's not complete, then the children should get some feedback, verbal or written.

But homework is often a pain for primary school. Reading, times tables and some kind of household thing like cooking or cleaning is much more valuable than a worksheet.

For good measure, homework at five years old (apart from reading daily) is not developmentally appropriate.

@picklespark The child is 9 or 10, in Year 5 :)

Agree with this.

Apologies, misread it. But my earlier points apply regardless.

You want the homework marked because you are involved in it and therefore you view it as important. You want it acknowledged.

But for the teacher and your child it is just the same as the five other pieces of work that have been produced that day alone.

Not all of them can be marked. It's just not possible.

So better the one that some children won't have done at all. And some children's parents will have looked at and supported their own child in doing.

I would just discuss with dd that she does hw to go over her learning and so she doesn't need to stay in at break, it is not for her teacher's praise. This is of course a risky strategy for the school, especially in the winter. One of mine decided they would prefer to just stay in at break to do homework. Still does most homework at school/ library even in secondary.

If nothing else, the fact that she's done the HW should be recognised and rewarded.

Yep defo

Why, she's not an infant. Doing homework is for your own benefit, to help your learning and to get into the habit of studying in preparation for secondary.