Nowadays, homework is becoming a daily food for many students. In several schools, the teachers give homework to their students almost every day. But, only a few of studentswho finish their homework and submit it to the teacher on time, and the rest are not. Most of students think that homework is not necessary for them. They wonder why their teachers often give them homework such as worksheets and short essays rather than giving an assignment directly in the classroom. Most of them choose to do things such as make a group and study together outside the classroom or others things except doing homework. Some of them will skip the class just because they have not finished the homework yet, and also it will make them to become more lazy and lazy students. Therefore, college instructors tend to assign homework more rarely because there are both advantages and disadvantages of giving homework assignments to the students.
There are some advantages of giving homework to the students. These are three of those advantages. First, homework builds up an initiative for students. They will initiate to study if they have homework from teachers and indirectly they will be accustomed in studying regularly. Moreover, there is a sense of responsibility associated when completing their homework. Why? Because when they have a duty or obligation, they will realize that they have to do it because it is their own responsibility. Slowly, they will learn how to finish and to responsible for something that becomes their obligation.Students feel responsible for finishing their homework and accomplished when they do it.Second, homework helps students to develop time management. They start to manage their time when to study and when to play, and learning to finish their tasks or other assignments on time. In addition, they will learn how to do things on their own and manage their time and complete their work independently. Third, homework canencourage self-discipline for students. When their teacher gives them some homework and asks them to submit it in the certain time, they will do it and try to finish it before the deadline. Slowly, this will bring and plant a good habit to their behavior. So, they will be more respect in doing anything, not only homework but also any other things.
On the other hand, homework also has many advantages for students. And these are some examples of those advantages. First, homework isoften viewed as a busy work. The matter is that homework can spend lots of free time andoccasionally stressful for some students. Why stressful? Because teachers often give an excessive amount of homework to their students that can make them feel bored to finish it, especially when each teacher gives homework in the same time period. That is not effective for them to do somany homework in the same time, especially when their teachers give them homework on the weekend or on holiday. This makes students feel distressed because holiday is time for them to refresh their mind and to do anything else that can relax them such as recreation, doing sports, or watching movie, not time to do thing such as homework. Second, homework can only makes students to be lazier person. Why like this? Because when they have homework almost every day, they will feel tired and bored to do it over and over again. It makes them to ignore it and they will try to do other things such as playing or just sleeping rather than to do their homework that burdensome for them. As we all know that there are many students that often skip the class or absent without any excuse. Most of them do that just because of the homework which is given by their teacher is not finished yet. They want to come to the class actually, but because of that unfinished homework they will take an alternative way such as skipping the class or absent without any permissions. However, it brings them to be an irresponsible person because they always running from their responsibility.
The conclusion is that both of teachers and students should consider about these advantages and disadvantages of homework, especially for teachers who often give the big amount of homework that can burden their students. They should think twice when they want to give a lot of homework, because not all of their students will be able to finish it on time and also most of them will dislike teacher who always give them many homework to do. Therefore, in the classroom teachers have to acknowledge that there are diverse students and maybe they should consider that some of their students will benefit from homework and others will not.
