If They'd Only Do Their Work!

We will be viewing sections of an article in the Educational Leadership magazine put out by ASCD.  The title of the article is If They'd Only Do Their Work.  The article examines homework, motivation and research behind why students don't do homework.  It is a rather long article.  I will break it up into a few different blog posts with some questions.  Click here to read the section for this post.

Here is the link to the article:  http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb06/vol63/num05/If-They'd-Only-Do-Their-Work!.aspx

Questions to Consider:

1.  Have you ever thought about "Why students don't do their work?"

2.  Have you ever thought that students are protecting their self esteem or protecting some other personal reason for not doing homework?  What example can you think of?

3.  "Accepting failure as an option to not have to do work"  How can we combat this feeling for students?