《Homework Policy–Revised September 2024》

Revised September 2024

Purpose
Extending students’ learning from school to home through continuous practice and application helps consolidate acquired skills and enhances learning outcomes. This process supports students in transferring knowledge and planning for their future. Teachers providing subject-specific homework aligned with students’ Individual Education Programs (IEPs) fosters positive learning attitudes. Parents can also grasp the necessary guidance techniques, making home-school-dormitory collaboration a key to successful learning.

Principles / Guidelines
Student Practice
• Homework, including IEP and subject-based assignments, should align with students’ learning stages, goals, abilities, needs, and life experiences.
• It should help students develop the knowledge, attitudes, and skills that “learning is life
and life is learning.”
• Assignments should be appropriately scaled to students’ abilities to reinforce learning.
• Expectations must be suitable; homework content should be regularly reviewed and adjusted to encourage skill application.
Professional Team Collaboration
• Homework should be designed with an integrated professional approach to avoid fragmented skill review.
• Clear, simple, and concrete examples or demonstrations should be provided to students and helpers to ensure understanding.
• Homework should be complete and adapted to timing, context, and circumstances.
Home-School Collaboration
• Homework recording frequency should consider family background. Class teachers must indicate the recording mode on IEP homework: “Once/month, Twice/month, Once/week, Daily.”
• Regular communication with parents regarding homework helps both parties understand student performance and progress, fostering consistent understanding of abilities.
Contextual Adaptation
• Homework plans should consider family factors and adopt diverse formats or instructional strategies.
Measures / Procedures
Refer to the flowcharts for IEP Homework and Subject-Based Homework procedures.