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Bridging the Homework Gap Between School and Home
Added: (Mon Aug 09 2004)
Westhampton Beach, New York: August 8, 2004 – Linda Blumenthal, MS, a special education teacher with over twenty-five years of teaching experience, has just created a website to help answer the age-old question, “What’s for homework?” After registering, visitors to http://4homework.org are able to see their homework assignments right online. What makes this site different from most other services is that registration is completely free to all participants.
With the start of a new school year fast approaching, it is a relief to know that a new homework support website is open for registration. Best of all, registration at http://4homework.org is completely free to everyone. Teachers may post their homework assignments, test and study schedules, and any additional information directly online. This may be done from any internet connected computer, any time. After registering, the teacher creates a password for each of his or her classes. To insure privacy, only the students and parents from that particular class are given this code. Parents and students entering this code on the http://4homework.org website are sent directly to their particular class page. The days of desperately trying to remember your homework assignments are finally over.
Ms. Blumenthal also addresses the need for homework support. “For many years, I have maintained a private practice where I offer educational testing and consultation. Homework issues have always been a miscommunication of what is assigned, and how to successfully accomplish the homework task. For many students, once he or she leaves the school building, there is nowhere to turn for homework support. Whom can you ask for help with a complicated calculus problem at ten o’clock at night? Questions may be posted in our 4homework.org forum, which supports all grade levels from preschool through college. Community members are asked to help direct a student to find the answer for him or herself, rather than answering a homework question directly. The intent is to support the student in the learning process. I have to mention, the forum also contains support areas where parents and teachers may discuss homework issues. My idea was to create a learning environment where all community members were a part of the supportive service.”
Ms. Blumenthal is on a mission to inform others about her homework site. She states, “4homework.org is a new website. I am hopeful that once people learn about our free service, they will notify their schools, PTA, school boards, teacher organizations, local media, and similar groups. The word needs to be spread, so that the members of each school district may become part of the 4homework.org community.”