Professor George Verghese cancelled a lecture, made homework optional and invited his students to accompany him to the Harvard Art Museum.
Is homework becoming optional?
Her close friend said it best when she said, "Lindsay believed that homework was optional, but happiness was mandatory.
Learning artifacts, such as BC homework and optional exam questions, also were evaluated.
Hence, the program contains several interactive components for the patients, including a diary to rate their mood and activity level, videos, testimonials, exercises, homework exercises, optional modules, and a library.
While sitting alongside our kindergartener as he did his homework (it's optional, but still, five-year-olds have homework?), we came across a dubious exercise in his newly-minted practice booklet designed to adhere to the new Common Core curriculum.
The optional components of the educational package (homework, art competition, game) were not used in the four schools observed.
The only divergent points are the mandatory order of thematic sequences during the intervention, the limited (six to eight) number of meetings and the obligatory written homework between sessions (which were optional in the original practice).
The pack also included several optional resources including fun facts (background information), homework activities, a Max hand washing game, and an art competition that could be used alongside lesson plans.
The 'Hands up for Max!' intervention had a homework element with the potential to effect change in the wider community through involving parents, but this element was optional and inconsistently used even within the trial.
