{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Teachers' Playbook: Where Passion Meets Practice","title":"Rethinking Homework with Rick Wormeli, Part 2: Grading, Feedback, and Learning That Lasts","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1358,"description":"Does moving away from traditional homework grades, strict deadlines, and penalties mean schools are lowering expectations for students?\nIn Part Two of this conversation, host Paul Murray continues his discussion with educator, author, and consultant Rick Wormeli about the role homework should play in student learning. Rick challenges the belief that assigning more work—or attaching more points to it—automatically builds responsibility, motivation, or academic achievement.\nInstead, Rick asks educators to separate academic achievement from work habits and to treat homework as what it really is: practice. He explains why grades should accurately communicate what students know and can do, why feedback makes practice more effective, and how retrieval practice, spacing, and interleaving can help students carry learning forward.\n\nRick also offers a practical way to increase student ownership: invite students to help identify meaningful ways to practice, narrow the choices to the strongest options, and allow students to choose the method that works for them.\nIn This Episode, You’ll Learn\nWhy moving away from punitive homework practices does not mean lowering expectations\nWhy responsibility and academic achievement should be taught and reported separately\nHow including homework completion in an academic grade can distort what the grade communicates\nWhy homework should be treated as practice rather than proof of mastery\nHow timely, descriptive feedback increases the effectiveness of homework\nWhy students need knowledge stored in long-term memory to analyze, connect, and create\nHow priming students with the purpose and expectations for an assignment improves learning\nWhy spaced practice helps students retain information over time\nHow interleaving different types of problems strengthens retrieval and flexible thinking\nWhy shorter, more complex assignments may be more valuable than long sets of repetitive problems\nHow student choice and agency can increase participation in...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Q9G9wsfsjhkSWldQuyQ_KjentYChYduR-AzxFcKY2ZY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83NDI4/ZTY0NTc3Mzk2Zjgw/OGMyNWMzN2ZhZWIw/ZDc1Ny5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}