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An 8 page paper. Homework may be one of the standard practices in American education but it poses significant challenges for students diagnosed with ADHD, their parents and their teachers. This essay discusses the issue of homework, its intended purposes and how it fails to achieve its purposes with ADHD students. The writer also outlines some strategies that have been found to help ADHD students complete their homework. Since this is a project paper, the writer also identifies the problem, the objectives and how success will be measured. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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worst nightmare" (Bryan and Burstein, 1997). Homework is part of the American education landscape at all grade levels (Bryan and Burstein, 1997; Rutowski, 2001). However, studies have shown that 28
percent of regular education classroom students and 58 percent of students with learning disabilities have significant difficulties finishing their homework assignments (Bryan and Burstein, 1997). The problem statement for this
essay is: how can teachers and/or parents help students with learning disabilities, and more specifically, identified as ADD or ADHD complete and submit homework assignments? The purpose of the essay
is to determine which strategies are most effective for mediating the problem. [Student needs to complete this short section on work setting as well as the statement on the writers
role.] [Problem Description and Documentation] Homework accounts for about 20 percent of the time students are expected to spend on academic learning activities (Bryan and Burstein, 1997). Teachers use
homework assignments for completing work not finished during school time, practicing skills and concepts, developing responsibility and study skills, and even for communicating with parents about their childs progress in
school (Bryan and Burstein, 1997). While the rationale for homework may be reasonable, there is also a glaring inequity in the formula. Students attempt to complete their homework in a
very different setting than that in which they received instruction (Bryan and Burstein, 1997). Teachers are then grading students for work that is "completed in environments over which the teacher
has no control" (Bryan and Burstein, 1997). The issue becomes more convoluted - homework poses even more complex problems for students who are identified as ADD or ADHD. Most
of the literature suggests that the issue of students with special needs not completing homework can only be addressed successfully when there is cooperation and collaboration between and among "teachers,
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