A warning to parents: Your child may be floundering in a worksheet wasteland!!
If your child consistently brings home piles of papers from school requiring him to fill in the blank, circle the right response, answer true or false, or provide other short pencil and paper responses, then he could be getting short-changed in his education.
Research suggests that worksheet learning is one of the most ineffective approaches for helping children learn a subject. It is among the most widely used methods in schools, because worksheets are easy for teachers to assign and to correct.
Make sure your child gets a balanced curriculum by asking his teacher to avoid using worksheets and workbooks whenever possible, and to provide homework that involves artwork, interviewing, photography, scientific observation, keeping journals, constructing models, or creating some other project that is practical and concrete.
In doing this, you will be helping to ensure that your child gets a quality education in school.