Homework for IB MYP students

acdad

Please share the experience  of how many hours  of homework your kids need to spend daily.

TINGMUM

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Year 9,  depends,  around 2 to 5 hrs per day

jeff76916

no wonder parents say IB program is more demanding than local curriculum in higher forms in MYP.

acdad

My year 11 girl works till 12am almost every night.

jeff76916

This is quite scaring, isn't it? sounds more horrible than local curriculum?!

WYmom

acdad 發表於 13-3-13 14:42
My year 11 girl works till 12am almost every night.

My child in year 12 studying IBD also works until mid-night everyday... workload is really very heavy... apart from homework, tests, they have to do a lot of projects and activities required after school and on weekends.

judymama

Scary

tofusiuming

Do you mind telling what your son's school?

jeff76916

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Thanks for your sharing. But she does enjoy her daily work despite 3 hrs, right? or the daily work would amount to pressure to certain extent to her?

jeff76916

We parents here are from different walks of life. For example, for a surgeon, they may need to spend up to hours in doing a surgery. This is a tough work for many others. But if the man doing it enjoy it, he can accept long hours and don't find it a torture. I think for IB homework, if it is research-based plus writing or presentation work, it must take a lot and a lot of time. I think ultimately, whether it is hard work depends on whether they are required to come up with very high standard product. If the students manage to come up with product with certain degree of achievement, they may not mind long hours...am I too simplistic in my thinking?

poonseelai

Annie123 發表於 13-3-13 19:03
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Well said.  Wish your daughter every success with her DP.

jeff76916

Thx a lot for your sharing. As a parent, you can't be more happy in seeing such achievement (learning life) of your own children

HKTHK

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Thank you for sharing.  Sounds like she will do well in both DP and life.  If one finds their purpose, work is so enjoyable!

md23

At least they are doing something useful and might get them prepared for later journey instead of just learning how to take exams.

Unless you get a big inheritance or you are born special (like elite athletes or artists), to live a good life, you either have to be really really lucky, or you have to work hard, at one time or another. There is no escaping that.

ANChan59

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Thanks for your sharing.
She is in G12 or G11?

Shrimpiggy

it is so called natural selection, only better ones survive...

ANChan59

Shrimpiggy 發表於 13-3-14 00:02
it is so called natural selection, only better ones survive...

我不敢肯定是否物競天擇，因為對MYP了解不深，所以其他有經驗的家長分享，都是學習機會！
lBDP我覺得是自我挑戰多於圍內比拼。

hhy2007

My daughter may be an outlier. I notice that she has little homework to do at home.  She told me she finished part of her homework at school.  As the homework is given on a weekly basis, I normally see her do homework 2-3 nights a week. For the rest of nights, she reads a lot for fun. She spends a chunk of time on after-school activities just because she likes to meet her friends outside school. To be honest, I don't feel comfortable at this, so I enroll her in some gifted programs.  She is doing well in these gifted programs but never studies more than required. She is always able to keep decent scores for all her subjects, but never wants to push herself a little further. She's in lower years of MYP. Maybe things will change in later years.