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To: All Faculty discussion presentations that assume | the recruiting wor for U.S.A’s top

From: Howard Eaton the homework has been completed. | volleyball prospect. B.C.’s Best Ever

Subject: Short Subject Making clear the connection between | team will be out to maintain their proud

homework and tests and essay | image as the team features many

Innovation Abstracts, “Improving | assignments is also helpful. The more | former Canadian National Team
Learning in the Community Colleges”: | direct and concrete the connection, the | players.

A brief response.

Homework: One of the most important
ways in which students are involved in
learning is in doing their homework.
Yet it is a very general complaint
among faculty that students do not do it
well, on time, or at all. When | was an
undergraduate, | lived in a cooperat-
ive, rather carefully supported (we said
‘supervised’ in those days) by the
senior men. | was expected to be at my
desk from 7:00 P.M. till 10:30 P.M.
Monday through Thursday. My room-
mate was expected to take some
responsibility for my academic
success by enforcing the study hall
rules and by setting a good example. |
was in a residential university, where
everyone else in the living area was
also supposed to be at work on
homework during those hours. In a
way, homework was easy to do and to
learn to do.

A college student, on the other hand,
does not live in the sheltered environ-
ment of a residential university. Often
his off-campus life is filled with im-
portant people who expect and even
demand that evenings and weekends
be spent doing other things besides
homework. It is surely much harder to
study and to learn to study for the typi-
cal college student than it was for me.
For this reason, all of us ought to pay
special attention to structuring into our
courses a great many rewards for
those who do the homework, and at
least a few clear warning signals for
those who do not. At a minimum, we
should make our homework ex-
pectations very clear, and provide
some advice about the work habits that
are necessary for success in our
courses.

Some _ practices that encourage
homework are quizzes at the begin-
ning of the period, short in-class
assignments that depend on the
homework, and lecture or lecture/

 

more likely a student is to take the
homework seriously.

A way to discourage good homework
habits is to “cover the material” on the
assumption that no one does the
homework.

This semester | have begun sending
students away from certain classes if
they have not prepared. | make sure
that everything possible is done to in-
tegrate them back into the class for the
next period, but | find the class suffers
if they remain, and | doubt they learn
much. | tell them to take the class time
and do the homework. The message is
that the homework is more important
than the class. | believe this is true.

Note: if you have a response to Innov-
ation Abstracts or any other item,
please write it up and send it to the
Mad Hatter for inclusion under the
“Short Subjects” heading. If you would
like to discuss your comment before
publishing it, send it to me and | will
give you an initial response.

Howard Eaton

The Halloween Challenge

The Douglas College volleyball
program is proud to announce the First
Annual Halloween Challenge Interna-
tional Men’s Volleyball Match to be
held at the Douglas College gym-
nasium on Friday, October 31, 1986.

Co-sponsored by Labatt’s and MVP
Sports, this power volleyball match
features NCAA top-ranked Stanford
University of California and B.C.'s
Best Ever all-squad. Stanford, who
narrowly missed last year's presti-
gious NCAA title, has an even stronger
team this year as a result of winning

 

 

The warm-up for the match begins at
8:00 P.M. and the match itself
commences at 8:30 P.M. Ticket price
is $2.00 and tickets are available at the
door or in advance. Advance tickets
and information can be obtained by
calling Tim Frick or John Wilkie, 1986
Totem Championship coach, at 520-
5400, local 5336.

Spectators are reminded that this will
be the only opportunity this season to
see top calibre international men’s
volleyball in our region. So dress up in
your Halloween outfits and come out
and cheer on your favourite team!

Athletics

The Douglas College Golf Team,
under the guidance of coach Rex
Walker, picked up Silver Medals in the
Annual Totem College Golf Champi-
onships in Kamloops this past week-
end. Golfers Chris Klovan, Craig
Cruikshanks and Jim Farraday placed
high individually, losing to the gold
medal Malaspina team by two strokes.
Congratulations to these students and
a large thanks to Rex Walker for
spending a good deal of time (at short
notice) on our golf team.

Hockey has started the 86-87 season
with a win over the SFU All-Stars on
September 27th at Port Moody. Coach
Terry Kirstein has put together a good
team, so come out and cheer our
Royals on.

Intramurals

Fitness classes run every noon hour
from 1210 - 1250 hours in the fitness
room. Classes are well-attended by a
variety of fit people, both male and
female. Contact Chris Johnson (Local

 

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