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Too Much Homework? Here’s What To Do

Whatever their age , most students complain that they have too much homework.

But is that really the case?

Over the last 20 years as a teacher, I’ve heard all sorts of excuses about why homework hasn’t been done.

In years gone by, a household pet was often blamed for eating it. Now it’s the ubiquitous ‘faulty printer’ that seems to prevent homework coming in on time. :)

Of course, there are also plenty of valid reasons for not getting it done.

Sometimes there genuinely is too much homework to do in the time allocated.

Many students struggle to do what’s asked of them for want of somewhere quiet to work, or because they have too many other commitments that can’t be avoided.

But it’s also true that virtually everyone could reduce the stress associated with homework by applying some simple time management skills.

What 'Too Much Homework' Really Means

Each time we get given work to do with a deadline, our ability to manage time is tested. This can take many forms, but the bottom line is simply that...

Work didn’t get done because other things took priority.

Something else was more important, more appealing or just plain easier to do. Homework gets left until, all of a sudden, there is too much to do in not enough time.

The good news is that time management skills can always be learnt and improved. There are plenty of tips and techniques for overcoming procrastination on this site, but the following ideas may also be helpful if you feel you have too much homework.

7 Tips For Coping With Too Much Homework

1. Accept it

The starting point for dealing with too much homework is to accept responsibility for getting it done. It’s yours to do, and yours alone.

Let’s be honest. For most people, homework is a chore. Until there’s a massive change in attitudes towards home learning, it’s here to stay.

With that in mind, the best thing is to adopt a positive ‘get it done’ attitude. If you accept that it has to be done (rather than the consequences of not doing it), you only have to decide when and how to do it.

2. Write it down

This may seem an obvious point, but writing down exactly what you have to do and when you have to do it for is an important step to take for getting organized with homework.

Use a simple planner and keep it open at the current page you’re using so that you can remind yourself what you need to do.

3. C reate a workspace

Not everyone has somewhere to work. If you do, how easy is it to use?

Whether it’s a kitchen table or a place in your own room, you’ll do more if you've got somewhere that you can use regularly. You’ll do even better if you tidy up a messy desk .

Make sure you’ve got everything that you need to hand so you can find it quickly when you want it. Get into the habit of putting things back after you’ve used them.

4. Do it the day after you get it

This is a great way to stay on top of your work. The temptation is to leave things until the last minute because that’s when doing it really matters.

Unfortunately, that’s also when it is most stressful, and there’s no margin for error.

Next time you get given a project, assignment or piece of work, start it on the day after you get it. You don’t have to finish it; just do as much as you feel like doing.

Whatever you don’t get done, you carry on with the next day.

This ‘little and often’ approach has three benefits:

You have a day to ‘relax’ before you start it
You do it without feeling overwhelmed because you can stop whenever you feel like it.
More work will get done before the day it’s due to be handed in

5. Think 80-20 - don’t do it too well

The 80-20 rule states that, in life, we get 80% of our results from 20% of what we do.

This is really useful if you feel you have too much homework. Why? Well, it could be that you are doing some things too well.

Obviously some things are either done or they’re not. But often, it’s easy to spend too long on something just with very little to show for your efforts.

I’m not saying that you should produce poor quality work. But do be aware of perfectionism. Try to get better at knowing when your absolute best effort really is necessary, and when good enough is good enough.

6. Reduce your resistance to doing it

Sometimes, ‘too much homework’ means " I’ve left it too late, and now I’ve got too much to do ".

This can be avoided if you start it the day after you get it. And the best way to do that? Make it as easy as you need to.

Can’t face all of it? Time box half an hour. Or 10 minutes. Even 2 minutes if that’s all you can cope with.

How much you do is less important than the fact that you actually do something.

7. When you do it, give it 100% attention

Phones, friends and social media will stretch out the time you spend working. We all have to be aware of wasting time online , so the less you do it, the quicker you can complete your work.

The amount of homework you have varies from week to week, but the tips above may just be the answer. If so, you’ll have learned some valuable skills and turned too much homework into a manageable amount.

Having said that, it can get to the point at which you feel that there really is too much to do, and not just at the moment. If and when you reach the point at which, despite your best efforts, you consistently feel you have too much homework, tell someone.

They say a problem shared is a problem halved, and it’s true. Talking to someone will help. Talking to someone who is in a position to help you do something about it is even better.

In terms of getting things done, developing good study habits can make a massive difference, but sometimes there’s just too much to do. This can be a real problem unless you tell someone, so don’t keep it inside -- get some support.

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A pile of homework can seem daunting, but it’s doable if you make a plan. Make a list of everything you need to do, and work your way through, starting with the most difficult assignments. Focus on your homework and tune out distractions, and you’ll get through things more efficiently. Giving yourself breaks and other rewards will help you stay motivated along the way. Don’t be afraid to ask for help if you get stuck! Hang in there, and you’ll knock the homework out before you know it.

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Create a checklist of everything you have to do, making sure to include deadlines and which assignments are a top priority.
Take a 15-minute break for every 2 hours of studying. This can give your mind a break and help you feel more focused.
Make a schedule of when you plan on doing your homework and try to stick to it. This way, you won’t feel too overwhelmed as the assignments roll in.

Step 1 Create a checklist of the tasks you have.

Make a plan to go through your work bit by bit, saving the easiest tasks for last.

Step 3 Work in a comfortable but distraction-free place.

Put phones and any other distractions away. If you have to do your homework on a computer, avoid checking your email or social media while you are trying to work.
Consider letting your family (or at least your parents) know where and when you plan to do homework, so they'll know to be considerate and only interrupt if necessary.

If you have the option to do your homework in a study hall, library, or other place where there might be tutors, go for it. That way, there will be help around if you need it. You'll also likely wind up with more free time if you can get work done in school.

To take a break, get up and move away from your workspace. Walk around a bit, and get a drink or snack.
Moving around will recharge you mentally, physically, and spiritually, so you’re ready to tackle the next part of your homework.

Step 2 Remind yourself of the big picture.

For instance, you might write “I need to do this chemistry homework because I want a good average in the class. That will raise my GPA and help me stay eligible for the basketball team and get my diploma.”
Your goals might also look something like “I’m going to write this history paper because I want to get better as a writer. Knowing how to write well and make a good argument will help me when I’m trying to enter law school, and then down the road when I hope to become a successful attorney.”

Try doing your homework as soon as possible after it is assigned. Say you have one set of classes on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and another on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Do the Monday homework on Monday, instead of putting it off until Tuesday.
That way, the class will still be fresh in your mind, making the homework easier.
This also gives you time to ask for help if there’s something you don’t understand.

If you want to keep everyone accountable, write a pact for everyone in your study group to sign, like “I agree to spend 2 hours on Monday and Wednesday afternoons with my study group. I will use that time just for working, and won’t give in to distractions or playing around.”
Once everyone’s gotten through the homework, there’s no problem with hanging out.

Step 4 Let your teacher know if you’re having trouble keeping up.

Most teachers are willing to listen if you’re trying and legitimately have trouble keeping up. They might even adjust the homework assignments to make them more manageable.

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How To Deal With A Lot Of Homework? 8 Tips

Published January 22, 2023

Deadlines can be an incredibly stress-inducing thing. With each passing day, the homework deadlines grow ever closer.

But your work output doesn’t seem to keep pace until finally, in a fit of frantic desperation, you complete the majority of the task in the last 3 hours before it’s due. You’re not alone.

We have no firm figures but based upon our own rather hasty research directly before writing this piece. The percentage of people in the world who habitually procrastinate to some degree equals approximately 99.9999999%.

We don’t know who that .0000001 is, but we’re reasonably sure we wouldn’t enjoy their company.

1. Examples Of Procrastinators

Some famous habitual procrastinators include the likes of French poet and novelist Victor Hugo. Or, American author Herman Melville, and British author Douglas Adams.

Of course, based on their creative output, one would assume that each of these people found ways of meeting their deadlines, and you’d be right.

Victor Hugo used the popular focusing technique of being stripped naked in his study by a servant, who was given strict orders not to return with the clothing until a pre-arranged hour. Melville had his wife chain him to his desk in order to finish Moby Dick.

Douglas Adams regularly required publishers to lock him in rooms and stand guard, glowering menacingly until he produced a manuscript. Alright, then.

Let’s explore a few less extreme ways to cope with an impending deadline.

2. Take Smaller Bites If You Have Too Much Homework

Anyone who’s ever attempted to shed a few unwanted pounds has probably heard or read the advice to take smaller bites, chew your food thoroughly, etc., etc.… This is excellent advice in both weight loss and in the avoidance of procrastination (albeit for very different reasons).

One of the biggest triggers of procrastination is making the crippling mistake of thinking of whatever project you’re working on as one gigantic, hulking menace glaring at you from a distance. He’s probably also holding a large club with spikes coming out of it (although that may just be us).

Divide the overall workload into smaller, more manageable bites. Say, for example, that you’re writing an article listing and detailing the top 20 universities in the UK.

The assignment is to write a total of 10,000 words. Returning briefly to our diet analogy, that initially seems roughly equivalent to being asked to consume an entire roasted goose in one sitting (but without the irresistible allure of the roasted goose).

Following the principle of the smaller bite, however, you’re able to say to yourself, “I don’t have to spill out 10,000 brilliant words onto the page all at once. I’ve got 20 universities to write about. That’s 500 words apiece. Let’s tackle that first one and then worry about the next.”

Taken even further, you realise that each university will have sub-sections of approximately 100 words each. “100 words is nothing!” you exclaim.

And so, you’re able to jump into your project with much less trepidation and despair.

3. Break The Task Up

Of course, breaking the task into smaller pieces is fine for getting you past that stumbling block of the blank page. But you should be aware of one possible pitfall: If you break things down too far, you might decide the project is so easy that you can wait a week or two to get started.

This is bad. A necessary addendum to the “Take Smaller Bites” technique is the “Make Smaller Deadlines” technique. With each sub-step you identify, you should also set a sub-deadline to keep you on track toward completing the entire project.

This is especially important when the overall deadline is further off into the hazy future. The farther out the deadline is, the easier it is to convince yourself to wait another day. Or two. Or twelve.

Smaller bites work well, but if you don’t pair them with smaller deadlines, you’ll likely end up facing the entire project in one go just as you feared you would from the beginning.

4. Give Yourself Permission to Fail

One of the biggest reasons for procrastination is not laziness but perfectionism . Thomas Edison is a famous American inventor and originator of the electric light bulb and other modern conveniences. He famously refused to accept that he had failed 10,000 times , opting instead to assert that he’d found 10,000 ways that didn’t work.

It’s a valid point. From inventors to scientists to actors in rehearsals, brilliant discoveries and stunning performances can’t just spring fully-formed out of nothingness. They’re invariably the result of working through countless failures on the way toward eventual success.

Suppose you’re putting off starting a project because it’s just not the perfect time or because it might not be good enough. Well, you’re right. There is no ideal time, and your first (and second, and third…) try probably won’t be good enough. But you have to allow yourself the freedom to make those initial failures if you ever aspire to succeed truly.

If you’re writing an essay , a poem, or a novel, get something on the page. Sit down now and scribble down an initial list of required tasks if you’re planning an event. That first page may well end up in the trash, and that initial list will no doubt be incomplete.

But that “failure” will lead you to the next try and the next until perched upon a tower of failures, you finally grasp the elusive fruit of success. It’s in the doing that you’ll find success, not in waiting for the perfect time to begin.

5. Eliminate Distractions

Easier said than done these days is the task of eliminating distractions during the time you’ve committed to working. From phone calls to emails to texts to Facebook to Twitter to Snapchat and on and on and on, it seems the world today is nothing but distractions (or that work is just a distraction from the far more interesting buzzing phone in our pocket).

When it comes to time management, procrastination can be the anti-hero that you really don’t want in a time like this. The trick is to find a way to remove yourself from those things.

The first step is to identify the worst offenders. Is it the TikTok notifications popping up simultaneously on your phone and computer screen? The email or texts making your phone chime every 30 seconds? Or, simply the outside world as viewed through the window in front of your desk? Most likely, it’s a combination of some of these and a few other things we haven’t mentioned.

Once you’ve identified the problem, the actions you take are entirely up to you. Is signing out of TikTok enough, or do you need the nuclear option of deactivating the account? Will turning off the phone suffice, or will you need to have a friend or family member keep it for you? Can you close the blind or move your desk? Or must you board up the window? Be honest with yourself. Only you know the extents to which you need to resort to finish your homework.

…To yourself. Only to yourself.

When dealing with a deadline of any sort, it’s usually an excellent idea to set a personal deadline in advance of the actual due date. In other words, lie to yourself about when it’s due. The benefits of this approach are apparent. If your project is due in 3 weeks, and you give yourself 2 weeks, that gives you an entire week to address any unexpected issues that may arise. For example, a part of the homework assignment might be more complex than you initially anticipated.

Of course, this only works if you’re particularly good at lying to yourself. Some can’t ignore the actual due date, so they end up skipping a day of work here and there because they know they’ve got an extra week to get it done. If you’re not gullible enough to believe your own lies, the only option is to add some urgency to your earlier deadline. Have a trusted friend or family member change your social media passwords and only reveal them once you’ve met the deadline.

Give your debit card to your mom and live off only a small daily allowance until the deadline is met. Be creative, but make it something that will motivate you. You’ll thank yourself when you’ve finished your project a week early, and you can relax while everyone else is still sweating it out.

7. Prioritise the most important or difficult tasks first

You may be asking yourself how you can do this – and the simple answer to that is to create an Eisenhower Matrix. It’s a time management skills tool that can help students prioritise difficult assignments by tackling them first.

The Eisenhower Matrix, or the Urgent-Important Matrix, can help prioritise tasks based on their urgency and importance. It may feel like a chore, but use these steps to give you a head start before you complete all your work:

Write a list of your homework tasks.
Divide a sheet of paper into four quadrants, labelling each one as “Urgent and Important,” “Important but Not Urgent,” “Urgent but Not Important,” and “Not Urgent or Important.”
Place each homework task into the appropriate quadrant based on its level of urgency and importance.
Start with the “Urgent and Important” tasks and work on them first. These are the homework projects that are due soon and are critical to your grades.
Next, move on to the “Important but Not Urgent” tasks. These are assignments that are important to your long-term success but do not have a pressing deadline.
Next, the “Urgent but Not Important” assignments. These are tasks that may be due soon but are not critical to your success.
Finally, the bottom of the pile is “Not Urgent or Important” tasks. These tasks are neither critical nor time-sensitive.

Using this matrix will help you to prioritise your homework and ensure that you are focusing on the most important tasks first.

8. Manage Your Time To Avoid Burnout

The Pomodoro Technique is a time management method that involves breaking work into 25-minute intervals called “Pomodoros” followed by short breaks. During each interval, focus solely on completing a specific task , and then take a short break before starting another Pomodoro.

Repeat this cycle until you have completed all of your homework tasks. Ultimately, this technique helps to increase productivity and prevent burnout by giving your brain regular breaks even though you’re getting too much homework.

9. Seek help when needed, such as from a teacher or tutor.

Feeling overwhelmed by the amount of homework you have as a secondary school student? Fear not, my friend. One strategy to conquer this mountain of assignments is to seek help when needed. But how do you do that?

Identify the problem: what specifically is causing you to have too much homework? Is it a lack of understanding of the material, difficulty with time management, or something else? Knowing the problem will help you to better communicate it to your teacher or tutor.
Ask the teacher: your first point of contact should be your teacher. Explain your situation and ask for help. Your teacher may be able to provide you with additional resources or offer to provide extra help during class or after the school day.
Seek a tutor: If you are still struggling after talking to your teacher, consider seeking help from a tutor. Tutors can provide one-on-one help, can work with you at your own pace and help you with exam preparation .
Utilise school resources: Many schools have resources such as a homework club or study groups that can help you to manage your workload. Take advantage of these resources if they are available to you.

10. Run Away (haha!)

Sometimes all that’s needed to jumpstart your initiative and get you headed in the right direction is a simple change of venue. There are many resources on the internet to help you choose or arrange your workspace so as to maximise productivity.

One thing to keep in mind is that many productivity experts frown on combining your workspace with your sleeping space. The theory is that combining the two harms both your work and your sleep by confusing your brain as to exactly what the room is meant to be for.

Of course, as a student, your sleeping space may be the only workspace you’ve got. But if you do find your work or rest to be suffering, it might be worth it to move your work sessions to a friend’s room, the library, or another suitable space and save your room for relaxation.

It’s also good to remember that, just because your workspace of choice has been the most inspiring and focused place to get things done in the past, things can change. If your workspace no longer does the job, don’t waste too much time figuring out why. It may just be time for you to find someplace new.

What to do instead of homework?

Whether your homework is complete, or if you’re just managing your time and taking a break, then these 10 activities can keep you active without sitting in front of the TV:

Exercise or go for a walk: it actually helps to boost your energy levels and improve your focus on your homework.
Read a book: a great way to relax and unwind while also improving your vocabulary and concentration for future essay writing.
Meditate or practice yoga: Mindfulness practices can help to reduce stress, and improve focus and other health benefits.
Organise your space: Organising your workspace space can help to reduce stress and increase productivity.
Take a nap: A short nap can help to refresh your mind and improve your focus, and who doesn’t love a quick nap?
Use a study app for students to increase their productivity while keeping you on your phone
Spend time with friends or family
Learn a new skill or hobby
Listen to music or an audiobook
Write in a journal or diary about how your day is going
Volunteer in your community

Can Too Much Homework Be Negative To A Student?

Yes, too much homework can be negative for students as it can lead to anxiety and stress due to them feeling overwhelmed. But it depends on the student, their level of understanding, and their individual needs. However, let’s say you’re spending more than 2 hours on homework every night, then that may be ‘too much’.

This can also contribute to sleep deprivation, problems with friends and family and a lack of motivation to learn more.

What is Homework Anxiety?

Homework anxiety is a type of anxiety that can occur in students when they are assigned homework. It is characterised by feelings of stress, worry, and pressure in relation to completing homework assignments. Symptoms of homework anxiety can include procrastination, difficulty concentrating, and physical symptoms such as headaches or stomachaches.

What Causes Homework Anxiety?

For some students, it may be due to a lack of understanding of the material or difficulty with time management. For others, it may be related to perfectionism or fear of failure. Additionally, students who experience homework anxiety may also have underlying anxiety disorders, such as generalised anxiety disorder or OCD.

Do You Feel More Confident To Do Your Homework?

Procrastination is a very common ailment. One that has afflicted most of us at one time or another, but there are ways to keep yourself on track. These six tips are just a few things to consider if you find yourself consistently clamouring to finish your work at the last minute. There are many other resources on the web if you find that these don’t work out for you.

Now, get to work (and good luck).

The pandemic made the conversation around homework more crucial

Mindfulness surrounding homework is especially important in the context of the last two years. Many students will be struggling with mental health issues that were brought on or worsened by the pandemic, making heavy workloads even harder to balance.

"COVID was just a disaster in terms of the lack of structure. Everything just deteriorated," Kardaras says, pointing to an increase in cognitive issues and decrease in attention spans among students. "School acts as an anchor for a lot of children, as a stabilizing force, and that disappeared."

But even if students transition back to the structure of in-person classes, Kardaras suspects students may still struggle after two school years of shifted schedules and disrupted sleeping habits.

"We've seen adults struggling to go back to in-person work environments from remote work environments. That effect is amplified with children because children have less resources to be able to cope with those transitions than adults do," he explains.

'Get organized' ahead of back-to-school

In order to make the transition back to in-person school easier, Kang encourages students to "get good sleep, exercise regularly (and) eat a healthy diet."

To help manage workloads, she suggests students "get organized."

"There's so much mental clutter up there when you're disorganized... sitting down and planning out their study schedules can really help manage their time," she says.

Breaking assignments up can also make things easier to tackle.

"I know that heavy workloads can be stressful, but if you sit down and you break down that studying into smaller chunks, they're much more manageable."

If workloads are still too much, Kang encourages students to advocate for themselves.

"They should tell their teachers when a homework assignment just took too much time or if it was too difficult for them to do on their own," she says. "It's good to speak up and ask those questions. Respectfully, of course, because these are your teachers. But still, I think sometimes teachers themselves need this feedback from their students."

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Tiktok user @misguided.teacher says he doesn't assign it because the "whole premise of homework is flawed."

For starters, he says, he can't grade work on "even playing fields" when students' home environments can be vastly different.

Mental health experts agree heavy workloads have the potential do more harm than good for students, especially when taking into account the impacts of the pandemic. But they also say the answer may not be to eliminate homework altogether.

Emmy Kang, mental health counselor at Humantold , says studies have shown heavy workloads can be "detrimental" for students and cause a "big impact on their mental, physical and emotional health."

Cynthia Catchings, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist at Talkspace , says heavy workloads can also cause serious mental health problems in the long run, like anxiety and depression.

And for all the distress homework can cause, it's not as useful as many may think, says Dr. Nicholas Kardaras, a psychologist and CEO of Omega Recovery treatment center.

"The research shows that there's really limited benefit of homework for elementary age students, that really the school work should be contained in the classroom," he says.

For older students, Kang says, homework benefits plateau at about two hours per night.

"Most students, especially at these high achieving schools, they're doing a minimum of three hours, and it's taking away time from their friends, from their families, their extracurricular activities. And these are all very important things for a person's mental and emotional health."

Catchings, who also taught third to 12th graders for 12 years, says she's seen the positive effects of a no-homework policy while working with students abroad.

The answer may not be to eliminate homework completely but to be more mindful of the type of work students take home, suggests Kang, who was a high school teacher for 10 years.

"I don't think (we) should scrap homework; I think we should scrap meaningless, purposeless busy work-type homework. That's something that needs to be scrapped entirely," she says, encouraging teachers to be thoughtful and consider the amount of time it would take for students to complete assignments.

The pandemic made the conversation around homework more crucial

Mindfulness surrounding homework is especially important in the context of the past two years. Many students will be struggling with mental health issues that were brought on or worsened by the pandemic , making heavy workloads even harder to balance.

But even if students transition back to the structure of in-person classes, Kardaras suspects students may still struggle after two school years of shifted schedules and disrupted sleeping habits.

'Get organized' ahead of back-to-school

In order to make the transition back to in-person school easier, Kang encourages students to "get good sleep, exercise regularly (and) eat a healthy diet."

To help manage workloads, she suggests students "get organized."

"There's so much mental clutter up there when you're disorganized. ... Sitting down and planning out their study schedules can really help manage their time," she says.

Breaking up assignments can also make things easier to tackle.

"I know that heavy workloads can be stressful, but if you sit down and you break down that studying into smaller chunks, they're much more manageable."

If workloads are still too much, Kang encourages students to advocate for themselves.

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A Stanford education researcher found that too much homework can negatively affect kids, especially their lives away from school, where family, friends and activities matter. "Our findings on the effects of homework challenge the traditional assumption that homework is inherently good," wrote Denise Pope , a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education and a co-author of a study published in the Journal of Experimental Education . The researchers used survey data to examine perceptions about homework, student well-being and behavioral engagement in a sample of 4,317 students from 10 high-performing high schools in upper-middle-class California communities. Along with the survey data, Pope and her colleagues used open-ended answers to explore the students' views on homework. Median household income exceeded $90,000 in these communities, and 93 percent of the students went on to college, either two-year or four-year. Students in these schools average about 3.1 hours of homework each night. "The findings address how current homework practices in privileged, high-performing schools sustain students' advantage in competitive climates yet hinder learning, full engagement and well-being," Pope wrote. Pope and her colleagues found that too much homework can diminish its effectiveness and even be counterproductive. They cite prior research indicating that homework benefits plateau at about two hours per night, and that 90 minutes to two and a half hours is optimal for high school. Their study found that too much homework is associated with: • Greater stress : 56 percent of the students considered homework a primary source of stress, according to the survey data. Forty-three percent viewed tests as a primary stressor, while 33 percent put the pressure to get good grades in that category. Less than 1 percent of the students said homework was not a stressor. • Reductions in health : In their open-ended answers, many students said their homework load led to sleep deprivation and other health problems. The researchers asked students whether they experienced health issues such as headaches, exhaustion, sleep deprivation, weight loss and stomach problems. • Less time for friends, family and extracurricular pursuits : Both the survey data and student responses indicate that spending too much time on homework meant that students were "not meeting their developmental needs or cultivating other critical life skills," according to the researchers. Students were more likely to drop activities, not see friends or family, and not pursue hobbies they enjoy. A balancing act The results offer empirical evidence that many students struggle to find balance between homework, extracurricular activities and social time, the researchers said. Many students felt forced or obligated to choose homework over developing other talents or skills. Also, there was no relationship between the time spent on homework and how much the student enjoyed it. The research quoted students as saying they often do homework they see as "pointless" or "mindless" in order to keep their grades up. "This kind of busy work, by its very nature, discourages learning and instead promotes doing homework simply to get points," said Pope, who is also a co-founder of Challenge Success , a nonprofit organization affiliated with the GSE that conducts research and works with schools and parents to improve students' educational experiences.. Pope said the research calls into question the value of assigning large amounts of homework in high-performing schools. Homework should not be simply assigned as a routine practice, she said. "Rather, any homework assigned should have a purpose and benefit, and it should be designed to cultivate learning and development," wrote Pope. High-performing paradox In places where students attend high-performing schools, too much homework can reduce their time to foster skills in the area of personal responsibility, the researchers concluded. "Young people are spending more time alone," they wrote, "which means less time for family and fewer opportunities to engage in their communities." Student perspectives The researchers say that while their open-ended or "self-reporting" methodology to gauge student concerns about homework may have limitations – some might regard it as an opportunity for "typical adolescent complaining" – it was important to learn firsthand what the students believe. The paper was co-authored by Mollie Galloway from Lewis and Clark College and Jerusha Conner from Villanova University.

Clifton B. Parker is a writer at the Stanford News Service .

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The Worsening Homework Problem

My son does an average of five or six hours of homework every night. Is this normal?

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Editor’s Note: Every Tuesday, Abby Freireich and Brian Platzer take questions from readers about their kids’ education. Have one? Email them at [email protected].

Dear Abby and Brian,

My son, who is in ninth grade, is a really good student, but I’m worried he’s working far too much. He does an average of five or six hours of homework every weeknight, and that’s on top of spending most of the weekend writing essays or studying for tests. His school says that each of his five main classes (English, history, math, language, and science) can assign no more than 30 minutes a night and that electives can assign no more than one hour a week. That should look like something around three hours a night, which is a lot but at least more manageable.

On some nights, a math problem set can take him more than two hours, and then, after 8 p.m. and sometimes after 9, he turns to his English reading, science textbook, Spanish paragraph, or history outline. He’s working until after midnight and then up at 6 a.m. to get ready for school, beyond exhausted. Is this normal?

How much homework should students be assigned?

Margaret Denver

Dear Margaret,

Homework—when assigned in appropriate amounts and with the right goals in mind—is an indispensable tool for educators. But students should never be put in the position of having to choose between their academic success and their overall well-being.

To understand what constitutes the right amount of homework, we should be clear on what it’s meant to accomplish. We believe it should perform four basic functions. First, homework should be assigned in order to make the most of class time. In an English class, for example, teachers need to ask students to read at home in order to do the important work of leading in-class discussions. Second, at-home assignments help students learn the material taught in class. Students require independent practice to internalize new concepts. Third, these assignments can provide valuable data for teachers about how well students understand the curriculum. Finally, homework helps students acquire the skills needed to plan, organize, and complete their work.

Unfortunately, many schools assign homework for its own sake, in amounts that are out of proportion to these basic functions—a problem that seems to have gotten worse over the past 20 years . This isn’t necessarily intentional. Some of your son’s teachers probably underestimate the time it takes their students to complete assignments. But your description makes clear that homework has taken over your son’s life. That’s why he should make sure to tell his teachers that he’s been working past the nightly limits prescribed by the school.

Additionally, he should use those limits for his own well-being: If he can’t get through a math worksheet in half an hour, he should stop, draw a line after the final problem he was able to complete, and talk with his teacher the following day. That way he will be able to spread his time more evenly among classes, and his teachers will get a better sense of how long their homework is taking. Sometimes teachers aren’t aware of how much other work our students have on their plate, not to mention their extracurricular responsibilities. Fill us in! Most teachers would prefer to recalibrate our students’ workload than find ourselves responsible for keeping them up so late.

But the goodwill of individual teachers may not be enough to solve the issue. Schools have any number of incentives to assign a lot of work, one of which is the pernicious assumption that “good” schools provide as much of it as their students can pack into a day. If your son’s workload doesn’t get lighter after he talks with his teachers, contact the administration and explain the situation. Hopefully this will prompt a larger conversation within the school about the reasons to assign homework in the first place—and the reasons not to.

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At the CTTL , we’re focused on using the best of Mind, Brain, and Education Science research to help teachers maximize their effectiveness and guide students toward their greatest potential. Doing that often means addressing what we like to call “Learning Myths”—those traditional bits of teaching wisdom that are often accepted without question, but aren’t always true. We also like to introduce new insight that can change the classroom for the better. In our Learning Myths series, we’ll explore true-or-false statements that affect teacher and student performance; for each, we’ll dive into the details that support the facts, leaving teachers with actionable knowledge that they can put to work right away.

True or False? Homework should be given every night, as this routine promotes learning.

Answer: False! Nightly homework is unnecessary—and can actually be harmful.

Homework for homework’s sake, or homework that’s not tied into the classroom experience, is a demotivating waste of your students’ time and energy. The Education Endowment Foundation Teaching and Learning Toolkit puts it this way: “Planned and focused activities are more beneficial than homework, which is more regular, but may be routine or not linked with what is being learned in class.”

How might teachers put this insight into action?

Homework, in itself, isn’t a bad thing. The key is to make sure that every homework assignment is both necessary and relevant—and leaves students with some time to rest and investigate other parts of their lives. Here are four key mindsets to adopt as an educator:

Resist the traditional wisdom that equates hardship with learning. Assigning constant homework is often tied into the idea that the more rigorous a class is, the better it is. However, according to research from Duke University’s Professor Harris Cooper, this belief is mistaken: “too much homework may diminish its effectiveness, or even become counterproductive.” A better guideline for homework, Cooper suggests, is to assign 1-2 hours of total homework in high school, and only up to 1 hour in junior high or middle school. This is based on the understanding that school-aged children are developing quickly in multiple realms of their lives; thus, family, outside interests, and sleep all take an unnecessary and damaging hit if students are spending their evenings on busy work. Even for high schoolers, more than two hours of homework was not associated with greater levels of achievement in Cooper’s study.

Remember that some assignments help learning more than others—and they tend to be simple, connected ones. Research suggests that the more open-ended and unstructured assignments are, the smaller the effect they have on learning. The best kind of homework is made of planned, focused activities that help reinforce what’s been happening in class. Using the spacing effect is one way to help students recall and remember what they’ve been learning: for example, this could include a combination of practice questions from what happened today, three days ago, and five days ago. (You can also consider extending this idea by integrating concepts and skills from other parts of your course into your homework materials). Another helpful approach is to assign an exercise that acts as a simple introduction to material that is about to be taught. In general, make sure that all at-home activities are a continuation of the story that’s playing out in class—in other words, that they’re tied into what happened before the assignment, as well as what will happen next.

When it comes to homework, stay flexible. Homework shouldn’t be used to teach complex new ideas and skills. Because it’s so important that homework is closely tied with current learning, it’s important to prepare to adjust your assignments on the fly: if you end up running out of time and can’t cover all of a planned subject on a given day, nix any homework that relies on it.

Never use homework as a punishment. Homework should never be used as a disciplinary tool or a penalty. It’s important for students to know and trust that what they’re doing at home is a vital part of their learning.

Make sure that your students don’t get stuck before they begin. Teachers tend to under-appreciate one very significant problem when it comes to homework: often, students just don’t know how to do the assignment! Being confused by the instructions—and without the means to remedy the situation—is extremely demotivating. If you find (or suspect) that this might be a problem for your students, one helpful strategy is to give students a few minutes in class to begin their homework, so that you can address any clarifying questions that arise.

In order for students to become high academic achievers, they have to be learning in a way that challenges them at the right level— much like the porridge in the Goldilocks story, it’s got to be just right. Homework is a great tool, but it must be used wisely. Part of our role as teachers is to make sure that the time we ask our students to give us after they leave class is meaningful to their learning; otherwise, the stress and demotivation of “just because” homework can be detrimental to their well-being. As the CTTL’s Dr. Ian Kelleher advises, “The best homework assignments are just 20 minutes long, because those are the ones that the teacher has really planned out carefully.” Put simply: quality beats out quantity, every time.

Here at the CTTL, we’re all about quality over quantity. Case in point: our newest endeavor, Neuroteach Global , helps teachers infuse their classroom practices with research-informed strategies for student success—in just 3-5 minutes a day, on a variety of devices.

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5 Tips for Dealing with “Too Much” Homework

In the case of unreasonable “commitments,” you’re procrastinating doing your homework, but of course, there are people who genuinely are overwhelmed by their homework. With that in mind, how do you manage your time to get it all done? The following are five tips for any student (current or prospective) who’s struggling with getting their workload completed on time.

1. Don’t be a perfectionist

There’s an old principle of Pareto’s that’s been adapted to business (specifically management) called the 80-20 rule. The idea is that 80% of your results, come from 20% of your efforts. Think about that. When you tackle an assignment for school, are you trying to make everything perfect? Remember that you’re a student, no one is expecting you to be perfect, you’re in school to get better; you’re supposed to be a work in progress.

As a result, what may feel like “too much” homework, might really be you tackling assignments “too well.” For instance, there’s a reason “speed reading” is a skill that’s encouraged. A textbook is not a work of literature where every sentence means something, it’s okay to skim or, in some cases, skip whole paragraphs – the last paragraph just recaps what you read anyway.

Moreover, many schools or classes curve their grades. So an 80% could be a 100% in your class.

2. Do your homework as soon as it’s assigned to you

Due to the nature of college schedules, students often have classes MWF and different classes on Tuesday and Thursday. As a result, they do their MWF homework on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday in preparation for the following day. Rather than do that. Do your Monday homework, Monday; Tuesday homework, Tuesday; Wednesday homework, Wednesday and so on.

The reason for this is manifold. First of all, the class and the assignment are fresh in your mind – this is especially critical for anything math related to those who are less math-minded. So do the assignment after the class. Chances are, it’ll be much easier to complete.

The second reason is because if you have a question about Monday’s homework and you’re working on it on Monday night, then guess what? You can contact your professor (or a friend) Tuesday for help or clarification. Whereas if you’re completing Monday’s homework on a Tuesday night, you’re out of luck. This can assuage a lot of the stress that comes from too much homework.

This flows into the third reason which is that, rather than having a chunk of homework to do the day before its due, you’re doing a little at a time frequently. This is a basic time management tactic where, if you finish tasks as they’re assigned instead of letting them pile up, you avoid that mental blockade of feeling like there’s “too much” for you to do in the finite amount of time given.

3. Eliminate distractions

All too often, students sit down to do homework and then receive a text, and then another, and then hop on Facebook, and then comment on something, and then take a break. Before they’re aware of it, hours have passed.

The best way to overcome this is to create a workspace. Traditionally, many students go to the library, but there’s no reason you cannot create your own workspace elsewhere. Maybe head to a coffee shop, fold up the backseats of your car, or develop a space in your room for you to specifically to focus on your homework.

If you give your homework 100% of your attention, it’ll pass by more quickly. Regardless of whether you’re writing a paper or working on a math equation, it’s harder to complete any portion of it with interruptions. If you stop writing mid-sentence to answer a text, then you may wonder where you were taking that trail of thought; if you stop a math problem midway through, then you’ll end up going back over the equation, redoing your work, to figure it out.

Eliminating distractions can save you a great deal of time, so find your space.

4. Track your time

Really track it. There are plenty of free sites and apps that will monitor your time. If you can’t (or don’t) eliminate all your distractions, then start clocking where your time is going. Chances are, you’ll be able to cut something that’s draining your hours, out of your schedule.

This is the nature of the internet, social media sites, and games on your phone, usually you use them in micromoments; moments that too small or too insignificant to really be eating up your time, but they do. All too often, students find themselves wondering “where did the time go?” and have difficulty actually placing how much time was spent where or doing what. Time yourself and, more importantly, reserve time to do your homework or reading.

The other benefit of this is that once you start tracking your time, you’ll be able to quantify the problem and manage your time more appropriately. For instance, if a particular class averages 45 minutes of homework, then you know how much time is required to budget into your schedule. Meanwhile, if another class is regularly exceeding three hours, then you may want to consider a tutor or discussing the issue with your professor directly.

5. Accept homework

Homework is a responsibility; it’s a chore. And in the same way that many people don’t take out the trash until it needs to be taken out; many people don’t start homework until it needs to be finished. This is a problem of attitude towards homework more than anything else.

It’s what makes many students feel like there’s “too much” homework, when in actuality, they feel that way because they put off doing it until they absolutely need to do it. As a result, try to change your mode of thinking. Instead of thinking about the volume of reading and writing, accept that it needs to get done. This way, you’re less concerned with the consequences of not doing homework, and more willing to actually get it done.

Hopefully, these five tips will help you in your academic career. Time management is not an easy skill to learn, but once you’ve established it in your life, it will help immensely.

Got So Much Homework, Don’t Cry, Here Is What to Do

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Too much homework can be a burden. Unfortunately, you might be the one to blame. You are bound to have a hard time if you do not lay down proper plans. Your assignments will pile up, and time will not be on your side. You will end up with so much homework.

Apart from planning, your interest and attitude towards the assignment matter. If you have a negative attitude towards assignments, you will lack the motivation to do it. As a result, you might rely on other means to do the assignment. Copying from your friend is one of the means that might tempt you.

The Homework Burden

Dealing with homework burden can be stressful and frustrating. You have to work on a lot of assignments in a limited time. If you do not set aside enough time to do the assignment you will find yourself in such a situation.

At that point, you need to use other means to complete the homework. You can decide to hire a writer to do the essay on your behalf.

Using dubious means to deal with homework burden has its fair share of disadvantages. If the tutor discovers you cheat in your assignments, you will get a lower grade.

A significant number of students use cheating and copying to deal with homework burdens. They do not endure the entire process of reading and researching while working on an assignment. For them, copy and pasting is their shortcut to complete any serious workload they have.

If you find yourself with so much homework, no need to panic. Do not bother about crying. Be objective on how you can mitigate the current occurrence. As such, it is important to find out how best you can deal with the homework burden.

For instance, you need to get down to work immediately and start working on your assignment.

How to Deal With Too Much Homework

To mitigate the homework burden, you must be willing to get to work. Once you realize you have too much homework at your disposal, it is no time for further procrastination. Lay down a plan on how to start writing that essay immediately.

Find a favorable environment, with the books you need and start answering the questions on your assignment. Do not second guess this decision, since you might compromise again.

2. Overtime

You must create more time to ensure you clear the homework backload. In this case, you will have to work till odd hours. Remember, you will be working against time to ensure you have your assignment ready as soon as possible.

Since time is not on your side, you have to sacrifice. That means you may have to sacrifice some of the hours you need to be sleeping to work on your assignment.

3. Hire Homework Doer

To date, some companies and professionals can do your homework on your behalf. You only need to place your order, pay the set fees and you will have answers to your assignment as soon as possible.

Therefore, you can resort to hiring a homework doer hence passing that burden to another person. If you are busy with other activities, you can hire professional homework doers early enough so that they can work on your assignments on time.

4. Get Online Tutors

Online tutors will give you the necessary help in clearing your homework overload. They provide answers to your assignment hence saving you a lot of time. Some of them might decide to do the assignment on your behalf.

Therefore, you get to complete a lot of work within a short while. Soon enough you will have your work ready for you to submit to your teacher.

5. Create a Timetable

You can create a timetable whereby you assign each assignment a specific time for working on it. Such a plan ensures that you approach your assignments with a plan.

Therefore, you have no room for wasting time. You can easily avoid the instance of having too much homework.

6. Avoid Distractions

If you set out to clear the homework backload, you need to ensure you do not give in to distractions. You need to channel all your attention to the assignment.

Concentration ensures that you can spend more time doing your assignment instead of focusing on insignificant things. Therefore, you can deal with too much homework within a short time.

7. Do Not Procrastinate

With too much homework on your side, you do not have to procrastinate. You have to be willing to take action right away. And that includes defining a plan on how you will tackle your assignment.

Employ strategies that will ensure you take a reasonable amount of time to deal with the assignment. You can hire a professional to do the assignment . Find a reliable essay writing company if the assignment is needed urgently.

How to Manage Time to Get Time For Assignment

Have a study room.

With a study room, you can always have the peace of mind and motivation to work on your assignment. You get fewer distractions coming to your side.

That means you can focus exclusively on doing your assignment. You will take less time to complete your work.

Have a Tim Frame

Assign every assignment a specific time frame. Dedicate enough time to every assignment so that you apply the right commitment.

A time frame ensures that you do not operate in a haphazard manner that is prone to distractions. You commit to a particular assignment at the right time.

Prioritize Your Assignments

Start working on those assignments that are due very soon. You can then remain with those that need more time. There will be no wasting time on assignments that are not urgent. You just clear the urgent assignments first.

Have the Right Materials on Time

Before you begin working on your assignment, ensure you have the right materials. You will avoid delays that accrue from not having the materials you need to use.

Get all the necessary books, websites, and journals within your working area. It does help you to get answers in less time.

Start Early

Procrastination discourages students from working on their assignments early enough. They get false hope that they have time on their side. Unfortunately, such kind of reasoning only leaves most of them with a mountain to climb.

They end up with too much homework and less time. To avoid such an occurrence, you must learn to start working on your assignment immediately or early enough.

Seek Guidance

You can seek insight from your tutor on dealing with too much homework. The tutor will give you tips on how you can plan for your assignments.

You get to create time for your assignment and ensure you submit them in due time. You will not have to deal with the last-minute rush which can be costly.

You end up with assignment overload if you do not plan. You will have too much homework with limited time. This is a bad situation that can easily cause panic and stress. To avoid this, you need to hatch a strategy for dealing with assignments. Create a guide whereby you allocate enough time to every assignment.

Ensure you have the materials that will make unraveling the question easy. Most importantly, ignore distractions since you might waste a lot of time on them. Give your homework the attention it deserves. The commitment motivates you to concentrate on doing your assignment.

When not handling complex essays and academic writing tasks, Josh is busy advising students on how to pass assignments. In spare time, he loves playing football or walking with his dog around the park.

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Some schools and school districts are taking a hard look at how much homework is assigned and how valuable it is for student learning. How much homework do you have, on average, each night? Is it a burden for you? Does it mostly help you learn the material and skills you are being taught? Does some of it seem like “busy work”?

Winnie Hu reports on a “homework revolution,” in which some schools and districts are rethinking their policies on and approaches to homework:

Galloway is part of a wave of districts across the nation trying to remake homework amid concerns that high-stakes testing and competition for college have fueled a nightly grind that is stressing out children and depriving them of play and rest, yet doing little to raise achievement, particularly in elementary grades. “There is simply no proof that most homework as we know it improves school performance,” said Vicki Abeles, a mother of three from California, whose documentary “Race to Nowhere,” about burned-out students caught in a pressure-cooker educational system, has helped reignite the antihomework movement. “And by expecting kids to work a ‘second shift’ in what should be their downtime, the presence of schoolwork at home is negatively affecting the health of our young people and the quality of family time.” So teachers at Mango Elementary School in Fontana, Calif., are replacing homework with “goal work” that is specific to individual student’s needs and that can be completed in class or at home at his or her own pace. The Pleasanton School District, north of San Jose, Calif., is proposing this month to cut homework times by nearly half and prohibit weekend assignments in elementary grades because, as one administrator said, “parents want their kids back.” Ridgewood High School in New Jersey introduced a homework-free winter break in December. Schools in Tampa, Fla., and Bleckley County, Ga., have instituted “no homework nights” throughout the year. And the two-year-old Brooklyn School of Inquiry, a program for gifted and talented elementary students, has made homework optional: it is neither graded nor counted toward progress reports. “I think people confuse homework with rigor,” said Donna Taylor, the Brooklyn School’s principal, who views homework for children under 11 as primarily benefiting parents by helping them feel connected to the classroom.

Students: Tell us about your homework. How much time do you spend per night on assignments? Do your homework assignments tend to reinforce your learning in class, or does it generally feel like a useless requirement? Have any of your teachers changed their homework policies or limit the homework they assign? Do you ever have optional or individualized homework? If it were up to you, what would your school’s homework policy be, and why?

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I’m a 9th grade student at BCA and the homework amount is awful. For the entire year of social studies, you know those long charts in the textbook, yeah, I had to copy each and every one for homework. Homework? More like a torture course. I didn’t have any time for myself because I had those charts, had to read chapters of a book for English, with Math, and I had no time for anything. I came home at 4pm and finished homework by 2am. We couldn’t go to dinners because I had too much homework. I couldn’t talk to my mom, dad or sister. Every time I asked them something the first thing they go is “did you finish your homework?” And I didn’t. Even my sister was acting like my mom after a while. So yes. I think I have too much homework. And no. It doesn’t really help (unless it’s learning how to use math formulas). I just copied everything i saw without any of the actual information being absorbed just to be done with the work. Homework ruined my life.

Alright, well it depends on what kind of homework you get. At my middle school, I get math homework everyday, but it’s not the kind of homework from which you don’tlearn anything. They are problems where we apply what we learned in class. I never get Texas History homework and when I do, it’s just reviews for our test. In Science our only homework is the occsional project. Of course, we have to work hard on those, so it takes some time, but we don’t get projects everyday. The only class where I think the homework is overdone is LA (language arts). Since I am in the gifted class, all we do is project after project after project. And they all require hard work (staying up till 12, creativity, etc.) Just because we are gifted, our teacher thinks we should be able to produce oustanding out-of -the-box work on every single project. I never actually learned anything in LA. During our persuasive unit, we did a mock presidential election, which I thought was great, but she never had us exclusively work on persuasion. Of course, it was there, in fact it was the most prevalent aspect, but we never did anything to build on our technique of persuasion. The whole year, our LA teacher has taught us how to get by on 6 hours of sleep, drai our brains dry of creative, outstanding, huge projects, and write reader’s responses.

So in MY middle school, homework really depends on how YOU decide to have it. We have a good amount of homework (I wouldn’t say it was THAT much) but it really depended on if you finished it in school… if if you wanted to keep it as HOMEwork…

I usually have homework at night. Studying spellings words is a given. Other homework is really stuff I didn’t finish in class. My teachers try to not assign homework when there is a school-wide event in the evening. Because of a learning disability, my teachers either modify my homework or let me turn things in that would be late for others, but not for me. I have awesome teachers and go to a great school! //www.hammonsmarketing.com/health

The homework quantities at my Catholic high school are, I believe, on the reasonable end of a lot. Most students spend between one and three hours each night, depending on the courses and teachers. However, a survey found that most of us get very little sleep and that half of the freshmen and two thirds of sophmores and juniors had suffered physically because of stress. The reason for this is the extra curricular activities. When my parents were younger, one could get into very good colleges without being the star of the sports team or school orchestera. Now, students are pressured to excel in as many activities as possible. More than 75% of the students in my school are on at least one sports team, many of which practice from the end of school until as late as 8pm. I play four instruments and participate in debate and the community service club. Other students have jobs, or have responsibilities at home. When someone is practicing music or sports, or working for five hours every night, one to three hours of homework becomes a much greater burden than it would otherwise be.

I agree with Brina, homework ruined my life as well. Our school gives out so much, and I am only in 7th Grade!!!!! I know I’m in honors, so I shouldn’t complain, but we should be getting harder work, not more work!!!!! Each teacher claims they only give about 20 minutes of homework a night, but in reality, its like an hour. I’m usually working from the time I get home 4:20 until at least midnight. It’s just too much! I should really be getting more sleep than I am already getting- it’s just not healthy to get 6-7 hours of sleep each night. There was not one night this school year (besides Fridays) that I was not studying or doing homework while in dinner or even out to eat! The teachers also never consider all the evening activities typical middle schoolers would have… It’s just such a pain to have to carry all that homework pressure around when you have to go somewhere or play a sport. As a matter of fact, my little brother longs greatly for us to play legos together (remember them? from the carefree days?), but I just dont have time! In addition, I don’t obtain any knowledge as well from doing homework. I’m a type of learner that once I see it and practice it a few times in class or review it a few times, it’s in my head. I don’t need some type of review to remember it. I feel homework should just be something that if someone feels they need to do it, they should to review. I can’t believe I actually have time to write this review- actually, I don’t- I have two projects due, from the same class, with only 2 1/2 days of school left! This is unfair- I have so much work due, and I’m literally scrambling around, making sure I did all of my work, until the last day of school It’s just insane. Please do something about it.

I’m happy people are finally seriously analyzing the excessive homework situation and determining whether it actually helps kids learn and retain or not. I work at a Montessori Middle School where the only homework assigned is work the students couldn’t finish during the week. Usually, as long as kids are on task at school, they get the rest of their time to do things they love by themselves or with their families.

Montessori schools are an interesting voice in this type of debate. //www.waterfrontmontessori.blogspot.com

At my old school, I got a lot more homework. At my new prep school, I get less. The difference: I spend much more time on my homework at my current school because it is harder. I feel as if I actually accomplish something with the harder homework, even if it means I don’t go to bed until 2 every night (it’s junior year it’s not that far from the norm).

I’m a student from Indiana. I go to a public school, and at my school I get about 1 to 2 hours of homework per night. When I have in-school projects, I usually have about 2 to 3 hours because I try to do them at home. But, on average, I get my homework done by 5. Compared to many of you, I have little homework. I also do extra work to help me understand the material better. Because of this, I am doing very well in my school, but other students in my school aren’t doing so well. I found out that, on average, they do about ½ to an hour of homework per day. I’ve also noticed that they rush through it and don’t try to understand it. Then, they found out that this little amount of work affects them a lot by lowering their grade, and also, they don’t understand the material. But they don’t do anything about it and continue these ways. I think that schools should keep the same amount of homework, or maybe increase the amount of homework. Of course, some might say, “If we give them more work, won’t they rush through that as well?” To prevent this, homework should be harder to do so that students can’t rush through it. For example, teachers can give questions that aren’t hard, but take a long time to do. I say that homework shouldn’t be greatly reduced or eliminated because if the schools do reduce or eliminate homework, students’ grades might slowly drop. I think that having more homework will help me get smarter and maintain my grades, rather than having no homework and starting to fail.

I’m a freshman in high-school and usually I have 1-2 hours of homework everyday. There is not a day where I don’t have homework. (I have all Pre-AP classes.) If I have a project(s), then I have 4-5 hours of homework.

I am in 8th grade, in advanced classes, and in 2 honors classes for high school credits. For Algebra 1 honors I get 1-2 hours of homework each night. It’s crazy, and I am good at math. My friends that are okay at math take 3-4 hours a night for that class. My mom e-mailed the teacher about the homework madness and he said,”I am just teaching and giving to the state standards(Florida).” If that is the standards then I have no life.

I am a junior at CNG in Bogota, Colombia. I have been in the school all my life, and homework had never been an issue. I used to spend about 1 hour each night doing homework and for me it was very relaxed. But this year I don’t know what happened to our school and I am getting excessive amounts of homework. Now i spend from 2-3 hours doing homework each night and when I’m done I’m exhausted and go straight to bed and have no time to do anything else. To make matters worse i feel most of the homework assignments that are given to me don’t help me reinforce my learning in class. It is just extra work that should be done at school. I don’t think that students should leave school to get to their houses and do more work. In my case the homework assignments I have force me to go to bed at very late hours of the night. This is not healthy for a student because the next day they won’t work as well as if they had slept for the recommended 7-8 hours. I’ve had to cancel some extracurricular activities many times this year because of the excessive amount of homework I have this year. “I think people confuse homework with rigor,” said Donna Taylor. The statement given by Donna Taylor in Winnie Hu’s article is very true. Some teachers do confuse homework with rigor and therefore give their students tons of homework. Finally I would like to say that I think my school should change their homework policy and give us less homework. Homework is supposed to help us not make us suffer and get stressed.

When I was a freshman, I hardly had any homework (besides algebra II which didn’t take too long anyways). I even had all honors classes. Now that I’m a sophomore, I’m taking AP U.S. history, pre-calc, band, american lit, spanish II, and honors chemistry. The only homework I regularly get is AP history. I get about an hour and a half per night for that class, but it is a college level course. The other classes are hit and miss for homework.

This answer is obvious, its YES! I am an eighth grader at a public school, and I seriously think the teachers there think we do not have any social lives. I have hours of homework. And it is only middle school. All this stuff we do not even need to know! I occasionally just cry because I really want to hang out with my friends so bad, but I have to do homework. I want to play with my pets, but too much homework. I want to do a lot of things, but always too much homework. There should be a rule, only 20 minutes of homework allowed per night!

Yes. It’s ridiculous. On average i get about 10-14 pieces of homework a week. This results in me having to spend around 2-3 hours monday to friday doing homework, and 1-2 hours on saturday and sunday. School isn’t just 9-4 monday to friday anymore, it’s 9-9 monday-sunday.

I usually have at least 3 hours of homework a night, no including projects and studying. I feel that this is too much. I’m often up until 11 at night doing it and I have to get up a 5:30 for school. Last year, I had a huge project dumped on my and I don’t think I slept at all that night. Maybe 2 hours. Tops. I got pretty sick from it. I don’t know. My body just shut down. It wouldn’t move and I was soo cold as I remember. I went to the doctor’s and that was that, I guess. I feel that some work is busywork, but not all. I like doing labs and answering those questions. I find almost ALL math homework to be busywork. It’s REALLY easy, but SO TIME-CONSUMING. It’ll take me an hour to do 30 problems because I have to show all the work and the process, etc. History and English questions CAN reinforce the learning. I don’t think it always does, but in some cases, yes.

I am in the 10th grade and i get about 50 problems in geometry 3 pages of notes in chemistry (we have to write our own notes in chemistry for homework) 15 questions in world history and a 3 page essay in AP english all in one night i just think that is way to much homework for one night i get out of school at 3:05 and have to go to bed at about 10:00 thats just like six hours to do all that homework plus i still have to do chores and eat and stuff so realy we only get like four hours a day to do all this homework and my geometry teacher says and i quote “I DONT GIVE A DAMN IF YOU WHERE AT THE HOSPITAL, IF YOU WERE SICK, OR SOMEONE DIED YOU NEED TO DO YOUR HOMEWORK NO EXCEPTIONS” she also does not accept late work finish missed testsor anything and if she forgets to grade a test or something its ok for her grading papers is her homework but its ok for her! if i did not have to deall with all the stress of homework i think i would do better in school.

The main problem that occurs with homework is that teacher are oblivios to exactly how long it takes to accomplish. I spend a longer amount of time on homework because I am a prefectionist and so a question that would take an average person 10 min would take me 15- 20. Now, If I got say, 9-12 assignments a week (each assighnment taking aproximatly 1 hr to accomplish) it would be alright. However, I have been getting 3 hr. long projects and 14 other assignments due in a week. I start my homework at 4:00 and don’t stop untill 6:30 and I’m only in 7th grade. Many people I know in highschool don’t get as much as I do. I belive that before a teacher assignes homework they should make shore that it doesn’t take more than an hour and that all of their homework combined for a week doesn’t take more than 9hrs. Though ‘young’ and ‘immature’ children do have lives outside of school.

A little homework isn’t such a bad thing. Problem is, I haven’t been given “a little homework” since sixth grade. The main thing I see is teachers giving homework because they think it helps us learn. When they give us things to do that we’ve never done even in class that we are graded on, 20 minutes of homework can easily turn into 1 or 2 hours of research online. They give homework because they’re expected to, not because it actually does anything.

Also, the teachers seem to think that their class takes precedence over every other class. In honors, I expect reasonable homework, not busy work. We go to school for 8 hours right after we wake up. We go home and get homework that takes us 10 hours straight… sorry, not going to work out. Every teacher sees an hour of their homework as one hour of homework. Multiply that times 7, guys. even better, add a job, sports and clubs (which are all required to get into a decent college.) into the mix. and you mock us and give us detentions for being tired in the morning and hungry before lunch… what’s sleep? I’ve never tried it. Dinner? I think I had that once. All I know is work. I live weekend to weekend, summer to summer.

Ever wonder why kids hate school? because it destroys us. breaks us down. It’s something we shouldn’t take for granted, but it’s so hard to feel like it’s doing us good when it feels so bad. All we have to look forward to is getting out of there. But if we ever say we hate school, that makes us ungrateful slackers, melodramatic whiners and rotten teenagers that want to laze around doing nothing all day.

So hard to be a student these days.

Im a sophomore and there is a plethora amount of homework its crazy especially from Ap World History in which im always getting projects and english sometimes i stay up late till 12 am and then continue my homework at school during breakfast sometimes students in grade levels below mine have to stay after school and during school for something that was called “wallstreet” and now is called”college prep”so you can imagine how many times some students have to stay after school for homework especially those in more advanced classes than the others like I am.

I’ve been on the accelerated track at my high school, and homework has never been an issue for me up until my junior year. I feel as though lately my homework load has more than doubled and frankly I don’t see the full use of it. Being a teenager, school is obviously a huge priority, but I feel that it shouldn’t take away from high school experiences. I have a job, and I do participate in a competitive sport, and I would like to be able to handle it all. What always ends up throwing me off is that 12 page outline for biology, or those verb translations for italian. I feel like nowadays every teenager has to two of three things; good grades, an active social life, and a healthy amount of sleep. Farewell, sleep.

yes!i think some teachers give students to much home work.they should relize we have six other periods were we get work.i think some teachers should not give as much work as they do.

I think my school is good right now because the students don’t get alot of ho9mework because it’s all mostly classwork so the teachers can help us out and everything. There are some teachers that do give alot of homework sometimes but it’s only if your behind or need to catch up really fast.

In my opinion,Ithink I get too much homework sometimes.Sometimes it’s so difficult my mom can’t figure it out.Once,I had to spend 2hours on one math assignment!Since I’m a seventh grader,the required amount is a little over an hour.For L.A.,I usually need to read for 20 minutes.But with my brain processing tests,I’m advanced in reading.(but I already know that).Since I have ADD,it makes it harder.I have to spend 90 min. On hw.It should be illegal.

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Do our kids have too much homework?

by: Marian Wilde | Updated: January 31, 2024

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Many students and their parents are frazzled by the amount of homework being piled on in the schools. Yet many researchers say that American students have just the right amount of homework.

“Kids today are overwhelmed!” a parent recently wrote in an email to GreatSchools.org “My first-grade son was required to research a significant person from history and write a paper of at least two pages about the person, with a bibliography. How can he be expected to do that by himself? He just started to learn to read and write a couple of months ago. Schools are pushing too hard and expecting too much from kids.”

Diane Garfield, a fifth grade teacher in San Francisco, concurs. “I believe that we’re stressing children out,” she says.

But hold on, it’s not just the kids who are stressed out . “Teachers nowadays assign these almost college-level projects with requirements that make my mouth fall open with disbelief,” says another frustrated parent. “It’s not just the kids who suffer!”

“How many people take home an average of two hours or more of work that must be completed for the next day?” asks Tonya Noonan Herring, a New Mexico mother of three, an attorney and a former high school English teacher. “Most of us, even attorneys, do not do this. Bottom line: students have too much homework and most of it is not productive or necessary.”

Research about homework

How do educational researchers weigh in on the issue? According to Brian Gill, a senior social scientist at the Rand Corporation, there is no evidence that kids are doing more homework than they did before.

“If you look at high school kids in the late ’90s, they’re not doing substantially more homework than kids did in the ’80s, ’70s, ’60s or the ’40s,” he says. “In fact, the trends through most of this time period are pretty flat. And most high school students in this country don’t do a lot of homework. The median appears to be about four hours a week.”

Education researchers like Gill base their conclusions, in part, on data gathered by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) tests.

“It doesn’t suggest that most kids are doing a tremendous amount,” says Gill. “That’s not to say there aren’t any kids with too much homework. There surely are some. There’s enormous variation across communities. But it’s not a crisis in that it’s a very small proportion of kids who are spending an enormous amount of time on homework.”

Etta Kralovec, author of The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning , disagrees, saying NAEP data is not a reliable source of information. “Students take the NAEP test and one of the questions they have to fill out is, ‘How much homework did you do last night’ Anybody who knows schools knows that teachers by and large do not give homework the night before a national assessment. It just doesn’t happen. Teachers are very clear with kids that they need to get a good night’s sleep and they need to eat well to prepare for a test.

“So asking a kid how much homework they did the night before a national test and claiming that that data tells us anything about the general run of the mill experience of kids and homework over the school year is, I think, really dishonest.”

Further muddying the waters is an AP/AOL poll that suggests that most Americans feel that their children are getting the right amount of homework. It found that 57% of parents felt that their child was assigned about the right amount of homework, 23% thought there was too little and 19% thought there was too much.

One indisputable fact

One homework fact that educators do agree upon is that the young child today is doing more homework than ever before.

“Parents are correct in saying that they didn’t get homework in the early grades and that their kids do,” says Harris Cooper, professor of psychology and director of the education program at Duke University.

Gill quantifies the change this way: “There has been some increase in homework for the kids in kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. But it’s been an increase from zero to 20 minutes a day. So that is something that’s fairly new in the last quarter century.”

The history of homework

In his research, Gill found that homework has always been controversial. “Around the turn of the 20th century, the Ladies’ Home Journal carried on a crusade against homework. They thought that kids were better off spending their time outside playing and looking at clouds. The most spectacular success this movement had was in the state of California, where in 1901 the legislature passed a law abolishing homework in grades K-8. That lasted about 15 years and then was quietly repealed. Then there was a lot of activism against homework again in the 1930s.”

The proponents of homework have remained consistent in their reasons for why homework is a beneficial practice, says Gill. “One, it extends the work in the classroom with additional time on task. Second, it develops habits of independent study. Third, it’s a form of communication between the school and the parents. It gives parents an idea of what their kids are doing in school.”

The anti-homework crowd has also been consistent in their reasons for wanting to abolish or reduce homework.

“The first one is children’s health,” says Gill. “A hundred years ago, you had medical doctors testifying that heavy loads of books were causing children’s spines to be bent.”

The more things change, the more they stay the same, it seems. There were also concerns about excessive amounts of stress .

“Although they didn’t use the term ‘stress,'” says Gill. “They worried about ‘nervous breakdowns.'”

“In the 1930s, there were lots of graduate students in education schools around the country who were doing experiments that claimed to show that homework had no academic value — that kids who got homework didn’t learn any more than kids who didn’t,” Gill continues. Also, a lot of the opposition to homework, in the first half of the 20th century, was motivated by a notion that it was a leftover from a 19th-century model of schooling, which was based on recitation, memorization and drill. Progressive educators were trying to replace that with something more creative, something more interesting to kids.”

The more-is-better movement

Garfield, the San Francisco fifth-grade teacher, says that when she started teaching 30 years ago, she didn’t give any homework. “Then parents started asking for it,” she says. “I got In junior high and high school there’s so much homework, they need to get prepared.” So I bought that one. I said, ‘OK, they need to be prepared.’ But they don’t need two hours.”

Cooper sees the trend toward more homework as symptomatic of high-achieving parents who want the best for their children. “Part of it, I think, is pressure from the parents with regard to their desire to have their kids be competitive for the best universities in the country. The communities in which homework is being piled on are generally affluent communities.”

The less-is-better campaign

Alfie Kohn, a widely-admired progressive writer on education and parenting, published a sharp rebuttal to the more-homework-is-better argument in his 2006 book The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing . Kohn criticized the pro-homework studies that Cooper referenced as “inconclusive… they only show an association, not a causal relationship” and he titled his first chapter “Missing Out on Their Childhoods.”

Vera Goodman’s 2020 book, Simply Too Much Homework: What Can We Do? , repeats Kohn’s scrutiny and urges parents to appeal to school and government leaders to revise homework policies. Goodman believes today’s homework load stresses out teachers, parents, and students, deprives children of unstructured time for play, hobbies, and individual pursuits, and inhibits the joy of learning.

Homework guidelines

What’s a parent to do, you ask? Fortunately, there are some sanity-saving homework guidelines.

Cooper points to “The 10-Minute Rule” formulated by the National PTA and the National Education Association, which suggests that kids should be doing about 10 minutes of homework per night per grade level. In other words, 10 minutes for first-graders, 20 for second-graders and so on.

Too much homework vs. the optimal amount

Cooper has found that the correlation between homework and achievement is generally supportive of these guidelines. “We found that for kids in elementary school there was hardly any relationship between how much homework young children did and how well they were doing in school, but in middle school the relationship is positive and increases until the kids were doing between an hour to two hours a night, which is right where the 10-minute rule says it’s going to be optimal.

“After that it didn’t go up anymore. Kids that reported doing more than two hours of homework a night in middle school weren’t doing any better in school than kids who were doing between an hour to two hours.”

Garfield has a very clear homework policy that she distributes to her parents at the beginning of each school year. “I give one subject a night. It’s what we were studying in class or preparation for the next day. It should be done within half an hour at most. I believe that children have many outside activities now and they also need to live fully as children. To have them work for six hours a day at school and then go home and work for hours at night does not seem right. It doesn’t allow them to have a childhood.”

International comparisons

How do American kids fare when compared to students in other countries? Professors Gerald LeTendre and David Baker of Pennsylvania State University conclude in their 2005 book, National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Schooling, that American middle schoolers do more homework than their peers in Japan, Korea, or Taiwan, but less than their peers in Singapore and Hong Kong.

One of the surprising findings of their research was that more homework does not correlate with higher test scores. LeTendre notes: “That really flummoxes people because they say, ‘Doesn’t doing more homework mean getting better scores?’ The answer quite simply is no.”

Homework is a complicated thing

To be effective, homework must be used in a certain way, he says. “Let me give you an example. Most homework in the fourth grade in the U.S. is worksheets. Fill them out, turn them in, maybe the teacher will check them, maybe not. That is a very ineffective use of homework. An effective use of homework would be the teacher sitting down and thinking ‘Elizabeth has trouble with number placement, so I’m going to give her seven problems on number placement.’ Then the next day the teacher sits down with Elizabeth and she says, ‘Was this hard for you? Where did you have difficulty?’ Then she gives Elizabeth either more or less material. As you can imagine, that kind of homework rarely happens.”

Shotgun homework

“What typically happens is people give what we call ‘shotgun homework’: blanket drills, questions and problems from the book. On a national level that’s associated with less well-functioning school systems,” he says. “In a sense, you could sort of think of it as a sign of weaker teachers or less well-prepared teachers. Over time, we see that in elementary and middle schools more and more homework is being given, and that countries around the world are doing this in an attempt to increase their test scores, and that is basically a failing strategy.”

Quality not quantity?

“ The Case for (Quality) Homework: Why It Improves Learning, and How Parents Can Help ,” a 2019 paper written by Boston University psychologist Janine Bempechat, asks for homework that specifically helps children “confront ever-more-complex tasks” that enable them to gain resilience and embrace challenges.

Similar research from University of Ovideo in Spain titled “ Homework: Facts and Fiction 2021 ” says evidence shows that how homework is applied is more important than how much is required, and it asserts that a moderate amount of homework yields the most academic achievement. The most important aspect of quality homework assignment? The effort required and the emotions prompted by the task.

Robyn Jackson, author of How to Plan Rigorous Instruction and other media about rigor says the key to quality homework is not the time spent, but the rigor — or mental challenge — involved. ( Read more about how to evaluate your child’s homework for rigor here .)

Nightly reading as a homework replacement

Across the country, many elementary schools have replaced homework with a nightly reading requirement. There are many benefits to children reading every night , either out loud with a parent or independently: it increases their vocabulary, imagination, concentration, memory, empathy, academic ability, knowledge of different cultures and perspectives. Plus, it reduces stress, helps kids sleep, and bonds children to their cuddling parents or guardians. Twenty to 30 minutes of reading each day is generally recommended.

But, is this always possible, or even ideal?

No, it’s not.

Alfie Kohn criticizes this added assignment in his blog post, “ How To Create Nonreaders .” He cites an example from a parent (Julie King) who reports, “Our children are now expected to read 20 minutes a night, and record such on their homework sheet. What parents are discovering (surprise) is that those kids who used to sit down and read for pleasure — the kids who would get lost in a book and have to be told to put it down to eat/play/whatever — are now setting the timer… and stopping when the timer dings. … Reading has become a chore, like brushing your teeth.”

The take-away from Kohn? Don’t undermine reading for pleasure by turning it into another task burdening your child’s tired brain.

Additional resources

Books Simply Too Much Homework: What Can We do? by Vera Goodman, Trafford Publishing, 2020

The Case Against Homework: How Homework is Hurting Children and What Parents Can Do About It by Sara Bennett and Nancy Kalish, Crown Publishers, 2007

The Homework Myth: Why Our Kids Get Too Much of a Bad Thing by Alfie Kohn, Hatchett Books, 2006 The End of Homework: How Homework Disrupts Families, Overburdens Children, and Limits Learning by Etta Kralovec and John Buell, Beacon Press, 2001.

The Battle Over Homework: Common Ground for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents by Harris M. Cooper, Corwin Press, 2001.

Seven Steps to Homework Success: A Family Guide to Solving Common Homework Problems by Sydney Zentall and Sam Goldstein, Specialty Press, 1998.

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Hello, Ronnie ,I like how you teach, i have a problem with the verb (to get) it has so many meanings i don’t understans how to use it help me please!

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It has too many meanings! ;-)

Maybe, after you will understand them, you’ll say “it has a lot of meanings”. Bye bye. gpp

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thank you so much ronnie.

It is wonderful video my Goad save you Ronnie

it is suppose to be ‘It is a wonderful video. My God save you Ronnie’ I’m trying to help you my sudanese brother :)

you’re the best teacher :)

I really like this lesson.

mam give more maore examples mam

yeeee,,,, my score 100 … thanks :)

I really like this lesson

Hi Ronnie! I really love your explanations, you are fun and thy’re really inspiring. Thanks

Hello Ronnie, It was another great lesson.

Have a nice day. Ed.

Rally basic but quite useful =)

Thanks, Ronnie!

Nice Work. :)

Hello Fatima , How are you , I can speak Farsi . I am glad to you .

:) Gooodluck with ur life!

Yes,that’s a lot of video.

Hi, Ronnie! You’ve just said “..There is too many people” insted of THERE ARE. Was it a mistake?

btw, why do we say “There are a lot of wonderful videos on EngVid!” in the last task? If “a lot” is a singular noun then it’s supposed to be used “there is” or “lots” in the sentence, isn’t it?

“A lot” can be used with both count and non-count nouns: “a lot of water”(non-count) and “a lot of donkeys” (count) are both correct. Watch Rebecca’s short and useful lesson on how to use “a lot” .

A few days ago Alex mentioned about this issue, I mean using “there’s + plural noun”. So, that’s why you have: “there’s too many people”, but you should say “there are too many people”. The same with the example you posted below. You could say: “There’s a lot of wonderful videos on engvid”.

“a lot” of and “lots” mean the same and both are used with count and uncount nouns. So, you could simply say; “there are lots of wonderful videos on engvid”, or “there’s lots of wonderful videos on engvid”.

If I’m wrong, feel free and correct me. :)

Yes, it is a common mistake in speech. You can watch Alex’s lesson about this mistake .

<3…..

Hello Ronnie, Thanks for a good lessons. I got 10 correct out of 10. Can you explain for me about ” so much” please. Thanks

hi ronnie, you are a very nice teacher, alot thank you

Very Good lesson. It takes me a lot of new knowledge. Thanks, theacher.

Ronnie,Ronnie,Ronnie, you are, as always, make things much simpler than they are. Great work (well done!!)

thank you ronnie this class was great you rocks

I love you! ^-^ Can you make a lesson about prepositions of time and place? And when do we use each one?

You got 10 correct out of 10 … :D thanxxx

Dear Ronnie, thank you for the lesson!

I apologize for using a bad word. I would give an example with a bad noun:

“I have a shitload of homework because of the end of semester.”

Hi Ronnie. thanks for this amusing lesson. it is very interesting. have a good job

THANKS A LOT RONNIE

thanks Ronnie.

I thank you so much, Ronnie!!!! :)

Hey chudika19, How about to meet? for improving English skills (of course). P.S. I am not the panda at all.)))

Thanks Ronnie! First of all you are a pretty nice teacher, I enjoy all your classes so much. My favorite video is “the bodily sounds” wich I sent to my friends watch it :) I would like to ask you an explanation or even a video class about the word ain’t. I never understand this word, when to use and where to put it in a sentence. Can you help me? Ty again!

sgmmm, watch Alex’s lesson about it. Link: https://www.engvid.com/slang-in-english-aint/

Thanks chudika19. That lesson helped me a lot. From now I will fell confident when I see this slang :)

what is the difference between “very” and “too” we can say it “is too hard” and “it is very hard” in the same time?

Ur ? is the same as mine which I asked b4 & it was answered by Ronnie. She mentioned that we use Too 4 negative things n Very 4 positive ones. 1.I’ve got too much homework. 2.I like English very much.

Thus,in ur case ” it is 2 hard ” is right. But,me,myself heard too+ positive things by native speakers n I do believe that Everything Is Possible! :) :) :)

Glad I could help!

Thank you for your lession. You’re amazing.

Thank Ronnie for this video!

Thank u Ronnie, I love beer too :)

Ronnie I like you too much and it’s a good thing! haha Thanks!

Thank’s Ronnie , I really love Your lessons :-)

thank you,that was so cool.and funny. bye and have a nice day.

Thanks Ronnie,

Hi Ronnie. How are ya? I wanna make u a question. ( I don’t know if the last sentences are correct). My question is: What´s the meaning of ain’t ? I’ve seen this word in movies but I don´t Know how to use it and what this exactly means besides, google says ain´t isn’t an english word. I hope you can help me. :)

P.D. U are a very good teacher. :)

Thanks Ronnie

Thanks for your incredible videos, by the way, I want to see a lot of them.

Wow you are very good teacher

Thanks a lot Ronnie. I also made that common mistake. I was just slightly confused as you said “Too much beers, too many beer.” Can ‘too many’ be used with countable nouns? Then again you said liquids cannot be countable. All-in-all I loved your lesson but please help me on the above :).

Wow, I got 10 out of 10……..thanks so much Ronnie! Nice Lesson..8D

That’s so interesting to watch.I think I get it more clearly now.

thank you very much :)

Thanks a lot… Ronnie,, How about Less and Fewer ?? too less ( uncountable ) , too fewer ( countable ) ?? and with Good Nouns ?? A littel ?? waiting for your Reply..

Thank you Ronnie. The last question of the quiz is 100% true. “There’s a lot of wonderful videos on engvid”

grate lesson Ronnie Thank a lot

Thank you Ronnie. You did a good job.

“at a company meet at clarks”…is dis sentence correct??

thanks Ronnie :)

Hi! Ronnie, It was my first class, and your lesson clarified very very good this subject. I’m really happy for your support.

ur teaching style is awesome i really like it and im glad EngVid has a lot of teacher like u so keep on it i will keep improving my english ability :)

thank you Ronnie

Hello Ronnie I have a question please ! what’s just one more ; one more night … Does it mean the last night ; the last person or juse one ..please I am waiting for your ansewr and thank you so much for your lessons they’re really very helpful thumb up .

Good site and GREAT teacher thank u.

Hi Ronnie. Can I say ‘I drank much water’ or should I say “too much water only”.

It depends on you! if you feel sick after drinking much water, then you drank too much water, if you don’t, then you drank not much, rs.

thank you thank you very much Ronnie you are wonderful teacher

I love too much the EngVid.There are a lot of great videos.

Hi dear Ronnie Thank you very much for the great lesson but, i got a qeustion hmm “homework” isn’t countable ? i can’t say i have too many homewroks ?

wait for ur replay ~ and thanks again you’re the best ^^

Yep, It’s a non-count noun.

Hello Ronnie, My name is Heng Lay, I’m a new student from Cambodia.Thanks for your lesson.I love the way you taught us. Your explanation was very clear and i understood it very well. and you know i did very great job on your quiz. I got 10 out of 10. WOW:D Many thanks, Heng Lay

It’s wonderful. I love it, thank Ronnie.

Can you create a lesson about writing reports about something?

I’m surprised, because I’ve been studying English for ages and I’ve never had this explanation before! Using the right expression with positive and negative nouns. Thanks a lot!

Poslegg, r u from Tula?) Let’s talk, of course:D My mail: [email protected]

Sgmmm, you are welcome:)

Ronny has many gorgeous lessons about English slang also. Watch all of them!)

masa1807, you can find an answer to your question about “less” and “fewer” in Alex’s latest lesson “5 Native English Speaker Mistakes”. Link: https://www.engvid.com/5-native-english-speaker-mistakes/

I hope it will help you.

very good lesson, teacher I have been realizing that my english is growing a lot.

Thanks Roonny, I love your lessons.

Hi Ronnie, your way of teaching is awesome, I really enjoy as well understand very easily. Can u please tell me what is first cousin means? Can I get your email id for further query?

Could you explain me about the ” lots of ” ?

I love your classes you are so funny, thanks!

Thank you.. :) I got 100% for this lesson teacher can you help me for critical reading(SAT college board exam) I want go to university in USA.. please help me

hi miss ronnie i am sana from pakistan

tnx Ronnie you are my best eng teacher ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

a lot of good things in the Ronnie’s lesson! ;)

You are so great ;D

Thak you so much Ronnie!!!

ronnie i love you

web page is not available :(

The best english teacher ! I get a lot of informations by your lessons Ronnie! I <3 u

( I got 8 correct out of 10. :) ). THANKS!!

Ronnie you are awesome!!! thank you

Thank Ronnie

It is a lot of fun to learn English from you, Ronnie! Thanks!!

Hello, Ronnie. Could you explain the difference between make, have and get. At school, my teacher said this three verbs means pressure, that’s to say someone is restrained to do something. For examples: -The teacher made us laugh. We were made to wait for hours. -The management had us sign ten documents. -If only she could get Mike to dance! Best regards!

Really you are a good teacher , love you too much :)

Hi! Ronnie. You are a very good and expressive. I really like your style of teaching. I was looking for websites for my sister to learn Good English online. And surprisingly I got your video.And I saw it. And I started getting interest in it and kept on watching videos one after one and watched 20 videos of yours. I really appreciate your and your coworkers hard work.I am confident that my sister will become a very good speaker of English.

Thank you so much !! Please keep up the good work.

Take care Ronnie, U R GR8 !

GOD BLESS YOU ALL !!

Ricky Choudhary

Dear Ronnie, Hi,hope all’s well around u. I’ve got a ? 2 ask u plz: I received a post with the end of : Stay blessed!,but I couldn’t catch it.What’s that?

Hello Could you explain the difference between make, have and get ? At school, my teacher said only“this three verbs means pressure, that’s to say someone is restrained to do something. For examples: – This teacher made us laugh. We were made to wait for hours. -The management had us sign ten documents. -If only she could get Mike to dance!

Teacher Ronnie was so cool :) i get it , thanks !

Ronnie awesome :>>

Hello dear Ronnie. I am glad to know you. You are splendid and even magical teacher. I wish you a lot of success and happiness. I understand you quite well because you speak and explain very very excellent.

I would like to know the difference between: quite a few, quite a lot, too much and too many.

I’m a bit confused about it.

thank you ever so much

sorry,I almost forgot, quite a bit

thanks again

thank uuuuu

thank you so much Ronnie it’s very helpful

Ronnie, you are great teacher.

I hope you offer more new classes.

10/10 :D thanks you dear Ronnie just a question:

can we use “so much”/”so many” for positive things too??? i mean “so” is for good things too?

god bless you

thank u ronnie mam..:-)

You are a special teacher, but i love your style

thank you, Ronnie

Thank you,Ronnie. I first “met” you on youtube, and from now on I watch and listen to your lessons in the engvid almost everyday.

thanks ma’am ronnie!

Yeah, this video is very helpful. I like so much your lessons, Ronnie. Thank you! I look forward to next lesson! Bye =D

Hi Ronnie,thanks for all your great lessons. I always enjoy them. You said “a lot of” can be used for countable and uncountable nouns, but what about the difference between “a lot of” and “lots of”? Does it mean, that when I`m unsure, which one to choose, I can always use ” a lot of”….in every case?

very good class

this lesson is very helpfull… I like your way in teaching…. thank you so much. :)

I need to know lot of things from Ronnie.

10/10 (:-D). Thank you very much Ronnie

Thanks, now I know the difference

Hello Ronnie,you are great teacher i love you, plz can you explain when i use “Are you tried?” or “Do you tried?” i am confused.

hi yasen how is is going man ,iam ahmed from egypt

funny teacher i hope there is alot of teacher like you

thanks alot …

thanks ronnie

ronnie, if we want to make sentences like,”there are too many people” or “there are too many peoples” cause u taught thats at the ends of nouns must put s

Hello how r u my friend ? i think people can put s because this is uncountable

Well, I learned english by myself and I never met somebody that could teach english as you do. You’re just amazing Ronnie. I wish living right beside of you…thanks a lot…see I just learn your lesson… :)

wooow thanks for this ….we love you

Thank u Teacher

Hi Ronnie, this lesson is simply awesome! I liked it very much. This is something new that I learned today. Thanks… :)

Thanks Ronnie…. My name is Ranita ..and My Best frnds call me Ronnie :D

Good job Ronnie

Thank you very much.

thanks a lot, Ronnie….

you really exciting. thanks a lot

respected madam your lession very useful in my english learning

Thanks for Rannie Teacher

Ronnie is funny and nice teacher!!!

I’m sorry Ronnie, but I don’t understan the question number 7. Help me please

hi Ronnie! I first saw your lesson your lesson is very useful!! thank you so much:)

Thanks Ronnie Teacher!I had learned a lot of grammar from you.

yahuuuuuuuuuuu :) really great lesson

Nice lesson :) I have one question. We say ” so much ” when we want to tell someone that we love him a lot, it’s right??

or i love u alot

I love Ronnie’s lessons ! <3

thanku ronnie it was very interesting lesson

thanks ronnie…:) awesome ..!!!

thanks ronnie…:) awesome

thanks roonie

Hi dear teacher roonie thank u for your lessons .. apple is countable (an apple – two apples) …. but can we count vegetable ? is it a countable noun ? if it is can we say (a vegetable) ?…………… thank u for your helping

Very helpful and fun to watch. I have one request, though. I don’t know when to use “nothing” or “anything”. Would appreciate if you can help me. Thank you!

Thank you! Ronnie I had a little bit understanding for the “Bad vs good” of the three phrase that are “too much, too many and a lot of”

Thanks a lot, Ronnie, That’s great your lesson, So its very useful for me.

Thanks. Nice work :)

Thanks Ronnie for the lessons :)

as usual i like you

Thanks Ronnie!

Very good Ronnie. Thanks.

a lot of thanks

a lot of benefits in this lesson !

Thanks you for your lesson. awesome ..!!!

thanks Ronnie, you are great…

thanks you very much !

I like to have a lot of homework!:):):)

Thanks,very funny video:))

Thanks. Last question is nice.

Thankyou !! I scored 10 in the quiz and that was a very useful lesson !

i like your way when you teach us really you are very good Iam from Egypt and i tried to studied in Amideast center it is the big one in the world and many of teacher there from america but not like you very good

I like your video it’s very interesting thank you too much

Thanks Ronnie, great class! I don’t have doubt about “TOO MANY”, “TOO MUCH” and “A LOT OF” anymore!

I got 90, thank you Roni

Ops! What I mean is Ronnie

Thanks a lot .

thanks teacher Ronnie, i got interested this tutorial.

Thank You Ronnie, You are doing great job!! it help me a lot!!

I got a perfect score. Yipppeee!

I learned a new thing today…thanks

I have a lot of reason to be here!!!

thanks a lot

is there a deffrence between american english and britich english ?

hey Ronnie… then when do we use so much or so many?

hi Ronnie thanks for the lesson

i got 90 . not bad . :)

I love this lesson. I got 100 :D Thanks Ronnie!

Thank Ronnie , love it

That was very easy to get. I really appreciate the work you’re doing for us.

Hi I like this It is very very interesing!

I learnt a lot of English. The learning will be useful to correct too many errors that I usually make.

A lot of thanks.

engvid site is a lot of lesson very useful and helpful to me improve my english skiil

Merci Ronnie :)

grazie! Ronnie

Thank you Ronnie, I enjoy your lessons.

Thanks ronnie very nice lessons thank you

……………YOU ARE GREAT teacher thanks a lot

Great lesson! love it!

I Like you!!!! Ronnie!

thx for god << i like you

Hi Ronnie,Dear I really like your way of teaching and I can understand you very well please just wanted to know how I can study your lessons searial wise???

Ronnie, I appreciated a lot the lesson! Thank you

Thanx Ronnie ..

Oh!Thank you very much!

can you make a lesson about past participle

Thanks a lot Ronnie..

That’s great!

Ronnie, you are the best teacher in the world. Thanks a lot.

10/10. Thank you Ronnie

Hi Ronnie your class was good i love your teaching wow

Well first of all I want to thank you for your presentation, I really enjoyed it, amazing. Actually I have a small question for you: After Too many and a lot of (for countable nouns) Are we supposed to put the noun in its plural forme? If it is a Yes so for the question Number 6 I think: I have TOO MANY PEOPLE in the room, Why we don’t put an ‘s’ for people? Thank you in advance for the clarification :)

I will clarify for you because peaple is a collective noun we dont put s like family. team.flock…..etc I wish you undestand good bye

I dont know how to use/ follow it.

That was a good lesson thanks :)

Ronny this lesson is very useful Thank you 9/10

i m getting better thank you so much

thank you very much ronnie my e mial farok_by@yahoo .com i want to speak with any one to learn english

Thank you my teacher.

Hello All i want to say is: The thanks will will not be enough, furthermore i dont know which word i can use for thank you.

100 I got 10 correct out of 10. :D WOW! I love the way that u teach many many thanks to u sir :)

thanks indeed Ronnie to teach us a lot of useful lessons . i love your style in teach :)

A lot of thanks Ronnie, is it correct, got 90%

I don’t know if the garbage is countable or uncountable, but i remember that it has no “s” at the end > I got 10 of 10 Thanks Ronnie

hi ronnie, thanks a lot for that wonderful tutorial video, it really broaden up my vocabulary. I would love to watch more of them.

it’s very funny. thank you so much!

Good lesson infact you have special teaching style i liked you show the information by easy & funny way

thanks Mrs.Ronnie it was usefully lesson

You have a lot of useful lessons! Thanks

i you have a lot of many , Ronnie would like some money :)

i love your English teaching body language

ronnie your lessons is very good you are the best teatcher in the teatchers

I have a lot of one hundred score

yup I have a lot of correct answers

hey ronnie, ..! could you tell me the difference between “a lot of” and “lots of” ?? as u explained in this video that we can say “i have a lot of cookies”. can we say “i have lots of cookies”? if yes, then what’s the difference between these two sentences..

Ronnie thanks u are really good teacher

thank’s

Thanks Ronnie for a wonderful lesson. you look ripped :).Did somebody mug you on the way to make this video.Tell me his name I will take care of him.

10 of 10) It’s wonderful)

Hi Ronnie, it is very good lesson. Though I have too much work in my home I always spend at-least an hour for EngVid lessons. Lot of videos are available to improve English language skills.

i like this test! Thank you

ronnie, this is the first time i leave a comment, and its just to tell u, thanks, thanks u , cause i wont have to pay any english institute… i know my english is gonna get better with all these interesting classess…..lets see if my pronuntiation its no going to improve nowwww….

Hello Ronnie iam problem is a speaking please help me

very useful lessons thanks alot

Hi many thanks for the vedios.thats realy help us learning english correctly, i remaqued at the beggining of this vedio that you sad hair is uncountble but you sad its too many!!

thanks Ronnie! :D

a silly mistake, not bad got 90 out of 100.

yahooooooo i got 100 marks insha Allah i’ll speak English very fluently thanx for ur best lessons

i get 10 over 10 yes :)

Yuhuuuu, i got 10 correct out of 10. :D

Ronnie I’ve been studing english for a long time and I had never heard that “TOO MUCH” and “TOO MANY” should be used with BAD nouns!! Thanks for the lesson!!!!

Great lesson (:

this is really useful…thanks

i would like your teaching patern.you teach very good. i understand easy.

ronnie try to use more sentences in your videos and more examples

I like your lesson :)

I’m happy because I can understand when you’re talking

i realy like it, big kiss for u ronnie, you make me great with english language!

thank you!!

thanks alot

Yes, 100%. Thanks Ronnie !!!!!!!!!! \o/

tn k u ronnie

:) thanks I got all right in quiz…

thanks Ronnie

Thanks….

i am understanding, wooww thank you!, it’s wonderful

Thanks a lot

Thank you Ronnie ! The lesson helped me !

I have a lot of videos of Ronnie to watch. :)

I Like This

thank you very much !! :D

Ronnie, your classes are really funny and helpful! Thank you! ;D

Damn! i’ve got 70

Ms.Ronnie I have broplem with (TO HAVE)

Wow, miss Ronnie, I’d like to thanks for the wonderful & funny classes that u taught, & easy to understand. I’ve scored 100 after I watched this video, just once =) thank you so much of the useful lessons! & the last I hope I using the correct grammar of this comment, please don’t hesitate to correct me if I’m wrong. =)

thx Ronnie ^^

thank you very much.

Really it was wonderful

thanks ronnie..

very nice lesson, tks

I am too lazy,TA.

Thank you so much:) you are great teacher Ronnie.★

Thank you teacher

You are amazing! Thank you!

100% yaaaaaaaaaaaap thanks ronnie

thank you ronnie you are the best english teacher ever

Thanks a lot.

cool, i love it

Yesss…I got 100, not bad.

I really like these lessons. 100 not bad :o)

Ronnie, simply the best…

I’m improving my english every day with engVid.

Hello, Great movie. You should explain to our teachers how teach English in easy and funny way.:) Cheers, Karolina Poland

it was the very very useful lesson. There are a lot of videos in EngVid.com

canadian teacher is the best

thank`s for everything :)

I am crazy about your lessons <3 You make me smile ^___^ thanks

Thank you a lot of

hello ronnie, excellent lessons ronnie ,pls slow ronnie

thanks for the useful lesson. But when do you use lots of and when do we use a lot of <3

Great lesson Roony , i like your style and your funny :)

Yes, I got 80%, That’s good for me, The lesson was very important, And It was useful. We Aspire to more.

Thank’s Ronnie, And I love study with you.

Thank u maam.. Theres a lot of people u have made them satisfied and have confidents with their english may god will blessed u all the time.. Just keep up the good work

80 score :D

Hi, I am very happy….. gretting from Punta Arenas City.

from my heart , thank you roony , i feel good with english now :D ♥♥

Really ronnie u r the best teacher

it was really helpful thanks alot

It was very helpful lesson . Thank you Ronnie

woooo … negative force don’t distract me too much !! :D

yes i get 100 out of 100.

Hi Ronnie! I’m an English teacher in Norway and I use Engvid a lot. Can’t find a better place online on grammar topics. My students are 13 and absolutely love your way to make rather boring things fun. The cookie Monster is alive. :-) Thanks, Geir

Ronnie you are cool thanks a lot i will never leave your side I mean your lessons.

Thnx Ronnie <3 i cant't Imaginary, i did it :)

good place for learning

Ronnie, why you grimaced when telling about queen? Canadians don’t love their queen?)

i like the way you teach english Ronnie.its fun and exciting to learn more.

Got a 10 for the first time….! Thank you Ronnie

100 point iiiiiiiiuuuuuuuuuuu i am the guy

ROONNIE , YOU ARE GOOD AND THE BEST TEACHER THAT I’ve ever seen, GOD BLESS YOU.

simple but rock, thank you mam ronnie.

Thanks Ronnie!!! Cool!!!

You are amazing person! I love your lessons!

Now, after being 4 yrs in US , I understood when I should use too many/much and when a lot of, Thank you very much

i have started to learn english 3 months ago and i can understand you very well…good work Ronnie and thank you so much! }:)

Hello, thanks for the explanation, very useful; I have a question: if we use too many and too much for “bad nouns” what if we consider, for example, homework as a good noun, it can be use: a lot of homework… ;)

I love this lesson a lot. 9/10 :)

thank you Ronnie… i love your class very much…. :)

thank you Ronnie,you are very good teacher.

i used to be confused about too much and too many, thanks a lots Ronnie.

ronnie can u plz arrange these lessons in a systematics way its difficult to learn bcz grammer is interconcted…………..u teach really aswm u r a fanatblsh teacher

Dear, Teacher. You are great!

If some product is too expensive, I don’t have enough money to buy it. Can I say I don’t have much money to buy it.

hi can we say not very many people !!!

thanks a lot teacher Ronnie.. :)

I have got 10 correct out of 10! yihaaa!

I Love You Ronnie you’re a great teacher..

cool!! thanks!!

Thanks Ronnie, excellent explanation!!!!

I have a lot of wonderful Teachers in the engvid .. ^^

i got 10 / 10

i got 10/10 thanks a lot Ronnie *big heart*

Ronnie u’re the best

cool. Got 10/10. thanks a lot

your are the beast Ronnie, thank you.

Ronnie you are a lot of fun!

There are a lot of wonderful teachers on EngVid!

Thank you Ronnie. I got 10 ;)

i got 7 out of 10

thank you po din

Thanks Roniee

I loved this class, thank you Ronnie!!!

Thank you mam

I got 9 of 10. Thanks a lot

Hi Ronnie this is Revathy. I watch your engvid.com video on a daily basis. I would like to learn about how to use shall, should, make, made, can, could. Kindly help me awaiting for your reply.

why garbage is count as uncountable?

Thanks a lot… your lessons are useful but no boring :)

Ronnie is a good teacher and actress

thank you Ronnie you are a good teacher

Very helpful, useful. Unbelievable way! Thank you for the lesson!

Very interesting topic…..and good examples. thanks you all.

thanx ronnie.. u r a great teacher

thanks ronnie, I got 100 :)

Thanks Ronnie :)

thank you Ronnie :D

keep up the good work may you show when we use main verb with (to+inf) or (v+ing)? thanks in advance

Thank you so much, teacher!! Great lesson with a topic that I didn’t remember it well. See you, then.

Thank you so much .. I love it ✌✌

^_^ thank you

the best teacher Ronnie :))

Ronnie :)) thanks

There are a lot of wonderful videos on EngVid! :)

Thanks for your help

Thank you so much ronnie . i got full marks after learned this owesume topic .

I mistakes 5.

thank you ronnie :)

thank you so much Ronnie :)

Awesome lesson Ronnie. Thank you for your amazing job.

hello ronie i’m brazilian and your videos are the best thank you so much <3

Ronnie is Ronnie no change

Hello Ronnie HAPPY NEW YEAR

At first I have to say thank you for your lessons, teaching and especially your TIME. I have a problem with this lesson, could you please do me a favor and clarify this to me.

At the beginning of the lecture you said “if a noun is uncountable we do not put in S at the end of the noun.” YES uncountable nouns can not take S at the end, but after that you said:”Markers, Eyes, Hair ohhh HAIR S uncountable AHH!” and then you said again “because you’re so many tiny little HAIR S on one head”

So my question is if HAIR is uncountable why you repeat the word “HAIR S ” twice and then made a sentence with “HAIRS and SO MANY” again!?

Thank you again. I’m waiting for your response.

Cheers, Damon.

We saw some examples of too many with uncountable nouns. What about too much with countable nouns? Is this possible?

Thank you. It is very useful lesson.

Hello Ronnie, thank you for allowing to show my question but you didn’t answer it yet, is it possible to have your answer?

Thank you Ronnie

It was good€

Thank you very much

I loved very much your style and your lessons Roonie.

can you make a video about future tenses. All about future tenses

Thanks you, very useful information.

Really amazing for teaching.. I’m do love your style on teaching.. but, ronnie Something bad happened on my life… I’m a new English teacher.. I have problem with reading comprehension ??? I don’t understand how to translate English text well ? What should I do ???

now I can say “I understand too much , too many and a lot of” thanks Ronnie.

Very helpful, thank you

Thank you very much I love your teaching

Thank you,Ronnie :-)

I got 10 correct out of 10. Thanks Ronnie.

Thank you Ronnie. You are a great teacher.

Hi dear ronnie, this is really a very interesting lesson you have ever taught bnecause many students have problems with countable and uncountable nouns. Thank you so much, you really know how to transmit the message to your students.

thanks mrs rony really i undarstood the lecture

hlo friend i got 9/10 thanks ronnie

I saw some video about English in youtube(Oxford English Daily Conversation Episode 1). And some one said (( Well,I didn’t like my job and I had a lot of problems at home.)) is this right?

hiii… corolla ya it is right sent. if u don’t mind would u like to practice with me . hv a nice day

Thanks Kanikadh, I hope to be a contact with you to improve my English.And if you want to learn some word in Arabic !! I’m her. with best wishes

ok r u using skype so we make a practice together :D

Hi, My skype (( mohammed.trainer )), thank you.

there is two name ….ur dp is mention there…?

i hv sent the request check now

Hi, between the mohammed and trainer its dot. check again . no request until now.

kanak0019 this is my skype name ,i didn’t find u .

kanika kanak my skype name…. :D

Im sorry , I sent the request , If you dont see it you can write something to my Email: [email protected]

i got alot of information from your lessons :D

it was a useful lession ;) thank u Ronnie

Thank you for the interesting lesson. I’ve got 10/10.I’m so happy. Thank you!^-^

Thanks a lot Ronnie

thank you for funny lesson ronnie!

Ronnie, thanks for you lessons!!! 10 of 10!!! I am really happy)))

thank’s Ronnie useful lessons from the best teacher <3

Thanks a lot !

I learned another lesson today, and Igot 8/10, not bad..i like you teacher RONNIE, i want you to be my tutor teacher..:)

Thanks Ronnie. I got 9/10. I was thought “garbage” word, it’s countable noun. I was wrong but I remember now.

Hello teacher absolutely you have a fantastic channel but I do not know where to start in the follow-up lessons

nice one mam

good lessen ronnie MAM

i have a lot of true answers

I lovely this site and ronni teacher … thanks a lot for everything .. .

Ronnie, you give trick always. English is more easier and more enjoy with you. I am very lucky to know you. You are awesome teacher :)

thank you Ronnie i loooooooooove the way your teaching

Ronnie is amazing teacher, I like her a lot of

Love the way you taught Ronnie,I got 10 out of 10 of the quiz,it’s very nice,Thank you very much.

thank you! The best teacher Ronnie !!

Hello Ronnie! You are amazin ! I love the way you are teaching us. I have a question on this lesson, is the sentense correct? ” There’s too many people in the cinema!” It wouldn’t be better to use “There are too many peaple!”….. Thank you a lot…all the best from Moldova

I saw some video about English in youtube(Oxford English Daily Conversation Episode 1). And some one see (( Well,I didn’t like my job and I had a lot of problems at home.)) is this right.

Sorry ,I saw some video about English in youtube(Oxford English Daily Conversation Episode 1). And some one said (( Well,I didn’t like my job and I had a lot of problems at home.)) is this right?

Hey Ronnie, your lessons are so funny and you always bring a smile on my face. I enjoy them very much. You always cheer me up it doesn’t matter how hard my day is. If some day I become a teacher I’d like to be the kind of teacher you are. ? Keep going in that way. With lots of love to you and your colleagues.

Hi miss Ronnie Thanks a lot,

Oops! 1 mistake. Thank you Ronnie!

hello, I really admire the way you teach us the english grammar and I think that you are an amazing teacher…..best regards from Mexico.

Thank you! What a wonderful message :)

You got 9 correct out of 10. :)

thank you very much

Hello ronnie.. you teaches very well… i got 10 out of 10 in quiz.. but i have a problem with verb (put) it has too many meaning.. i don’t understand.. could you help me.

Ronnie you are simply the best. I have too much work and too little money, but a ,lot of fun with your lesons

8. I have 4 chairs and there are 42 people at my house. “I have too many chair.” “I have too much chairs.” “I have too many people in the house.” “I have too much people in the house.”

Why the right answer is too many people instead of too much people?

Because people are countable~

GoooooooooooooooD!

Thanks I’ve got 100 Yeah!

Ronnie, I’ve got 70 on 100! I’ll learn from my mistakes. I don’t know but, let me think….Yes! My question to you is, “Why we couldn’t use a lot o’ everywhere?”.

Garbage are uncountable?

who would do the count? lol. consider waste oil as a garbage, uncountable.

Thank’s Ronnie

man this is so helpful, i used get confused in too much and too many but i understand now what its mean thankyou ronnie :*

You’re great teacher ronnie :D

I got too much goodness. I got a lot of bad habits. do you agree with me?

100%thank you

thanks teacher ronnie :)

please could you please go on .

this lesson was pretty easy but, it was very helpful becasuse peaple make a lot of mistakes with them

thank u Ronnie

Yay! I got 90, thank you Ronnie. I love how you teach.

She is the best English teacher i have seen ever in my life

Thank you Ronnie❤❤❤

thank you so much, Ronnie.

can I say thank you a lot , or thank you too much?

Thank you Ronnie for this wonderful lesson

Thank you so much Ronnie.

THANKs Ronnie.

Thank you so much ronnie

100 <3 Thanks Ronnie

thank you teacher you are the best

Thank u Teacher got 100

Hi Ronnie Thanks a lot to your videos it helps me a lot to improve my grammar. I like the way you teach I really

Thanks for your help. But I have a question. Why we usually use “too much and too many” for bad things?

that’s great, I got 9 correct

It’s very easy to learn English with you, Ronnie. Thank you for the video.

I got 100% this one u are good teacher Ronnie keep it up

thank you ronnie

i’m Excellant in English if you want to practice with me that’s my facebook account ( amrohaggag1 )

Thank you so much :)

thank you Ronnie,I always wanted to know about this lesson. It was really useful for me, I used to say the sentences wrong when I used Too Many,Too much and a lot of. Thank you again.

Again 10 of 10 ?

You got 10 correct out of 10.

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wow! teacher you are teching me!! thank you :)

It’s so easy to understand wiyh you . thanks !!

Thank you Ronnie, it’s was great

Hi Toni I love your class it’s the best way to learn English you have a lot wonderful videos ?

hi ronnie i just have a littel problem when we use to much and to meany

Thank you! I like your lessons!

Thank you, Ronnie. Your lesson is very useful. I Like you as well as your teachings.

Thanks mam… It’s good

I love the way you teach. Simple, easy and interesting. Thank you.

Thanks Ronnie, you are the best teacher. ???

UNCOUNTABLE fun with you :D

i forgot to answer the last question lol

Thanks a lot of! I loved! Ronnie is very cool!

10 correct out of 10. Excellent

10 of 10 thank you

Hi Ronnie, I would like if you can recommend a vídeo about ed pronuntiation to end of the words in past tense

Countable nouns, obviously, you can stick an “s” on the end of the noun.

But there is a large group of the countable nouns where you can not do this.

children, mice, dice, geese, teeth, …

4. “Too much” and “too many” are usually used for negative things. true false I answered false (The correct answer is true) Because I am confused between ” bad ” and “negative “

Thanks Ronnie, you are the good teacher.

Thanks igot 9

6. If I like chocolate, I can say: I have too much chocolate. I have too many chocolate. I have a lot of chocolate.

Do we’ve to use “chocolate” or “chocolates” for these sentences?

Thanks for this video

ronnie you’re so much funny and, we love youuu :)

Thank you =D

Hi Ronnie, great lesson , now i know how to use these words and what´s the differences between them. Thank you. I really like your way to teach, it´s quite enjoyable

that’s so good

10/10 <3

I got 7 out of 10…thanks for the lesson

that’s good thing

I really like your video a lot thanks

Somebody pls help! Every time I try to watch Ronnie`s videos it always says: You can only watch this on Youtube Kids and I`m just a child, I don`t know what to do. :(

Dear Ronnie, I am your big fan. Yesterday I had an argument with my friend, William. He said we sometimes can use “I have too much money.”, and I don’t agree with him. I used the points of yours to defend what I stick to. Could you please shed some lights on this issue and give me the reason why we can never use sentence in all kinds of circumstances. Thanks in advance.

100! Great! This is my first time know bad nouns and good nouns for too much and too many using in sentence!

thanks Ronnie…

This class is very useful to me. Thanks a lot.

thanks a lot of :D

eng Vid is very very useful

Thank you Ronnee for very useful lesson. There are a lot of excellent teachers on Engvid.com.

I really like the easy way you teach.

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Repeat this cycle until you have completed all of your homework tasks. Ultimately, this technique helps to increase productivity and prevent burnout by giving your brain regular breaks even though you're getting too much homework. 9. Seek help when needed, such as from a teacher or tutor.
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1. Examples Of Procrastinators

2. Take Smaller Bites If You Have Too Much Homework

3. Break The Task Up

4. Give Yourself Permission to Fail

5. Eliminate Distractions

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