Did you realise that properly structured homework can add the equivalent of one year to a student's full-time education? In this fully updated new edition, Julian Stern provides teachers with a wide range of practical techniques that can be used to motivate pupils of all ages to do their homework. He equips teachers with a variety of strategies for setting more effective, interesting and differentiated homework. Julian offers dozens of examples of homework tasks covering every subject in the curriculum. Brimming with innovative ideas, this book will prove essential reading for every teacher and trainee teacher.

Author Biography

Dr Julian Stern is Dean of the Institute for Learning at the University of Hull, UK. He has written numerous education books, including several for Continuum.