![]() ![]() “And if that means Harkness needs to be substituted for a little more teacher scaffolding and guidance… that is the approach I will take to finish out the year.” “They seem incredibly beat down and I am working with them on how to complete their homework in a semi-low stress way,” Caldwell said. ![]() History Instructor Alexa Caldwell noticed similar trends in classes. “While I cannot generalize about our entire department, many of us have noticed that students are more tired and stressed out this spring than in previous terms,” Fair added. “When the administration asked departments to adjust homework, Modern Languages agreed on the following changes: 1: that all classes would reduce homework by about 15 minutes (to 40 minutes rather than 55 for reserve classes, and 55 minutes rather than 70 for non-reserve) and 2: teachers would have one asynchronous meeting per 2-week cycle,” Modern Language Instructor Katherine Fair said. The Modern Language Department also decided to change their homework guidelines. In response, the Health Department chose to cancel classes last week, and instead offered chaperoned groups of students into town. “All faculty members have a keen sense of how taxing this pandemic year has been and is now on our students,” Wolff said. Wolff wrote in an email to The Exonian that “strategies for revising homework expectations will vary from discipline to discipline, and will include adjustments such as: ‘homework holidays,’ reductions of homework by 15 minutes per night, asynchronous meetings, emphasizing that when a student hits the homework time mark on any given assignment, they should stop.” ![]() Academic departments worked to integrate workload reduction policies to their curriculum. In an all-faculty email sent out by Dean of Faculty Ellen Wolff in response to student concerns, instructors were asked to assign less homework given the new packed schedule. By: Jett Goetz, Hannah Park, Reilly Piersimoni, Andrew YuanĪs the Academy approaches the fifth week of spring term, with resumed in-person classes for the first period of time in over a year, students struggle to keep up with the demanding workload. ![]()
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