Homework club is an after school club for students to complete homework/school work. Students report to a specific classroom and are supervised by a teacher. The teacher will offer assistance and check on students to make sure they are completing school work. The length of homework club will vary by school but usually lasts for about an hour after the school day ends.
Who Is Homework Club For?
Homework club if for students that struggle to complete school work and homework.
Students that attend homework club benefit from a quiet place to complete work after school.
Homework club is usually available to all students but often students with a 504 or an IEP will get first consideration.
In my school we have limited spaces in homework club so it’s up to us, the teachers, to choose students that will benefit from it the most.
If you need a description of what homework is then I answered that in this article.
How Often Is Homework Club?
How often a school has homework club really depends on the school and the district.
First of all not all schools have the means to offer homework club to students.
Why?
Because the teacher that supervises the students in homework club needs to be compensated and some schools don’t have the money to pay them.
For schools that do have the money to pay a teacher to supervise homework club they may offer homework club every day or only a few days a week.
The middle school I work at offers our students homework club two days a week.
Is Homework Club Effective?
Whether or not homework club is effective depends on two things: the teacher supervising and the students.
If the supervisor engages with the students and sets expectations for work completion then the club can have an impact.
However, if the supervising teacher is not engaged then the students will not get as much work done.
In my experiences I have seen homework as beneficial to students but have also had students that attend it and it doesn’t seem to impact their grade or learning at all.
Often the students that are in homework club are students that struggle with work completion and organization.
This is why the teacher that supervises them really needs to have them set daily or weekly goals to ensure that work completion is taking place.