One of the important elements in classroom management is the assignment. It is generally recognized as the most important phase of teaching-learning activities carried on the outside the classroom. In most classes, the assignment is the stimulus of the learning activity. In other words, assignment is the pupil’s sailing direction toward the accomplishment of the desired goal. When we speak of assignment in school work, we refer to a specific piece of work to be done by the pupils under certain conditions and in certain ways. It may be a problem to be solved, reading to be done, themes to be written, questions to be answered, projects to be carried through, a practice to be performed, and the like. Assignment is the chief means of directing the pupils’ learning activities outside the classroom or during the study period set aside for the preparation of the lesson for the next day. 

By: Dorothy D. Pingol | Teacher I | Capitangan Elementary School