For a homework is a good homework, it should be attractive and interesting for the student.  Is important that students use time and effort to make it right. Students should feel able to do the homework, the homework should invite reflection and wonder also understand this should provide the content. The task should allow the student to see and show a product and also contribute to their personal growth.

Also the homework for teachers is a curious and didactic view of reality, it is necessary that contextualized this task, which allows you to know the student and how it has evolved.

Teachers assign homework for many reasons. Among them, the task helps students:

·       To review and practice what they have learned in class.

·       Prepare for class the next day.

·       Learn to use the resources at their disposal as the library, reference materials and Internet sites to find information on a topic.

·       Explore issues in greater depth than time allows in the classroom.

·       Amplify their learning by applying skills they have developed to new situations.

·       Integrate their learning by applying various skills to a single task, such as preparing a report or make a science project.

Homework helps to develop good study habits and a good attitude, assign little homework and gradually increase each school year; this will support student achievement.

It definitely is an important task for improving student development strategy, so it is necessary to define at first the objectives to be achieved with the development of tasks and from this formulate.

In the Technical Agropecuary Institute seat E Paramito, the teacher is developing the school vegetable garden´s proyect, she discovered that it isn´t only a pedagogic tool but too a practic model of the relationships between the human being and the nature.

The vegetable garden as a recourse for enviromental  education oriented towards  sustainable development  and a more humane education for children.

Is base don respect for nature and its various ecosystems, ensuring  a rational culture   with naturals means to promote biodiversity in the enviroment and the production healthier foods.

For this community the vegetable garden is an experience for:

• To feel nearer  the  nature, to learn to value it and respect it.
• To take conscience of importance of healthy  eating.
• To learn of amusing way.
• To teamwork ( do all the garden and all caregivers)
• To take responsability.
• To value the parent´s daily task.

Initially the vegetable garden working  only with children but seeking to help for youngsters to parents in linked, so this project was extended made the entire school community, making the most pleasant job because it´s not just a job planting plants but that  increased ties between  family members and families with the institution.

This year began on february 5, when meeting parents, students and teacher was fixed and prepared the  vegetable bed for later planting.  It was exciting  to see  parents help their children and teaching them how to grow.

The february 26, they did the sowed coriander, cucumber, parsley, vean and scallions,  Importantly, the interest and commitment of children every day watering the vegetable garden and observe the development of plants.

Actually this Project is in develop and they hope to achieve the objective.

FINLAND`S AND COLOMBIA`S EDUCATION SYSTEM

       In this systems we find some differences among them,                between them,  some are:

• Firstly, in Finland the education is compulsory from 7 to 16 years old and in Colombia the children start to study at 4 years old.

•  Secondly, in Colombia system, the text, notebooks and school items are payed by the parents, whereas in Finland this are fully subsidized.

• Thirdly, in the international report PISA, Finland receives generally the best mark, contrary to Colombia that always it is between the last positions.