Less Teaching, More Learning?
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Donkey Kong:
Coming Mon 10/5 exam, got the files only on Wed 5/5 after I sent sms to form teacher. Files were supposed to be given 2 weeks before exams. :x Though my ideal is files to be kept at home, completed worksheets returned for parents' filing.Before exams, teachers then returned all the worksheets...
Ask them do corrections, until they cry....
Why like dat? early early don't give.
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My son brought home his subject files and I have no idea whatsoever how to revise with him at this late hour. Couldn’t the teachers ask them to bring back earlier :x ??? What can we do at this time ? The poor kids are struggling with revision already.
My son also asked me to do filing for him. -
janet_lee88:
For Maths, look for trend/type of questions got wrong = don't know or careless. Revise / drill from there.My son brought home his subject files and I have no idea whatsoever how to revise with him at this late hour. Couldn't the teachers ask them to bring back earlier :x ??? What can we do at this time ? The poor kids are struggling with revision already.
My son also asked me to do filing for him.
For Eng, look for grammar which aspect don't know: singular/plural, past/present tense, continuous tense, adverb, adjectives or vocab: similies, idoms, proverbs, animals young, habitat or occupation. Other vocab, does teacher give a list for SA1?
compre: teach how to locate answer in passage, how to answer
compo: use same tense throughout, check spelling and sequence of story, conclusion
For Chinese, learn all characters and the similar stokes/words, how to use them. -
caroline3sg:
This seems to be the norm in every school huh :? Mine,some files not returned yet and exams are just next week :stupid:
Coming Mon 10/5 exam, got the files only on Wed 5/5 after I sent sms to form teacher. Files were supposed to be given 2 weeks before exams. :x Though my ideal is files to be kept at home, completed worksheets returned for parents' filing.Donkey Kong:
Before exams, teachers then returned all the worksheets...
Ask them do corrections, until they cry....
Why like dat? early early don't give. -
Nope it is not a norm, in my opinion.
While for some schools, it could be a school practice
on keeping and returning files policies… For my DDs’
school, assignments are returned periodically and
promptly for parents to check and have them all duly
signed… This way, parents can keep up with what the
school is currently covering and also we can be updated
on the abilities of our children… their strengths and their
weaknesses as well.
There are parents who DO NOT file the worksheets in the
respective folders given and teachers find it hard to revise
or go through the questions nearing assessment or exam time.
Some children’s worksheets do come back like soggy pratas and
a few others super torn and worst is lost or dunno where.
Our DDs’ teachers allow for the files to be kept at home until
the next time more completed and marked worksheets need to
be filed in. They will again bring the files back for parents’
perusal and revision.
On top of these tiring manual chores teachers have to do, they
also prepare past year’s exam papers for the students to practice
in class & also bring some home for the children to engage in further
revision. The papers are given 2wks to 3wks prior to the SA1 exams…
The teachers also go through the questions together in class & discuss
the more challenging questions (esp for Math… ) where all the children
are engaged in the thinking process of how the answers were derived.
My girls are in neighbourhood school.
Having said the above, NOT all teachers are like that. It is subjective
to the individual teacher’s style and passion… as it can be seen with
my P3 DD’s teachers. Math & MT teachers are more than fantastic but
the form teacher is utterly ridiculous, of pre-historic teaching days kind…
(read : dry & boring everything-whole-class-read-from-the-book kind)…
and has no inkling of creativity… hence burdening us parents with the
imperative need to re-teach every single thing again at home. Now,
THAT is exasperating. Form teacher some more! :x
In short, while it is possible some of them in this indudstry do spoil the soup…
it would be biased blanket statement to assume all teachers are like that. JMHO. -
For my kids’ sch, the problem isn’t that bad for lower pri. It’s at upper pri that things get messy.
Different teacher has different style. Some teachers keep all worksheets and return only near exam. That’s fine with me since i dun really rely that much on sch material for revision. The worst thing is when teachers give out tonnes of worksheets but never manage them. Some worksheets are never done until end of the term, some half-done, some half-marked, etc, until i completely lost track and dunno which to file at home and which to bring to sch.
Nowadays my son bring to-and-fro a stack of worksheets almost the thickness of 2 workbooks becos we simply do not know if the teacher will use them or not.
On top of that, there are so many workbooks to bring and since teacher never specify which one they will use on which day, to play safe, my son just bring everything to sch everyday, so the sch bag is super heavy. In the worst case, the Eng subject alone can have 5 books. :!:
I think the teachers simply can’t be bothered to make life easier for our poor kids.
I also heard from my son that recently they were made to type out the compositions they have written into computers at school during english lesson. Takes 2 period to do that. Wonder why the teacher is doing that when she should be spending time more productively as PSLE is so near. -
ChiefKiasu:
Taught at various level before. Just don't know why the teachers at pri sch like to keep files till late late then return.
Donkey Kong, I'm confused. You implied that you are/were a teacher yourself in another thread. I do not understand why you do not believe in the notion of getting your students prepared for examinations.Donkey Kong:
Before exams, teachers then returned all the worksheets...
Ask them do corrections, until they cry....
Why like dat? early early don't give.
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Example, tomoro maths exam, tonight, poor kid is supposed to finish up the Chinese correction. Where got time to revise maths? :stupid:
Chinese correction a lot for comprehension..... very siong.... :shock: -
[quote]Example, tomoro maths exam, tonight, poor kid is supposed to finish up the Chinese correction. Where got time to revise maths?
Chinese correction a lot for comprehension..... very siong.... [/quote]If like that, I insist my child to do maths revision. I would say \"who is more concerned about your exams? Who give birth to you? If teacher scold you, ask her call me!\" -
It is very siong for those handling first kid because we do not know sch requirements. Luckily for my first child, file were kept at home. So now 2nd child’s files are only returned at the 11th hour, I based on previous experience / requirements to teach/revise.
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I think files keeping by teachers is for lower primary. By the time they reach higher primary, there are lots of worksheets and mock papers to file. I don’t think the teacher would want to file. Moreover the students would be more mature to take care of their own papers.
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