Pei Hwa Presbyterian Primary
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Trapwithin:
I think either CKS or vk2010 posted this before. Next time an enterpreneur MOE minister will come along and implement a variant COE system in lieu of P1 balloting. Think of the dough that can be made here :evil: . Then overnight MOE will become profit ctr in the same band as Inland Revenue.
Difficult lah .... he going to retire soon .. I think. The MOE reformer probably need 8-10 yrs to get the job done.
Mr Mah is very good .. like a businessman ... any ministry he headed sure make money, MOE got no money to make only expenses.
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Mr. Mah may introduce method like more BTO projects etc or whatever rules to cool down the overheated education system that we are facing now.
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Read in the 2010 GEP post that some schs hv informed the parents whose child passed the selection test. Any idea has PH informed the parents?
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Brenda10:
Mr. Mah may introduce method like more BTO projects etc or whatever rules to cool down the overheated education system that we are facing now.
Mr Mah is definitely one minister the govt wants...and more like him around. HaHaHa. -
Trapwithin:
Difficult lah .... he going to retire soon .. I think. The MOE reformer probably need 8-10 yrs to get the job done.
I can think of one suitable candidate : Mr Mah Bow Tan....hahaha.....php:
[quote=\"Trapwithin\"]Maybe I'm a skeptic. Too many factors involved to make it works.
If Grace Fu is made the Minister of MOE after the next election and drive this hard, maybe it will succeed but I'm still having my doubts. Idealism and actual implementation can be miles apart even though the program itself is good. MOE is one of the hardest Ministry to restructure and thus far do not have a Minister that stays long enough to do the work. Will have to wait and see.
Mr Mah is very good .. like a businessman ... any ministry he headed sure make money, MOE got no money to make only expenses.[/quote]yes, he is a businessman... whichever ministry he headed, money would roll in....but this is not what i am implying...
i mentioned his name was because probably he is the only minister dares to implement policies sailing against the wind....another one maybe is KBW. Look at what happened to Ng Eng Hen...
there are too many powerful voices around.
Last time, we had chinese educated vs english educated..
the SAP was so successful implemented that now we have
chinese educated + bilingual vs english educated, so Ng Eng Hen failed...
also facing strong school alumni
such as RI vs ACS vs SJI vs HCI and so on...
then we have another group, this one sensitive so i don't mention...
So who can be our next Education minister who can make major transform in the education so that parents and kids will not be so stress up while kids pursuing their studies....
who dare to make changes in P1 registration system such as removing P2B, etc..?
who dare to remove GEP? -
php:
happy deepavali to you for the joke !
I can think of one suitable candidate : Mr Mah Bow Tan....hahaha.....Trapwithin:
Maybe I'm a skeptic. Too many factors involved to make it works.
If Grace Fu is made the Minister of MOE after the next election and drive this hard, maybe it will succeed but I'm still having my doubts. Idealism and actual implementation can be miles apart even though the program itself is good. MOE is one of the hardest Ministry to restructure and thus far do not have a Minister that stays long enough to do the work. Will have to wait and see. -
janet_lee88:
It seems that she IS friendly to students and has compassion. It is from her conversations with students that she found those in weak classes have inferiority complex. For eg, she said that when she asked the child which class is he/she from, the child did not dare tell her he/she is from \"Patience\". so sad...Pei Hwa is popular and has a WOW factor...tough exam papers and fierce teachers. When I meet parents who have kids in other schools, they tell me how academic driven PH is.
I do wish the principal is friendly and acknowledges the students when they greet her. This reminds me of the principal I had in secondary school who only acknowledges the students who have rich parents. :x -
E3:
How about having differentiated questions in a worksheet, instead of differentiating the worksheets. The same worksheet will be assigned to all the banded classes. The high-ability class can attempt all the questions, the middle-ability can also try and do that, as for the weaker ones, they must do the basic questions, yet the rest of the more difficult questions are still opened for them to attempt but not compulsory. Solutions should still be given to these unattempted questions. In this case, they will not feel so 'differentiated' doing only worksheets meant for their ability. They could also be exposed to more challenging questions at the same time.
I think the current worksheets already have something similar. there is a section called \"Challenging Practice\" in MA. Perhaps the weaker ones can skip this section or make it optional. -
markfch:
Yup, the purpose is mainly to conceal the weakest classes. As everyone said, it will be easy to work out which is the best class.I think the main objective of renaming the classes is not to obscure which class is CH but more to conceal which are the weaker classes. As we all know, steoreotyping has such a powerful effect especially on young children. I can imagine that if a bunch of 8-9 yrs old kids are told they're in the worst class, they will act like the worst class (even if they're capable of better things). Experiements have shown that teachers will modify their teachings based on their perception of the calibre of their classes.
Though initally I've my misgivings over this & the collage thingy, suddenly the motto of the sch popped into my head and I realised that serving God & nation doesn't need excellent academic results. But empathy & kindness is much needed.
To provide our pupils with an all-rounded, bilingual education that will develop them into responsible and forward-looking individuals who will serve God and the nation. -
E3:
Hee Hee! Early Bird Catch the \"Best\" Worm-Mah!Hi Funx3, wah....u posted at 3 plus am!! No wonder this thread is going so fast...hehe...:lol:
I remember reading somewhere in this thread that besides banding HCL, the school will also band Math. Can you share how it's done at P5 for Math? Will the kids be busy moving classes? Thanks.
Maths Banding Class Works the Same way as HCL, the Best 40 will be in M1, Next lot will be in M2, etc.
And Yes, they do shift the children up / down the banding Class depending on their Results at the end of the year ....
And Yes, if the child's banding class is not conducted in their own class, they have to move to another class for the lessons ....
Plenty of \"LEG\" exercise every day, afterall They bound to have Maths and HCL/CL class Daily ....
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