Letter to Heng Swee Keat
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Chenonceau:
Thanks for your good post remark.
:goodpost:SAHM_TAN:
We are talking about primary school education, don't you think it's strange for a child, with no learning disability and normal IQ, to score 20 or below for a 100 mark paper?
This is what I believe, every child, with no learning disability and normal IQ, can pass PSLE in the standard curriculum. MOE must have the proper support to give to teachers, so that they can teach, really teach.
The environment and thinking in a class must change. There is no need for academically weak child to feel demoralise if they are helped by not only the teachers but by the academically stronger child. Through this process, the academically stronger child benefit as well, in terms of better understanding and development of character.
There is nothing to stop the teacher to give extra work to the academically strong student, so that the student is engaged.
For example, in a Montessori environment, a class of mixed age children have no problem learning. Closer to home, my kids are in a montessori kindergarten, for maths, my DD is behind compared to her classmates. She is not demoralise, she is motivated to catch up. Her teacher is forcusing her on addition and substraction, while her classmates are moving on to multiplications. My DD is motivated to prove to her teacher she can master addition and subtraction, so that she can move on to multiplications. She even ask me about multiplications.
If you think my DD is a very confident child, she's not really, her teachers all commented that she has confidence issue, as in not really believing that she can accomplish certain task. But she still want to learn what the others are learning. She does not think that she's stupid because her teachers are supporting her in her learning journey.
A teacher cannot be in an environment whereby maintaining a particular average is more important then a child. For example, my niece's teacher told her parents, she's not fit to be in her class and scolded my niece for pulling down the class's average. I mean doesn't this show that the teacher's focus is not right? I heard from my aunt, that the teacher is not answering my niece's questions because the teacher does not think my niece can understand.
At primary level, what we need are teachers who believe in the ability of children to learn. We need teachers with the heart to teach, to see that the kids are not numbers, not statistics, marks.
This will sound mushy but children just need someone to believe and love them. That's all they need to enable them to do their best.
Believe in them... love them, and so they reach their FULL potential whilst feeling good about themselves. Right now, even for rather above average students like my DS, school is painful.
It's sad that school is painful for your son who is an above average student.
It must be hell for students who fare worse. They are too young to be in such a situation. I see my niece's face and she just look so sad and discouraged. I tried to explain to my aunt that it's not my niece's fault. We are close to the aunt but not her daughters. So hope, my niece will have more support. -
WCW:
i have a frd open tuition centre till live in bunglow
Not suprising lah! One guy teaching jc physics at Bishan, just one class x 2 hrs once per week can generate 10k. No wonder hard to get good teachers to teach in school over a prolonged period. -
WCW:
i have a frd open tuition centre till live in bunglow
That's not surprising. There's this local physics tutor, rather famous, heard reported, his monthly gross income is 50k. -
Edureach:
I think when I was young, I made a wrong move. I was thinking of going to study in NIE to become a teacher then, but my bf (husband now) objected strongly to it, saying that study so hard in EEE, then become teacher and earn less. Hmm, if have became a teacher, then do tuition, maybe now earning so much more now. :evil:WCW:
i have a frd open tuition centre till live in bunglow
Not suprising lah! One guy teaching jc physics at Bishan, just one class x 2 hrs once per week can generate 10k. No wonder hard to get good teachers to teach in school over a prolonged period. -
kwokwc:
I think when I was young, I made a wrong move. I was thinking of going to study in NIE to become a teacher then, but my bf (husband now) objected strongly to it, saying that study so hard in EEE, then become teacher and earn less. Hmm, if have became a teacher, then do tuition, maybe now earning so much more now. :evil:[/quote]Edureach:
[quote=\"WCW\"]i have a frd open tuition centre till live in bunglow
Not suprising lah! One guy teaching jc physics at Bishan, just one class x 2 hrs once per week can generate 10k. No wonder hard to get good teachers to teach in school over a prolonged period.
Ha ha! Tip of the day- ask your kids to do well and finish a local uni course science or humanities also boleh, graduate with honours and than join NIE. After teaching in jc for min 5 years, can sign on as private tutor, hourly rate min 70 bucks and as high as 120 bucks. Good money! -
WCW:
:yikes: 50k... ok now train DS to be tuition teacher, not teacher :lol:[/quote]It took him some time to build up his reputation. He did not earn so much in the begining. Need to slog before he reap the rewards and trust from parents.SAHM_TAN:
[quote=\"WCW\"]i have a frd open tuition centre till live in bunglow
That's not surprising. There's this local physics tutor, rather famous, heard reported, his monthly gross income is 50k. -
For jc tutors with min 5 years teaching experience in jcs, earning nett 8K/mth is definately not stressful! Got time to do other things ok.
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Edureach:
For jc tutors with min 5 years teaching experience in jcs, earning nett 8K/mth is definately not stressful! Got time to do other things ok.
The tutor that I'm talking about, heard that he was not from JC. He's not NIE trained. -
SAHM_TAN:
Edureach:
For jc tutors with min 5 years teaching experience in jcs, earning nett 8K/mth is definately not stressful! Got time to do other things ok.
The tutor that I'm talking about, heard that he was not from JC. He's not NIE trained.
Studied in RI and graduated with first class honours physics NUS and with very good proven track record? -
wapobs:
:mad: aiya...all parents should 'boycott' ALL tuition ctr. NO TUITION CTR..MOE can recruits more teachers from this centres.. :rotflmao: no more excuses from school teachers :rotflmao:spacehubble:
Well said. Yes, 100% correct. I have two daughters now studying at P2 and P4. I am the one teaching her at home. Teacher told me she must go to Tuition for expensive $$$ Phrase and vocabulary for her English composition to get marks. Teacher told me that her composition was too simple like lower primary so couldn’t raise the mark on that. Now $$$ sign, go to tuition and pay for each mark in language. Hope MOE will listen and change our education system. My child having so much pressure that she spends most of her time with study, she always says daddy, am I doing well? Am I capable to get good marks at PSLE? Will I be able to go to good Sec school? I couldn’t answer.
come to my tuition centre la! as long as you got money can liao! :evil:
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