The Alternative Story (TAS) - Discussion
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akbh:
high ability? P2 and P4 quite extreme..My kid is with TAS, withdraw her from the school as every term, the teacher change.
As for my friend, her kid is in P4 class and now she is getting more P2 students in the class. -
According to the teacher, those P2 students are higher ability.
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akbh:
akbh, new teacher every term is not good for the class - the teacher need time to understand the strength & weakness and build rapport. Which level your kid was in ? and also which branch ? Thanks for sharing.My kid is with TAS, withdraw her from the school as every term, the teacher change.
As for my friend, her kid is in P4 class and now she is getting more P2 students in the class.
High abilities P2 in a P4 class, :yikes: -
My kid is in P1/P2 class but their worksheets are P2/P3 materials. My observation is that TAS teaches based on kids’ abilities rather than go on their age. He’s been there since start of the year, so far his teacher has stayed the same.
On the compo memorisation bit, I actually agree with this approach for younger kids. My kid has been memorising passages and sentences all this time. Now when I ask him, he can produce some lines based on the scenario - eg hot day, rainy day, how to start the essay; after an enjoyable day out, how would you end it. These things came in quite useful when he had to submit to school a journal report on his holiday.
Sentences are quite standard - true. My hope and expectation is that after familiarising himself with how a compo can be written, he can then come up with better original sentences.
For now, he’s still young so I’m not going to expect he can fly. I will continue to monitor and see how he’s doing. For now, am happy where he is. -
My Pr 3 at btsc, my friend at amk
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Saw from this website so many good review of TAS and sign him up. Now need to source for another school. Headache again!
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Hi TAS,
I am keen to sign up for your creative wrting clasee for my P2 boy. Somehow I can’t reach the centre via the phone.
Are there any vacancies currently at your Paya Lebar branch?
Thanks in advance. -
akbh, thanks for response. Did they explain to you why teachers kept changing ? Reason I ask is from the various feedback, one of their biggest strength is good teachers and I have waiting to see if this is sustainable. To give them benefit of the doubt, I would like to know if any reasonable explanation was given to you, the parent ie the paying customer. Thanks again.
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akbh:
Saw from this website so many good review of TAS and sign him up. Now need to source for another school. Headache again!
did you speak to TAS about the change of teachers? -
Hi,
Would like to add my 2 cents worth to this discussion. It is true that TAS does memorisation. But the teachers do not ask the kids to memorise the whole compo, just important phrases. And I find it has helped my kids a lot as they are able to write their compos better. They also teach the kids to vary their sentence structures so my kids know that in compo writing, they need to use sound effects, one word sentences, starting sentences with ‘ing’ instead of usually starting with a noun like ‘I’.
Now they are also teaching the kids to apply what they have learnt to compo topics that they have not done before and they are showing the kids how to use the phrases they already know to themes that they have not learnt before so it is not just memorisation and copy and paste to the compo that they learnt.
From my understanding, they mix the children because they group the children according to their ability, I have come across some very bright P2s who can do even better than my P4 nephew who is in the same class as them. Their rationale is they do not want to limit the children just by their age group.
I myself have not experienced much change of teachers but from my experience with other centres, I see this quite a lot. It could be because the tuition industry trade is one where most of the teachers are either ex-teachers who want more time for family, students or retired teachers and they can quit anytime once they do not have the time to give to the job. This issue can sometimes be quite hard for the centre to control. It will be an area of concern for me if there are a lot of classes that experience a change of teachers. But so far, for my friends, my nephews class and my kids, there is no change of teacher. There was only a change for one of my friend’s and it happened once because that teacher left to take up some extra classes in uni or something like that.
Like I mentioned before, I think both centres are good in their own way and what may not have worked for one child may work for another.
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