Are comments in report books to be believed?
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sall:
Another student who sleeps in class becomes a deep thinker.
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[quote=\"ksi]In the education world, we live in the fantasy land. Teach less but expected to learn more... Behave well, expect sabotages. Behave badly, expect glowing comments. Everything seems to be a make-belief and depends on what picture they want to paint. It was never so bad during our time. so what has changed? Pace of life.[/quote]
It's not the change in pace of life. It's the culture of positive thinking and pc-ness, mainly an American culture influence.
The problem with this, and the teach less learn more, is the main person in charge has to understand HOW to do it. YOu can tell a loud disruptive child you appreciate his expressiveness and it was interesting, but at the same time, tell him that it is also important to listen to others and take turn. It's all about balance. Same with teach less learn more. The whole point of it is to implement an inquiry-based approach, the rationale being that when children are involved in the inquiry process, the understanding is deeper and leaves a lasting impression. Young children have a natural affinity for this and it is a sound approach if it is correctly implemented. But it takes a skilful enthusiastic teacher, a good class size ratio, and TIME to do this properly. Our system is not very conducive for this. Ironically by JC and university level, inquiry based learning takes over again and is expected. Many \"good\" students will struggle by then.
Ok, OT liao. :siam: -
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I fully agree. In fact, my hubby used to tell me the same thing about \"quiet, obedient\" ones who may struggle later in their academic path. -
The report book (and that little comment/remark section) as it is has been around for decades. I can see its relevance in the days letters and pens, but now…
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Mine is opposite. No complaints from teacher. In fact teacher praised her during meet parents session, said so many positive things, eg. leadership ability, good team player, blah blah blah
But report book comments not extremely glowing, even got 1 or 2 suggestions on area for 'improvements'. Conduct is 'very good' instead of 'excellent'. Huh :scratchhead: -
I’m so glad someone started this interesting topic, but also a little apprehensive cos ds tends to get good comments in his report book, so now must take everything with a pinch of salt.
So ‘independent learner’ actually means he doesn’t pay attention to teacher, ‘keen reader’ becomes likes to read anything but text, ‘mature beyond his age’ becomes overgrown baby. Luckily don’t have ‘deep thinker’ comment otherwise I’ll roll my eyes. -
No lah. Some of these remarks are actually true because these are the characteristics shown by the child in the class. Just take the remarks and place beside your kid and compare. Should be able to tell if remarks are genuine.
Eg.
Independent learner can also mean child is motivated and does not need loads of nagging from the teacher and still produces acceptable work.
Keen reader is also for kids who loves to read a lot and most stuff, and also prob read when they have completed their work in class.
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markfch:
:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: I'll just take all positive comments at face value.I'm so glad someone started this interesting topic, but also a little apprehensive cos ds tends to get good comments in his report book, so now must take everything with a pinch of salt.
So 'independent learner' actually means he doesn't pay attention to teacher, 'keen reader' becomes likes to read anything but text, 'mature beyond his age' becomes overgrown baby. Luckily don't have 'deep thinker' comment otherwise I'll *roll my eyes*. -
deminc:
[quote=\"ksi]In the education world, we live in the fantasy land. Teach less but expected to learn more... Behave well, expect sabotages. Behave badly, expect glowing comments. Everything seems to be a make-belief and depends on what picture they want to paint. It was never so bad during our time. so what has changed? Pace of life.
It's not the change in pace of life. It's the culture of positive thinking and pc-ness, mainly an American culture influence.
The problem with this, and the teach less learn more, is the main person in charge has to understand HOW to do it. YOu can tell a loud disruptive child you appreciate his expressiveness and it was interesting, but at the same time, tell him that it is also important to listen to others and take turn. It's all about balance. Same with teach less learn more. The whole point of it is to implement an inquiry-based approach, the rationale being that when children are involved in the inquiry process, the understanding is deeper and leaves a lasting impression. Young children have a natural affinity for this and it is a sound approach if it is correctly implemented. But it takes a skilful enthusiastic teacher, a good class size ratio, and TIME to do this properly. Our system is not very conducive for this. Ironically by JC and university level, inquiry based learning takes over again and is expected. Many \"good\" students will struggle by then.
Ok, OT liao. :siam:[/quote][/quote]
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