2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy
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Chenonceau:
DS came home and said that his CL Teacher had asked his whole class to hand up resources provided by their tuition teachers, for her to compile and give out to the class. If this does not show that MOE is lacking in materials and methods, then I dunno what does.
It could also happen the other way round. Once my son's school CL teacher told them one of her students attending outside tuition received a worksheet which still has this school CL teacher's name on it as she was the one who developed the material. -
wonderm:
One can understand that a no-name unaccredited tuition teacher parasites off MOE's materials... this would be a compliment to MOE. But for an accredited MOE teacher teaching HCL to parasite indiscriminately off a whole class of students' tutors, is an indictment of MOE's inability to provide/distribute/share enough high quality materials properly among all schools and teachers for their use.Chenonceau:
DS came home and said that his CL Teacher had asked his whole class to hand up resources provided by their tuition teachers, for her to compile and give out to the class. If this does not show that MOE is lacking in materials and methods, then I dunno what does.
It could also happen the other way round. Once my son's school CL teacher told them one of her students attending outside tuition received a worksheet which still has this school CL teacher's name on it as she was the one who developed the material. -
I came up some 40 topics to help DD in her oral conversation this year and shared half the material with a neighbor whose DD also sitting for PSLE. When her tutor, a school teacher, chanced upon them, she wanted to borrow the whole lot to photocopy! Absolutely no sense of shame! Luckily, my neighbor was at home and stopped her. The tutor admitted that they did not have such resources in school. :yikes:
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Chenonceau:
I agree your ds' teacher should not have done that and I believe it is not common practice. By the way, I am not sure if MOE actually provides school teachers with teaching materials. Other than GEP branch, is there a dept within MOE which is responsible for developing teaching materials for all levels and all subjects?
One can understand that a no-name unaccredited tuition teacher parasites off MOE's materials... this would be a compliment to MOE. But for an accredited MOE teacher teaching HCL to parasite indiscriminately off a whole class of students' tutors, is an indictment of MOE's inability to provide/distribute/share enough high quality materials properly among all schools and teachers for their use. -
wonderm:
That is a very good question and the unfortunate answer is a resounding \"No\". The schools n teachers are supposed to prepare the resources themselves although Teachers' Network conducts sharing sessions whereby teachers do share materials, methodologies, etc.
I agree your ds' teacher should not have done that and I believe it is not common practice. By the way, I am not sure if MOE actually provides school teachers with teaching materials. Other than GEP branch, is there a dept within MOE which is responsible for developing teaching materials for all levels and all subjects?Chenonceau:
One can understand that a no-name unaccredited tuition teacher parasites off MOE's materials... this would be a compliment to MOE. But for an accredited MOE teacher teaching HCL to parasite indiscriminately off a whole class of students' tutors, is an indictment of MOE's inability to provide/distribute/share enough high quality materials properly among all schools and teachers for their use. -
This is a systemic issue. All they need to do is to set up an online sharing platform that students and teachers can access. Then teachers everywhere and students everywhere can access material. This prevents a lot of resource duplication (teachers have a lot to do as it is) and ensures a better flow through of high quality materials throughout the system.
There is no need for a dedicated branch with a few brains. With the advent of internet and discussion board technologies, every teacher who wants to and likes to can develop stuff. The quality of the stuff can be evaluated by the number of downloads… and teachers can be rewarded per download.
Also, don’t make schools compete with each other to the extent that they mark their materials with "Confidential". -
This is so weird and so sad!
I wonder if it is another case of KPI-driven \"selfish\" behaviour ? Maybe whoever put the materials in the shared resource (if any) doesn't get any credit so everyone is waiting for everyone else to prepare the resource OR just give the good resource to their own students and forbit them from sharing ? (and the teachers are paid with taxpayer's money...tsk tsk tsk)
:siao: system we have ! -
wonderm:
It does not have to be common practice to be an indictment of the system. When one teacher feels desperate for materials to teach her students, enough to have done what my DS teacher did, then there are countless others who also feel desperate but dared not to do what she did.
I agree your ds' teacher should not have done that and I believe it is not common practice.
System flow through of educational materials is poor.
Teachers and students BOTH suffer... and parents pockets suffer. I paid $200/= a month for Chinese tuition just to get access to materials. The moment I figured out the type of materials required, I stopped tuition. My son said he could manage if we could source for equivalent materials from contacts in top schools ... and also from China.
This is not fair to students whose parents are less resourceful and discerning.
I dun wanna point fingers at the teacher because I think that is too simplistic. It's like punishing a child for stealing food. If a child is fed enough, why would he/she steal food? It is a systemic issue when individual teachers feel the need to parasite off the tuition industry. For every child who steals food, many more are hungry. For every MOE teacher who parasites off the tuition industry, many more are desperate for good materials to teach with. -
Up to now i’m still wondering what kind of oral materials/notes the other schools have because we do not have friends whose kids are in these schools. And ds’s school does not give materials. Bought oral practice fr Popular and the material/ passages seem to be too simple since ds can read those with ease and he usually only borderline passes Chinese.
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linden2000:
Up to now i'm still wondering what kind of oral materials/notes the other schools have because we do not have friends whose kids are in these schools. And ds's school does not give materials. Bought oral practice fr Popular and the material/ passages seem to be too simple since ds can read those with ease and he usually only borderline passes Chinese.
I bought those too, and then I got someone to help me add phrases to up the difficulty level. Those are really too easy to be much use. But linden2000, did not your child just complete PSLE?
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