Child Underperforms Because Tested Above Cognitive Level
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janet_lee88:
Their delusions of grandeur are founded upon parents/tutors' success at enriching kids.No need to top the whole cohort, but topping the kids in the top classes in the school is good enough.
MOE is blind to us. When kids of top guns do well (maybe some don't and get sent overseas), will they bother with our kids ? We still have to attend mainstream, not international schools. We pay money to tutors to teach our kids what the school teachers should be doing. When our kids do well, school gets the glory. Amazing :slapshead: -
autumnbronze:
Chenonceau:
MOE is in a single country. It's Teachers don't share teaching resources. It's schools don't share teaching resources. [color=#800000][b]Why?
MOE has been sleeping all these years, and it still thinks it is world class. MOE management was busy getting Teachers to serve that it forgot that they need to serve the Teachers too.
Nice read :hugs:
I love the significance of the word 'empowerment'. I always use this word to motivate my pupils.
Chen,
Hope I am reading this correctly.
As to why teachers and schs are not sharing resources, it's due to
competition, insecurity of the people in question and KPIs. Thats what I observed during my time.
Whether KPIs are achieved or not, there has to be justification. And believe me, no one wants to produce a negative justification.
On a separate note, I came across in one of your postings where you questioned why teachers with passion are not being promoted. Well, its pretty obvious - they are not there to wayang and suck up to the 'right' people. Again, these are based on my personal observations. There was a teacher who always did the wayang during her lesson observations and presentations. She did well. So well that recently I heard that she has been posted to MOE. And these are the sort of people who will be spearheading MOE's policies .... Imagine that! *gasp*
I never said there weren't any bad apples in the teaching profession
Are we expecting too much from the teachers to ask them to share their resources? Teachers have many KPIs to achieve and one of it is likely to be the academic performance of their students in the national exam like PSLE and 'O' level. It is also not very fair for the teachers who have spent a lot of time and effort to come up with the right resources for her students and to share with schools and yet is not rewarded for her time and effort.
Teachers need to explain to their HODs why they fail to achieve certain KPIs and what are the followup actions ( which means more work). I think it is then quite normal for teachers who have come up with the correct resources to hope that her students would do well in the exam. (yes maybe to the extent of being selfish not to share the resources with other schools )
I think instead of faulting these diligent teachers and schools, we may want to question those schools that did not come up with their own resources to help their own students. I'm sure they are aware of the good resources that their neighbouring schools are using. Can't they also come up with a set of useful resources for their students. I think all schools should be assessed based on the resources ( not only the program ) that they have for their students.
I believed all schools will have some very experienced and senior teachers. These teachers in each level can be assigned to write suitable resource to help their pupils. These teachers with their extra duties will then given lesser teaching periods or no CCA.
Just my 2cents. Please do not :spank: me. -
PiggyLalala:
autumnbronze:
[quote=\"Chenonceau\"]
MOE is in a single country. It's Teachers don't share teaching resources. It's schools don't share teaching resources. [color=#800000][b]Why?
MOE has been sleeping all these years, and it still thinks it is world class. MOE management was busy getting Teachers to serve that it forgot that they need to serve the Teachers too.
Nice read :hugs:
I love the significance of the word 'empowerment'. I always use this word to motivate my pupils.
Chen,
Hope I am reading this correctly.
As to why teachers and schs are not sharing resources, it's due to
competition, insecurity of the people in question and KPIs. Thats what I observed during my time.
Whether KPIs are achieved or not, there has to be justification. And believe me, no one wants to produce a negative justification.
On a separate note, I came across in one of your postings where you questioned why teachers with passion are not being promoted. Well, its pretty obvious - they are not there to wayang and suck up to the 'right' people. Again, these are based on my personal observations. There was a teacher who always did the wayang during her lesson observations and presentations. She did well. So well that recently I heard that she has been posted to MOE. And these are the sort of people who will be spearheading MOE's policies .... Imagine that! *gasp*
I never said there weren't any bad apples in the teaching profession
Are we expecting too much from the teachers to ask them to share their resources? Teachers have many KPIs to achieve and one of it is likely to be the academic performance of their students in the national exam like PSLE and 'O' level. It is also not very fair for the teachers who have spent a lot of time and effort to come up with the right resources for her students and to share with schools and yet is not rewarded for her time and effort.
Teachers need to explain to their HODs why they fail to achieve certain KPIs and what are the followup actions ( which means more work). I think it is then quite normal for teachers who have come up with the correct resources to hope that her students would do well in the exam. (yes maybe to the extent of being selfish not to share the resources with other schools )
I think instead of faulting these diligent teachers and schools, we may want to question those schools that did not come up with their own resources to help their own students. I'm sure they are aware of the good resources that their neighbouring schools are using. Can't they also come up with a set of useful resources for their students. I think all schools should be assessed based on the resources ( not only the program ) that they have for their students.
I believed all schools will have some very experienced and senior teachers. These teachers in each level can be assigned to write suitable resource to help their pupils. These teachers with their extra duties will then given lesser teaching periods or no CCA.
Just my 2cents. Please do not :spank: me.[/quote]
Nobody is faulting teachers. You must have misread.
There is such a thing as efficient use of resources. If resources are scarce, and we are told they are, then sharing ensures that everyone can access good resources.
It is ridiculous to have schools compete, and in that competition, guard their resources jealously. How would Apple Computer survive if each subsidiary in each country refused to share and help others? Divided, the schools are each weak. It is the rare single school that has that one talent to write top notch resources. This talent can be used at MOE level to write for all schools.
I am really sorry but this is the first time I hear that sharing is bad when resources are scarce. The schools are here to educate the nation's children. They are not here to earn their own glory, and to that end, guard their resources jealously. They are not here to own their resources.
When I was a consultant, all that I developed was the intellectual property of the company. Whatever I did HAD to be shared. One had no choice. When I left the company, I couldn't even use what I developed. It was not mine, because I couldn't have developed it without the eco-system that was existent in the company. I had help. I had inspiration. I had data. I had cases. All from the company. If I was good enough for my work to be picked up by other countries and used, I would be known in the network and might one day make it to Practice Leader. -
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Chenonceau:
Totally agree with you that MOE need to serve the TEACHERS too. These days, I have been hearing from my friends who are in the teaching profession that they need to go back to school in the evening for the night study program. I wondered what are the working hours for teachers NOW. Principals/MOE are expecting more and more. Teachers also have their kids and family to take care of. Their own kids need to take exam too.
MOE has been sleeping all these years, and it still thinks it is world class. MOE management was busy getting Teachers to serve that it forgot that they need to serve the Teachers too. -
PiggyLalala:
It's easy to squeeze teachers. They have no power.
Totally agree with you that MOE need to serve the TEACHERS too. These days, I have been hearing from my friends who are in the teaching profession that they need to go back to school in the evening for the night study program. I wondered what are the working hours for teachers NOW. Principals/MOE are expecting more and more. Teachers also have their kids and family to take care of. Their own kids need to take exam too.Chenonceau:
MOE has been sleeping all these years, and it still thinks it is world class. MOE management was busy getting Teachers to serve that it forgot that they need to serve the Teachers too. -
Sharing is of course good. Just that i feel it is not fair to teachers who have spent time and effort to come up with the resources.
MOE will not come up with the resource materials. Their reasons: Each school is different with their own strength and weaknesses. So the best is for the school teachers to prepare their own. -
PiggyLalala:
Oh Piggy...Sharing is of course good. Just that i feel it is not fair to teachers who have spent time and effort to come up with the resources.
MOE will not come up with the resource materials. Their reasons: Each school is different with their own strength and weaknesses. So the best is for the school teachers to prepare their own.
That is why we must speak up. Fair or not to the Teachers, the system is inefficient. Resources are stuck... the flowthrough is not smooth. This goes beyond individual teachers. If all teachers want to have an easier life, then sharing saves everyone time and effort. There are ways to reward sharing so that Teachers will feel good.
MOE WILL NOT? Maybe they won't, but unless we speak up as Mothers of this country, they really WILL not. We must speak up so that there is a chance they might.
Why should we take MOE's \"no\" lying down? Why should we be so compliant and so gullible that when people say cannot, it is really cannot. In the early days, people said Singapore cannot make it. But we did. Where did our spirit go? If we didn't speak up about healthcare, HDB flats and elderly folks, the budget WILL NOT look like what it looks like today.
We must speak up for education too because our children depend on us. -
If efficient sharing can be done, that will be good. However, I dont think it is too tough for each school to come up with their own set of resource materials too. Sorry to say that, I would think that some schools are just more hardworking than the others. If parents like ourselves can find out which are good assessment books or guides or even come out with our own ways to help our children, I believe in all schools, there are teachers who are capable of writing good resource materials. It is just that whether these teachers find it worth to spend the time and effort to prepare them.
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PiggyLalala:
If efficient sharing can be done, that will be good. However, I dont think it is too tough for each school to come up with their own set of resource materials too. Sorry to say that, I would think that some schools are just more hardworking than the others. If parents like ourselves can find out which are good assessment books or guides or even come out with our own ways to help our children, I believe in all schools, there are teachers who are capable of writing good resource materials. It is just that whether these teachers are willing to spend the time and effort to prepare them.
Alright Piggy, you win. I am tired. No offense to you but if you disagree with the notion of sharing... and you deny that talent lies along a bell curve and believe that people like Ammiel Wan (author of Onsponge), ex-HOD of Catholic High are a dime a dozen in the MOE, then well... we can just agree to disagree.
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