Child Underperforms Because Tested Above Cognitive Level
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And most if not all MOE schools have these awards...
Singapore Quality Class
Best Practice Award (got a lot of sub categories)
School Distinction Award
Sustained Achievement Award (also got a lot of sub categories)
Excellence in Partnership
And many more...
Pretty meaningless.... :slapshead:
No motivation to change or do anything different, when the system has rewarded and recognize itself as the best. -
Daddy
Some awards are well, admirable...but what are the awards for ? Ok, perhaps some schools do have best practices and also caring teachers and warm principals. What MOE is trying to do is hoodwink the world lah.
And most if not all MOE schools have these awards...
Pretty meaningless.... :slapshead:
No motivation to change or do anything different, when the system has rewarded and recognize itself as the best. -
Kekekekeke! Janet, I don’t think MOE is dishonest lah… they may be deluded and think they’re really great, but I dun think they intend to con anyone. They REALLY think they’re the best.
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Chenonceau:
Kekekekeke! Janet, I don't think MOE is dishonest lah... they may be deluded and think they're really great, but I dun think they intend to con anyone. They REALLY think they're the best.
:rotflmao: Chenonceau, you've got a wicked sense of humour. :rotflmao: -
Chenonceau:
Kekekekeke! Janet, I don't think MOE is dishonest lah... they may be deluded and think they're really great, but I dun think they intend to con anyone. They REALLY think they're the best.
Yes, MOE is doing something which they are GOOD at...they live in a world of their own...till retirement so as not to rock the boat nor affect their appraisals. -
doodbug:
This is true and therein lies the big problem we are trying to solve.....for the majority.
Bottom line is, tuition and enrichment, regardless of the providers, be it commercial entities or one's parents, are necessary to doing well, or some say coping, within the current system. -
Daddy
Reward is ok but after the praise, must cascade the suitable best practices across the board ma.....they stop short at reward and praise.And most if not all MOE schools have these awards...
Singapore Quality Class
Best Practice Award (got a lot of sub categories)
School Distinction Award
Sustained Achievement Award (also got a lot of sub categories)
Excellence in Partnership
And many more...
Pretty meaningless.... :slapshead:
No motivation to change or do anything different, when the system has rewarded and recognize itself as the best. -
ksi:
Yup...enough of self-praise.
Reward is ok but after the praise, must cascade the suitable best practices across the board ma.....they stop short at reward and praise.Daddy
Pretty meaningless.... :slapshead:
No motivation to change or do anything different, when the system has rewarded and recognize itself as the best.
It makes our hair stand even though THEY don't feel it. -
ksi:
And this problem leaves me rather clueless. Don't get me wrong, better textbooks and making enrichment resources available to all is a DEFINITE POSITIVE step. But I don't think this will solve the enrichment problem. Because enrichment centres are enterprising - they will evolve to carve a niche in tailoring teaching and resources to the child's individual learning need, and they will improve on the delivery of information and exam skills to the child. The demand for enrichment will be insatiable so long as (1) enrichment centres do contribute to some degree to a child's PSLE result; and (2) society and the system weighs the PSLE severely.
This is true and therein lies the big problem we are trying to solve.....for the majority.doodbug:
Bottom line is, tuition and enrichment, regardless of the providers, be it commercial entities or one's parents, are necessary to doing well, or some say coping, within the current system.
Therein lies the fundamental problem to me - the PSLE counts for too much. Noone will take a risk with the PSLE - and even if all enrichment centres do is to babysit one's child to spend his time constructively, parents will still send the kids for enrichment. It is an investment. Because who wouldn't want to give his offspring the best shot at the PSLE? It determines the schooling environment for the next 6 years! And some would say, the rest of the educational journey! -
Don't Teachers realize that it is their inalienable right to have access to educational materials to teach with without having to write them personally? Would a farmer ask an odd job labourer to hoe the soil without providing a hoe?
MOE is in a single country. It's Teachers don't share teaching resources. It's schools don't share teaching resources. Why? Households are fast getting open net. Mindef gives its recruits laptops. MOE does not have a e-sharing platform that would cost a fraction to set up today compared to the system we set up to link up 66 offices worldwide. 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.
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