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[Chenonceau]

MummySTay:

DD had very good teachers throughout her 6 years of education in her 2 primary schools. No complaints, but heaps of praises. :love:


DS, on the other hand, was not so lucky. :gloomy: Every alternate year (in his primary school), he would get a lousy teacher, starting from primary 1. 

DS's P1 form teacher taught him Math. Very often, there was no homework, but just before CA 1 and SA1, the teacher would suddenly pile the students with work...up to 20 pages of work in a day. One week before his SA1, the teacher still had 2 more chapters to teach. Naturally, I was very frustrated. Being a systematic person, I typed out everything the teacher should have done, but failed to carry out. It was 2 pages long!!! Also printed copies of my evidence and arranged a meeting with the P...
When DS returned to school in term 3, after the hols, he had a change of teacher. 

At P3, DS had a lousy EL teacher who, like Chenonceau's, marked his compositions wrongly. He corrected DS's \"dialled\" (BE) to \"dialed\"(AE) and wrote that there is no such word as \"relived\".  :scared:
For picture compositions, DS wrote in the first-person account, but the teacher failed him, insisting that it must be written in the 3rd person's account (I checked - there was nothing in the instruction about writing in the 3rd person's account).
I printed copies of DS's work whereby the teacher had marked wrongly and met up with the EL HOD (Not very nice to always march into P's office! ). Anyway, the HOD was a very understanding lady and had taught DS in P2. She agreed that I was right and had a talk with both the teacher and DS. 

The talk with DS was necessary as she had to clarify his doubts since both the mother and his teacher taught differently. For that, I was very appreciative.  (Amazingly, his EL teacher was posted to MOE so DS again had a change of teacher in term 3.)

Just sharing some of our bad experiences.

Thanks for sharing... talking to the HOD and teacher face to face is something to think about too.

[Chenonceau]

MandyMummy:

Hi, Chen, it seems that this is a competency issue. Your ds teacher may not be ready to teach P5&6 yet. Once a child learnt something incorrect, it will be difficult pedagogically for the child to \"unlearnt\" it. So it would be better to alert the HOD (which you did) and might want to set up an appointment with him/her to discuss the issues. Hopefully with the feedback given, they can have someone to vet the mark scheme and even better change the teacher next year.

Yup... meet up with HOD after I have calmed down...

[iRabbit]

Chenonceau:

Huh oh... we're back to the banning tuition again... I want no part in it. :siam:

Sorry Chen, this thing really irks me enough to move my fat fingers and type.

Sorry sorry. I stop now.

[mum_sugoku]

Chenonceau:

beanbear:

Hi Chen, some questions i cd offer for ur thinking: what's your desired outcome from the action u take? Teacher to become aware of her incompetency, then do something abt improving her competency? School become aware of problem? Do u believe teacher can change in the short term? What can be changed & what cannot? What's really a system issue or individual issue here? Of its lack of clear marking rubrics & counter-checking of marking, then it's system issue.

These are lovely questions... helps me focus. Draws down the emotional response a lot.

For the benefit of the students in general, perhaps you can consider writing to MOE to inform them your DS's English teacher's incompetency problem (without mentioning names), so that MOE could do something about it?

[Chenonceau]

FQW:

Chenonceau:

Huh oh... we're back to the banning tuition again... I want no part in it. :siam:

Sorry Chen, this thing really irks me enough to move my fat fingers and type.

Sorry sorry. I stop now.

Don't stop lah... I a little bit agree but scared kena humtum by limlim wor...

[metz]

LOLMum:

4) at PTA last year, this teacher said she has no idea why I need to see her about my dd and I was like :siao: teacher.

Your dd must be doing well in class, so the teacher saw no need to meet you.

[smartmummy]

Chenonceau:

FQW:

[quote=\"Chenonceau\"]
Huh oh... we're back to the banning tuition again... I want no part in it. :siam:

Sorry Chen, this thing really irks me enough to move my fat fingers and type.

Sorry sorry. I stop now.

Don't stop lah... I a little bit agree but scared kena humtum by limlim wor...[/quote]Wow! chen ur singlish improved a lot

[Chenonceau]

smartmummy:

Wow! chen ur singlish improved a lot

:please:

[smartmummy]

chamonix:

LOLMum:

4) at PTA last year, this teacher said she has no idea why I need to see her about my dd and I was like :siao: teacher.

Your dd must be doing well in class, so the teacher saw no need to meet you.

My son weak in MT,though T doesn't find anything to tell me to improve. :? She just asked me to send tuition. :yikes:

[metz]

verykiasu2010:

janet_lee88:

Educators will not willingly accept comments/feedback from parents.
They feel they are always right...and if we parents really voice out our unhappiness, our kids will suffer repercussions after that. Do we want our kids to be black marked by the teachers ?
Attend PTMs and listen to what teachers tell me...don't volunteer any info. Just smile and get it over.

never in our experience

Never in your experience does not mean such cases don't exist. But I sincerely hope instances like my experience are very rare. On the whole, (despite my share of some not-so-good teachers) I think most of the teachers I encountered have done a relatively good job.