2012 PSLE Discussions and Strategy

[Zekezachzoom]

I guess I won’t be seeing much my son in the next 3 months. The school has arranged additional enrichment lessons for math & science coached by external vendor to prepare for the last dash. He will be coming home only around 4pm practically everyday. On top of that. Some of his classmates have taken the initiative to ask their form teacher to stay back with them after their extra lessons so that the boys can do more revisions until 530pm. Thankfully, the form teacher is very responsible and willing to stay back to help the class.


The school has really gone into high gear for the P6ers, organized motivational talk to perk the kids up and arranging all the supplementary and enrichment classes. Not a bad thing for the boys who are not able to manage their time themselves.

[mlim321]

mummy so kiasu:

During our time, parents were not so Kiasu & so involved in their kids' studies. Of course, the standard is not so high too.

Nowadays the kids can solve funny funny questions which seem that the standard is very high. However, I feel that they may not have very strong foundation compared to our time.

[8228]

Zekezachzoom:

I guess I won't be seeing much my son in the next 3 months. The school has arranged additional enrichment lessons for math & science coached by external vendor to prepare for the last dash. He will be coming home only around 4pm practically everyday. On top of that. Some of his classmates have taken the initiative to ask their form teacher to stay back with them after their extra lessons so that the boys can do more revisions until 530pm. Thankfully, the form teacher is very responsible and willing to stay back to help the class.


The school has really gone into high gear for the P6ers, organized motivational talk to perk the kids up and arranging all the supplementary and enrichment classes. Not a bad thing for the boys who are not able to manage their time themselves.

Why must the school engage external vendor? Can't the school teachers do it? :?

[Zekezachzoom]

8228:

Zekezachzoom:

I guess I won't be seeing much my son in the next 3 months. The school has arranged additional enrichment lessons for math & science coached by external vendor to prepare for the last dash. He will be coming home only around 4pm practically everyday. On top of that. Some of his classmates have taken the initiative to ask their form teacher to stay back with them after their extra lessons so that the boys can do more revisions until 530pm. Thankfully, the form teacher is very responsible and willing to stay back to help the class.


The school has really gone into high gear for the P6ers, organized motivational talk to perk the kids up and arranging all the supplementary and enrichment classes. Not a bad thing for the boys who are not able to manage their time themselves.

Why must the school engage external vendor? Can't the school teachers do
it? :?

I guess is lack of resources. The subject teachers have proper timetable during lessons time for different classes but when it comes to extra lessons, one teacher can't possibly take all the classes at one go after school. My DS math teacher teaches 3 P6 classes.

[8228]

Zekezachzoom:

8228:

[quote=\"Zekezachzoom\"]I guess I won't be seeing much my son in the next 3 months. The school has arranged additional enrichment lessons for math & science coached by external vendor to prepare for the last dash. He will be coming home only around 4pm practically everyday. On top of that. Some of his classmates have taken the initiative to ask their form teacher to stay back with them after their extra lessons so that the boys can do more revisions until 530pm. Thankfully, the form teacher is very responsible and willing to stay back to help the class.


The school has really gone into high gear for the P6ers, organized motivational talk to perk the kids up and arranging all the supplementary and enrichment classes. Not a bad thing for the boys who are not able to manage their time themselves.

Why must the school engage external vendor? Can't the school teachers do
it? :?

I guess is lack of resources. The subject teachers have proper timetable during lessons time for different classes but when it comes to extra lessons, one teacher can't possibly take all the classes at one go after school. My DS math teacher teaches 3 P6 classes.[/quote]My dc's extra lessons are all done by the same subject teachers.

[alng]

My dd’s school has a rather different way to do PSLE Maths and Science revision during the supp classes this term. Each teacher will cover certain topics in Maths and Science and they will go into all the 5 P6 classes to teach those topics. In other words, within the subject, the teachers further specialise by topics. The good thing is this reduces preparation time for each teacher (prepare to revise a few topics rather than the whole syllabus). And by teaching the topics repeatedly for a few times, the teachers can further master those topics. As parent, I see a third advantage - all the P6 classes benefit from all the teachers…no one class dominates the so-called good teachers.

[HAPPYH]

alng:

My dd's school has a rather different way to do PSLE Maths and Science revision during the supp classes this term. Each teacher will cover certain topics in Maths and Science and they will go into all the 5 P6 classes to teach those topics. In other words, within the subject, the teachers further specialise by topics. The good thing is this reduces preparation time for each teacher (prepare to revise a few topics rather than the whole syllabus). And by teaching the topics repeatedly for a few times, the teachers can further master those topics. As parent, I see a third advantage - all the P6 classes benefit from all the teachers...no one class dominates the so-called good teachers.

Hmmm...Quite interesting. Less burden on the teachers too.

[mummy so kiasu]

alng:

My dd's school has a rather different way to do PSLE Maths and Science revision during the supp classes this term. Each teacher will cover certain topics in Maths and Science and they will go into all the 5 P6 classes to teach those topics. In other words, within the subject, the teachers further specialise by topics. The good thing is this reduces preparation time for each teacher (prepare to revise a few topics rather than the whole syllabus). And by teaching the topics repeatedly for a few times, the teachers can further master those topics. As parent, I see a third advantage - all the P6 classes benefit from all the teachers...no one class dominates the so-called good teachers.

Sound interesting & very productive. But how many schools actually do that? If a class is taught by so many teachers, which teacher will be responsible for the class performance? :? The teacher's annual performance evaluation should be base on her class overall performance, which is the passing rate & improvement rate.

[alng]

mummy so kiasu:

alng:

My dd's school has a rather different way to do PSLE Maths and Science revision during the supp classes this term. Each teacher will cover certain topics in Maths and Science and they will go into all the 5 P6 classes to teach those topics. In other words, within the subject, the teachers further specialise by topics. The good thing is this reduces preparation time for each teacher (prepare to revise a few topics rather than the whole syllabus). And by teaching the topics repeatedly for a few times, the teachers can further master those topics. As parent, I see a third advantage - all the P6 classes benefit from all the teachers...no one class dominates the so-called good teachers.

Sound interesting & very productive. But how many schools actually do that? If a class is taught by so many teachers, which teacher will be responsible for the class performance? :? The teacher's annual performance evaluation should be base on her class overall performance, which is the passing rate & improvement rate.

This only applies to supplementary classes. The normal classes are still handled by the respective teachers.

[isetan]

mummy so kiasu:

isetan:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]I was told that teachers still in child-bearing age do not teach P6 classes...don't know how true.

Not so nice to mention my DD school. I attended a parent talk earlier this year. Conducted by the principal. She says last year batch of PSLE result not bad. When she flash up the slide, I almost fainted. The ave T Score in the school last year is 210. And she says not bad!!!

I think it is your DD school's culture. The problem lies on the principal is not Kiasu. However, every batch of students is different. Hope your DD's batch does better this year. My son is from a neighbourhood school in Sengkang. His school principal is very Kiasu. The school pushes & motivates the kids & past 2 years top students score 275 and with 100% passing rate. My friend's son is from another Sengkang school. The principal is even more Kiasu. His school engaged Adam Khoo to conduct motivation camp for P6 last week.[/quote]Wow! So in that case I think there should a forum discussion on kiasu principal vs non kiasu principal!