Recommendation of changes to reduce Stress for PSLE

[Lilac66]

DKWhy:

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But kids who have mastered enough self learning skills in their early years will not suffer so much in sec schools coz chances are they will have the ‘inbuilt mechanism’ akin to ‘survival instinct’ to auto learn to adjust, adapt and survive within manageable stress. This ability comes from those chances that were given to them by not-so-KC and not-so-KS parents when they were allowed to learn to swim on own. This natural innate ability either can be built slowly or can also be taken away slowly by their very own parents during their early years.

I like what you brought up.
But sorry just asking coz when we discuss about self-learning skills for kids of such age, what type of skills are specifically looking at or inculcating?

For discussion sake, we'll use MAths since this is one area where parents have most grouses about- say a child is not able to grasp the model concept for in class, what does he do? Ask the teacher in class or get help from parents. What if the child is not able to clear his doubts either because the teacher is has got too much on her plate to attend to him personally or the parents are not sufficiently equipped to help him? What should he or we parents do if we want to inculcate self-learning attitude? Let's presume the child does not have tuition.

[mommylow]

Kudos to you too, Janet, for being such a caring and dedicated mom. :udawoman:

[Lilac66]

Nebbermind:

Lilac66:

During my sec days, I remember I had only 7 subjects leh

Really. I remember sec1 I had English, Lit (result combined with Eng but still a subject), Chinese, Math, Sce, Geog, Hist, Art & Tech.

I remember I had Lit only in Sec 3.

[janet88]

In a ‘faceless’ forum like this, it’s really wonderful to have helpful info to guide parents along the way…regardless of primary level.

This is why I am totally addicted, even though I was blasted earlier and felt disillusioned for a while. But told myself those who had done so are empty vessels. Forget about those ungracious vessels.

Chen, mummylow, ksp, mummy so kiasu, peony and many other wonderful parents…thank you. You really brightened my day when I felt down.

[Nebbermind]

Lilac66:

DKWhy:

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But kids who have mastered enough self learning skills in their early years will not suffer so much in sec schools coz chances are they will have the ‘inbuilt mechanism’ akin to ‘survival instinct’ to auto learn to adjust, adapt and survive within manageable stress. This ability comes from those chances that were given to them by not-so-KC and not-so-KS parents when they were allowed to learn to swim on own. This natural innate ability either can be built slowly or can also be taken away slowly by their very own parents during their early years.

I like what you brought up.
But sorry just asking coz when we discuss about self-learning skills for kids of such age, what type of skills are specifically looking at or inculcating?

For discussion sake, we'll use MAths since this is one area where parents have most grouses about- say a child is not able to grasp the model concept for in class, what does he do? Ask the teacher in class or get help from parents. What if the child is not able to clear his doubts either because the teacher is has got too much on her plate to attend to him personally or the parents are not sufficiently equipped to help him? What should he or we parents do if we want to inculcate self-learning attitude? Let's presume the child does not have tuition.

Donch expect the teacher to be able to attend to each and every question by the students.

!st, we need to find out from the teacher what is the expected min score for that paper. The teacher must have some benchmark for each class. If my kid falls below this benchmark (or in GEP they call it baseline), then I would ask the cher if she is planning anything to help my kid, can be just 1~2 sessions of remedial just to get the concepts right. Donch need excessive remedial coz no point staying back just to do assessment papers when cannot understand the concepts.

[Nebbermind]

Lilac66:

Nebbermind:

[quote=\"Lilac66\"]

During my sec days, I remember I had only 7 subjects leh

Really. I remember sec1 I had English, Lit (result combined with Eng but still a subject), Chinese, Math, Sce, Geog, Hist, Art & Tech.

I remember I had Lit only in Sec 3.[/quote]Hmmm...cannot be leh. It's a subject by itself but the score with be part of the Eng subject. It should be the same in all schools. Anyway, other than the languages, there are only Math, Sce, Geog and Hist...the other 2 donch really have to do anything.

[Lilac66]

Nebbermind:

Lilac66:

I like what you brought up.
But sorry just asking coz when we discuss about self-learning skills for kids of such age, what type of skills are specifically looking at or inculcating?

For discussion sake, we'll use MAths since this is one area where parents have most grouses about- say a child is not able to grasp the model concept for in class, what does he do? Ask the teacher in class or get help from parents. What if the child is not able to clear his doubts either because the teacher is has got too much on her plate to attend to him personally or the parents are not sufficiently equipped to help him? What should he or we parents do if we want to inculcate self-learning attitude? Let's presume the child does not have tuition.

Donch expect the teacher to be able to attend to each and every question by the students.

!st, we need to find out from the teacher what is the expected min score for that paper. The teacher must have some benchmark for each class. If my kid falls below this benchmark (or in GEP they call it baseline), then I would ask the cher if she is planning anything to help my kid, can be just 1~2 sessions of remedial just to get the concepts right. Donch need excessive remedial coz no point staying back just to do assessment papers when cannot understand the concepts.

does the teacher conduct remedial lessons regularly when there's a need or only when it's near to exams? If not, then we can see why there's such a need for external coaching.

I don't know coz my DS goes for only Chinese remedial and it's usually when exam's round the corner , it's optional also.

[Lilac66]

Nebbermind:

Hmmm...cannot be leh. It's a subject by itself but the score with be part of the Eng subject. It should be the same in all schools. Anyway, other than the languages, there are only Math, Sce, Geog and Hist...the other 2 donch really have to do anything.

Alamak you make me feel like I have amnesia. Must dig out my report book to check .

[Nebbermind]

Lilac66:

does the teacher conduct remedial lessons regularly when there's a need or only when it's near to exams? If not, then we can see why there's such a need for external coaching.

I don't know coz my DS goes for only Chinese remedial and it's usually when exam's round the corner , it's optional also.

Not sure. Normally, I'll just drop a email asking if the result is below benchmark and how is the rest of the class performing (to assess if it's a difficult ppr or not). Then ask if they will arrange remedial for the weaker students or not. Most of the time they will try to do something, eg, give extra worksheet and run thru with kids 15 min before assembly.

[Lilac66]

Nebbermind:

Not sure. Normally, I'll just drop a email asking if the result is below benchmark and how is the rest of the class performing (to assess if it's a difficult ppr or not). Then ask if they will arrange remedial for the weaker students or not. Most of the time they will try to do something, eg, give extra worksheet and run thru with kids 15 min before assembly.

Hmm..mm I see. This dad not bad eh, still so onz with kid's studies , not just nurturing that leaf..
Anyway go back to your notti corner, you're wanted there. :evil: