The Alternative Story (TAS) - Discussion
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For higher levels, is it a norm for teachers to sort of go through the worksheets first before the children attempt? If that is the case, would we know the ‘real’ ability of the child?
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What I notice so far for my kids is during the beginning of the year, the teachers would go through quite a bit of the worksheets first, to teach them what to look out for. Then later on, they get the kids to do on their own. My kids say that by then they usually get the hang of it.
During the mid year period, they would also give out tas tests and from there you can see the results and gauge how your child is doing. However the teacher always tells us that the kids do not do well for tas tests as they test them on the harder areas. They say for school papers, about 20-30 percent is difficult. But for tas papers, they do not want to test them on what is easy as they only have a limited time in class to give them the tests and go through. So you could look at the average score of the class and your child’s marks, if your child is way below average then you have cause for concern. But if your child is average or above average, even if the marks are low, it is quite all right. -
sean wife:
For higher levels, is it a norm for teachers to sort of go through the worksheets first before the children attempt? If that is the case, would we know the ‘real’ ability of the child?
I have to go back and ask. But I still see errors and corrections....so if teacher had gone through it, then means my kid didn't catch the ball.
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Yes, I recall there was an year-end ‘test’ sometime in Oct last year. And they do state the highest and average score.
I also see quite a bit of correction work done, mainly on the comprehension OE worksheets. I notice that this year, they replace the compre OE with all graphic stimulus kind, no more MCQ and no more story based passages. According to them, this will be the new syllabus going forward. -
yup. but I thought I saw also compre technique worksheet? kids are given only parts of passages and each question relate to that part.
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My kids’ P1 class has only been doing graphic stimulus open ended for comprehension this year. Last year, their k2 class has those short passage kind followed by a few questions. I thought graphic stimulus compre seems easy, but seems not so from the recent exercises.
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I recall faintly that graphic stimulus involves inference…so that’s the tricky part. Yup, my P1 work also has that only (no compre techniques).
It’s the older one that I recall seeing compre techniques. will go back to dig and post if I was wrong. Last year, before new syllabus announced, confirm they have compre techniques. This year, I really am unsure. -
Yes I asked them about it, as I was also surprised that they did more of graphic stimulus than story passages this year. They said that graphic stimulus is part of the new syllabus and the questions asked are not that simple. They will cover comprehension passages in time to come but they want the students to be familiar with graphic stimulus that is open-ended.
I asked the school teacher about it, she said they will do both graphic stimulus and comprehension passages in the new syllabus. So it is additional things for the kids to learn. -
Ya, the graphic stimulus questions need quite a bit of inference. Somehow other than language understanding, they also involve a bit of Mathematics understanding in terms of time and money (like understanding what is discount etc). There are some pieces of information which we adults are so used to and take for granted that sometimes I have difficulty trying to explain what they mean to my kids, or something which I thought is quite common sense, but then realize that they actually don’t know what it means. Definitely need more practice on these…
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Been guilty of not reading what my kids had been up to. just happily file away after each lesson. Thought that graphic stimulus should be alright…i betta go back and do my share of work.
Thanks sean_wife for bringing that up.
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