Less Teaching, More Learning?

[Brenda10]

My DD teacher assigns the class in individual or group to work on some Science examination topics (P3 & P4) and they have to present in PowerPoint to the class. Therefore my DD has to do some revision and research in order to present the topics. :idea:

[Donkey Kong]

caroline3sg:

Donkey Kong

看开点. Bear with the education system. Complain also no use. The only consolation is you are not alone. That's why parents spend $1000 per child per month on tuition. Those who have house & car loans unpaid, ever increasing utilities bills & transport costs, they know 2 is enough. Very pragmatic. Low birth rate, brain drain are the consequences we are seeing now.

Aiyo, I didn't know having children so siong one.....
I see my peers (I hv kid later than them) everyday fly here, fly there, not in town. Golf here, golf there. Their kids like automatic, all HCI, ACS(IB), RI. Now, medicine NUS. They also assured me, like father like son, with my qualifications, kids will achieve better than me.

Turn out, not the case leh.... :? Just wonder if someone took wrongly at KK

School should make students do all research projects everything in school. Bring home, who do? Parents do. :stupid: GEP program has many projects, my colleague took few days off to do! :!:

MOE and teachers don't know they are training the GEP parents .... :celebrate: Not kids... hhahahahaaa

[Donkey Kong]

After dinner, wife gave me 20 maths questions. Target to finish by tonight. All questions from kid's school teacher.


Last minute, I have to cancel my evening walk to Popular Bookshop. :x

How many times we have to study PSLE in our lives? 2 or perhaps 3 times? (incl. grand children)

Suffering. :x :?:

[autumnbronze]

This was posted at 00.09 on 30th April ... extracted from


http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10126&start=50

Donkey Kong:

Think nowadays, kids see teacher more often than parents. Esp, both parents working. I just reach home. Kids sleeping liow. No chance to talk. Wife also sleep liow.

Eg, the chinese lesson on George Washington chopping the tree. If the teacher can use it as a chinese language lesson plus moral studies to teach students on honesty. :celebrate:

I guess most teachers not so on the ball. Go thru vocab, grammar, job close. Can give example on honesty. Discuss about personal experience or Newspaper articles.... :lol:

Teaching is a sacred calling.... no just another job.

Teachers can easily spot Lians and Bengs students, send them for Boot Camp or workshops to change them.

And this, at 01.09 on 30th April posted in this thread ...

Donkey Kong:

After dinner, wife gave me 20 maths questions. Target to finish by tonight. All questions from kid's school teacher.

Last minute, I have to cancel my evening walk to Popular Bookshop. :x

How many times we have to study PSLE in our lives? 2 or perhaps 3 times? (incl. grand children)

Suffering. :x :?:

There seems to be a contradiction leh .... :scratchhead:

How come arhhhh :?

[kitty2]

Donkey Kong:

After dinner, wife gave me 20 maths questions. Target to finish by tonight. All questions from kid's school teacher.


Last minute, I have to cancel my evening walk to Popular Bookshop. :x

How many times we have to study PSLE in our lives? 2 or perhaps 3 times? (incl. grand children)

Suffering. :x :?:

:rotflmao: this is a good one!!!!It sounds familiar

[hquek]

Donkey Kong:

School should make students do all research projects everything in school. Bring home, who do? Parents do. :stupid: GEP program has many projects, my colleague took few days off to do! :!:

MOE and teachers don't know they are training the GEP parents .... :celebrate: Not kids... hhahahahaaa

:udaman: spot on. I see one friend, kid's teacher assign project work....end up parent had to translate the chinese project and type it out until 1am in the morning; and apparently this parent helps out in the research work regularly.

Donkey Kong, I think you can be fairly sure that your woes won't end with primary school. Sec school also the same. FYI, I'll just be starting my re-education next year.

[phankao]

hquek:

Donkey Kong, I think you can be fairly sure that your woes won't end with primary school. Sec school also the same. FYI, I'll just be starting my re-education next year.

so far, i've only helped until pri 6. Thats it. sec sch also need to help? Not v right.

[Donkey Kong]

Dear Teachers,


Govt encourages us to start businesses, hopefully become global companies like Acer, MSI, Gigabytes, HTC. To provide more jobs for Singaporeans. Startup businesses, a lot of time/energy consumed...

Also, we need to make more $$. Just in case, kids cannot get scholarships, cannot get in local Us, we still can send them abroad.... $$ very important. :lol:

How to make $$$ if we everyday doing kids homework, coursework, assignment until midnight? :?

This is unhealthy for our economy..... :stupid:

Do your part, dear teachers... guarantee our kids PSLE passes (standard subjects, not foundation level)....
We will work hard to boost Singapore economy, and birthrate! :celebrate:

[LOLMum]

we have to help dd with some of her homework as well but at least we know what is happening in school and where she is in her understanding of the subject.


i, the mummy, was guilty of piling lots of enrichment lessons when she was in lower primary. though she could cope with it, there were times she was tired and upset.

by taking away most of the "necessary" enrichment lessons, dd has more time to finish her work and play and happier. so maybe parents would like to take a look at the no. of enrichment lessons the kid is doing and decide if it is necessary.

i dont know about other schools but i know that my ds’ teachers have not been overstretching the kids with work. we the parents talked about it but so far have not heard any complaints from either kids or parents.

however, the teachers are the ones who are really really given too many duties (which shouldnt be theirs in the first place) besides teaching. so i dont think "lazy" is the word i would use on any teacher.

i think the only way the teachers could guarantee that all our kids pass the psle, is to make the papers easy which means lower the standards. i am unsure if this is what anyone wants.

[mathsparks]

Donkey Kong:

How to make $$$ if we everyday doing kids homework, coursework, assignment until midnight? :?
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Perhaps you're too kiasu or exaggerate too much? How do you expect teachers to cope with a class of 40 students? And some teachers teach more than 1 class, hv worksheets/assignments to mark, meetings to attend, ccas, tests/exams to set etc.

Please spare a thought for the strain they are under. Direct your query to MOE, to employ more teachers, reduce class size etc, then perhaps you wont have to lift a finger to educate yr kids.