Less Teaching, More Learning?

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Donkey Kong:

Visited kid school the other day. Noticed the teachers like to make them shift tables/chairs often to form groups to discuss. :shock: After that, they will have to shift them back to the original positions.


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so u don't like it that ya kid have to do manual labour har?

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mrswongtuition:

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I've encountered this before & even resorted to viewing the school's CCTV, only to find that the child himself misplaced it in another part of school.
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wah. so kua-zhang ah...

[daisyt]

Donkey Kong:

Visited kid school the other day. Noticed the teachers like to make them shift tables/chairs often to form groups to discuss. :shock: After that, they will have to shift them back to the original positions.


Now I know roughly \"teach less learn more\" means. They expect the kids to discuss among themselves to come out with some answers or solutions for the problems. Encourage them to talk a lot in class. :lol:

I feel this system is good for higher level and those schools with longer contact hours. Teachers will have to spend a lot of time collecting answers (i.e. waiting for shy students to response, some jokes crack, etc.), supervising the shifting of furnitures, etc. :?

I guess they do not learn as much in school as we did in the old days. given the limited half day sessions. :?

What is your view? :celebrate:

I don't see anything wrong with shifting of furniture. If not, ask teacher to swift or engage helper?

In order to discuss, they have to talk. Before they talk, they have to think. It is a challenge they have to face, how to deal with non productive, nonsense classmates. I feel that in this kind of teaching, the main objective is not collecting answers. Its more on the process of getting the answers. Regardless the answer is YES or NO, we should ask ourselves, \"Why yes?\" \"Why No?\". I agree, some basic things have to be taught but certain things, cannot be taught. If we can start our children to think more, to have an active learning attitude and approach at young, when they reach Sec, it will be a breeze for them and the parents.

Kids nowadays are learning more \"technically\". Soft skill as if how to handle a team, how to deal with situation, how to carry out a project, how and where to search for information, how and where to seek help, how to handle setbacks and failure .... can try to start early too.

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mrswongtuition:

When my mum tried to help me with my Maths problems, she was also stuck. What did she do? She looked through my textbook for explanations, relearn the model method and taught me. Once, she was really stuck and couldn't solve the question. What did she do? She went to call her friends, she went to ask neighbours, she went all out to search for the answer. This is the attitude I learnt from my mum. Never give up, never be afraid to ask, never be shy to say that you have problems as long as you find as solution.

Oh ... so I was quite a normal mum ... hahah. I did that when dd was in primary. Slowly, it reduce and now not at all in Sec 2. She knows where to get help and how to ask for help. I think its a blessing for her and me.