Teach Less, Learn More

[corneyAmber]

buds:

While i'm not totally ignorant of what goes on in school, my P4 DD is
coping quite well on her own with the current school doing almost every
other thing. *:salute:* I'm blessed so i'm sharing that it IS possible...

Not every tom, dick and harriet are alike lar, ksi... teachers included.
By blanket-sweeping it is really not possible these days... good ones
like ehekhemm... me.. *shameless* :oops:... :lol: ... oso seem to
be grouped to the market-spoilers category.

Buds...you are a very involved mum and probably teacher as far as I know so you are not exercising the complete hands-off that Chenonceau and I are advocating. Though my child is independent in most ways relative to her peers, I cannot see myself being like my mum, totally hands-off because I did not use to have teachers who were absent for prolonged periods or multiple teachers absent over a period of time for their absence to be felt glaringly. In a way, we are still privileged in that we have the ability to intervene and fill the gap for our kids, not all children have this privilege. So generally TLLM is still failing in school.

[corneyAmber]

janet_lee88:

ksi:

[quote=\"janet_lee88\"]At this point in time...3 weeks before SA1 (paper 2), I am getting my son to revise as much as possible...for Science, I am getting him to read the answers to some common questions (aka spotting) from Science Explorer (teacher ordered for school).


I am very afraid to let the school do everything bcos I know son's school cannot be depended upon.

Totally empathise with your concern.

Son's school principal thanks parents for their support in co-operating with school and working hand-in-hand. What is this supposed to mean ? It's the job of the teachers to educate students right ?[/quote]No...they call it \"partnership\".... :lol: I agree to some extent, how about those without parents or dysfunctional ones? :?

[janet88]

I don’t know if being able to coach my kids in their work is a priviledge or not. What I do know is I cannot possibly adopt the same approach as my mum…bcos teachers during my time teach everything and 1 assessment book can be used from Jan to Dec.

[janet88]

Hi ksi,

Yes, that’s the WORD - Partnership.

[Happy Mama]

buds:

Happy Mama:

[quote=\"buds\"] I wanted to sift the merits of when the methodology does work and truth to be told if people really do care about the under-privileged group of children... then the Teach Less Learn More allows for these children to at least play catch up.

This is a very nice way to describe them.... more compassionate and less condescending...

Well done, Buds! :celebrate: You have gained my respect! :salute:

Happy Mama, my children and i have personally volunteered with a group of under-privileged children and if i can be honest, we have first hand experience working with them. Being under-privileged aside... these children have serious family issues having come from dysfunctional
families. These children didn't ask to be there. They were born into
these families. They cannot choose not to be there. But if more of
us care enough to give our time, they can be rescued... but from
my experience... they do need to want the help. [/quote]Thanks for sharing Buds. It's very insightful... :love: :celebrate:

Wow, you are really kind and compassionate to volunteer to help the under-privileged children. DH and I have always wanted to help out these under-privileged kids, but I guess not anybody can do so, am I right? You need to join some social bodies to be able to volunteer?

[Peony]

buds:

cantbearit2:

Reason quoted by him being, his DS sch presumes everyone had some form of enrichm (learn more) so T dun have to teach as much (teach less). :frustrated:

Chenonceau:

Happened to my friend too... an airline pilot.

Peony:

I realised this a decade ago, hence why I chose a neighbourhood school over a branded one - one which had a policy of helping every child.

They only stream based on result at P5 & P6.

The shortfall is... as DD is in the best class at P5... the teacher is not teaching nor helping as much as the other classes for the same reason (as what happens in branded schools). Most kids in her class have enrichment (or super stay at home mums) and are way ahead of syllabus!

Thanks for raising this... timely too.

This rat race that almost everyone is faulting the system for is also if you
see it a race that has cycled and recycled from the people who set them..

Somehow, Teach Less Learn More not only allows for other not-so-financially
resourceful parents' children to catch up with new things to learn in P1 but for prepared
children, they can take a breather to enjoy the other life skills that Teach Less Learn More has to offer.

Peony:

I was expecting the teacher to help more in compo as I cannot help her much BUT as the rest are way ahead, she's left playing catch up. She's shared some of the super compos, full of techniques... and when I asked DD if these were taught in school she said \"no\".

Did you raise this concern with the teacher?

I usually tell parents that they can always come up to me if they require
extra resource to help their children, in fact some say i give a lot of
extra freebies... too overwhelming bah. But in my case when DD1
was encountering some difficulties i met up with the teacher to help me
trouble shoot her weak areas.. The teacher not only raised it with my DD1
but DD1 came back saying teacher took the time to go thru the problem
area with the rest of the class and even paired her up with a patient mentor
buddy. DD1 was the kind who will pretend to know and hell come won't ask
for help.. bad mentality i know but had bad experience raising hand asking
for help, but kenna :rant: from this one-kind-of-pattern teacher.

I agree with you that while super compos are good model compos, how to
bring the techniques properly into the writing is important for children who
may not already know how to add them in. Fortunately for me, the current
school that my DD1 is in now... the teacher has specific assignments to
trouble shoot these common problems children usually have trouble with &
inspire them to write better. She also provides additional resource to let us
parents be in the loop of what has been covered with the children hence if
there is a need for any parent who wants to do follow up at home, we can
complement that with the added resource given by her... and if not, the
children can still manage fine on their own for she has explained the how-
to's in class with all the children during curriculum time. From the teacher's
initiatives, DD1 has recently told me she doesn't require help from me
anymore. She can attempt the work herself... and if she does make any
mistakes, her teacher WILL go through with the whole class so everyone
can learn from one another's mistakes. I went like ... wow.

The teacher is teaching 3 subjects - Maths, Science and English... very stretched for her at P5 level. Her solution was for DD to write compos on her own and submit to her to mark.

DD has written two (one a week since I last spoke to the teacher). She's only been able to revert once.

Your DD1 is very fortunate. The teachers in the other classes in DD's school are more \"on\" as the kids are playing \"catch up\". For the top 2 classes more emphasis is given to maths to stretch them.

To help DD for compo, I find myself creating lessons plans for her - a lot of trolling websites to find tips and buying useful resources. In my case, the teacher is just marking while I'm teaching.

[corneyAmber]

janet_lee88:

Hi ksi,

Yes, that's the WORD - Partnership.

It's called the \"keyword\".... kekeke... :rotflmao:

[janet88]

ksi:

janet_lee88:

Hi ksi,

Yes, that's the WORD - Partnership.

It's called the \"keyword\".... kekeke... :rotflmao:

Keyword ? That's a good one...I've been saying 'keyword' to my son almost everyday. To the school, their favourite word is partnership...to me, that's pure crap.

[Funx3]

buds:

Funx3:

:congrats: on reaching 9k GrandMaster Promotion!

:thankyou:

But alamak! :slapshead:

This congratulatory note cannot move into my intro thread..

Errrrrrrr ....
Pardon this Newbie Here,
Why Need to Move congratulatory note into intro thread?
Is There Something I Don't Know of ....
Like Extra Extra .... U Know what .... From U Know Who ....?
Hee Hee ....

I'm Such A Nomad ....
Jump to this thread, jump to that thread,
Never visit my Intro Thread myself ....

[Funx3]

buds:

Funx3:

For A Moment, While I Scroll Down the Page, I Thought U Gonna Post a 9000 Word Write-up to Celebrate ....
Hee-Hee ....

For a moment there, you're making me conscious.. :politebleah: .. and
actually made me pause to think if i should indeed count word by word. :heresmyfish:

Hee Hee ....
No Need to Count -liao!
Just Glancing thru the pages,
U Should Be Well Ahead of the Word Count -le!
:udawoman: