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Originally posted by wee_ws:
Hi,
Instead of competing (which usually ends up in a win-lose or lose-lose outcome), it's better to collaborate to achieve a win-win situation for all concerned :)
Cheers,
Wen ShihI will need to learn from you on how to use and teach graphic calculators :D
That's the main obstacle preventing me from teaching JC maths
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Originally posted by Marco_Simone:
Topic as above.
That time,when I went back to serve the balance of my NS after my uni studies as a 25 yo 3SG,I found the attitude of some of the junior commanders really CMI.
The most extreme was I said "fu-ck you,you better change your attitude" to a newly minted 2LT. He was shocked but it ended there.
wow, you are only 25 yrs old?
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Originally posted by ORIGAMIST:
A night of fun leading to 10 months jail and 3 stokes of cane ... he deserved it ... as for the rapist with 5 and half years and 6 strokes of cane, should be lock up longer ... How can take advantage of a girl like that - if the girl is his wife or daughter, how he feel .. ... got wife somemore ... pity his wife and kids ...
not even a night of "fun" yet
Edited by eagle 04 Dec `08, 4:33PM
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Originally posted by Gedanken:
What is confusing things is your repeatedly saying that more funding is needed without making a direct link between said funding and improvements in grades. What's even more confusing is your suggestion of overseas holidays for the kids.
There's no need for more funding. What's needed is for the guts of the current education system to be ripped out and thrown in the bin. Teachers need to be made accountable for their performance and the deadwood needs to be weeded out. no more iron rice bowls, no more free rides, no more sinking to the lowest common denominator.
if moe teachers become super effective, then even harder to earn from tuition le
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After I got the result, the older teachers came up to me and said, "Don't work too hard". Honest to God, I swear that they said those precise words. Next thing I knew, these teachers were going to the principal and complaining that I was "getting along too well" with the kids. WTF does that mean? Was I accused of being a pedophile?!
It's still like that now.
If your students improve a lot under you, the other teachers are not happy. They levy charges like what you said, and other charges like: "the paper you set was too easy" and spread rumours like "must have leaked the questions to the students"
Lots of backstabbing in MOE schools, especially with the new grading system. That's why it's better to be a tuition teacher.
Edited by eagle 04 Dec `08, 1:57PM
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Originally posted by Herzog_Zwei:
My suggestion for dealing with elitist education:
Shoot the Elites.
It's more about personal goals sometimes. There are many people smarter than me around, yet though they have a goal to do well in their studies, it's a half hearted goal. Thus, no concerted effort was made to achieve it.... and this usually explains why they do not succeed as well as they like to...
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Originally posted by cathykitty:
and these scholarships are they in the minority, or are most scholarships like tt?
i guess u had a choice then. lucky u! but my pt is, let's say the student can't cope, yet still has to give pte tuition? some courses of study require more time than others.
Most scholarships are like that. In addition, you can even apply for busaries. Furthermore, there are bank loans (at 4% p.a.) which only need to be repaid after you graduate.
My point of view is, if the student can't cope, it wouldn't be any better if he/she do not need to give pte tuition.
My schedule that I packed for myself in uni definitely requires even more time than most other courses (with the exception of medicine and perhaps, law). The number of modules I took is quite a bit over the requirement (5 extra), such that most pple would need another extra semester to do it. This is already on top of a full sem of Industrial Attachment and Student Exchange (which is agained, sponsored). This is all about personal time management.
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Originally posted by cathykitty:
i tink it's not true all the time, but surely most of the time tt's the case.
do u mean to say tt most of the time students can still apply for undergrad scholarships after they have started uni?
i believe most undergrad scholarships are awarded not yearly, but on a three-year or four-year basis.
There are scholarships that you can apply all the way from year 1 to year 4. Means there's also 2-year and 1-year basis. The difference is the bond period.
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But unlike a job interview where if we fail to make the cut, we can always try to apply to another company in the same industry, for an undergrad scholarship interview, usually, that is the only chance that the teenager has got to prove himself or herself. They only have one chance to get the undergrad scholarship – after their A levels. And if they screw up, they will not get a chance to apply for the same scholarship again.
From personal experience, this is not true most of the time.
In terms of helping with paying for tutors, it’s because it’s not reasonable to expect a school teacher to offer intensive remedial for students all the time. Now, poorer kids who are lagging in their studies either don’t do anything abt it, or they go to social NGOs where free tuition is provided. But the quality of such volunteer tutors is not being controlled. Also, the environment in which this takes place, having been a volunteer tutor myself, is not always conducive for teaching a child, leading to a haphazard type of learning that doesn’t really help.
That's why I help out at Homework Forum and created ExamWorld free :D
In fact, there are many bright students who do part-time jobs just to supplement their family’s income (and not just for branded goods). Surely that would affect their studies? Why shldn’t the govt do more to help them?
I taught a lot of tuition during my uni days, not to supplement family income, but to increase my savings. Don't feel that my studies were affected much leh.
Edited by eagle 04 Dec `08, 1:05PM
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