Your kid must have tuition... OR ELSE...
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That is why I will end up in the bookshops and going through different genre of books to hopefully hit the jackpot and get my kids interested. We provide the exposure and hope to stimulate some spark of interest.
Kids go through phases of interest. They will research on things they are interested in on the net but in my case it is Pokemon etc... they know all the intricacies of each character....and their evolution :roll:
As for excessive tuition, our education system and pressure... Well I have told some friends before, we live in a society with pressure, of different kinds in each stage of our lives. What is important is how to impart my kids with the ability to deal with pressure and minimize its impact. They have to know how to play hard( which they are very good at) and work hard( which I am trying to make them be good at). All these hopefully in a supportive environment at home. There will be challenges but they should know that there are mummy and daddy to fall back on to refill their emotional tanks. My hub and I, of course, have to make sure we are up to mark ourselves and I have to admit can be soooo... difficult with our own work and obligations and feeling tired at the end of the day. But it helps to mirror each other and remind each other. -
ChiefKiasu wrote[quote] don't believe in the \"maturity\" thing. I think it is a question of finding the right lever, and this can be done at any time. Everyone has a lever, which, when activated, will make us do wonderful things out of our own volition.[/quote]
I agree. However, the next question is, how do we sustain that level of motivation.
I've been spending my nights after work (Aussie hour which ends at 3.30 pm) teaching my kids since they are young. I've then change my job which involved taking night teleconference which disrupt my kids study time with me. Since it has been a habit that come 8 pm is studying time, they automatically sit at the dining table & go through their work. Any questions that they can't attempt, they will wait until I finish my calls.
Do they have tuition teacher or enrichment classes? My daughter does. She has not reached the stage of self study yet but there is some feeble attempt. My son, at the moment don't need one. Maybe he will need one when he is in upper primary. Only time will tell. -
Agree with tamarind fully !
Self learning takes time and parent must be persistance. Motivation comes from interest. If a person is interested in something, he/she would go for it and find no difficulties. Regardless it its a child or adult.
I give credit to my daughter’s chinese teacher for her keen interest in Chinese. Although her result is not superb but the interest is there. I personally feel that this is more important than the marks. -
Lets say…
if you have an upper primary school kid who can self-study but only manages 70+ marks, would you send the kid for tuition to hit 85+ marks? if so, even if the kid manages well for the psle, when will the tuition end? all the way through to JC? or would ‘study-techniques’ (eg mindmap etc) courses more beneficial in such cases? -
If my boy (P5) is scoring 95+ for his Maths, 89+ for Science, 80+ for English & 75+ for Chinese. He only has chinese tutition, he is taking PSLE next year should I sent him for other tutition too? He is in Ai Ting School.
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By looking through this post, I felt that teachers in schools are not doing their job, they are expecting the child to be well prepare before the teaching.
What happen to those delicate teachers who go the extra mild to teach the weak. I do not see these happening any more. Once your child is left behind, parents are told to give tuition. -
ChiefKiasu:
Pen88n:
KSmama,
I bought him a comic book with both Chinese and English translation and that quickly became his favorite book, torn and tattered and usual, but this time really well thumbed as would happen to the books he love.
hi ChiefKiasu,
Can you tell me the name of the book and where to get it ?
My P1 son is interested in the 3 Kingdom too. But, because his chinese is limited, we actually have to read to him. The book you bought your son sounds like what we need to get for him !
MTIA. -
my girl feels tired for her tuition, i’ll remove the tuition when my girl go in P1 next year…
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hey(:
i’m from RGS and was from rosyth (GEP), and i just want to share my experience with parents here abt tuition.
hmm. actually i have to say that many of my peers dn hv tuition, and they are doing okay in rgs.
personally, I have had english tuition since K1, and I stopped in P1. that was because I come frm a chinese-speaking family & I guess my mum’s worried abt my english (which eventually turned out to be one of my best subject).
I registered for the learning lab when I was primary 3, but I was put on the waiting list, and almost amazingly- once I went into the GEP prog., they admitted me immediately and I was placed in a pretty gd class with a gd timeslot- on sundays. I must say that the learning lab is really gd, but like what they said in the news, it seems to me that the learning lab only admits ppl frm the so-called elite schs (which was why when I got into GEP, they admitted me immediately). The learning lab’s explanation for this is that they have more classes for the "advanced"…
but anyway, despite that, I would still recommend the learning lab to parents. I think it would be advisable to start english tuition with learning lab at primary 1,2 (the younger the better, easier to get a place there) and maths at primary 5-6 (their maths is really gd- I’ve tried it. but not the secondary sch maths) and probably science too (though I didnt try it before)
yupp, that’s all I have to share. and right now, the only tuition I have is still english tuition with the learning lab.
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Hi
I have faxed my boy enrol form for English lesson to Learning Lab 4 days ago and was told that they will get back to me in 3 weeks time. My boy will be P6 next year and he is in Ai Tong Sch not GEP. Now really pray hard that he is able to get in, his score 80 in English this year.
From wat I read, seem that chance is slim.
rdg
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