Your kid must have tuition... OR ELSE...
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Hi, by reading and hearing what all the mummies got to say about tuitions and enrichment. Cant help but feel stressed. And will also start to wonder whether to send the kids for tuitions and enrichment. If my kids can afford the time and i can afford the money, i really dont mind to send them to a good tuition or enrichment centre.
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Hi,
May I know which level your child is studying and what are the subjects that you are looking for?
I know this tutor who taught my son. I find her good. He improved quite a lot.
You can email me the details at puspagopal@gmail.com -
I was so stressed out after reading all these. Previously I was pretty much against the idea of sending kids for tuition… but now I am not that sure.
Can’t imagine my little one also has to join this kind of rat race so early as P1 which is in 2 years’ time.
Can any parent who didn’t send their children for tuition but still managed to pull through quite well please share some of your success story here too?
Last year the top PSLE student from St. Hildas didn’t go for tuition as I read from newspaper… if it is ture, that shall give me some comfort… -
PM me for my child's tutor's details
i heard she is starting to take in students for next year to replace those taking psle this year
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last night, I attended one of the talk @ our neighbour commitee center. This lady who give the speech talked about how she help her daughter from average score student to 2A and 2A* top student after PLSE. Basically she quit her job and use about 8 month time to teach/tutor her daughter. from the way she describe of what she did, it seems like quite a lot of work to do as a mother, even better than the tutor.
Now the world is no longer the same compare with our childhood time. Teacher teach how much and we learn how much. Parents involvement is very limited. only the worst student go to tuition.
Now, It seems our primary school teacher can only teach the basic and concept. when during the exam, the school will make more challenge questions. If the child doesn’t explore beyond what they learn, doesn’t know how to apply the knowledge to more difficult questions, they are just getting average result. so, the parents either hire a tutor or coach themselves in order to get A.
As Chief mentioned, we are @ the crossroad. The question is how we strike the balance? -
amylqf:
...Basically she quit her job and use about 8 month time to teach/tutor her daughter. from the way she describe of what she did, it seems like quite a lot of work to do as a mother, even better than the tutor....Now, It seems our primary school teacher can only teach the basic and concept. when during the exam, the school will make more challenge questions...
Personally, I feel that any child will do well in school if there is a dedicated stay-home parent tutoring the child at home. However, I feel if this is not done properly, it might set up an artificial environment (it's equivalent to hot-housing) and creates unhealthy dependency of the child on the parent to monitor and control every single aspect of the child's life. The purpose of scoring all A's in school may become the be-it-and-end-all of life for both parent and child.
The children I really respect are those who do well even with parents who doesn't give a hoot about their studies. These are the children who will grow up with purpose-filled lives of achieving targets they set for themselves, and NOT by their parents.
Also, it may be too sweeping to say that teachers today do not teach. They do, but they have also come to expect their students to be more advanced than teachers of our time. And that is entirely our fault, because in our eagerness to ensure our children to be ahead of whatever is taught in class, we have put our children through external lessons. So if most children have such lessons, those that don't become a minority and the teacher can only point this out to their parents out of concern. Of course this would appear that the teacher is \"promoting\" tuition.
The only way to resolve this is to lower the PSLE standards so that more students can make the bar. This will make parents realize that they are overdoing their involvement in pushing their children. However, in a nation that values progress and moving on to higher and higher bars, it is unlikely that such a proposition will ever be supported by MOE. -
ChiefKiasu:
Same sentiments.
The children I really respect are those who do well even with parents who doesn't give a hoot about their studies. These are the children who will grow up with purpose-filled lives of achieving targets they set for themselves, and NOT by their parents.ChiefKiasu:
Cannot agree more. Think we may have hit a point of no return now until a major disaster hit us(eg. too many suicides, children skip school to joint protest on the streets, mental institutions cannot cope with fast rising demand anymore...) .......then perhaps review and action will be taken.The only way to resolve this is to lower the PSLE standards so that more students can make the bar. This will make parents realize that they are overdoing their involvement in pushing their children. However, in a nation that values progress and moving on to higher and higher bars, it is unlikely that such a proposition will ever be supported by MOE.
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ChiefKiasu:
And that is entirely our fault, because in our eagerness to ensure our children to be ahead of whatever is taught in class, we have put our children through external lessons.
Not me. I'm very kiasu, but I feel that I rather spend the time teaching my gals things that is not taught in sch by her teacher. From what I have heard, those kids who are taught in advance of the sch syllables, they usually do not pay a lot of attention during class, becasue they already went through the text book with the home tuition teacher, and I feel this is not a good habit to cultivate. -
mumwgals:
I had a long conversation with the Chinese teacher in Molin today. According to her, a number of schools are indeed sticking to the \"Teach less, learn more\" mantra. She interpretes this as the creation of a tougher environment in which children are tested not ONLY on what is taught in class, but a significant amount is on material not covered in class.ChiefKiasu:
And that is entirely our fault, because in our eagerness to ensure our children to be ahead of whatever is taught in class, we have put our children through external lessons.
Not me. I'm very kiasu, but I feel that I rather spend the time teaching my gals things that is not taught in sch by her teacher. From what I have heard, those kids who are taught in advance of the sch syllables, they usually do not pay a lot of attention during class, becasue they already went through the text book with the home tuition teacher, and I feel this is not a good habit to cultivate.
The question is, how on earth do we parents know whether we are teaching our children AHEAD of what will be taught, or if we are covering material that will not be taught, but examinable in schools? The whole \"Teach less, learn more\" thing confuses the heck out of me. -
[quote]a number of schools are indeed sticking to the \"Teach less, learn more\" mantra. She interpretes this as the creation of a tougher environment in which children are tested not ONLY on what is taught in class, but a significant amount is on material not covered in class.[/quote]
My gal is in primary 1 studying in one of the gal school. I had a shocking first half of the year to realise the fact that there is no way that today's children can lead a carefree childhood.
As a \"dun bother' mother, I blame myself for not preparing my gal well for P1 and I learnt my lesson after the mid year review. Indeed, I realised that the school doesn't teach much and what they do is to access the children with worksheets. I still do not know what do they teach for P1 English?
My gal obviously did not do well for SA1 and hence during the June holidays, I enrolled her to a few enrichment courses and I taught her in advance for her Maths. The only subject that I enrolled for her prior to P1 was Chinese TianHsieh.
Now, I feel so ashmad of myself as a mother for not spending the effort to groom her. I hope it is still not too late as without tuition or enrichment courses, I supposed there is no way for my gal to be able to cope with the worksheets and exams and expectation of the school.
For my case, my view is that I think enrichment centres are a better choice than private tuition because they know the MOE syllabus very well and they teach in advance with well prepared teaching materials. However, they are very expensive and hence I guess I have to cope with the \"hole\" in my pocket. But then, what to do?
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