Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework?

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:47:44 GMT

sand — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:47:44 GMT

daisyt:
pinkapple:
[quote=\"jiake\"]I'm currently in sec 1.

At first my form teacher marks my homework. But then my homework increase . Thus teacher dont mark alot now.
Every month the school gives us a worksheet. I'm still stressing whether to do or not do as teacher have not go through last month's worksheet... :idea:
You have to do.

discuss with your friends if u meet with any problem.
If ya friends also can't do, raise the problem in class or find your teacher after lesson time to clarify.

You should be responsible for your own learning.

Fully agree! :celebrate:[/quote]Fully agree too. Many a times, when students face problems, they do not voice them...how would the teacher know?? I'm sure all teachers will ask, \"are there any questions?\" And any responsible teacher will try his/ her best to clarify doubts/ questions for any student who approaches him/ her.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:44:52 GMT

sand — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 01:44:52 GMT

Speaking with experience as an EL tr, marking essays is a never ending job. Sometimes exercises are self-marked or peer-marked (Peer marking is also a very helpful learning process for students). Other times, teacher focus-marks (targets at particular group of errors only) or marks for assessment. But ALL class work or home work WILL be taught, explained and gone through with students.

Exceptional cases are near exam period when I want students to practice writing or compre papers. Then I’ll issue the answer scripts for students to self check. Students will approach me if they need to clarify things. If not it’ll take a very long time to return all the marked scripts. And from what I see, many students are not concerned about the mistakes they make or making sure they don’t make the same mistakes. They just want to know how many marks they get, and then chuck the papers aside.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Fri, 14 May 2010 06:12:09 GMT

daisyt — Fri, 14 May 2010 06:12:09 GMT

pinkapple:
jiake:
I'm currently in sec 1.

At first my form teacher marks my homework. But then my homework increase . Thus teacher dont mark alot now.
Every month the school gives us a worksheet. I'm still stressing whether to do or not do as teacher have not go through last month's worksheet... :idea:
You have to do.

discuss with your friends if u meet with any problem.
If ya friends also can't do, raise the problem in class or find your teacher after lesson time to clarify.

You should be responsible for your own learning.

Fully agree! :celebrate:

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Fri, 14 May 2010 00:48:41 GMT

ningy — Fri, 14 May 2010 00:48:41 GMT

Kudos to all teachers :celebrate: ! With the weekly test on top of daily homework, u really need more than 24 hrs per day !! That's why some single teachers can't find time to socialise and others get \"burnt out\". It's really stressful as nowadays the students are difficult to manage too.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:39:38 GMT

pinkapple — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:39:38 GMT

jiake:
I'm currently in sec 1.

At first my form teacher marks my homework. But then my homework increase . Thus teacher dont mark alot now.
Every month the school gives us a worksheet. I'm still stressing whether to do or not do as teacher have not go through last month's worksheet... :idea:

You have to do.

discuss with your friends if u meet with any problem.
If ya friends also can't do, raise the problem in class or find your teacher after lesson time to clarify.

You should be responsible for your own learning.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:37:46 GMT

pinkapple — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:37:46 GMT

Sec Math Teacher here.

I wish I don’t have to mark HW siah.

I’m marking all the time. I’ll bring work out when I go for dinner, family gathering, doc’s appointments, etc. whenever I’m waiting, I’ll be marking.

I don’t mark most of my 1NT’s homework though cos mostly very straight forward, no need working kinda questions.
I will go thru’ the difficult questions in class and the students exchange their books to mark for each other (think they do that in primary school too). other easy questions, random students will be picked to come up to the board and present their answers. I’ll mark then the kids mark their friends’ books.
What I do have to mark for them is their weekly test paper. Yes, they have a test EVERY week. will give me feedback on their performance and quite enough marking for me liao.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:53:57 GMT

alex_tbk — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:53:57 GMT

krazy:
hey

i am a secondary sch teacher. and yes i mark. although i take forever to mark.

reason being:
1) i teach 3 EL classes of 40 kids each on top of other LIT classes. many of these kids esp the normal academic ones do not write well. and marking 40 scripts is like writing 40 essays of my own or else, the kids will not know how to do corrections.

2) daily classes can end as late as 3pm and there after, there are CCAs and a normal day can finish at 6pm. If there are no CCAs, there are meetings and tutorials and what nots. I leave the school at 6pm, but still no time to do marking because my time in the afternoons are taken up by other more urgent matters like meetings and tutorials, or attending courses.

Still I need to mark. So I sleep lesser, steal time away from my daughter, or hide somewhere to mark. nowadays, i try to mark while i wait for my girl to finish her enrichment classes. not many scripts can be done at one time, at most 6 / 7 in that one hour time frame.

so .. the marked scripts will come in.

An ex-teacher here.... totally understand what you are saying. Parents outside the education arena need to understand what teachers are going thru' Many still think that the teaching system has unevolved over the last 20 years. The solution to this is the same when you try to divide a number by zero in your calculator. Now we know why are there advertisements on the TV that ends with \"Thank you, Mrs Wee....\" hee hee....

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:53:51 GMT

autumnbronze — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:53:51 GMT

krazy:
daisyt

we need to mark every script. haha.. actually it depends on the sch and how the middle management wants to. cuz my hod, principal will check every file and book.

and everyone needs to hand in. even if not every book or file is scrutinized, even if picked randomly, teachers do get into trouble if the work is not done properly. so we chase students for all their work. for students who are in the top classes and are self motivated, the work will come in but for the tail end classes, lots of chasing and scolding. it can get so tiring cuz its not just books and files. we also have to collect forms and what not.

Agree with Krazy .... for some HODs, this is one of the basis for ranking of teachers in the dept.

Also, we had a quota of assignments to give to the pupils. These, we definitely had to return, get them to do corrections and re-mark again. Imagine, I am speaking from the perspective of a Lit/EL teacher who, at one point of time, had 2 Sec 4 EL classes, 2 Sec 4 Lit classes, 3 Sec 3 Lit classes and 3 Sec 2 Lit classes :!:

Ermmmm, as for chasing. I don't do that, never had the time. I negotiate a deal with them

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:12:03 GMT

xxjustakidxx — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:12:03 GMT

Serafiel:
Some teachers. For example, the Maths and Science ones. Chinese teacher also not bad.

History, English teachers suck. They never returned my worksheet which I handed in in 2008 until now!! Grr, I think she ate them. Just a tip: don't go NH, the teachers there are atrocious. History teachers also don't teach us, just give us model essays to memorise even though History is supposed to be subjective.

Wow, hate nan hua alot hor, my friend in dunman comfirm suffer.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:56:52 GMT

jiake — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:56:52 GMT

I'm currently in sec 1.

At first my form teacher marks my homework. But then my homework increase . Thus teacher dont mark alot now.
Every month the school gives us a worksheet. I'm still stressing whether to do or not do as teacher have not go through last month's worksheet... :idea:

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:50:29 GMT

Serafiel — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:50:29 GMT

Some teachers. For example, the Maths and Science ones. Chinese teacher also not bad.

History, English teachers suck. They never returned my worksheet which I handed in in 2008 until now!! Grr, I think she ate them. Just a tip: don’t go NH, the teachers there are atrocious. History teachers also don’t teach us, just give us model essays to memorise even though History is supposed to be subjective.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:34:26 GMT

lizawa — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:34:26 GMT

Zann:
It has been one over month since my son starts sec school. He completes his homework everyday but the teachers have never seem to collect and mark them. Occasionally, they gone through once or twice in class. Do sec school teachers mark homework? While term 1 common test is approaching, parents would appreciate if you are kind to share the situation like to your sec 1 child, be it IP or non-IP school. Thanks.

Hi Zann,

Actually now I hardly check my son's homework. But I do see that most compulsory worksheets are marked. There are some so-called enrichment work sheets which the teacher will check regularly but not all students do them. Some are marked in class by the children when the teacher go through them.

And yes, there are some graded worksheets that need to be signed by parents.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:07:51 GMT

krazy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:07:51 GMT

daisyt:
I feel that 40 students in a class is too big a group. Teachers also suffering when marking the papers. I personal feel that ideal is 20 but we are shortage of teachers and schools.

Random pick method, different kids have different mentality.

1st type is to think \"I won't be so lucky to get pick, so I anyhow do, anyway teachers don't mark all.\"

2nd type is prudent thinking \"What happen if I get pick, so I better do properly\"

3rd type is mature thinking \"I do it well is for my own benefit, its not a matter of whether teachers mark or don't\"

:lol:

daisyt
we need to mark every script. haha.. actually it depends on the sch and how the middle management wants to. cuz my hod, principal will check every file and book.

and everyone needs to hand in. even if not every book or file is scrutinized, even if picked randomly, teachers do get into trouble if the work is not done properly. so we chase students for all their work. for students who are in the top classes and are self motivated, the work will come in but for the tail end classes, lots of chasing and scolding. it can get so tiring cuz its not just books and files. we also have to collect forms and what not.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:29:24 GMT

krazy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:29:24 GMT

pinky:
To krazy,

My sympathies to you on your predicament. I have a relative who teaches
maths in a sec school and her weekends are burned marking papers, setting
questions, organising enrichment class etc for her students.
Once I saw a teacher marking Maths papers
in a MRT train and she was holding a huge stack on her lap.
So much work and so little time, sigh...

yeah..
i used to mark on trains too until i felt really uncomfortable with people looking down on my students' scripts. so i stopped. haha.

yeah, many of my colleagues do not have a life and they stay behind in sch till 8, 9 pm. its a never ending job.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:27:00 GMT

daisyt — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:27:00 GMT

I feel that 40 students in a class is too big a group. Teachers also suffering when marking the papers. I personal feel that ideal is 20 but we are shortage of teachers and schools.

Random pick method, different kids have different mentality.

1st type is to think \"I won't be so lucky to get pick, so I anyhow do, anyway teachers don't mark all.\"

2nd type is prudent thinking \"What happen if I get pick, so I better do properly\"

3rd type is mature thinking \"I do it well is for my own benefit, its not a matter of whether teachers mark or don't\"

:lol:

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:17:02 GMT

pinky — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 07:17:02 GMT

To krazy,

My sympathies to you on your predicament. I have a relative who teaches
maths in a sec school and her weekends are burned marking papers, setting
questions, organising enrichment class etc for her students.
Once I saw a teacher marking Maths papers
in a MRT train and she was holding a huge stack on her lap.
So much work and so little time, sigh…

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:15:42 GMT

krazy — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 06:15:42 GMT

hey

i am a secondary sch teacher. and yes i mark. although i take forever to mark.

reason being:
1) i teach 3 EL classes of 40 kids each on top of other LIT classes. many of these kids esp the normal academic ones do not write well. and marking 40 scripts is like writing 40 essays of my own or else, the kids will not know how to do corrections.

2) daily classes can end as late as 3pm and there after, there are CCAs and a normal day can finish at 6pm. If there are no CCAs, there are meetings and tutorials and what nots. I leave the school at 6pm, but still no time to do marking because my time in the afternoons are taken up by other more urgent matters like meetings and tutorials, or attending courses.

Still I need to mark. So I sleep lesser, steal time away from my daughter, or hide somewhere to mark. nowadays, i try to mark while i wait for my girl to finish her enrichment classes. not many scripts can be done at one time, at most 6 / 7 in that one hour time frame.

so .. the marked scripts will come in.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:11:49 GMT

spring5 — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:11:49 GMT

yup, IP is supposed to train the kids towards the University way of learning.

But taking the A levels is :stupid: as I think it's 1-step back.
I hope the Education Ministry will shift all IP kids to take the IB diploma instead as IB is more broad-based learning compared to A levels which stresses rout learning

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:29:47 GMT

csc — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 00:29:47 GMT

Hi daisyt,

Ya, he is in an IP program. Well, I’m not sure if what the teachers are doing is typical of IP program or secondary school. If the teachers do review the homework in class, I feel that it should be fine. You can perhaps encourage your child to approach the teacher if she’s not sure what she is doing is in line with what is required.

The difference I sense in the IP program is that there is a great deal of research , projects, oral presentations and reflections. It is a shift away from the "spoonfeeding" and "drilling" methods the students have in their primary school days.I feel that it is a good move as it makes learning meaningful and interesting.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:15:31 GMT

daisyt — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:15:31 GMT

hi csc, your son's school is IP or non-IP ? I am just wondering if is there a difference because I heard that in IP, they want to train their independence and self learning. I am not sure my girl's teachers are not marking because of IP or ..... ???? :idea:

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:54:36 GMT

csc — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:54:36 GMT

It all depends on the teacher. My son’s science and maths teachers are hardworking ,so work is consistently marked. Answer keys are also provided on the students’ portal for independent checking.

As for his language art tr, she is a little "slack". She will go thru worksheets in class but never seems to mark them. Reflections on poems are also not returned since Jan.

Reply to Do teachers in sec school usually mark homework? on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:30:26 GMT

daisyt — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:30:26 GMT

I also have the same doubt. My girl in IP school, for chinese, the teacher random pick a few student’s work from the class to review and comment. For Math, the teacher would pick the difficult ones, ask the class to give the answser. And if the answer is wrong, he would tell the class to discuss (openly) the solutions. Bascially he also does not mark. For language art, they would do presentation of their homework in class, also no marking by teacher. Is this common in sec school ?

zann, your child is in IP or non IP ?