Ender Hypersonic May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 Maybe our teachers here should get a lesson too from Jeff, ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph22 Turbocharged May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 Our teacher are force to follow moe protocol, plus parents who think worksheet is more important. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gitanic 6th Gear May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 i agree w him. Don't expect exceptional teaching methods from our neighbourhood schools or JC. Maybe 1 or 2 can made it. But most won't. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HP_Lee 5th Gear May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 Our teacher are force to follow moe protocol, plus parents who think worksheet is more important. You have just spelled it out for us. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph22 Turbocharged May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 You have just spelled it out for us. Just don't anyhow blindly blame the teacher, we are to blame. We are fortunate that our teacher actually stand up and teach. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felipe 3rd Gear May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 Who cares how teaching is done as long as grades r good. Tats how it is here i mean Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felipe 3rd Gear May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 Just don't anyhow blindly blame the teacher, we are to blame. We are fortunate that our teacher actually stand up and teach. Not just teach, cca, admin, counseling, customer svc, marking, gebiz, plan events, art, pe, music, camp etc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ender Hypersonic May 10, 2013 Author Share May 10, 2013 Our teacher are force to follow moe protocol, plus parents who think worksheet is more important. Or maybe Jeff should enlighten our moe minister. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadX Moderator May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 sadly, most of the teachers you see are without passion. Cut the propaganda abt life in teh classroom that u see on tv etc....truth betold, teachers are exhausted and have no life left to give it....feel sorry for them. But teaching is a calling and sooner or later, they will move on. Attrition rate is still pretty high Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joseph22 Turbocharged May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 sadly, most of the teachers you see are without passion. Cut the propaganda abt life in teh classroom that u see on tv etc....truth betold, teachers are exhausted and have no life left to give it....feel sorry for them. But teaching is a calling and sooner or later, they will move on. Attrition rate is still pretty high Yeah, a lot of thing on local drama very wayang. Their social worker got so much times to date and break off. Teacher like got unlimited money keep buying things to help student understand. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ngck 3rd Gear May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 easier said than done.... while the young man intention is good... its simply too idealistic. teachers got their own issues outside of work and sometimes it will affect work as well. Not everything is swee swee and smooth sailing one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sosaria Turbocharged May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 Have to admit the ang-moh si-gi-nah-kia got a point! But he is too idealistic - though I think young people should be idealistic at their age before grim reality sets in. It's true that teachers should generate interest in the subject and thereby motivate students to learn. But not all teachers are gifted at this. It's one of those X-factors that, in a way, you need to be born with it and have it as part of your personality. Just like some speakers are naturally charismatic. If we set this criteria for teacher selection, we would definitely have a shortage of teachers! So students should also do their part and put some effort into their studies. After all, it's their future gain 100% and the teacher receives none of it. Teaching standards here are already not as bad as USA. In the USA, they still have strong teacher unions that continue to resist efforts to evaluate teachers on a set of KPIs that include students' performance in standardised tests. No surprise then that they have some real slackers there... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sosaria Turbocharged May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 ... But teaching is a calling and sooner or later, they will move on. Attrition rate is still pretty high So those that stay long long in the teaching service must be those dedicated to the calling ones, no? Anyway, in the video, the teacher should not have gone down to the level of the student and argue tit-for-tat with him. It's pointless because the teacher is in a position of superiority and whatever the outcome of argument, will be seen as a "bully". It's better to play "victim", let the student rant on, while smiling at him sympathetically, then the student would appear to be overly emotional and look silly. Always works when I encounter unreasonable people at work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pplater 1st Gear May 10, 2013 Share May 10, 2013 (edited) In an ideal world, teachers engage every learner of different ability using differentiated learning. They set tasks of varying difficulties for different students in the classroom every lesson, for about 15-20 periods of 40min lessons or equivalent. In an ideal world, teachers inspire every child, rise above their own personal circumstances and move every soul in classroom with their passion in their subject. Teachers possess the leadership and communication skills to do the right thing by responding to a student's outburst, perhaps due to some pent-up personal or family issues. In an ideal world, teachers are paid well enough to do the job well and have no other personal issues to distract them from the job. In an ideal world I would command as much purchasing power as my mother did when she was a pioneering era teacher with $300+ per month and bought a HDB flat for $6k in the 1960s and a family car with my dad for 1k. In an ideal world I would not command 3k a month as a fresh grad teaching in a neighbourhood school and buy a HDB flat for 300k and a car would not cost 100k. It is not an ideal world. Globalization has made life challenging for teachers in the USA and Singapore. So I guess I can understand if her lessons are not interesting and her students are unhappy. I do not think this qualifies as an excuse for her. I am merely stating my perception of one factor of the cause. I have left MOE. It would not be ideal for me to deliever a less than ideal lesson to my students. Tuition is more ideal to me in a less ideal world. I think globalization has made life difficult for many people these days. The game plan for life and work has changed and the goalposts are shifting. The cheese has been moved. But many people are still running in the maze looking for cheese when only crumbs are left. Hope the kid and teacher walk away with a win-win outcome and the school principal resolves this well. Edited May 10, 2013 by Pplater Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matrix0405 5th Gear May 11, 2013 Share May 11, 2013 Or maybe Jeff should enlighten our moe minister. oh, No. All schools are good schools. Some skools are simply better. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TonyStark123 Neutral Newbie May 13, 2013 Share May 13, 2013 oh, No. All schools are good schools. Some skools are simply better. Woah...sounds like Animal Farm quote, " All animals are qual. It's just that some animals are more equal than the others." Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dankoo 4th Gear May 13, 2013 Share May 13, 2013 The pressure are coming from the parents more often then the sch...parents are demanding more and trying to direct how the sch teach...less worksheets, some parents complaint too lax...too many, some parents complaint why so heavy workload... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rncw 5th Gear May 13, 2013 Share May 13, 2013 are there any teachers out there who became a teacher just to get a job, or is their real passion to groom our future generations? ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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