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Hypersonic

Maybe our teachers here should get a lesson too from Jeff,

 

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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.

 

 

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Our teacher are force to follow moe protocol, plus parents who think worksheet is more important.

 

You have just spelled it out for us. :D

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Turbocharged

You have just spelled it out for us. :D

 

Just don't anyhow blindly blame the teacher, we are to blame. We are fortunate that our teacher actually stand up and teach.

 

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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

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Hypersonic

Our teacher are force to follow moe protocol, plus parents who think worksheet is more important.

Or maybe Jeff should enlighten our moe minister.

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Moderator

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

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Turbocharged

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.

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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.

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Turbocharged

Have to admit the ang-moh si-gi-nah-kia got a point! [laugh]

 

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...

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Turbocharged

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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? [laugh]

 

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.

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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.

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Neutral Newbie

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."

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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...

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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?

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