Welcome back everyone. It's going to be a bitter struggle term with SA1 in the 8th week. This term is really going to be a real tight one so may I invite everyone to tune yourself and get ready for the battle. No more late submissions of work and no more "teacher I forget to do...." As I have shared with everyone, just to cover 84 pages of the activity book in 7 weeks can already be a challenge and coupled with worksheets and practice papers. It will be a challenge as well. So let's work hand in hand alright.
The shanghai trip was excellent, I get to share pupils' life's and see how they are like for 7 whole days, something which I don't get to see. I would like to encourage everyone to sign up for a trip especially the short ones as there are many lessons in life that cannot be found in textbooks. For now I shall leave everyone with a video of us "launching a rocket". Enjoy! = )
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Saturday, March 1, 2008
Parents Let's hear your opinions!
I have spend my lovely Saturday afternoon doing marking! While I must say that everyone had performed much better in this PBT test there is something that disturbs me pretty much.
I still find pupils not showing proper working despite numerous reminders in class. This means that quite a handful of pupils still use the top down approach and scribble their working all over the space provided. They did not use the left to right approach, writing line by line on how they arrive at the answer.
This time round, I still award working marks to the pupils but I am afraid in official exams I will have to follow strictly to the marking scheme. I know in some cases that other teachers do deduct some marks from pupils. The reason is that since it is a practice where marks are not recorded down, teachers want to allow pupils to understand the importance of showing proper working.
As such this results in some confusion, parents will wonder "Why this teacher never deduct marks while others do or why last time never deduct now in exams marks are deducted." Do your think that I should deduct marks even for practice to set things right from the start? Parents, I would like to hear from you. You can email me your feedback to Low_kiah_wee@moe.edu.sg
Thank you.
I still find pupils not showing proper working despite numerous reminders in class. This means that quite a handful of pupils still use the top down approach and scribble their working all over the space provided. They did not use the left to right approach, writing line by line on how they arrive at the answer.
This time round, I still award working marks to the pupils but I am afraid in official exams I will have to follow strictly to the marking scheme. I know in some cases that other teachers do deduct some marks from pupils. The reason is that since it is a practice where marks are not recorded down, teachers want to allow pupils to understand the importance of showing proper working.
As such this results in some confusion, parents will wonder "Why this teacher never deduct marks while others do or why last time never deduct now in exams marks are deducted." Do your think that I should deduct marks even for practice to set things right from the start? Parents, I would like to hear from you. You can email me your feedback to Low_kiah_wee@moe.edu.sg
Thank you.
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