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Sdp is right about psle streaming - what works in education

makapaaa

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[h=1]SDP IS RIGHT ABOUT PSLE STREAMING - WHAT WORKS IN EDUCATION[/h]
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SDP’s right
After the PLSE results came out, I tot Mad Dog Chee had a relapse, when the SDP came out against streaming. I mean what could be a no-brainer than streaming? Don’t students learn faster when students of similar ability are taught in a group.
Seems that SDP is right: Dividing pupils into classes of different abilities is a popular approach to improving standards, but research suggests that it leaves students a month behind those in mixed groups. BBC report
Surprised?
This is a the one finding (see below for other findings) of intensive analysis of data from across the world, part-funded by the Department for Education as part of the What Works Network, and recently published by the British government.
And Dr Chee has form in calling things right. In the 1990s, Dr Chee articulateda dystopian vision of S’pore. sadly the prophesy is more accurate then the than PAP’s administration or my views of how S’pore would look like today.
Too bad, SDP went AWOL under Dr Chee’s leadership. If only he had WP Low’s patience and wisdom to build up a grass-roots based organisation**. The PAP is always lucky in its enemies. JBJ and Dr Chee then. And Low today.
What works in education
Doesn’t work
Uniform policy?
Schools that don’t force pupils into blazers and ties are almost unheard of these days. But the best evidence is that a uniform policy makes no difference to attainment. If anything, it holds students back.
Setting and streaming?
Dividing pupils into classes of different abilities is a popular approach to improving standards, but research suggests that it leaves students a month behind those in mixed groups.
Teaching assistants?
Research suggests students in a class with a TA do not, on average, perform better than those in a class with only a teacher.
Longer lessons (block scheduling, in the jargon )?
The evidence is double-chemistry and triple-maths don’t make for more accomplished chemists and mathematicians.
Repeating a year?
Giving pupils a chance to repeat a year if they are struggling is not only very expensive – on average, it leaves children four months behind.




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So what does work?
Meta-cognition and self-regulation? YES.
… that phrase reflects the most effective way to improve educational outcomes, according to the evidence.
Meta-cognition is often described as “learning to learn” and what it means is giving children a range of strategies they can use to monitor and improve their own academic development. Self-regulation is developing the ability to motivate oneself to learn.
On average, introducing meta-cognition and self-regulation into the classroom has a high impact, with pupils making an average of eight months’ additional progress. That is a phenomenal improvement.
Feedback?
Feedback is information given to pupils about how they are doing against their learning goals. In the workplace it might be part of an appraisal, and the evidence is that a similar approach works wonders in the classroom, increasing educational attainment by around eight months.
Peer-tutoring?
If pupils work together in pairs or small groups to give each other explicit teaching support, the results can be dramatic – particularly with youngsters who struggle the most. This isn’t about doing away with teachers, but it seems when working with their peers, children tend to take real responsibility for their teaching and their own learning.
Sometimes the tutoring can be reciprocal, with pupils alternating as tutor and tutee. Cross-age tutoring also has advantages for older and younger participants, it turns out. This intervention, on average, improves student performance by a GCSE grade.
One-to-one adult tutoring is, counter-intuitively, less effective and much more expensive than peer tutoring.
Homework in primary school doesn’t make a lot of difference, nor does mentoring, performance pay for teachers, or the physical environment of the school.
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30210514
**To be fair, Low had the experience and help of the Barisan Socialists’ activists. BSoc diissolved itself in 1988 and its activists joined WP .https://atans1.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/strong-legacy-of-forgotten-dissident-party/. They put up with the antics of one JBJ until there was an opportunity to defenestrate him in 2001.

Cynical Investor
*The writer blogs at https://atans1.wordpress.com/
 

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18 ways Finland’s education system beats S’pore’s hands down

[FONT=open_sansregular]September 30, 2013
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[FONT=open_sansregular]The Finnish people are showing the world how to do education right.

[/FONT][FONT=open_sansregular]Finland has a population of 5.4 million, roughly the same as what Singapore has. And that’s pretty much where the similarities between these two countries end.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]Because the quality of education between these two countries cannot be any further apart.
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[FONT=open_sansregular]In Finland, t[/FONT]uition is virtually unheard of, homework is rarer than precious metal and exams are conducted only when it is really required — maybe three times in one lifetime.

[FONT=open_sansregular]Sounds wonderful, right?
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[FONT=open_sansregular]Therefore, here are 18 other reasons Finland is leading Singapore and the rest of the world in terms of education by about a mile — give and take, a few light years.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]1. Pre-school teachers in Finland are required to have a basic three-year degree and many hold master’s degrees.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]In Singapore, if you’re a woman without a criminal record, you’re pretty much getting the job.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]2. The teacher-student ratio for pupils between three and six years old is 1:7.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]This is virtually unheard of in Singapore.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]3. Finland operates 24-hour childcare centres catering to parents who might be stewardesses, policemen and nurses.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]Singapore operates 24-hour kopitiams.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]4. Teachers of primary and secondary schools study for five years up to master’s level.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]In Singapore, 19-year-olds do relief teaching in secondary schools.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]5. Finnish pre-schools for three to seven-year-olds are focused on play. A play-based curriculum stimulates creative development and a curiosity for learning.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]Singaporean parents try to make their 6-month-old infants read.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]6. By law, Finnish children under the age of seven have a right to attend childcare regardless of family income or parental employment.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]In Singapore, the law is used to deter criminals.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]7. [/FONT]The top 10 percent of students to graduate from Finnish high school will pick teaching over law.
[FONT=open_sansregular]It would be a miracle if we found 10 people in Singapore who did that.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]8. This year alone, 2,000 applied for 100 spots in the primary school teacher-education programme in one Finnish institution.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]This statistic sounds like the number of applicants for NUS Medicine.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]9. There is no yearly appraisal or grading of a teacher’s performance, due to the rigorous training teachers have undergone in Finland.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]In Singapore, most teachers get a C, while scholar teachers tend to get a B. True story.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]10. Finnish primary school teachers make an average of US$30,500 (S$38,300) a year.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]Male teachers get this pay because they served NS. Female teachers, tough luck.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]11. Finnish schools are all equal — every school is a good school.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]In Singapore, Raffles Institution is the best school.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]12. In Finland, government spending on education makes up 6.8 percent of gross domestic product. Education is free from pre-school to university level.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]If you’re going to university in Singapore, get a bank loan.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]13. Education reforms in the 1970s scrapped private schools and schools become publicly funded.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]Nope, not in Singapore.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]14. Finnish children were ranked among the top performers in mathematics, science and literacy in the first Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) studies in 2000 and the second in 2003.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]The study compares 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics and science.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]We need tuition to get the same results.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]15. Streaming of Finnish students occur only at age 16.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]Streaming of children in Singapore used to begin as early as 9 years old in the past.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]16. Classes have an average of 25 students in Finland.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]Classes have an average of 40 students in Singapore.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]17. Finnish teachers design their own lessons and assess students based on tests designed by themselves.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]Teachers in Singapore design lessons for teachers, who then assess students based on whatever energy they might have left after dealing with CCAs, HOD meetings, marking, remedial classes etc.[/FONT]

[FONT=open_sansregular]18. Finland has a strong reading culture. The Finns borrow more books from the library than any nationality in the world.[/FONT]
[FONT=open_sansregular]Singaporeans like to watch movies on their smartphones.[/FONT]
 

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There is one and only one reason why Finland's education system beats Singapore.

The education system in Finland is run by Ang Mohs.

The education system in Singapore is run by Chinks, Ah Nehs and Relac m&ds and Minahs.

The reason is because the students and parents are Finns and so is the government . I don't need to say the rest.
 

frenchbriefs

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There is one and only one reason why Finland's education system beats Singapore.

The education system in Finland is run by Ang Mohs.

The education system in Singapore is run by Chinks, Ah Nehs and Relac m&ds and Minahs.

i think its mostly run by chinks,since when do m&ds care about education?
 

frenchbriefs

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the reason why scandinavian countries are the best is because they strive to make their society a self sustaining haven for all,while a chinky country like singapore only strive to make a few elite minority filthy rich and call it meritocracy and whatnot.

how far do u think a country can go when ur government come up with policies like a singaporean can survive on $1000 a month and progressive wages and
 
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the reason why scandinavian countries are the best is because they strive to make their society a self sustaining haven for all,while a chinky country like singapore only strive to make a few elite minority filthy rich and call it meritocracy and whatnot.

Don't blame the government. The values it imparts are nothing more than a reflection of the society that returns it to power at every single election.

If Singaporeans really cared about creating a more egalitarian society, Chee SJ would get far more support. Instead, the electorate is easily bribed with promises of upgrading and cash bonuses.
 

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The reason is because the students and parents are Finns and so is the government . I don't need to say the rest.
Good one! QCC works like magic in Japan, became a wayang show when it was brought to Sg.
 

yellowarse

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If Singaporeans really cared about creating a more egalitarian society, Chee SJ would get far more support. Instead, the electorate is easily bribed with promises of upgrading and cash bonuses.

Touché. One of your rare moments of clarity. :smile:
 

syed putra

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There is one and only one reason why Finland's education system beats Singapore.

The education system in Finland is run by Ang Mohs.

The education system in Singapore is run by Chinks, Ah Nehs and Relac m&ds and Minahs.

The Finnish education system is well suited for mats and minahs. No homework etc. But if you apply to chinks, they will not appreciate this. they will still send their kids for tuition and make the children to extra homework. Its the bloody chink attitude. The chink men scared to stay home otherwise neighbours will say he got no business. And when work is done, scared to come home early for same reason, so go to pub, night club or play mahjong.Its a sick culture.
 

winnipegjets

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The Finnish education system is well suited for mats and minahs. No homework etc. But if you apply to chinks, they will not appreciate this. they will still send their kids for tuition and make the children to extra homework. Its the bloody chink attitude. The chink men scared to stay home otherwise neighbours will say he got no business. And when work is done, scared to come home early for same reason, so go to pub, night club or play mahjong.Its a sick culture.

Chinese don't know how to enjoy life ...all they care about is money, money, money!
 

winnipegjets

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Don't blame the government. The values it imparts are nothing more than a reflection of the society that returns it to power at every single election.

If Singaporeans really cared about creating a more egalitarian society, Chee SJ would get far more support. Instead, the electorate is easily bribed with promises of upgrading and cash bonuses.

This is the outcome of decades of brainwashing to view life the PAP way.
 

winnipegjets

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the reason why scandinavian countries are the best is because they strive to make their society a self sustaining haven for all,while a chinky country like singapore only strive to make a few elite minority filthy rich and call it meritocracy and whatnot.

how far do u think a country can go when ur government come up with policies like a singaporean can survive on $1000 a month and progressive wages and

A Finnish teacher earning $30k a year enjoys a richer life than a sinkee making $200k a year ....the Finns don't have to pay for childcare, healthcare, education and save for unemployment and retirement. The Finns can just enjoy life with the biggest expenses in life paid for with taxes.
 
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