Education 01 (Aug 08 - Aug 09)

Re: Education

Postby kennynah » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:48 pm

so many graduates...and we have only macdonald's clean table jobs around... with many top posts going to other than our own graduates... have so many graduates for f**k ? better to have more world class ITEs...churn out servants....at least people wont get disillusioned....stay guai guai...become world class crupiers for the to be completed casinos...
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Re: Education

Postby winston » Tue Jul 21, 2009 3:54 pm

kennynah wrote: stay guai guai...become world class crupiers for the to be completed casinos...


Just reminded me of Macau.

The security guards at the casinos are Grukhas.

The people working in the hotels & casinos are mostly Filipinos, as they can speak English.
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Re: Education

Postby millionairemind » Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:48 pm

For those of you with kids and you are into giving them exam papers from top schools to practise, here's a website with free exam papers that I stumbled across which you might find useful.

http://www.misskoh.com/
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Re: Education

Postby iam802 » Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:54 pm

Can start your kids on presentation skills as well already.

My kid is being tested 2 weeks from now. They call it 'Show and Tell'.

Things are so different now. So many things being tested.
1. Always wait for the setup. NO SETUP; NO TRADE

2. The trend will END but I don't know WHEN.

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Re: Education

Postby millionairemind » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:20 pm

802 - My nephew started his show and tell last week, at Primary 1!!! Wah piu... I had to help my brother train him cos' my brother is Chinese educated... stress man.. being an uncle nowadays...
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Re: Education

Postby winston » Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:14 pm

Free Online Courses

Colleges and universities across the United States are offering free courses online on virtually every subject imaginable, including videotaped lectures by some of their most distinguished professors.

Video-sharing site YouTube recently created a hub called YouTube EDU at youtube.com/edu for the more than 100 US colleges and universities offering free online learning.

Among the thousands of videos on YouTube EDU are the celebrated classroom theatrics of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) physics professor Walter Lewin, whose clips have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

Other leading institutions of higher education posting videos to YouTube include the University of California at Berkeley, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Duke, Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Yale.


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Re: Education

Postby Cherry » Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:44 pm

WHAT TEACHERS MAKE

The dinner guests were sitting around the table discussing life.

One man, a CEO, decided to explain the problem with education.
He argued, 'What's a kid going to learn from someone who decided his best option in life was to become a teacher?'

He reminded the other dinner guests what they say about teachers:
'Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.'

To stress his point he said to another guest;
'You're a teacher, Bonnie. Be honest. What do you make?'


Bonnie, who had a reputation for honesty and frankness replied,
'You want to know what I make? (She paused for a second, then began...)

'Well, I make kids work harder than they ever thought they could.

I make a C+ feel like the Congressional Medal of Honor.

I make kids sit through 40 minutes of class time when their parents
can't make them sit for 5 without an I Pod, Game Cube or movie rental.

You want to know what I make?' (She paused again and looked at each and
every person at the table.)

''I make kids wonder.

I make them question.

I make them apologize and mean it.

I make them have respect and take responsibility for their actions.

I teach them to write and then I make them write. Keyboarding isn't everything.

I make them read, read, read.

I make them show all their work in math. They use their God given brain, not the man-made calculator.

I make my students from other countries learn everything they need to know in English while preserving their unique cultural identity.

I make my classroom a place where all my students feel safe.

I make my students stand, placing their hand over their heart to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag, One Nation Under God, because we live in the United States of America.

Finally, I make them understand that if they use the gifts they were
given, work hard, and follow their hearts, they can succeed in life.'

(Bonnie paused one last time and then continued.)

'Then, when people try to judge me by what I make, with me knowing money isn't everything, I can hold my head up high and pay no attention because they are ignorant...

You want to know what I make?

I MAKE A DIFFERENCE . What do you make Mr. CEO?'

His jaw dropped, he went silent.
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Re: Education (Aug 08 - Aug 09)

Postby millionairemind » Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:15 pm

The Mrs. is an educator. She works on a contract part time basis teaching Primary school kids daily so that she only works a few hours a day and is back home by 2:30pm most of the time to spend time with the boy.

This term she is teaching Primary 1 Math at a local primary school. She teaches a class made up of academically weak students who are specially taken out from their regular classes so that they can have a 1 to 15 ratio specialized attention. At Primary 1, many of these kids don't even know what is 4 minus 2 :(

I think the principal of that school is very wise to pull out the weaker students so that a teacher can focus exclusively on them.

She noticed that almost all of these kids have one or more of the following disadvantages.
a. Either comes from a large family of 4-5 children. Unfortunately, 80% of her students come from a certain ethnic group (I hope I do not come across as racist in this comment, just stating a fact)
b. Family belongs to the lower economic strata
c. Have families that are not very supportive of their education

A pupil of hers has a mother who keeps telling the Mrs. "HE CANNOT MAKE IT" when she called the mother to discuss how they can better work together as a parent-teacher team to improve his grades. When the kid missed school and had homework, the mother did not even come to school to pick it up despite the Mrs. repeated reminders.

This led me to the conclusion that for a kid to do reasonably well in school, the family support and resources must be available. If not, many of the kids will suffer from low self-esteem and hence will lag behind in school. The parents play a big part in establishing a general good sense of self-esteem in order for the children to grow and enjoy in school.

Educating kids is such a tough job for both the parents and the teachers... :(
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Re: Education (Aug 08 - Aug 09)

Postby kennynah » Fri Aug 14, 2009 2:47 pm

bo pian ... juicy annie kwan....

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Re: Education (Aug 08 - Aug 09)

Postby iam802 » Fri Aug 14, 2009 5:52 pm

The other thing to note is ....Singapore's education system no longer start with A-B-C when you are in Primary 1. It goes straight to sentences. Even for Maths, there is a need to have a fairly good command of English to do well.

So, I am not sure if the pace is correct for those lagging behind.
1. Always wait for the setup. NO SETUP; NO TRADE

2. The trend will END but I don't know WHEN.

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