schools collaboration :singapore style
Minister of education of singapore is hitting headlines,going to various schools in the city to understand the best practices in school education.Schools selected are anybody's guess: vidya mandir,.ps senior,dav,sboa,padma seshadri.He will also be visiting centres of higher learning;yes you guessed right;IIT and IIMs.
singapore wants to leverage the relationship with India which is very special for them.Trade ties with India are even more than China(again,why does it have to be mentioned?)
Vidya Mandir especially has been chosen to demonstrate to the visiting team,how they are able to integrate differently abled children into mainstream education.for years dyslexic children used to be specially taken in and treated as part of the class.The experiement has been highly successful.Many a child is not diagnosed as dyslexic and suffers in the process.vidya mandir has got specially trained teachers who are able to identify children fairly early and rest is happy ending!
My aunt who is a teacher there,teaching primary class for the last 15 years or so,has endless activities and initiatives that the school takes to differentiate it from the rest.they are celebrating their golden jubilee and the activities are mindboggling.
To make schooling a joyous learning,there is lot of backbreaking work from the teachers!Definitely in vidya mandir!
posted by vasukumar @ 4:25 AM
3 Comments:
It is interesting to note about the pains the teachers are taking to make the school best. If teachers are paid very well more and more top level students will take to teaching, as the profession chosen is normally directly proportional to the pay given. Teaching is also very strenuous job. If we should have a very great next generation citizens, the teaching profession should be the highest paid profession.
I have heard about the amount of hard ship and tension the kids and their parents in singapore undergo, even in lower classes. they start segregating children , by their performance, in the lower classes itself as high performers and ordinary students. I have seen some of the Indian parents coming back to India because of the pressure. It must be much more than what we have in India. Hope the singapore minister could see that for himself and hope it does not become the other way round and we follow their pattern here and our kids are pressurised as it is.
Especially school teachers leave lasting impression in the minds of students.With internet and tv children dont look to teachers as the only means of knowledge.Hence a teacher needs to know his/her subject thoroughly and also keep updating themselves constantly.More than anything they have a tremendous responsibility in shaping young minds.
All of us have our favourite teachers, who made us excel and enjoy a particular subject.
Phew! I ended up taking physics as my subject in college,because physics teacher was amazing in school!
Yeah,about compensation;it is being made up with tuitions .Teachers earn very well in tuitions as secondary source of income.But then it is backbreaking hours of work for them.Not healthy trend at all i agree
For all the excitement that come with self-learning, there is really nothing like a teacher to guide. Maybe thats where we should see school teachers going - mentors and guides rather than as repositories of information.
And I realised from the transition into university that having a reliable guide saves a lot of frustration and keeps the learning process exciting.
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