Showing posts with label NAPLAN. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NAPLAN. Show all posts

Friday, 20 March 2020

How a Springvale school overcame disadvantage and blitzed NAPLAN

Posted to Facebook on 21/4/2020 at 10:16 AM
Commenting on "How a Springvale school overcame disadvantage and blitzed NAPLAN"

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/how-a-springvale-school-overcame-disadvantage-and-blitzed-naplan-20200320-p54ca5.html

It is nothing to do with the best school canteen, green carpet grass school field, swimming pool or the best equipped science laboratory, but the effort put in for quality teaching.

Many schools market through glossy advertisement and promotional material as well as on multi-media. Some also spend big for a few seconds air time on television.

There are quiet achievers that target at the students’ shortcomings and find ways to improve on the them, rather than on the parents’ hip pockets.

So, when you enrol your child in the forthcoming year, find out more about the history of the school, and compare how much you have subsidise those posh facilities that your child will never use.

Thank you for reading.

Saturday, 12 October 2019

Is it time to ditch the ATAR and even NAPLAN?

Posted to Facebook on 12/10/2019 at 7:36 PM
Is it time to ditch the ATAR and even NAPLAN?

https://www.theage.com.au/national/is-it-time-to-ditch-the-atar-and-even-naplan-20191004-p52xs8.html

I believe ATAR and NPLAN are good assessment tools, and should be retained to gauge the students‘ academic performance so that the education system can be fine tuned.

For quite awhile I hold firm belief that our system is plagued by political correctness policies, under the influence of social reformists and psychologists.

Teachers can no longer be honest and direct to report the actual students‘ performance and behaviour, in fear of breaching the code of conduct or sued by parents for damaging their children’s psychology.

For the perceived benefit of social interaction, students struggling in understanding lessons are mixed with “smart” students who can become very disinterested in the class, be disruptive and feel cheated for being dragged down.

Thank you for reading.