Friday, September 29, 2006
1:29 PM
Haha this is a piece of good news for pri student who weaker in various subject in 2008, and i also found out something that EM3 start in 1992 and I'm the first batch of pri student who kana this.
Ministry of Education finally decided to phase out EM3 from 2008 onward, this is what the government said yesterday:
streaming in primary schools will be scrapped and replaced by subject-based banding. What this means is that weaker students can take a combination of foundation and standard courses, depending on what they are good at. At Guangyang Primary, instead of staying with the same class all day, students go to different mathematics and mother-tongue classes based on their abilities. The weaker pupils are given more personalised teaching. Come 2008, such customised learning will replace streaming. Currently, 40% of EM3 students pass at least one subject in their Primary Four examinations. With the new system, students can take the subjects that they have passed in, at the standard level and the rest, at a foundation level. Foundation subjects are more basic versions of standard subjects and are easier to learn. So students can develop their ability in the stronger subjects and work on the weaker ones. Any combination will be allowed as long as it works for the child. With the change, students, who would be in the EM3 stream under the current system, will also be spending about half of their curriculum time with those from the merged stream.
While i going to end my blog here for today here is the joke in this pic i took yesterday at Lianhe Wanbao.
Education Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said: Who even kana the last batch of EM3 sorry about that but at lease i give you a TOTO lottery for you to win $5,000,000. (Opps i was just kidding.) To Success, you have to create a goal in your life. By ZY
