In this article, I shall talk about the importance of lag time in performance management of students in the course of an academic year. This article talks about how students should manage their time when it comes to examination management. It is also a technology that parents can employ to improve their child's performance if …
A Crash Course in Surviving PSLE
Its the time of the year, 2 months to go for PSLE or GCE O' Levels and the panic buttons are being pushed. Here's a crash course and survival guide: Make space Clear out the junk on your table and make your room conducive for studying. This shall be your goto place for study and …
This week for English (Upper Primary level), we shall talk about Troy, the Trojan War, and Achilles, where the phrase "It is your achilles heel" comes to mean one's weakness. Below is a Youtube video of The True Story of Troy from History Channel. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYCdcopIddo
How to get your child to read?
Often have I heard parents complain about their child's lack of reading story books. In Singapore, this is made worse with electronics like games and smartphones becoming a staple in everyday activities of our children. Texting and all that distraction becomes the scourge of the millennium to some parents. Made worse with social media and …
In the 21st Century, how important is it to be able to read, write and speak English in Singapore?
This is an English composition written by a student doing Cambridge O' levels in 2014. Standard: GCE O'levels. In the 21st Century, there has been a vast technological advancement compared to the 20th Century, especially with the development of the internet as a tool for social networking with English as lingua franca. English is a …
Optimism and its role in studying
There is a direct correlation between the optimism in a student and the success in studying. Just like the answer to the glass is half full or half empty, this concept is very much a question about the outlook and confidence of the individual. The optimism of students to how well they fare in their …
How to improve discipline in a student
Discipline, the main ingredient to success. Sprinkle with concentration, a dash of determination and double boil with patience. That's the making of a properly executed education. In every education system around the world, the recipe above are quality prerequisites because students spends years in school before gaining their certification and joining the workforce. The need …
Doing well in the PSLE of Singapore
PSLE. Primary School Leaving Examination are the first educational hurdle of all Singapore students and has been a staple of our enduring educational system since its inception. So what's all the fuss over the PSLE's? First and foremost, it dictates the secondary schools that a child can go to. Secondly, it dictates the stream that …
Famous Places-Machu Picchu, Peru
Machu Picchu is an ancient Inca site that was abandoned and discovered in 1911 by the Americans. Here's an extract from wikipedia.com: Machu Picchu (in hispanicized spelling, Spanish pronunciation: [ˈmatʃu ˈpiktʃu]) or Machu Pikchu (Quechua machu old, old person, pikchupyramid; mountain or prominence with a broad base which ends in sharp peaks,"old peak", pronunciation [ˈmɑtʃu ˈpixtʃu]) is a 15th-century Inca site located 2,430 metres (7,970 ft) above …
Famous People-Mother Theresa
Wikipedia.com quotes " The Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, M.C., commonly known as Mother Teresa (26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997), was an Albanian-born, Indian Roman Catholic Religious Sister. Mother Teresa founded the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic religious congregation, which in 2012 consisted of over 4,500 sisters and is active in 133 countries. They run hospices and homes for people with HIV/AIDS, leprosy and tuberculosis; soup …