I think the whole leaving cert needs an overhaul. Make it like college/university where you have assignments and only some subjects have final exams.
I’ve felt I was able to retain information more from university and the way it was taught than secondary school anyway. A memory test doesn’t help anyone and assignments/assessments help develop critical thinking skills in the more theory based subjects
Waaa the exams are too hard, waaa the exams are too easy. Why tf do I have to hear about the leaving cert every year especially when I left school about 200 years ago. Good christ get off my fuckin lawn
I think kids need to accept in maths that they dont need to understand every maths topic straight away.
Obviously its ok to ask questions, but it takes time to digest certain areas and its all like building blocks.
I think theres an instant need that comes from other subjects to say yes I know this move on.
But maths is more problem solving and when they dont have the answer right away it scares kids.
I think some parents whos kids are good at every other subject blame the maths teacher aswell sometimes.
So they’re too easy for the few with well above average ability? Isn’t that the point of a standardised test? They should stop complaining and take their “too easy” top marks. If it’s made more difficult to suit a tiny portion, that means the average result from the rest will take a nosedive.
Maths can be weird for a lot of people. It seems to different and can really seem intimidating and people can expect you to understand the concepts so quickly and for a lot of people that only makes their view of maths being hard to approach, which only sets them further behind.
I did do physics in Uni and I remember not fully understand different Maths problems until it clicked a few weeks after I finished.
I personally think the whole thing needs a rework. This current approach is not working and its so important.
When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to become a good metric. It comes as no surprise that we are lagging behind when we teach purely to pass the exam instead of for understanding.
Our metric for success for in secondary school is points. It leads to inane decisions in the department of education. For instance when we see students lagging behind in maths, what do we do? Improve the quality of the maths curriculum? Audit ourselves? No, we give the students bonus points in maths.
I think a bigger problem highlighted by that article was the fact that a large number of teachers were teaching subjects they weren’t even qualified in. What chance do the students even have?
I mean, there is a reason why i did applied maths, extra hundred points for essentially a few extra chapters of higher level maths.
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I think the whole leaving cert needs an overhaul. Make it like college/university where you have assignments and only some subjects have final exams.
I’ve felt I was able to retain information more from university and the way it was taught than secondary school anyway. A memory test doesn’t help anyone and assignments/assessments help develop critical thinking skills in the more theory based subjects
Waaa the exams are too hard, waaa the exams are too easy. Why tf do I have to hear about the leaving cert every year especially when I left school about 200 years ago. Good christ get off my fuckin lawn
I think kids need to accept in maths that they dont need to understand every maths topic straight away.
Obviously its ok to ask questions, but it takes time to digest certain areas and its all like building blocks.
I think theres an instant need that comes from other subjects to say yes I know this move on.
But maths is more problem solving and when they dont have the answer right away it scares kids.
I think some parents whos kids are good at every other subject blame the maths teacher aswell sometimes.
So they’re too easy for the few with well above average ability? Isn’t that the point of a standardised test? They should stop complaining and take their “too easy” top marks. If it’s made more difficult to suit a tiny portion, that means the average result from the rest will take a nosedive.
Maths can be weird for a lot of people. It seems to different and can really seem intimidating and people can expect you to understand the concepts so quickly and for a lot of people that only makes their view of maths being hard to approach, which only sets them further behind.
I did do physics in Uni and I remember not fully understand different Maths problems until it clicked a few weeks after I finished.
I personally think the whole thing needs a rework. This current approach is not working and its so important.
When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to become a good metric. It comes as no surprise that we are lagging behind when we teach purely to pass the exam instead of for understanding.
Our metric for success for in secondary school is points. It leads to inane decisions in the department of education. For instance when we see students lagging behind in maths, what do we do? Improve the quality of the maths curriculum? Audit ourselves? No, we give the students bonus points in maths.
I think a bigger problem highlighted by that article was the fact that a large number of teachers were teaching subjects they weren’t even qualified in. What chance do the students even have?
I mean, there is a reason why i did applied maths, extra hundred points for essentially a few extra chapters of higher level maths.