On our us if you had a wish we could do one thing more each day what with that big last. One i want to use goes back to school to find out why i think the poor students are top of the class and the price theyre willing to pay for success. Seeing unfold tops International Later bolds when it comes to learning. So im here in a thing of her intuition cause and im about to find out whether im smarter than a 9 year old thing a frame student i can tell you i am not confident at all gate so teasing all me that. This question might have many adults scratching their heads that they see 3 students its childs play or a. Fish done that. You think youre on. The go i feel like ive missed a fundamental something fundamental missing and mine doesnt have as many boxes as the other kids the approach these kids are using is called modeling and its just one of the unique methods of learning built into the curriculum im getting a little bit of a taste of just how competitive the singing for an Education System is im falling way behind my kids and the pressure israel. On me to find out exactly what it is about the singer brain School System and the culture that generates such small kids. How. To say. Lovely to meet you amazing one of the key architects of the mathematics curriculum for the ministry of education singapores developed a reputation as having. Best Education System in the world how did that come about but kitchen has always been the 2nd highest budget. With a small nation that has. Very small lead and no Natural Resources we can only invest on the mass of the size of a phased in the head which is the brain a program of educational experimentation with ajax. Technology is vital to maintain and improve Living Standards of the people of singapore. Founding father laid new transform the country from poverty to prosperity in a single generation by focusing on its human resources. The government has always invested heavily in education right from. Days in the sixtys we need to be people with skills who work in factories and. Offices and a large part of investment has been put into education its always been about long term social and economic planning as educators we are not educating our children fall today or tomorrow we are educating them for the future economy in 20 years time and thats pretty much what the ministry of education has to do often to look into the crystal ball to what is necessary and what is needed for the future generation. Im on my way to the clocks with a focus is very much on learning for the future. Its saturday morning here in singapore and these 4 year olds are attending. The little ones experience math 3. Years so this is really. The older kids and he expanding their math comprehension in preparation for the big National Exam the tykes place at the end if he seeks called the pay is silly how do you feel about coming here on a saturday morning. In a quiet 50 calling us all want of golf a lot of building and children are you taking the right 1st line as students pay a cell a school determines which secondary school theyll go into high scores qualify for the top academic schools while low scores find themselves in schools good towards mike training this system of streaming can put a lot of pressure on kids and their families a certain. Echo. Ringback one of singapores best and brightest is about to start his day. 12 year old is in full throttle. Preparation my money to retain that starts at the crack of dawn so when the many cups all 64645. Of their friends here you have breakfast this has not been money i dont. Know you let me say how many minutes you have by a company. Now i know 15 well it does quite a lot of mistakes right when you start. To go to when you come back. There are 7 of them i was going to take you to school. Because i was. Talking all. Day for me to. Get back a great day. School and its about one took to. Go. He will be back home by about 145. For a night. You have to take a quick lunch before we rush down to the science to discuss that too to. Science teacher or look to you. And then we have to rush him down to this new show drama clowns from 5 to 7 boys are going to go you know that. Thats. The 6th grade. After a quick family meal. Its more studying. And i have to do english paper and also math people how long will that take you are on to our us for all of them to come by and then one of these ones here this is extra study so if i am free i can do them for. Her but its getting light already so you probably dont know. Why other p. S. L. E. Exams such a big deal so is really frightening so erin was move on to a good school to get a better job and it is well for for the long run i can see a lot of my friends like scrambling doing well and say. I. Know in heaven a time to play where do you think that pressure comes from i think it comes from lost just friends. Fairly. When arest looking for it you will think they can score really well and if you had a wish where you could do one thing a bit more each day what would that be more sleep. So when does he wrap up when time. For the fire. Here are. This quite normal for someone. Supporting a childs education is like a 2nd job for many singer parin parents and mum janice and on no exception i guess i will be of light we have a full time job family come back we still have to make sure that we look to the childrens work and to help them to the best of our ability this way of life is deeply rooted in singapore in parenting its called. Can you tell me what parent you. Try to charge you for the chinese so afraid to so when rick given it comes to our children vendi says that the parents. It has a negative connotation it usually refers to parents that go also out to push to children because of better the children is stress or not to go for the best in terms of everything afraid to lose at the expense of dad Childrens Health data childrens mental mental state stress level if you take a step back do you think the balance is right this. Thats a good question. Balance between work and play overseas that there is a season for our thing so i would say is that right now the balance is a bit of you just have to suffer a little bit more you know i think of the begin again at the end of the examination. Ok a truck carries some fruits also one of the fruits do returns ok how many lies do. Come on i you know. We are ok to prepare for the big exams 70 percent of kids here its after School Tuition classes these 12 year olds a looming advanced. Ok tell me how many units. 14 exelon leaving todays class is mom janice shes a former schoolteacher and now owns one of singapores largest math tuition companies so whats the secret been to the success of singapores Education System how you process we felt that the secret lies to be if you teach in singapore which most of you from what learning to more Critical Thinking if the Education System here in singapore is so world planned and thought out why is tuition this is siri saw one of the key principles in our singapore education east leave the but the least the bottom but not kept the top so in line of this principle i feel that the tuition industry please the supportive role too should send us up privately on the curriculum to different shit learning levels if i have of because students i can actually offer to sion on and want to one piece is to help the child which certainly gets if i have a strongest guilders learning in a group we can. Achieve deafness potential. Though he wont have one of those shows that was just to me improved after they have and another lesson i say look at the way i d was so much you want to send a kid you know oh well its sounds like youre getting the results yes yeah and of course but in this situation santa kids arent the only ones going to school this is a little there and you know lots of it actually have a deep recession for parents of the less of that but you can see here it takes a village to raise a child the going into the phone to what the teacher has taught for the day and how they can go back to assist their children but thats a bit of pressure on the parents as well. This pressure every day is a competition. Im interested to find out more about whats at stake in this competition so im visiting is seeing a parade in high school if kids school low in may pay a cell is a modern day at a school like this one with a focus on vocational training. Students here prepping for jobs in the restyle or Hospitality Industries many of the 12 year old sitting for the pay of cell as and their parents would consider placements in a school like base. This is because of the stigma around non academic pathways. But 14 year old ria has a different take on it this looks like a cafe to may but were actually at school ottley yeah. And. We feel like a way economy for rebuild. This country from johns thing. Ok. My experience in this out you was a very well ill get used to it i just did a lot of searching for sure but that test is quite important and i learned from it and i didnt do well but. Do you feel like you found your enjoyment of learning again definitely i enjoy coming to school i dont dread it as much as i used to i really enjoy having this in my future having my license and such a. Thing placed in the vocational strain took the pressure off the area and allowed her to read what she wants out of her education this school is part of the moving landscape of education in singapore shifting focus to preparing students for jobs in the real world. As singapore continues to excel at education how do other countries in the region like a strategy is stack up the world cup of academics is the pays a study the program for International Student assessment. In 25th day singapore was the top of the leaderboard across 3 septics math reading and science in comparison a strategy came out significantly lower coming 25th in math 6 think in reading and math in science well behind other nations like a stone mia holland any zealand. So how has singapore climb to the top especially in bottle stem subjects while countries like australia continue to fall behind. In singapore students are taught by specialized math teachers for me 3 onwards in a strategy a specialized teaching doesnt. Until high school. And theres a chronic shortage of math teaches in fact less than one in 4 High School Kids in the strategy are. Told by a qualified mass takes. Connections like a struggle to do to catch up. To find out some of the strategies best teachers have come to singapore to see exactly what makes it School System the best in the world. Denise lofts wants to say what she can take home to her classroom in a low dollar on the countrys southeast coast. Action really curious around the way in which develop such great standards what do they actually doing classrooms and of course have any leverage technology. This trip is part of a prize the teaches of one for showing innovation in learning in their own astronomy in schools. Is the now and child primary school. Is in full swing and the pressure is palpable. History of how much denise and its h. s herbs are having a science class with close to 40 students getting ready for they began. Not. Every student has a device on their desk and are all connected to a special system run by the School System the same kids and their i find this in the title were not paying you for that definitely not a school ah ha ha. Ha ha ha ha and i notice now that the tape just working the kids of turned their devices around suffice the front of the room and i guess id say that is a really good. Fantastic tactics and frame gauge with the students will change into h. H. S. And they will the same to no ones on a device why shes speaking without cameras in the room im sure the students are all made best behavior today but were told students in general show a great deal of respect for the teaches they show a desire to learn and there are not many disruptions in this respect for teaches is seen across the social spectrum. From the top 30 percent of graduates are accepted into a teaching degree it pays will and disconcerted an elite role on top with a profession in management or accounting. Here in singapore which will be about the top 30 percent of graduates at the top say so thats a very different actually that was it was interesting when they started talking when they 1st arrived and then they had the pay is the thing to get the bonuses for having spent time in the schools paying very hardworking and teacher to very much appreciated they fit the profile within the communities i would not be great you know in country if that was the desired like into you know that we were making that the choice is that yes you get to take the top that you can stand denise is imprest by the will resist classrooms and quality teaching stuff but she has concerns about the High Pressure exams at such a young age in my research i stakes testing ease of consent often its just a way of measuring it and its really very. A long way away from learning and from improving and i see that these you know that preparing preparing for caring for these tests that happen at the end of Pharmacy School for them then to choose a path beyond him to take him to school im not sure how that was working out the system. And i i believe that that was for putting a lot of pressure on the school on the teachers and on. The principals. The relentless pressure to succeed in the p. S. Allays had devastating consequences. And amish i mean im 17 this year. Saw all. Of their struggle with a lot of they have struggled with since i was like super duper young i think its just the kind off and vironment that youre in. Touch for a show even though i made it into the top academic stream she says she struggled to keep up i kind of developed a fear of like a really really intense one so sounds like it didnt bring the best out of you. It did not bring the best out of. Saw i was diagnosed with depression and i. Miss a lot of school and most of the time i spend laying on my cue ball not listening you know cry like a pilot hiding i think i got really ready when i felt like i would never have a future again. In 2018 align the samaritans of singapore the countrys leading Mental Health in geo so a 56 percent rise in young people asking for help. Now. Its a lovely degree today with the support of a mom charmaine is doing much better shes a student at a Polytechnic Academy and believes that doing well academically shouldnt come at a cost here such as. Lovely good here i think that even though we need an education i think we can do a lot better and i think relieving the pressure on children does not mean that we all necessarily lose that position in say in my just for the us in that spot you know in that number once what so is there a wider conversation happening around Mental Health with school kids i think there has been more wetness recently im really really thankful for that were slowly but surely normalizing it and i think that with my generation a lot what change for the better do you feel like youve got your little girl back yes very much and im very thankful a little bit too much. Singapore is coming to realize that even though its number one is still room for improvement recently the government announced some changes to the streaming system 20 secondary schools will stop listening for subject based banding from next year. Instead of sending 12 year olds into education streams based only pay a silly results 2nd re students will be able to choose from a mix of subjects at Different Levels of difficulty based on the changing abilities. Every school is a good school and now lets make every class. But exams are looming the changes to seeing a pool streaming wont happen in time to spare him from sitting his p. S. L. Eggs hes up to hes easy and study at just age 12 put it this way a lot of kids have a lot of free time in comparison to do a lot of things outdoors so gymnastics how do you feel about more doing more of that stuff i figured. If we have enough time to finish all the who. Was there as a class i think is acceptable that we can have a little bit more free time during the day and play for our friends and spend time share our family we will want to give our children many a part you need to be successful and we have to balance that between pushing them monitoring their stress levels and knowing when to let go so we want to stress on responsibly and being looking. Yes because i believe that this out of values that will bring our children find life. Is not just the academy itself. A University Degree to be a doctor or a teacher but without any study is what i want to investigate the Pakistani Company selling fake degrees to the police around the world on aljazeera. 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