Already, Year 1 and Kindergarten students are going to tutoring. Just why? It is absurd.
I can’t sincerely see why little kids who have only been in school for 3 weeks are already going to tutoring. And yet there are. And they don’t know their abcs and 123s. And tutors aren’t qualified damnit so WHY?! Leave the critical points to their kindergarten teachers. We’re just university students! Heck, not even yet…
We would have to think of how to teach them when psychologically putting them with a year 1 class would indeed only make them cry! After all, there’s helping them to write properly first, not pushing them onto maths already. :/ But what can you do when you can’t focus on them? It was a whole class of 20, and all of them varied in abilities. Sure there were two other people helping, but all the kids were needing assistance.
It was a Sunday. They should have been playing. Not doing English and maths classwork. It makes me wonder about their parents.
So what’s this rant about? Well:
I decided to attempt getting a part time job (still have about 2 weeks left of holidays anyway..) other than just random accumulate paypal cash via random net stuff like the review my post thing (it works, it gets into my paypal, and it’ll get into yours so try out payperpost xD).
So yesterday, I had my second “training” day (more like unpaid work pfttt. Isn’t that ILLEGAL? Well.. I’ll research that eventually, but oh well I would rather focus on helping them..) teaching year 1 and kindergarten kids.
So few understoood anything at all…and with 3 hours of cram school as their parents just send them here. Who the heck truly would expect year 1 and kindergarten kids to pay attention for so long -_-’ Of course there’ll be complaints from the parents to the heads of the tutoring company. Pft.
Now personally? I was on my feet all bloody day talking and explaining the same thing which they just couldn’t understand and trying to baby the language is also rather painful. I mean, they just don’t know what some words mean! Like really, how do you explain the difference between ‘as’ and ‘an’ when they don’t know what vowels and nouns are? Other than just giving them the answer… would they even get the meaning of WHY? After all, to try and say that something is the same to another thing…
*sigh* I take back what I said last week. Year 4, though annoying, are so much better than Year 1 and Kindergarten. Thankfully, there’s no lower to go.
But it still doesn’t change the fact… I wanted to tutor secondary!! Q_Q Though not math at that :/ Pft. Tutored year 10 math in the morning of the first session last week and I had a mistake with exponentials. *cough* *hides in shame* They’ve just started year 10 and already are learning exponentials? o.O What use is that to the school certificate?
On second thoughts, does the nsw school certificate still go on? It would still take quite long to implement that federal frequency of exams in year 3, 5, 7, and 9, and really, wasn’t there the basic skills exams in year 3, 5, and 7? -_-’ Of course, this would be Australia-wide now, not just New South Wales.
But… year 9?! What of year 10? The last year of compulsory schooling? If they had the major exam in year 9, and nothing between year 9 and year 12…. one would probably get complacent. :/ srsly… NSW’s current system is pretty good as it currently is. The other states don’t have the frequent exams, so I suppose this affects them… Ah well.
