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Science A Levels Examine a ‘Worrying’ Amount of Maths.
Another day and another article about how A levels fail to prepare students for university life. This time it’s the Sciences which are feeling the force of public inquiry. In a report published on 27th April 2012, Judith Burns, Education reporter for the BBC, writes on the recent Score report which states that little of the Maths required for further study of the subjects is covered in A level courses and examinations.
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Exams easier now than 10 years ago.
A report on the BBC Education website yesterday (01/05/2012) states that a review of Biology, Chemistry and Geography examination papers has shown a decline in standards required;
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Poor showing for State Schools in Grayling’s College
The TES reports today that Grayling’s New College has offered places to 91 students for a September start, only 22% of which will be from state schools. From an application pool of 350 the 91 students were chosen and offered places because of their potential to achieve 3 As at A level or at least AAB.
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Affluence a Factor in 11+
In an article today on the BBC News Education pages, Hannah Richardson reports that Buckinghamshire Council has apparently caused outrage in advising a school not to use the 11+ exam as a means of ensuring a ‘broad spread of abilities’ is admitted.
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Teaching to the Test
Laura Klein, a teacher from the Bronx, regrets the fact that her students are led to focus so much on standard tests in the school year that this becomes their only motivation for learning.
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Special Tutoring Skills
Children with special tutoring requirements are often the ones who suffer at school, not from a want of intelligence but from a lack of ability to respond in the same way to a teaching style which is directed at the majority, as indeed it must be.
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Are your kids smarter than you?
Ladue News today (12/04/2012) has an article which addresses the issue of when and why to call a tutor. The writer, Russell Hyken, is a psychologist and parent, who has himself experienced the feeling of helping with homework of which he wasn’t entirely sure.
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Online tutoring - not just second choice
Cleveland.com reports a real rise in the number of students taking advantage of a new system on online academic support. While this is for University students at the moment, there is no reason why this kind of thing cannot happen here in the UK with school kids. And indeed it does on an informal level, where teachers often answer students’ questions posted on homework forums etc.
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Student tutors
Hartford local paper, The Courant, reports a story where students are engaging in peer-tutoring schemes. Enabling a student to be able to look through and ‘mark’ their own work is a fantastic way of teaching a student how to help themselves.
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