Thursday, May 14, 2015

Day 6: Endless doubts

How successful is PACE programme? Do students really benefit from it? How much can students absorb after half a day's class? Will the learning still be effective? From what I heard, students do learned and improved from this programme, but still, my doubts are still there.

This week will be the end of Cambridge's lessons for the students. Shouldn't the lessons be ongoing? Does changing tutor from time to time affects students' learning progress? Shouldn't the tutor be someone who is attached to the students for a long period of time? This way the tutor will understand and know the students strengths and weaknesses in the subject better.

I was exposed to PT3 English paper and it is really challenging to PACE students. English is unlike Mathematics whereby lots of practices on a particular topic will help the students excel in it. English's scope is so wide and ability to understand and comprehend a passage is very important.

As I'm writing this, I am wondering what are the previous effort being put it in English learning back then. I have no idea of how the lessons were planned and what are objectives that TEEF would like to achieve with the students. But through what I've seen in 6 weeks time, there are still some parts that need to be reviewed and improved.

It is definitely a great approach to reach out and help these students to improve. May be in a few years time I could join TEEF and help them out.



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