See you paul has some of the smartest students in the how many you know its fun to read. How do they do finish. This secret. To be easy to teach but is there a human cost to excellence i was diagnosed with depression and i saw him. I struggle with a lot tonight i have to do english. Math how long will that take you are on the hour if you had a wish where you could do one theme of more each day what with that big. One i want to goes back to school to find out why singapore students are top of the class and the price they were 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 brain student i can tell you i am not confident at all gate. Is a homey. This question might have many adults scratching their heads but for 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 is 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. The 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 invest on the mass of the size of a phased in the head which is the brain a program of educational experimentation with ajax and 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 a 4 year old are attending. The little ones experience math 3. Years so thats really nice. But the older kids and he expanding their math comprehension in preparation for the big National Exam the tykes place at the end in the 6 called the pay is silly how do you feel about coming here on a saturday morning. In a quiet 5 theyre calling us all want of golf a lot of building and children are you picking the right 1st one for his 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 mr. Eko 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 presence here in a breakfast this has not been money at all. Now. Let me say how many of us you have viacom. I know 50 well it does quite a lot of mistakes right when you start. To go to when you come back. There are 7 oclock i was fresh in the school. Because ive been. Talking all. Day for me to. Get back a great day. School and support wanted to. Go. He will be back on by about 145. Looking for a nice. Gift to take a quick lunch before we rush down to his science to discuss it to to teach. Science fiction on the t. V. 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 combine 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. Said. Ken gary when ever i was looking for you or thinking 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 sleet. So when does he wrap up when its time. For the fire. There are. This quite normal force for. Supporting a childs education is like a 2nd job for many singaporeans parents and mum janice and on no exception i guess i will be of light we have a full time job and become day we still have to make sure that we look to the childrens work and to help them to the best of. 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 it is the chinese so afraid to. So when rick it when 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 debt children because of better the children is stress or not to go for the best in terms of everything affecting lose at the expense of dad Childrens Health data childrens mental mental state and stress level if you take a step back do you think the balance is right this. Thats a good question. Balance between Book Employee ever says 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. Ok how many lies do. They come on. Were ok to prepare for the big exams 70 percent of kids here its after School Tuition classes these 12 year olds a looming advanced algebra ok tell me how many units. 14 exelon leading 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 this secret lies with the b. 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 with this principle i feel that the touche an industry please a 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 orders learning in a group we can. Help them achieve deafness potential. Hes out of all those shows that has to do this to me improved after they have and another lesson i say look at that i love. d you so much you want to send a kid you know oh well its sounds like youre getting the results just yet and of course but in this situation santa kids arent the only ones going to school this is a little parents 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 dow 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. As passion 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 lowing may pay a cell is a modern day at a school like this one with a focus on vocational training. Students here are 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 placement in a school might be as. This is because of the stigma around non academic pathways. But 14 year old ria has a different take on it this looks like the cafe its in may but were actually at school ottley yeah. And. We feel like a way economy for rebuilding after. This come through from johns thing. Ok. My experience with this out you was a very well ill get used to it i just did a lot of saturn for sure but that test is quite important. I lived on it and i didnt do well but. It lived up to me 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 mind with having my lessons 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 simple 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 paines a study the program for International Student assessment. In 25th day singapore was the top of the leaderboard across 3 sceptics 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 stratosphere erection he told by a qualified mass take up. So what can one nation is like a struggle to do to catch up. To find out some of the strategies best tases 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 nan child primary school. Is in full swing and the pressure is palpable. History of how much denise and the teaches herbs are having a science class with close to 40 students getting ready for they be gigs amps. 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 nothing useful that definitely not a school ah ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha and i notice now that the tape just cooking the kids of 10 the devices around suffice the front of the room and i guess id say that is it really is. Fantastic tactics and frank agent said the students will change into h. H. S. And they will sting to mellons 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 unli up lincolns 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 take so thats very different actually that was it was interesting when we started talking when we 1st arrived there that the pay is the thing you get the bonuses for having spent time in the schools paying very hardworking and teacher to very much appreciated they fit that 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 see that denise is interest 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 by 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 think i believe that that my friend put a lot of pressure on the school on the teachers and on. The principals. The relentless pressure to succeed in the p. S. L. Lays had devastating consequences. And amish i mean im 17 this. Song. I struggle with a lot and something i struggle 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 tyler hiding i think i got really really old when i felt like i would never have a future again. In 2018 alone the samaritans of singapore the countrys leading Mental Health in geo saw a 56 percent rise in young people asking for help. Now. The state is lovely to me. 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 to 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 in that number once was and 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 for 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 only changing abilities. Every school is a good school and now lets make every class. Exams a 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 of the hole. That was there as a class i thing is acceptable that we can have a little bit more free time during the day. And play for our friends and family we will want to give children many a part you need to be successful and we have to balance that between pushing them monitoring your stress level and knowing when to let go so if you want to stress on responsibly think im being looking. Yeah because i believe that these are the values that will bring all the truth inside life. Is not just the academy itself. A University Degree to be a doctor or a teacher but without any study or exams when i went to east investigates the Pakistani Company at legibly selling fake degrees to the thousands of police around the world on aljazeera. Has a place and experience the world like never before catatonic place going places together. Legally prescribe for the pain relief of the sick but taken in life threatening doses by millions in search of a fix. Huge illegal shipments of the opioid tramadol are flawed because the. 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