https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLPOpmynMIg
新加坡中学教育世界第一等,在OECD的PISA测验中排首位，超过了我们过去所知的芬兰
新加坡的教育有其他国家可以仿效的地方吗?请继续阅读
What other countries can learn from Singapore’s schools
Rigorous teaching methods and excellent teachers keep the island-state top of
the class
https://www.economist.com/leaders/201...
0:00 图表解释(是的 PISA也会测验从图表中萃取资讯的能力)
PISA每三年一次 比较了新加坡、日本、美国等受测的成绩
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When the island of Singapore became an independent country in 1965, it had
few friends and even fewer natural resources. How did it become one of the
world's great trading and financial centres? The strategy, explained Lee Kuan
Yew, its first prime minister, was "to develop Singapore's only available
natural resource: its people".
Today Singapore's education system is considered the best in the world. The
country consistently ranks at the top of the OECD's Programme for
International Student Assessment (PISA), a triennial test of 15-year-olds in
dozens of countries, in the main three categories of maths, reading and
science. Singaporean pupils are roughly three years ahead of their American
peers in maths. Singapore does similarly well in exams of younger children,
and the graduates of its best schools can be found scattered around the
world's finest universities.
The island-state has much to teach the world. But other countries are
reluctant pupils. One reason is that Singapore favours traditional pedagogy,
with teachers leading the class. That contrasts with many reformers'
preference for looser, more "progressive" teaching intended to encourage
children to learn for themselves. Although international studies suggest that
direct instruction is indeed a good way of conveying knowledge, critics
contend that Singapore has a "drill and kill" model that produces uncreative,
miserable maths whizzes. Parents worry about the stress the system puts on
their children (and on them, even as they ferry kids to extra classes).
Yet Singapore shows that academic brilliance need not come at the expense of
personal skills. In 2015 Singaporean students also came first in a new PISA
ranking designed to look at collaborative problem-solving, scoring even
better than they did in reading and science. They also reported themselves to
be happy—more so than children in Finland, for instance, a country that
educationalists regard as an example of how to achieve exceptional results
with cuddlier methods of teaching. Not content with its achievements,
Singapore is now introducing reforms to improve creativity and reduce stress.
This is not a sign of failure, but rather of a gradual, evidence-led approach
to education reform—the first of three lessons that Singapore offers the
rest of the world.
The third and most important lesson is to focus on developing excellent
teachers. In Singapore, they get 100 hours of training a year to keep up to
date with the latest techniques. The government pays them well, too. It
accepts the need for larger classes (the average is 36 pupils, compared with
24 across the OECD). Better, so the thinking goes, to have big classes taught
by excellent teachers than smaller ones taught by mediocre ones. Teachers who
want more kudos but not the bureaucratic burden of running schools can become
"master teachers", with responsibility for training their peers. The best
teachers get postings to the ministry of education and hefty bonuses:
overall, teachers are paid about the same as their peers in private-sector
professions. Teachers are also subject to rigorous annual performance
assessments.