When will India be ready to accept this?
Today Edutopia in partnership with Pearson released the Education Everywhere video series focusing Singapore, this time. These details were stated:
Singapore Fast Facts
- When Singapore gained its independence in 1965, most of its population of two million people were unskilled and illiterate.
- The government invested in education, and by the early 1970s, all children had access to lower secondary education.
- In 2009, the first year Singapore participated in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) tests, they placed near the top for all tested subjects: fifth for reading, second for mathematics, and fourth for science. See all 2009 PISA scores.
- Teaching is a highly-respected and well-compensated profession in Singapore. All teachers are trained at the country's National Institute of Education (NIE).
- All new teachers are paired with experienced teachers for mentoring, and peer feedback is built into the schedule.
- Teachers are entitled to 100 low or no-cost hours of professional development each year.
- There are approximately 522,000 students attending about 350 schools in Singapore's education system.
- Class sizes are large, especially at the secondary level, averaging 36 students per class.
It also had the following video showing how tools such as twitter and facebook ar
e used on a regular basis in the classrooms of Ngee Ann Secondary School, one of the country's seven 'Future Schools'.
The video shows how 40 students in a class can ask different questions using twitter , all at the same time to the teacher. They can even vote for the right answer using a mobile phone.
Do such statistics not affect any educator who sees this video? Will India be ever a part of this series?
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