Schools are removing analogue clocks from exam halls as teenagers 'cannot tell the time'

[Dashinka 25,856]

What is being taught in the UK schools?

 

 

Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.

Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue clock.

Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said youngsters have become accustomed to using digital devices.

 

 

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/04/24/schools-removing-analogue-clocks-exam-halls-teenagers-unable/

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

1 hour ago, Bill & Katya said:

What is being taught in the UK schools?

Schools are removing analogue clocks from examination halls because teenagers are unable to tell the time, a head teachers’ union has said.

Teachers are now installing digital devices after pupils sitting their GCSE and A-level exams complained that they were struggling to read the correct time on an analogue clock.

Malcolm Trobe, deputy general secretary at the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL), said youngsters have become accustomed to using digital devices.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/2018/04/24/schools-removing-analogue-clocks-exam-halls-teenagers-unable/

My mother has told me this as well that a lot of kids come in and can't tell time on a wall clock anymore. She is a Middle School Treasurer  and has to deal with a lot of front office type things everyday involving kids. Also for me as a father it was imperative for my 2 older children(11 and 9) to be able to read a clock as well. I am not worried about my 4 year old because she will learn as well.

[charmander 692]

Any chance they know how to use one of these?

 

[Dashinka 25,856]

9 minutes ago, charmander said:

Any chance they know how to use one of these?

 

What does that do?

[smilesammich 10,727]

a few months ago i had to teach my 16 year old how to sign his name. they don't teach cursive anymore..

[Dashinka 25,856]

5 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

a few months ago i had to teach my 16 year old how to sign his name. they don't teach cursive anymore..

I was wondering that as well.  I asked my friend who teaches elementary school, and they said the same thing.  I guess we can just sign our names with an "X" in the future.

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

7 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

a few months ago i had to teach my 16 year old how to sign his name. they don't teach cursive anymore..

I am lucky in that regard my 11 year old loves cursive and her school in CA actually still taught it. My son the 9 year old is more academically challenged so I have to work with him more in regards to his writing, and we have open competitions between who writes better his little sister(the 4 year old) or him.

[smilesammich 10,727]

Just now, Bill & Katya said:

I was wondering that as well.  I asked my friend who teaches elementary school, and they said the same thing.  I guess we can just sign our names with an "X" in the future.

i was taking him to get his hair cut when we were approached by a young kid to take a survey for a science project. we agreed and had to sign releases that we'd agreed to participate and my son just wrote his name regular. once we got to the barbershop i was like, you don't know how to sign your name do you? and he was like, what do you mean? oy.

[smilesammich 10,727]

2 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

I am lucky in that regard my 11 year old loves cursive and her school in CA actually still taught it. My son the 9 year old is more academically challenged so I have to work with him more in regards to his writing, and we have open competitions between who writes better his little sister(the 4 year old) or him.

i remember being so excited to learn cursive, like that was a right of passage to being grown up. same with getting actual homework, but i didn't start getting homework till like the fifth grade. my son had homework every night starting in kindergarten. every night was battle royale in my house.

[Dashinka 25,856]

2 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

i remember being so excited to learn cursive, like that was a right of passage to being grown up. same with getting actual homework, but i didn't start getting homework till like the fifth grade. my son had homework every night starting in kindergarten. every night was battle royale in my house.

I agree, penmanship lessons were great.  Now that is not to say my current penmanship with respect to cursive writing is any good now, but it used to be.  My mother had perfect penmanship. 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

1 minute ago, smilesammich said:

i remember being so excited to learn cursive, like that was a right of passage to being grown up. same with getting actual homework, but i didn't start getting homework till like the fifth grade. my son had homework every night starting in kindergarten. every night was battle royale in my house.

I really like that my daughter had a really hard teacher in her 3rd grade year and now in 5th grade when we moved she has a strict teacher which I love as well. She is a very smart and brilliant child but if you let her get away with slacking she will do it. The teacher she had in CA this year let her slacked because she liked my daughter, but this teacher won't give her an inch which is good. So she is pushing my daughter to do better which she is doing and now she is like number 2 out of 5 grade in regards to testing for the school.

 

My son is gifted athletically but struggles academically, so that is why we set up competitions for him so that he wants to do better. I put him in baseball this year to see if he liked it, and he does but I can tell it's alittle to slow for him now. So I will go back to football and soccer for him later on in the year.

 

My 4 year old daughter is gifted academically so far and we are teaching her how to read sentences now and not just words. She loves going to school and learning which is great. We had to put her into a Montessori school when we moved due to no space in a regular pre-k program. But she will be going to kindergarten this year at the same school with her brother so we won't have to pay the $550 a month tuition fee anymore(YAY)

[smilesammich 10,727]

23 minutes ago, Bill & Katya said:

I agree, penmanship lessons were great.  Now that is not to say my current penmanship with respect to cursive writing is any good now, but it used to be.  My mother had perfect penmanship. 

i was discouraged early on by a teacher who commented on how i turned the page at an angle. i am left handed and tend to smear pen/pencil as i go..writing sideways helps. i then noticed how my dad wrote in all caps and tried to start doing the same, which my teachers quickly shut down as well. 

 

[smilesammich 10,727]

22 minutes ago, cyberfx1024 said:

I really like that my daughter had a really hard teacher in her 3rd grade year and now in 5th grade when we moved she has a strict teacher which I love as well. She is a very smart and brilliant child but if you let her get away with slacking she will do it. The teacher she had in CA this year let her slacked because she liked my daughter, but this teacher won't give her an inch which is good. So she is pushing my daughter to do better which she is doing and now she is like number 2 out of 5 grade in regards to testing for the school.

 

My son is gifted athletically but struggles academically, so that is why we set up competitions for him so that he wants to do better. I put him in baseball this year to see if he liked it, and he does but I can tell it's alittle to slow for him now. So I will go back to football and soccer for him later on in the year.

 

My 4 year old daughter is gifted academically so far and we are teaching her how to read sentences now and not just words. She loves going to school and learning which is great. We had to put her into a Montessori school when we moved due to no space in a regular pre-k program. But she will be going to kindergarten this year at the same school with her brother so we won't have to pay the $550 a month tuition fee anymore(YAY)

if you have a kid who loves to read you're lucky, school should be easy for her. my son couldn't read properly till just a few years ago and it's definitely held him back in so many areas. he's always hated it. the first book he wanted to read was 'it' because of the movie and man, that book is like a thousand pages so he's been reading it for a year now.

 

[Cyberfx1024 7,980]

3 minutes ago, smilesammich said:

i was discouraged early on by a teacher who commented on how i turned the page at an angle. i am left handed and tend to smear pen/pencil as i go..writing sideways helps. i then noticed how my dad wrote in all caps and tried to start doing the same, which my teachers quickly shut down as well. 

 

Yeah my daughter's teacher is like that as well, she will shut you down in a heartbeat. They send home weekly progress reports and I have gotten a note saying "Haylie is not living up to her full potential, she could do more". Which then my daughter got it from me and I haven't gotten another note saying that.

[Randyandyuni 2,682]

Just now, smilesammich said:

if you have a kid who loves to read you're lucky, school should be easy for her. my son couldn't read properly till just a few years ago and it's definitely held him back in so many areas. he's always hated it. the first book he wanted to read was 'it' because of the movie and man, that book is like a thousand pages so he's been reading it for a year now.

 

I hate to say this, but try comic books, my son would not read anything, discovered comic books and learned to love to read, YMMV but I was amazed