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It
is the teachers who inspire our students to do more than
the ordinary, or to go beyond what they can achieve with
ease. It is teachers who take education beyond 'filling
a vessel with knowledge', and who 'light a fire' in our
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Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, MOE Work Plan Seminar 2004
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For the Learner,
his Needs, Interests and Aspirations |
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To Rush through
the Syllabus |
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To Excite Passion
in Learning |
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Out of Fear
of Failure |
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For Understanding
of Concepts and Ideas |
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To Dispense
Information Only |
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For the Test
of Life |
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For a Life
of Tests |
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The Whole Child |
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The Subject |
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Values-centric |
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Grades-centric |
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Process |
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Product |
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Searching Questions |
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Textbook Answers |
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Active and
Engaged Learning |
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Drill and
Practice |
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Differentiated Teaching
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“One-size-fits-all” Instruction |
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Guiding, Facilitating,
Modelling |
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Telling |
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Formative and Qualitative
Assessment |
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Summative and Quantitative
Assessment |
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Spirit of Innovation and
Enterprise to Nurture Intellectual Curiosity
and Passion |
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Set Formulae, Standard
Answers |
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TLLM is about teaching better, engaging the learners, building
their character and preparing them for life, rather than teaching
a barrage of set formulae for tests and examinations. It revives
the passion, mission and aspirations we possessed the day we
assumed our roles as educators.
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| Giant
chess game stimulates the mind. |
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| Learning
Hanyu Pinyin the fun way. |
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TLLM is also about shifting the focus from “quantity” to “quality”
in education. More “quality” in terms of classroom interaction,
opportunities for expression, the learning of life-long skills
and the building of character through innovative and effective
teaching approaches and strategies. Less “quantity” in terms
of rote-learning, repetitive tests and following prescribed
answers and set formulae.
As part of the blueprint on holistic education laid out by Mr
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister for Education, in a Parliamentary
speech, we “will seek to cut back on quantity… so as to provide
more ‘white space’ in the curriculum, space which gives schools
and teachers the room to introduce their own programmes, to
inject more quality in teaching, or give students themselves
the room to exercise initiative and shape more of their own
learning.”
In previous issues of Contact Online, many of our colleagues
shared with us their empowering experiences in TLLM. If you
wish to add on to this repertoire, drop us an e-mail at contact_online@moe.edu.sg.
We look forward to finding out, as expressed in the words of
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, how you aspire to “nurture a
curiosity that goes beyond the formal curriculum, and a passion
for learning that carries through life.” |
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