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By Mr Alan Koh Soon Liang, HOD (Mother Tongue), Gan Eng Seng School |
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| Crescent
Girls' Secondary students share how their project
work increased their interest in the Chinese Language. |
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On 9 September 2005, about 50 teachers from both primary and
secondary schools shared with fellow CL teachers these innovative
ideas during the National Professional Sharing Session held
at Zhangde Primary.
In his opening address, Mr Ngoh Choon
Ho, Principal of Hong Wen School, pointed out that the objective
of organising the session was to create a platform for teachers
to share creative teaching strategies, thereby nurturing a spirit
of learning and sharing among both teachers and students. The
session was in response to Teach
Less, Learn More, SEED
and the curriculum changes being implemented for more engaged
learning.
In his address, Guest of Honour Mr Yeo Guat Kwang, Member of Parliament for Aljunied Constituency, emphasised the importance of keeping CL alive alongside the learning of the English Language. He maintained that teachers were key to ensuring the success of this policy.
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are key to developing the next generation of bilingual
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| From
left: Mdm Boey, Mr Yeo and Mr Ngoh... very pleased
with the book of innovative strategies for CL teaching. |
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Mdm Boey Wai Wah, South 4 Cluster Superintendent, also stressed
the importance of developing bilingualism as a niche for Singapore
education. She expressed trust in our teachers to nurture a
generation of effectively bilingual students.
The observation sessions were carried out concurrently in different
classrooms and participants could choose which one to attend.
A wide repertoire of interesting and innovative strategies on
engaging students in meaningful learning was shared during the
two-hour session.
Teachers and student presenters of Crescent Girls’ said that it was an effective platform for sharing and promoting innovative teaching strategies. Teachers of West Cove Primary felt that by sharing with other teachers, they also learnt at the same time as during the Q&A session, good questions prompted them to refine their ideas for teaching strategies.
About 90 per cent of the teachers felt that they had gathered
many innovative ideas on enthusing students after attending
the session and that it was an effective platform for sharing
ideas. The innovative activity-based pedagogies shared were
collated and uploaded on Hong Wen School’s website as well as
published in a book launched by Mr Yeo on the day of the Professional
Sharing Session. Synopses in English have been included so that
these teaching-learning resources could be useful to other teachers.
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