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Mark Gleeson

Teach Kids Math Using The Model Method For Math From Singapore - 12 views

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    This site is a comprehensive guide to many math problem solving strategies used in Singapore
Martin Burrett

'Singapore' approach to teaching maths can work in UK classrooms - 14 views

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    "Mastery - an approach to teaching maths commonly used in East Asian countries - can significantly benefit children in UK schools, a University of Exeter academic has found. The independent research, conducted by the Oxford University Department of Education, is the first academic study to show this teaching method, now supported by the UK Government, can be effective."
Mark Gleeson

Maths Problem Solving Strategies - 4 views

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    This site provides a multitude of examples of problem solving strategies using step by step processes to solve the provided problems. It showcases the problem solving approach to Maths education in Singapore, one of th higher ranked nations in Maths. A word of warning to mobile device users, most of the useful content is in swf format, not compatible with iOS and possibles other platforms. Use our computer. 
Mark Gleeson

Maths Problem Solving Strategies - 5 views

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    This site provides a multitude of examples of problem solving strategies using step by step processes to solve the provided problems. It showcases the problem solving approach to Maths education in Singapore, one of th higher ranked nations in Maths. A word of warning to mobile device users, most of the useful content is in swf format, not compatible with iOS and possibles other platforms. Use our computer. 
Lewis Thong

Racial Harmony Day - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 6 views

  • Racial Harmony Day (Chinese: 种族和谐日) is celebrated annually on 21 July in Singapore. The event is to commemorate the 1964 Race Riots, which took place on 21 July 1964. Racial Harmony Day also represents a day for schools to reflect on, and celebrate Singapore's success as a racially harmonious nation and society built on a rich diversity of culture and heritage. In schools all across the nation on that day, students are encouraged to be dressed in their traditional costumes such as the Cheongsam and the Baju Kurung
Andrew McCluskey

Teachers - Will We Ever Learn? - NYTimes.com - 182 views

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    I get very tired of having people point to Singapore as a good model for education. Singaporeans score well on tests because their life depends on it. Doing poorly on the PSLE taken at the end of sixth grade virtually guarantees you will never attend university and will limit your income for the rest of your life. Parents in Singapore spend thousands every year on private tuition, the sole goal of which is to produce high test scores. Singapore also recognizes that they are not producing creative students. In fact they wish they were more like the US.
tattinot

Singapore proposes changes to cybersecurity and data protection regimes - Data Protection Report - 5 views

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    "To relax the requirement for organisations to obtain consent before processing personal data, making it easier for online businesses to collect and share data and encouraging the growth of new technologies such as Internet of Things devices and artificial intelligence; and"
danthomander

Why is Singapore's school system so successful, and is it a model for the West? - 27 views

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    Fairly detailed overview of Singapore's education system, comparing it to those in other OECD nations.
danthomander

Teach Less, Learn More - Have We Achieved It? | Media Coverage | Newsroom | National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore - 32 views

  • The problem is compounded by parents who expect their kids to do well in school and would resort to any help they can get, including tuition or enrichment classes for their children.
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    Singapore's self-assessment
Raymond Andrew

Pastor called up by ISD - 46 views

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    Behold the power of the Internet. This makes governance so much harder.
dec_burke

Sensory Map of Hong Kong - 111 views

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    This a great idea for a project that successfully infuses technology into a language class. Students (aged 13-14) were required to go to an area in Hong Kong and use their 5 senses to describe what they experienced. Their English teachers helped them by taking them on walks around the neighbourhood of our school and getting them to think about what they could see, smell, taste, hear and touch. The students then worked in groups, picked an area they wanted to explore and set off to use their newly heighten senses. They used their phones to digitally record what they came across. Later this work was taken into ICT class where this interactive media rich website was created with the help of their ICT teacher. We hope you enjoy it! Check out the teachers' picks at the bottom.
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    I particularly liked the "sound" elements that had actual sound! (usually film footage) - that's an example of truly making the experience multimedia and doing something that we couldn't do with earlier technology.
Brianna Crowley

Is Common Core the Enemy of Autonomy? - Teaching for Triumph: Reflections of a 21st-Century ELL Teacher - Education Week Teacher - 35 views

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    An elementary teacher in a 99% school elaborates on how the CCSS can improve the current system that we have.
Nathan Dybvig

BBC Two - The Classroom Experiment - Episode guide - 63 views

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    alternatives to hand raising
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    Is this location restricted? Can't seem to access it in Singapore
Julia Gardiner

Lateline - 29/10/2012: PMs plan for every child to learn an Asian language - 14 views

    • Julia Gardiner
       
      The rationale or thinking behind introducing languages early in primary school
  • Gillard Government's Asian Century white paper sets an aspiration for Australia to rank as the world's 10th biggest economy by 2025, capitalising on the rapid economic growth in the region.
  • education will be the key and wants all school students to study an Asian language.
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  • funded
  • where all the new teachers might come from
  • where all the new teachers might come from.
  • the gold standard
    • Julia Gardiner
       
       The gold standard =any excellent example of something, like how Olympians are the gold standard for athletes
  • If you understand through the learning of language how people think, how they construct meaning, what is important to them culturally, then I think that gives us better insights into the people that we're going to be working with in the future and negotiating with.
  • The Prime Minister says she'll force the curriculum changes by tying them to Commonwealth funding to state and private schools.
    • Julia Gardiner
       
      Is this  good policy making? Some would  consider  it 'blackmail'!
  • Broadly, teachers and education experts have welcomed the plan, but question where the money is going to come from.
  • catchcry of the Hawke and Keating governments
    • Julia Gardiner
       
      The Hawke-Keating Government refers to the Federal Government of Australia from 11 March 1983 to 11 March 1996. It was a Labour government
  • Currently across all levels of schooling there's around 18 per cent of our young people who are studying one of the four priority Asian languages: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian and Korean. And that diminishes to fewer than 6 per cent by the time they get to Year 12.
    • Julia Gardiner
       
      How do we encourage students to  continue  learning an Asian language into the final years  of high school and  eyond?
  • say we simply don't have enough Asian language teachers to deliver the Prime Minister's vision and for the last decade the numbers of graduates have been declining.
  • hat's happened because universities have been under these budget constraints and when they've made decisions about what to cut, they cut courses with low enrolments and there goes the languages.
  • JEANNIE REA, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL TERTIARY EDUCATION UNION
    • Julia Gardiner
       
      Suggested reasons for the decline in language graduates and therefore  in language teachers. 
  • will help.JULIA GILLARD: We live in an age of different learning possibilities and choices. What we can do through the National Broadband Network, what we can do through having the world's first online national curriculum, which is what the Australian curriculum is, means we can get a deeper penetration of language, literacy and learning.
  • e Prime Minister acknowledges the shortages, but says technology
  • will help.
    • Julia Gardiner
       
      This argument t can be debated.  It would suggest that technology in itself will be a solution!
  • we need to be looking very carefully at what sort of encouragement and incentives we can provide to students so they continue doing a language, go on and major in a language in university and then go on to teach in the area.
  • JEANNIE REA:
    • Julia Gardiner
       
      What type of incentive scan be offered/
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    The Prime Minister wants all school students to study an Asian language to secure Australia's future in the Asian Century.
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    Completely deluded. Even here in Singapore, surrounded supposedly by chinese speakers the international schools are not getting it right and success stories are unusual ...
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