Education… Listening is Respect 14 Mar 2010 Listening is respect. I have often wondered why we have classes and awards for speaking skills but none for listening skills. Speaking and listening are two sides of the same…
Education Playing to Learn, Learning to Play 3 Nov 2009 Playing and learning are synonymous for children. Children of all ages develop cognitively, socially, emotionally and physically through play. Play provides them with an opportunity to create, invent, reason and…
Curriculum Commonsense in Curriculum 15 Jun 2009 Curriculum is the driving force of a school and can be loosely defined as the framework within which the teaching learning in a school is designed. In that sense, it…
Differentiated Learning Differentiated learning is about differentiated teaching 3 Jun 2009 Most of our classrooms adopt one-size-fits-all delivery system which breeds disengagement and detachment from learning and is detrimental to learning. Nowadays, the students profile in the schools is more diverse…
Assessment… Assessment of Student-Initiated Inquiries 23 May 2009 One challenge for the teachers who dabble in the inquiry-approach is how to assess something that looks so very diverse, open-ended and fluid, in some ways. How does a teacher align the inquiry…
Teacher Training Inquiry process in classrooms 19 May 2009 The inquiry approach to teaching-learning is departure from the traditional teacher-directed strategies. Once a teacher gets somewhat comfortable with the process, the next battle for her in the classroom is…
Teacher Training Inquiry-based teaching 18 May 2009 “The school needs to have more student-initiated inquiries than teacher-driven ones”, was the observation of the visiting team of IB experts who had come to study classroom practices in the…
E-Portfolio Investigating e-portfolios: The learner’s perspective 15 May 2009 E-portfolio (EP) learner preferences in an EP system: Flexibility: EPs are about people, rather than technology. EP tools should be unobtrusive, supportive & flexible to accommodate the diverse learner needs…
E-Portfolio e-portfolios – A celebration of an vibrant & reflective mind 13 May 2009 'The e-portfolio is the central and common point for the student learning experience... It is a reflection of the student as a person undergoing continuous personal development, not just a…
E-Portfolio Electronic portfolios – a multimodal education tool 12 May 2009 ‘An e-portfolio is a purposeful aggregation of digital items – ideas, evidence, reflections, feedback etc, which “presents” a selected audience with evidence of a person’s learning and/or ability.’ Sutherland, S.…
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