Hong Kong | 23 March 2016

Singapore Curriculum Document 

https://www.moe.gov.sg/docs/default-source/document/education/syllabuses/sciences/files/mathematics-syllabus-sec-1-to-4-express-n(a)-course.pdf

Teach Less, Learn More TLLM

Original Speech by Minister Tharman

https://www.moe.gov.sg/media/speeches/2004/sp20040929.htm

TLLM After a Decade

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/mobile/singapore/school-content-being-cut/2067514.html

I am teaching a session of the course MSc 6162 Curriculum and Assessment Under Curriculum Reform at Chinese University of Hong Kong.

I am planning to outline the Singapore mathematics curriculum - the development, focus, theoretical underpinnings and implementation. I am using the overarching question - What are the challenges facing high-achieving systems like Singapore and Hong King in terms of curriculum and student assessment? to frame the discussion | Chinese University of Hong Kong

Additional Perspective from another Singapore-based educator.

Hong Kong | 22 March 2016

Seminar on Teacher Education in Singapore 

Nottingham, England | 22-24 Feb 2016

Sendai, Japan | 26-27 February 2016

Two-day sessions for Teachers from three international schools in Japan. This was hosted by Tohoku International School.

Photograph | One of the tallest statues in the world is in Sendai, at 100 metres.

Slides at Ban Har's Facebook Photo Album | Sendai

https://www.facebook.com/banhar.yeap/media_set?set=a.10153480805265975.1073742119.586125974&type=3&uploaded=9

London, England | 25-29 January 2016

http://www.usd379.org/view/12129.pdf

Singapore | 18 January 2016

Brown Bag Session at Hwa Chong Instittution 

I conducted a lunch time session with more than a dozen secondary Teachers at HCI, a school in Singapore. The session was facilitated by Shinglee Publishers. 

In the session I raised the issue of routine cognitive skills being increasing less valuable. 

The World Economic Forum WEF, as reported in the newspaper this morning, predicted that smart machines will 'displace millions of jobs in the next five years'. 5.1 millions to be exact. This is an urgent message for schools, really.

In the session I shared one way of doing guided practice and assigning independent practice. In the demonstration, we provided that angles at the centre is twice that of the circumference for two cases. Then I asked students to say which tasks in (1) are for the two cases that they had proven. And to prove at least one more case before solving the related problems. I left the technicality of the calculations to the students. 

For homework, they were assigned to complete the rest of the page by selecting three "most difficult problems to a lot of people, in your opinion" of the seven available and to solve them in a way that people who have difficulties with them can understand the solution | How to Do Practice

This month, I also conducted a session on activity-based lessons for colleagues at Marshall Cavendish Education.

Surabaya, Indonesia | 16 January 2016

Coming Soon / Akan Datang