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Title : Values in Education

Subject Area : Character and Citizenship Education

Synopsis : This project aims to make P4 pupils to become more responsible in words and deeds. In this TLC innovate project, stories, fables and videos are used to depict examples and non-examples with regards to the act of being responsible. This was done as a flipped classroom activity. In class, the teacher conducts  two types of discussions (whole class and small group discussion). Through scenarios and questions presented in the flipped classroom activity, pupils can respond appropriately demonstrating that they know how to act responsibly.

Presenters : Mrs Kumar and Shan

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Title : Making student thinking visible for 1 and 2 step word problems

Subject Area : Mathematics

Synopsis : Low progress learners often struggles with word problems.  The team explores concept story strategies to boost the confidence in low progress learners to tackle word problems.

Presenters : Rashidah and Rages

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Title : Writing Skills for P5/6 English

Subject Area : English Language

Synopsis : This project aims to achieve two main objectives. One is to help pupils plan, organise and expland their plot or build their characters in their writing to make their narrative more interestinh and purposeful.  Second is to empower teachers with the confidence and resources to teach writing mindfully and explicitly.  These objectives are met with the invention of a writing toolkit for pupils which teachers use as a teaching resource, coupled with their own expertise in teaching writing as a form of productive skill.  While the project is ongoing, teachers often meet to discuss on what works and what doesn't.  The sharing of knowledge and practices in the teaching of writing enhances teachers' competency in the subject matter, increases their interest and boosts their confidence.

Presenters:

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Teacher learning communities (TLC) enhance teacher quality and teacher quality is the most important factor in enhancing student achievement.  TLC provides opportunities for teachers to discover, create and negotiate new meanings that improve their practice.

Innovate@Admiralty aims for teachers to learn from one another’s practice and discovery.  The platform enables teachers to work together towards transformative teaching.  I hope the presentations by our fellow colleagues will get us to reflect on our teaching and encourage us to reshape our classroom practices.

Rashidah Ismail Neville

School Staff Developer

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Title : Progressive writitng skills for P3 to P6

Subject Area : Chinese Language

Synopsis:Using Mandala thinking, it promotes visible thinking in students. This aids the students’ in conceptualising their writing contents and promotes their logical thinking in writing. Through the three phases of mandala thinking, students will be able to internalise the thinking process and use it in their writing.

Presenters: Shu Fen and Chun Fang

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8.00 am     TLC Breakout Session 1
8.30 am     TLC Breakout Session 2

9.00 am     Tea Break

9.30 am     TLC Breakout Session 3
10.00 am   TLC Breakout Session 4

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Title : Physical and Cognitive Skills Assessment in PE

Subject Area : Physical Education

Synopsis : Pupils who perceived to be competent in skills will tend to apply and practice their skills outside of PE lessons too. Our team's first step towards building competent and confident learners is to find out what the correlations between physical and cognitive skills in games and sports lessons, and how we bridge the gap such that pupils are able to competent and confident in learning during lessons.

As a team, we designed lesson packages and use standardised learning cues that would assist them in peer learning and feedback that would transcend across the module.

Presenters : Alfiah and Andrew

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Title : Enhancing Self-Reflection through Peer Assessment

Subject Area : Art and Music

Synopsis : Students are required to reflect on artwork and music performances. It was observed that students did not use the specific art or music vocabulary during reflections. Peer assessment was used to enhance their self-reflection.

Presenters : Roopini and Karen

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Title : Holiday Revision Package using SLS

Subject Area : Chinese Language

Synopsis : To enable students of various group in each Teachers group assigned with different revision or enrichment package stored in SLS. This should be able to help them learn on their own needs and own pace with enough guidance and monitoring.

Presenters : Hun Hui and Ding Xue

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Title : Writing Skills for Lower Primary

Subject Area : English Language

Synopsis : Based on previous batches of P2, our team realised that our children are unable to write coherent stories. The missing gaps between the pictures resulted in readers having a weak understanding of the story. Good writers uses “links” (which will not be found from the pictures) at the end of each paragraph to signal readers that the story is moving onto the next picture. Through the use of graphic organizers, pupils will be able to better plan their creative writings and develop their ideas independently, thereby addressing the missing gaps in their stories.

Presenters : Cindy and Akhila

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Title : Variation Problems

Subject Area : Mathematics

Synopsis : One Problem, Multiple Changes is a Variation Concept strategy that aims to increase P5 and P6 students’ confidence and motivation levels in Mathematics Problem Solving through
(1) routine and repetition, (2) connection across topics, and (3) scaffolding and progression.
It was first introduced to the P6 students in 2017, and the impacts on the students’ learning in Mathematics was positive. In 2018, it was redesigned and customised to the different learning needs of the P5 and P6 students.

Presenters : Kok Choon and Yew Beng

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Title : Learning Syntax is Fun

Subject Area : Malay Language

Synopsis : Presenters will be sharing on the use of modelling technique to enhance students learning on sentence structures in Malay language. This technique helps students to understand the concept of sentences structure in Malay. Based on Malay language sentence structure, students were able to identify the various types of sentence structure  and use them when developing new sentences effectively.

Presenters : Shikin and Hasliza

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Title : Effective Strategies for E Oral (P6)

Subject Area : Chinese Language

Synopsis : Researches had been conducted for e-oral in some secondary school, but none has been done in the primary school, especially in the area of effective effective instructional strategies. The team try to figure out some effective strategies in order to help students  to master the answering skill so that our children able to perform better in e-oral.

Presenters : Zhe Jin and Yet Wah

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Title : Using Peer-Feedback for improvement in P3 narrative writing.

Subject Area : English Language

Synopsis : Research has shown that by allowing students to read and analyse texts written by their peers and carry out revisions using their peers' advices and suggestions, enable them to be more aware of the key characteristics of the given genre.       Based on this observation, the team carried out a few lessons on two groups of students ; the LP and MP classes and observe their interactions and writings at the end of the lessons. Steps adopted are similar to the TAD method but more structured and are slow-paced.

Presenters : Zakiah and Sabiah

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Title : Visualising Word Problems

Subject Area : Mathematics

Synopsis: Lower primary pupils tend to make mistakes in comparison questions, involving concepts on "more than" and "fewer than". Most of them will just read the questions and when they see the word "more than", they will immediately add the given numbers together. Using concrete materials and powerpoint slides to reinforce the concept, pupils will grasp the idea better.

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Title : Addressing Science Misconceptions in P3 Diversity

Subject Area : Science

Synopsis : 1) P3 students are learning Science as a new subject. The team explores ways to clarify science misconceptions in P3 Diversity theme in a fun and interactive way using ICT tools.
2) The team uses Socratic questioning as a technique to introduce the theme 'Cycles'. This is to promote critical thinking about the big ideas of Cycles before converging to teach life cycle.

Presenter : Jamie

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Title : P1 Grammar in SLS

Subject Area : English Language

Synopsis : This project aims to:
1) investigate the readiness level of lower primary pupils (specifically, P1s) when engaging in self-directed learning.
2) explore the attitudes of parents towards online learning for young children

We leveraged on SLS as a platform to create a simple lesson for E-learning. Prior to the assignment of the online task, parents were told not to give any assistance to their children.

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Title : Active Learning using SLS

Subject Area : English Language

Synopsis : Using Learning Through Acquisition as the main learning experience in the Active Learning Process, P4 students explore key concept of the conditional conjunction "if" to communicate whether a situation is likely or unlikely to happen. Students learn to understand the use of conditional conjunctions to communicate the intention of the author through various scenarios.

Presenters : Masnie and Diana

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Title : English Writing/Feedback

Subject Area : English Language

Synopsis : Using 'Show' rather than 'Tell' in creative writing  with the use of the 5 senses and language skills. Our group tried out with 2 classes, P1 and P4. Though the concept might be thought of being difficult for P1 children, our group decided to test it out for ourselves. We will share with you our findings and the challenges we faced. We believe that a storyshower would be more impactful in getting across the story than a storyteller. Of course this could work with the oral aspect as well but for our research purpose we decided to use our creative writing lessons as a basis of test since what is written can be read and reread.

Presenters : Jane and Nura

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Title : Contextualise abstract Scientific concepts using dramatisation

Subject Area : Science

Synopsis: Using dramatisation as a strategy for the students to acquire abstract concept on the topic of Human Circulatory System (P5)

Presenters : Jian Hao and Ying Ying

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Title : Active Learning Using SLS Portal

Subject Area : Tamil Language

Synopsis : Current oral requires the students to express their thoughts and ideas fluently after watching a video. Besides describing the events taking place in the video, students need to articulate and interact with the examiners. Thus as there are two big challenges the students face. The first challenge is lack of vocabulary holds them back from answering the questions and the next is lack of knowledge about the topics. Thus the team explores ideas of introduce

Presenters : Sharmila and Nala

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Title : Inspiring computational thinking in the lower primary through coding with Micro Bits

Subject Area : ICT and ECG

Synopsis: As we currently live in a world that is permeated with technology, we believe that computational thinking and computer programming are becoming increasingly relevant skills. Every year, the number of computing jobs is far higher than the number of computer science graduates, with significant job growth projected for the foreseeable future (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2018). We think that since technology has become an integral part of children’s experience, early childhood education should also include study of technology. Thus, we decided to carry out our project with a group of Primary 1 pupils, using the Micro:Bit.

Presenters: Marina

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