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What’s one element we include in our curriculum that might resonate with Guangzhou’s teaching practices you just heard about?

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How might we incorporate cultural elements into our curriculum / lesson to enhance language learning?

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Connect-Extend-Challenge

Connect

How are the ideas presented connected to what you already know/do？

Extend

What new ideas did you get extended or broaden your thinking in new directions？

Challenge

What questions do you still have?

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instilling love for reading, importance of well being

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Establish mental well being corner

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They emphasized on student well being, giving student a calm down corner with strategies that the student can use.

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Reading corner.

Instill the love for reading in students.

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Focus on real world application to let the language come alive: intentional design of performance task and writing tasks to help students see that language is used for communication, which is a critical 21CC.

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Having a special room for those who need to regulate their emotions. (Counsellor and TRANSIT) room

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Calm corner, reading habits and student leadership

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Inculcate the love for reading books, and the cultural exposure.

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Set up reading corners to make reading omnipresent.

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Set up reading corners to make reading omnipresent.

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Not just the curriculum, but also the learning spaces. More intentional design of learning spaces, classrooms and special rooms to infuse that cultural elements.

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Sharing of 成语故事 (idiom stories) in our lessons 

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Sharing of 成语故事 (idiom stories) in our lessons 

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We shall include folk stories., videos, songs to teach language and culture. Application can be done through role play, sing along sessions.

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Whole sch approach - bilingual words should be seen throughout school so that students see it’s relevance and connect it to their identity.

E.g lower primary toilets signage in 4 languages

Posters in 4 languages

This will also increase their vocab

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We can maximise our vertical spaces to put up cultural content ( thematic). Or we can use our staircase spaces. 1 staircase 1 language

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Incorporate multilingualism by encouraging students to learn greetings, songs from different cultures. Use stories and story telling from diverse cultures to foster diversity and respect. Cultural exchange program in schools. Organise activities around cultural activities.

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Introduce the festivals to create awareness. Such as the one we had recently, Pongal as a whole school approach. Teachers to touch bases during Gems time.

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Curriculum Design: 1. Revise existing lesson plans to include culturally relevant materials.

2.Incorporate multicultural books, case studies, and examples into content areas.

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Cultural learning corners and storytelling sessions that highlight our heritage and traditions.

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Curriculum Design:

- Revise existing lesson plans to include culturally relevant materials.

- Incorporate multicultural books, case studies, and examples into content areas.

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Use teachable moments to instill pride in their respective culture n tradition. Not only during MT lessons. Whole sch approach.

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To have classes adopt an area and gives a sense of ownership to the area. Thats splendid.

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Connect

Technology cannot replace human connections

Extend

Using technology while building relationships - not everyone talks when they get the ipads. There are lesser conversations

Challenge

How does our school plan to make MT more “seen” for students in our school?

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I have also experienced the ease of cashless payment in China. We can simply bring our handphones out and that is enough. However, the payment using face recognition and palm is something new to me. 😊

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How to build a cultural immersive learning environment in Singapore context is something we can think about and explore more possibilities 

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How to build a cultural immersive learning environment in Singapore context is something we can think about and explore more possibilities 

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to establish culturally immersive environment, it will be good to have exclusive language rooms in the school.

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I support the idea that language learning for the purpose of communication and cultural appreciation.

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1. We might benefit from strategic planning and review of our current learning spaces to see how it can be updated to be more current, and it could be immersive and beneficial for learning. When budget permits, we can consider embarking on projects to renew these spaces. Eg our MTL classrooms

2. There are lots of opportunities in the region if we have access to one more language. It opens up so many more doors and the possibilities are endless.

3. What is our leverage?

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Connect

ICT - leverage on them but not make them be the end product to our students' learning

Extend

Teaching of values and building character is key - the fundamentals of teaching

Challenge

How can we inculcate passion or instill values in our students when they are not driven themselves due to home environment and background?

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Efficiency is the way but if everything is expected to be fast and convenient, how do they people there react to when the are faced with inconvenience? Do they complain?

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In Singapore, many students don’t have much exposure to their mother tongue languages outside their classrooms, making it harder for them to pick up the language naturally. As a result, Chinese lessons often focus on the basics—like reading, writing, and everyday conversation—to ensure students grasp the essentials and meet school expectations. This contrasts with China, where students are immersed in Chinese at home, school, and society, allowing educators to delve into deeper content and skills, such as higher-order thinking and creativity.

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Many good ideas but key challenge we face is students lack of interest and ability in MT language. Without sufficient competency, it is challenge to engage them in more interesting ways as they find it hard to understand and express themselves.

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Building of character & value must be the top priority, then T&L becomes smooth sailing. Emphasis on CCE is impt.

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Incorporate more cultural elements in teaching

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Importance of technology to improve productivity and efficiency.

Challenge : Discover additional strategies to engage students and enhance their connection and awareness of our culture. How can we go about doing that?

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Use the time allocated for MTL classes to incorporate traditional culture into the teaching, such as having traditional culture lessons in each term.