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Reflecting on your journey with your form class in Semester 1:

1. What are the challenges you faced in your form class?

2. What classroom strategies have you found effective for your form class? (Using PIES as a frame - Physical Culture, Intellectual Engagement, Emotional Wellbeing, Social Interactions, and Others)

3. What resources or support do you wish you had as a form teacher?

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-Diverse personalities

-Different cliques

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1) Difficulty in building class spirit.

need more time / opportunities to develop a sense of unity and belonging.

Too many morning activities during FT time.

Students tend to be more reserved and hesitant to step up to contribute.

2) Classroom cleanliness

no sense of ownership because they use different venues for lessons.

3) Inappropriate use of PLDs

During lessons, in between lessons, all the time.

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1) Two loudhailers that cannot stop talking

2) Class response to these loudhailers can be very unfriendly

3) Still very immature, refusal to follow instructions based on their mood/emotion

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Students are inattentive and always talking amongst themselves so the noise level is always high. A few boys require constant reminders to remain seated and to wear their uniform properly.

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-We break up the cliques and have diverse people coming in the same group.

-Empower the class comm to give instructions and lead in classroom activities / events.

-Appoint others who are not in class comm as ICs for certain activities / events -> a platform to showcase their leadership skills.

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1) Tapping on the class com

to disemminate information ( no need class chats)

take care of various activities (e.g. VIA)

2) Close partnership with parents

regular communication with parents (both the good and bad)

3)Create opportunities for them have their voices heard.

VIA activities - they choose what to do, they do the research, decide how to distribute the work

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-Be patient.

-Constant reminders.

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1) A platform to park in comments/ feedback during PTC. so that feedback can be shared while still fresh in our minds.

E.g. Too much fried food in the canteen.

2) opportunities for class bonding outside of the official events / CCE lessons / VIA activities/ Annoucments.

E.g. Birthday celebrations

E.g. Sharing about career aspirations etc.

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Difficulty in dealing with students with difficult family backgrounds - hard to control what happens to them at home.

Class room physical condition - Shared classroom. Lack of shared responsibility.

Insufficient time to conduct admin - 30 mins CCE not enough and morning interaction time a bit too limited.

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Try to ensure that everyone has a role to play and contribute

Let them have the space to explore and implement, without judgement. Then provide feedback for improvements.

Learn to let it go and trust them.

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Sharing of personal experiences to allow us to become relatable to the students - allow them to approach us easily

Giving more responsibilities to the students, aside from the class committee, to identify potential leaders.

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1) Subject group duty roster together with class duty roster to make sure that there is involvement from all students make use of the 16 classroom. Help with cleanliness and the sense of responsiblity and belonging.

2) Restorative practice to help students to learn perspective taking as well ways to solve disagreements in the right way.

3) working with class committee to effect changes on the ground and from the inside. Removes the idea that discipline is the teachers responsibility but the students' responsibility.

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Diverse personalities and some of whom think they have leadership abilities when in fact they just want to order their classmates around.

How do we as FTs reach out to these diverse personalities who each have their own issues eg home life, parental expectations? We tread carefully between uplifting them and putting them down in our language use.