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Concurrent Session 1: 14 Nov 2024 QSS Staff Learning Festival

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Display Essential Items for Students’ Course Work

@ D&T Workshop 1

Presenters: Mr Goh Kok Liang & Mr Anthony Thang

Sharing Topics Covered:

1) 5 Stages of the Design Thinking Process

2) Background of the Problem

3) Problems Students Faced

4) Problems Faced by Teachers

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Concurrent Session 1: 14 Nov 2024 QSS Staff Learning Festival

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Display Essential Items for Students’ Course Work

@ D&T Workshop 1

Sharing Topics Covered:

1) 5 Stages of the Design Thinking Process

2) Background of the Problem

3) Problems Students Faced

4) Problems Faced by Teachers

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Concurrent Session 1 - Display Essential Items for Students' Course Work @ D & T Workshop 1 by Mr Goh Kok Liang & Mr Anthony Thang

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Concurrent Session 1 - Display Essential Items for Students' Course Work @ D & T Workshop 1 by Mr Goh Kok Liang & Mr Anthony Thang

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1) I have learnt about the 5 stages of Design Thinking in D&T project work

i) emphaty

ii) define

iii) ideate

iv) prototype

v) test

I will adopt it into my narrative composition lesson to focus on the plot writing where students can write more creatively using their choices of situational happenings, varied incidences, etc.

2) Challenges:

LA students may not understand on effective plot writing and need more teacher guidance, hence may submit late on the narrative composition assignments.

Students language acquisition skills may not be up to mark based on their levels thus the narrative composition masterpiece may turn out to be not meeting expectation of good composition writing practice.

Therefore, teacher still need to be the facilitator for composition writing guidance.

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The English department uses multiple choice questions to enhancing critical reading. Our MTL department already uses this when Pre-reading textbook, and we can also use this method to reinforce story reading for students.

The challenge is that it may increase the teacher's workload, but AI can be used to set the questions.

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Concurrents session1:14 Nov2024 Qss Staff Learning Festival

Display Essential items for Studets course work @D&T workshop 1

5 Stages of the Design Thinking process

background of the problem, problems students Faced, problems faced Teachers, identifying the problem .

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Learn. Adopt. Apply

1. Attended Mdm Chew's SEN sharing. We were tasked to complete a jigsaw puzzle with really noisy and buzzing loud music sound and play table tennis using our non-dominant hand. Being in the shoes of the SEN, we are able to emphatise with the struggles that the SEN students are facing. As such, in MTL classroom, we need to consciously aware who the SWANs are, their abilities and the tasks we set for them. Being consciously aware, scaffolds must be provided for them (even more if their subject ability is low). Thus, they are supported and able to perform to the best of their abilities.

2. Second sharing is by EL unit in close reading. Descriptive text is given instead of narrative text. Instead of giving students whole long text, slice it down to smaller chunks to get students to analyse and understand the contextual/inferential meaning of the word and purpose of the sentence in the text. Students can choose the part they want to work on to develop student advocacy.

Challenges

1. How can we make scaffolding meaningful for students yet less laborous for teachers?

2. Overcome? Pairing of students of different abilities. Creating fixed routines/scaffolds for the various language skills.

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1. I attended the Science Department lesson,

Inquiry-based learning

WA2

1.      I - Identify (Jan – Feb)

Learning gaps

2.      Plan (Feb – Mar)

3.      Implement & observe (Mar – Apr)

4.      Reflect & review (Apr-Oct)

Data Collected from the project – Clarity of water, Speed and water flow, volume of water.

How can I use the MTL Lesson,

I would like to apply the strategy for data collection. (ex: find the common mistakes in the writing works.)

Challenges: It is difficult to gather all the data and finalize the common mistake. if we choose some particular writing practice, collect the data, and find the solution.

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ZhangYi_ EL Dept  (Promote critical reading skills by MCQ on SLS)

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ZhangYi_ EL Dept  (Promote critical reading skills by MCQ on SLS)

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1. One Valuable thing we can adopt: design pre-reading survey to learn students struggling in reading, and what strategies they are using mostly.

2. challenges: design the lesson and question to promote students critical thinking

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We looked at the traits/roles of CMs, and was presented the rubrics for each traits. The rubrics are for CM's self-assessment.

1) We use rubrics quite a lot. Rubrics could include some examples for easy referencing, especially when the rubrics are being used for students.

2) Rubrics must be really easy to understand or students will face difficulties using them.

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June Tan

our mtl dept has already started using chatGPT for T&L. so two depts can collaborate to share good practices to improve pedagogy in using AI tools (ST3 P1 innovative an reflective professionals).

challenges is teaching the students ethics in using chatGPT and not to over rely on AI tools

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I went to Science PLT.

1) Consider more factors in deciding the groupings for students. Such as giving student choice or handling issues faced by different groups such as in-cooperative members. For the rubric, it is crucial to start teaching the students since Sec 1.

2) Students who like to group with each other are from the same clique, difficult to split them out. We can explain the rationale and benefits of trying to work with different members to get buy in from them. For the rubric, students might not understand the terms used. We can further simplify it with concrete. examples given to promote their understandings.

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Question: From what you observed this morning....

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Question: From what you observed this morning....

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1.What is one valuable thing we can learn and adopt in our MTL lesson?

a)How does it achieve any of the Strategic Objectives?

2.What challenges do you forsee, if we adopt these practices?

a)How can we overcome/reduce these challenges?

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Question: ​

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What is one actionable step you can take to implement the CAR framework and ensure your next lesson plan's assignments are both purposeful and meaningful for your diverse learners?​

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I am inspired by the video shown during the sharing. I will adopt the same idea in my Sec 2HCL. I will probably give choices of 3-4 for students to decide the forms of products they will create. The task would be creating an artefact based on the book they have read.

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1. DI is the strategies adopted to cater to the learning needs of varied learners in class.

2. Most of the time, I do DI fof questioning based on students' readiness. In most of the group tasks, I also differentiate the roles of group members. But I seldom simplify the things I teach to support LPLs. All learn the same contents but in different ways with different expectation.

3. Some LPLs are really weak causing a big gaps compared to the learners. The Dept may create resources which cater to such needs, e.g. simplified worksheets or less challenging tasks. For HPLs, we often get them to teach MPLs and LPLs, we need to think of ways to stretch them further.

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Intentional grouping for project work

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1. What is DI to you?

(Consider specific examples from your own teaching experience or observations to illustrate your understanding of differentiated instruction.)

2. How is your DI journey so far?

(Share the frequency of adopting DI in your classroom and its

impact on student engagement and learning outcomes.)

3. What are challenges you face in adopting DI in your classroom?

(Share the constraints and difficulties you face, or areas for growth in carrying out differentiated instruction in the classroom.)

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Gamification with ease. Genially has ready-made quiz/escape room templates for use in class to heighten students' engagement in class.

~Iryantee :)

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Genially, the platform for interactive animated content

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Engage your audience with clickable, gamified, media-rich experiences. Create your interactive content now!

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For CL & TL, letting students read aloud (using SLS speech evaluation tool and online dictionary) every passage in the textbook routinely would give them a sense of COMPETENCE, as they get to learn new vocabulary in every passage, with the help of online dictionary. More motivated learners will also aim to pronounce accurately every time they read. It also gives students a certain level of AUTONOMY, compared to going through every passage in class, as they only need to search for vocabulary they are not familiar with (using online dictionary), and learn words they pronounced wrongly (using speech evaluation tool).

To increase RELATEDNESS, we need to design questions that draws connection between the passages and students' experiences.

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Spend too much class time to explain the meaning of vocabulary in class? Encourage students' self-directed learning by getting them to find out the meaning of the words using Ricciwawa.

~Iryantee

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I enforce great routine in my class. sometime for noisy class, I will ask them to stand for 1 minute for student especially the boys to calm down mentally and get ready for lesson. may be I will use online timer to build in this routine.

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For every lesson, I write GREAT on the class whiteboard once I put down my things on the teacher's desk. I reiterated to them about the GREAT routine during my first lesson with them. For the subsequent lessons, the word "GREAT" on the whiteboard serves as a reminder for students to start the lessons right.

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Keep reading aloud program.

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Before dismissal, share one thing that they've learnt.

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Before dismissal, share one thing that they've learnt.

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One of the routines that I carry out in my class is that before dismissal, when they are standing and about to greet me - I will get one volunteer to share what they have learnt during the lesson that day. By doing so, it helps to recap the main lesson objectives. - Mardiana

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This year, we are assigning more accountability to our committee members. During the first week, we taught our class committee members about their responsibilities. Now, every day, they ensure that the GREET routines are completed before the teacher enters the classroom.

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Firstly, do environment class check. Ensure all windows are open for ventilation before air con operates at 10.30am. Then do attire check, especially for boys to tuck on their shirt or t-shirt. Then the rest of GREAT follows.

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Firstly, do environment class check. Ensure all windows are open for ventilation before air con operates at 10.30am. Then do attire check, especially for boys to tuck on their shirt or t-shirt. Then the rest of GREAT follows.

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Sometimes there is no time to summarize before class end. In the future I will ask a student to remind me 5 minutes in advance.

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GREAT routine: I would like to try letting different students "lead" each step, so as to share the ownership increase the tempo of the whole routine

Greet: Chairperson/MTL Rep/loudest student

Right Materials: Buddies/Group Leaders

Environment: Each row 1 rep

Attire: Buddies/Group Leaders

Take attendance: MTL Rep from each class (plus we check our own SC Mobile)

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TL: Keep: Enrichment programme for graduating students

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TL: Keep: Enrichment programme for graduating students

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TL: This was very helpful for the students as the vendors gave tips on how to ace their oral exams.

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Karpagam's reflections:
I learned that Differentiation is about how a teacher takes the initiative to address students' needs.

The significance of various factors like "Quality Curriculum" and the "environment that encourages and supports learning" were mentioned in the workshop. It was shared with us on how the teachers and students play a part for it to work via instructional strategies.

Through this workshop, various methods on how to teach differently abled students at their level were mentioned and shared.

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Differentiated Instruction Workshop (2-3 Nov 2023)

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Differentiated Instruction Workshop (2-3 Nov 2023)

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Senan's reflections

3 take-aways:

i) DI is not a strategy, it's an educational approach.

ii) DI recognize how to bring students into curriculum and instruction.

iii) DI is not a silver bullet to every educational issue.

2 strategies

i) to plan and enact DI in classroom context by referring to unit plans, rationalization and evaluate learning, not practice.

ii) to harness technologies by planning optimal learning experiences (e.g. poll, SLS, exit card, etc.)

1 challenge

to keep to high expectations because DI may or may not be effective teaching methodology depending on students' abilities and academic background.

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3 take-aways from the workshop

2 strategies that I would like to try out in my teaching classes

1 challenge that I might face while applying the strategies in my teaching classes

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1.Guessing lantern riddles
2.Make Zongzi, dumplings, moon cakes, etc.

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MTF must continue for every year. The students are enjoyed the DJ session.
but must check with other program is on the same day.

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Should not clash with other school activities (e.g. Student interest day)

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Should not clash with other school activities (e.g. Student interest day)

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1. Should we engage the DJ again next year?
2. Other comments?

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Please provide your K.I.S.S feedback on Sec 3 MT Fortnight.

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Keep - Mock Exam before O lvls
Improve - Should have 1.5hr slot for timed-practises
Start - Bi-weekly oral/reading practise on SLS
Stop - Perhaps students do not always need to write full essays, esp during MTL intensive period. We can allow them to write essay outlines, and teachers check if the essay flow is logical.

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purple culture ( convert pin yin)
iMTL - fluency recording ( self-evaluate)

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Compile model essays on different topics

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Encourage more group activities

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Good for the pupils to practice. Can be self directed learning too.

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PLT, Reading, Monitoring students learning progress

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For Oral - video conversation
- to polish on word types (adjectives/verbs/nouns/other word forms)
- to emphasize on possible relevant phrases
For compre - graphic stimulus
- to guide on the techniques on understanding the text

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Keep
- Oral practice on Padlet (Whole year of topics and practices in one platform)
- SITRW thematic notes
- MT Intensive
- TYS

Improve
- (O) Structure of MT Intensive

Start
- DI-ed sample essays for O/NA
- Self-assessed Reading Aloud practice on SLS incorporated into monthly oral prac.

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1. Get good use of reading period.
2. Give 10 topics with the guideline, students need to memorize.
3. 1-to-1 consultation, group remedial.
4. Audio recording after school.

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Keep : a. Sept remedial and T3 weekly remedial are crucial. More time to practice oral (read aloud and conversation in SLS). a. weekly 10 year series practice
Improve : Class discipline and motivation in learning.  Can utilize CUP in 2023 to manage their discipline
Start : Remedial start in T2.
Stop : -

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School values

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SLS for DI, Google class rm, Pedlet

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create more e-ped lessons for their self directed reading.

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1) Regular timed-practise and mock exam
2) SLS audio recording on reading fluency
3) Sample answers for spoken interaction

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PEELS, Cooperative Learning (Group dynamics) ID

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retake will help students to improve grades

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retake will help students to improve grades

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Keep-10 yrs series practice

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Students get to record their oral recordings in SLS for their WA2 project. glad the students are able to submit their work and we can give them feedback online.

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Use role play / hotseat for pupils to be more engaged and create opportunity for pupils to share their ideas/ opinions in regards to the school core values

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Use role play / hotseat for pupils to be more engaged and create opportunity for pupils to share their ideas/ opinions in regards to the school core values

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Purple Culture- talking Chinese to PinYin converter

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Purple Culture- talking Chinese to PinYin converter

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This website can convert texts with pinyin . It's useful to weak learners and engage them to learn Chinese words and practice reading.

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started quizizz for the class to let them interact more with the textbook. It did brings more engagement during lesson as it is game-based and there is a leaderboard. However the class language ability differs too greatly and the winners are always the same group of students.

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Students can remember the sentences better and longer, but I have yet to observe them using the sentences in their writing.
-Hui Jun

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In email writing & Compo Ask pupils to infuse at least 1or2 school values appropriately.

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Using DI to engage pupils in oracy skills

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Students were tasked to create comic strip based on the reading passage they learned in order to check their understanding

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Give instructions of what the students need to learn

Guide them step by step in the learning progress

Assist to solve the difficulties when they need

Learn from mistakes as opportunities for additional learning;

Give timely feedback to the class.

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The same reading text for intensive reading cycle is used for comprehension and sentence building involving idioms. The familiarity of the text enabled the students to understand the meaning of the idioms more easily, thus, enabling them to infuse the use of idioms in composition.

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Students like to do quizizz during chinese lesson.but few students do the quizizz when I assigned it as homework.

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Students like to do quizizz during chinese lesson.but few students do the quizizz when I assigned it as homework.

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1) helps students to remember how to write the words correctly
2) helps student to remember the sentences better

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Using word wall to recap the vocab list is very effective. Student make it a point to read the vocab list before hand and try their level best to complete their task.

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My sec1 looking forward for the spelling, dictation & sentence making from their text book. 

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My sec1 looking forward for the spelling, dictation & sentence making from their text book. 

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1. This SLS cycle had to be conducted only in classroom in order to lock or unlock the activities one by one. Otherwise, students tend to copy the answers easily for quizziz and dictations if all activities are open always. Spent lot of time to complete the whole cycle in a mixed class of EX and NA students.
2. Difficult to repeat the whole cycle in classroom for the students who do not have PLD due to certain reasons like damage or to be repaired.

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1. MCQ options in quizziz help students while fill in the blanks does not help much since many students write the words with wrong spelling. May need more practices.
2. Penmanship is good for students to expose them more in writing.
-Rajan

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Quizizz can help to get much more response from the students

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I have been trying to encourage students reading aloud,at least the 《词句百宝箱》，which help a little bit on their deeply understanding and dictation.

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What are some possibilities where values can be infused naturally into our MTL lessons?

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What are some possibilities where values can be infused naturally into our MTL lessons?

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What needs more refinement?

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What has been working for you?

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Teaching students according to their aptitude

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I used Pear Deck to engage my students and they feedback that they like it. I think this tool has even greater potential in CCE lessons.

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I used Pear Deck to engage my students and they feedback that they like it. I think this tool has even greater potential in CCE lessons.

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Usage of DI and Onion formula/peel in essays, e mails help pupils to be more engaged. Pupils were able to add value to their learning. 

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Usage of DI and Onion formula/peel in essays, e mails help pupils to be more engaged. Pupils were able to add value to their learning. 

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For teaching of expository essay writing, I introduced the use of OpEN, IBuKU & CLoSE techniques. - Juanna

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Students work collaboratively in mixed DI groupings

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PEEL method
which enhance
the pupil writing skill.

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Using Deck.Toys to infuse gamification in DI activities. - Juanna

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Sec 3 team managed to tap on the value of respect in the syllabus to guide students through text, brainstorm personal experiences that demonstrate respect, and write an essay from these experiences.

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I start using peardeck this year. I like the draggable and draw function. It engages students better with teacher-student interaction - Xin Yee

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I start using peardeck this year. I like the draggable and draw function. It engages students better with teacher-student interaction - Xin Yee

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I have used Pear deck a few times so far to teach my students. It is really an interesting and engaging tool for teaching and learning. - Rajan

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I have used Pear deck a few times so far to teach my students. It is really an interesting and engaging tool for teaching and learning. - Rajan

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Using Blooket for gaming
Which greatly excited my students.