Social Studies Review EOY 2024 (for inputs from SS Team) by

Example of Input from 2023 on P5 Indian Heritage Centre (FOR REFERENCE)

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:20:03 UTC

Affirm
-Volunteers were mainly strict and able to control
-Stations were engaging and students enjoyed
-Prior knowledge e.g. C Kunalan , helped to keep students engaged.

Aware
-Some facilitators were not able to engage so students wandered off.
-Danger of sharp tools at the jewel station

Act
-Would we consider certain students to be reconsider for the trail?

2024 Mid Year Review with SS Team (For recap)

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:20:03 UTC

Example of Input from 2023: P1 and 2 (FOR YOUR REFERENCE)

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:20:03 UTC

Affirm
Citizenship packages are useful when slotted in with Events for 2 weeks are helpful

Aware (AFIs):
Assessment mode not clearly communicated to teachers. Should have TTTs to engage the teachers on the learning dispositions and how to assess students using the rubrics.

Act
Comms to the teachers on Citizenship packages to shift to Term 4 as post assessment.

P5 NEShow

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:20:03 UTC

P6 Asian Civilization Museum

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:20:03 UTC

P4 Kreta Ayer Heritage Gallery

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:21:41 UTC

P5 Indian Heritage Centre

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:22:04 UTC

For your inputs:

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:23:07 UTC

Feedback on the T&L and Post LJ Reflections conducted. If you had gone on any of them, share your feedback and comments on strengths and what the team can work on improving the processes.

For your inputs on SS Curriculum Assessment for Learning

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:29:39 UTC

What is the current state of the Assessment modes in your classrooms? You can also comment about the Performance Tasks.
Do these assessments help to grow our students towards becoming Critical Thinkers? Share the why and the how.

For your inputs on your respective level SS Classroom T&L

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:30:14 UTC

When you reflect about your SS classes, think and share about the strengths and AFIs in developing our students towards achieving our Vision of Passionate Learners / Critical Thinkers / Anchored leaders.
Share how the team can support in your growth as a SS Teacher in 2025.

For your inputs

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:34:27 UTC

How can SS Team support SS teachers in the conducting of SLL reflections for LJs and NE Comm days?
Are there any processes that can be put in place to support your respective levels?

Share a name and state how / why this person has inspired you in the teaching and learning of SS in 2024.

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:35:47 UTC

Share a suggestion

mrspearlielim — 2024-11-19 01:38:09 UTC

How would you want SS TTT in 2025 to look like and to include to support you in your professional development? Do drop your ideas and suggestions here on how we can make things work better for everyone to the best of our ability.

P4 Kreta Ayer Heritage Gallery

NewTownPri — 2024-11-19 01:54:35 UTC

Affirm

Length of the programme was just right. It ties in with the syllabus on early immigrants.

Generally, students enjoyed the LJ and many mentioned it as one of the things they remembered of their P4 year.

Aware

Unfortunately for those who went for the morning slot, the traditional medical hall and pastry shops were not yet open. But it was cooler in the morning and we did not have to worry about the heat.

At the station where the facilitator talked about the other surrounding buildings etc, it would have been better if they could have a big screen to better show the photos. Photos being what it is, not all the interesting details were clear.

NewTownPri — 2024-11-19 02:10:27 UTC

Students were more engaged in the 4A segment as they were curious about the early immigrants and their contributions etc. They were able to understand the difficulties faced, empathise and make connections.
However, it was harder to engage students in the lessons on the journey towards independence. It is possible that students were not able to relate and thus the relevance was lost.
It is always easier to engage students with videos so, would it be possible to get more videos about the prominent early immigrants who made contributions to Singapore?

T & L (P5)

NewTownPri — 2024-11-19 03:01:02 UTC

Class was more engaged and focused when the topic in 5A - Building Spore's Defence was taught as the chapter showcased the SAF,SPF,SCDF and how we can play a part to keep Spore safe. Many were able to share stories of their neighbours. cousins or fathers serving NS. KWL template was useful in the introduction of the lesson. Class was able to relate topic to TTD and the hands-on activities conducted. Video clips on youtube and SLS lesson packages also helped to engage the students.

NewTownPri — 2024-11-19 03:19:52 UTC

Students do research in groups and present the finished product.

Soft skills like collaboration, teamwork etc. are learnt. Through working on the project, students look at researched info critically and use only the info which is relevant in their project.

NewTownPri — 2024-11-19 03:24:52 UTC

Provide a template where key words / phrases are provided for students to use in their reflections. Illustrations (both lower and upper pri) should be encouraged as not all students are able to express themselves through their writing.

NewTownPri — 2024-11-19 03:31:36 UTC

Pearlie really motivates and inspires our SS teachers to enhance as well as engage their students by infusing IT tools like padlet, nearpod etc in their lessons. SS teachers who have used IT to engage students have shared their lessons and it is really encouraging. Pearlie is also always ready to share her knowledge and very approachable when we have queries wrt SS lessons.

NewTownPri — 2024-11-19 03:36:58 UTC

During SS TTT, continue to encourage teachers to share their lessons whether ICT is used or not.

More SS lesson packages (besides those in SLS) can be shared with other SS teachers. Encourage all teachers to share their teacher-curated lessons with their level eg worksheets, resources for class activities etc.

P4 Kreta Ayer

2024-11-19 09:04:24 UTC

Timing was good. No long waiting time.

The curated zones of engagement were very meaningful. It did bring about a sense of the different culture and engagement. The music tools and the painting styles engaged the pupils.

Reflections

2024-11-19 09:06:53 UTC

Make it timely and infuse it as part of the LJ/Event. This allows recent memory to be activated and enable them to probe their personal takeaways and reflections.

Please Share

2024-11-19 09:10:33 UTC

Do share classpoint and other ICT Tools used with other levels too so that we can become more aware on how to integrate these into our SS lessons. Apart from SLS other forms of ICT e-Ped lessons can foster more engagement for TB 4B. The voting, politics, and early leaders doesn't really pull interest to nowadays children deeply.

2024-11-21 06:23:18 UTC

P6 students engaged doing their performance task working on Innovations of Ancient Civilisations (Egypt, Greece or Rome). They worked collaboratively in groups to research on the chosen topics using Google slides/Canvas. They also enjoyed the presentations especially those with Blooket quiz.

2024-11-21 06:26:40 UTC

Pre and post learning on SLS enhance the fruitfulness of the LJ. Kudos to Pearlie who stepped up as the relief station facilitator!

2024-11-21 06:28:49 UTC

Consider cutting down the number of events to reflect on as there are other activities/written work that have to be done as well.

2024-11-21 06:31:52 UTC

I want to show my appreciate to Farah who has created the P6 performance tasks, resources on Nearpod/padlet and shared lesson ideas with me. Thank you, Farah!

Regular Reflections

2024-11-21 22:26:28 UTC

Students would be able to reflect better if there is one after each topic.