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Centering the Periphery: Giving Students’ Voice and Choice

Leave a Comment / Education, Primary, Primary School, Social Studies Education, Volume 9, Issue 1 2020 /

Siti Dzhawieyah (Elias Park Primary School (Singapore) Keywords Primary Primary School education social studies education In April 2019, I carried out an action research study with a class of High Ability Primary 6 students to understand how to better engage students in a Social Studies class through discussion of controversial issues. Based upon my observations, these […]

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Commentary: Inquiry-based Learning and Teaching

Leave a Comment / Inquiry Base, Junior College, Secondary School, Social Studies, Volume 9, Issue 1 2020 /

Baildon, Mark (National Institute of Education (Singapore) Keywords Social Studies Junior College Secondary School inquiry base Why inquiry-based learning? Inquiry-based learning (IBL) is now considered the gold standard in curriculum and classroom practice. If we consider inquiry to be the methodical building of evidence-based claims and arguments, it is central to authentic intellectual work, disciplinary reasoning,

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Assessment for Learning in History: Maximizing Error Analysis to bridge students’ learning gaps in answering Source-Based Case Study Questions

Leave a Comment / Approaches to Teaching History, Assessment , History, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 8, Issue 1 2019 /

Ong Daphne Rachel (Broadrick Secondary School (Singapore)) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Approaches to teaching history Assessment Introduction Source-Based Case Study (SBCS) is a compulsory part of the formal history assessment in Singapore. It falls under Assessment Objective 3 which requires students to “interpret and evaluate source material” (MOE, 2013). Since this is an important

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Developing Formative Assessments on Evidence for Pre-University History

Leave a Comment / Assessment , History, Volume 8, Issue 1 2019 /

Celine Oon (Curriculum Planning and Development Division, Ministry of Education (Singapore) Bertrand Tan (Curriculum Planning and Development Division, Ministry of Education (Singapore)) Keywords History Assessment Introduction Identifying students’ learning gaps is often a challenge for Pre-University History teachers. Besides generic formative assessment strategies such as teacher questioning, think-pair-share and student reflection, formative assessments carried out at the

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Using Weighted Hinge Questions (WHQs) to Assess Students’ Causal Understanding

Leave a Comment / Approaches to Teaching History, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 8, Issue 1 2019 /

Bradley Soh Chun Ying (National Institute of Education) Sim Guo Chen (National Institute of Education) Keywords History Junior College Secondary School Approaches to teaching history Introduction Assessment in Singapore’s history classrooms has long reflected our teachers’ enduring focus on preparing students to meet examination requirements. The most common assessment practices revolve around assessing students’ proficiency in handling

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Provoking Inquiry: The Use of Primary Sources in the Primary Social Studies Classroom

Leave a Comment / Primary School, Primary Social Studies, Social Studies Resources , Volume 8, Issue 2 2019 /

Wang Yao Chang Melvin (Rosyth School (Singapore) Mashita Abdol Rahman (Rosyth School (Singapore) Sudheesh Balakrishna Pillai (Rosyth School (Singapore) Goh Yong Yong (Rosyth School (Singapore) Keywords primary social studies Social Studies Primary School Social Studies Resources Introduction Many social studies teachers are aware of the immense educational value of primary sources of information. When used effectively, original source documents

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Teaching The Enduring Understandings About Culture in Primary Social Studies

Leave a Comment / Primary School, Primary Social Studies, Teaching Understanding About Culture, Volume 8, Issue 2 2019 /

Chee Min Fui (National Institute of Education) Keywords primary social studies Primary School Teaching understanding about Culture Introduction Educating the young for multicultural understanding and social cohesion are amongst the most important goals of Social Studies. In the primary school curriculum Social Studies is the school subject with the most potential to help students develop understandings

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Primary Social Studies Fieldwork in Children’s Localities and Beyond

Leave a Comment / Primary School, Primary Social Studies, Primary SS Fieldwork , Volume 8, Issue 2 2019 /

Hwee Hwang, Sim (National Institute of Education, Singapore) Keywords primary social studies Primary School Primary SS Fieldwork Children’s Localities Children’s localities refer to the neighbourhoods where the children’s homes, schools and communities are found (Catling, 2011). As these are the places where children live their lives and are easily accessible to their schools, teachers should make

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Immigrant Teachers in Singapore Schools: Backgrounds, Integration, and Diversification

Leave a Comment / Diversity , Integration, Primary School, Secondary School, Social Studies, Volume 8, Issue 2 2019 /

Yang Peidong (National Institute of Education) Chow Lee Tat  (National Institute of Education) Keywords Social Studies Secondary School Primary School integration;diversity Introduction The realities of immigration and an increasingly diversifying society are significant concerns in Singapore’s national education, evinced through the considerable attention given to topics and themes related to immigration and diversity in the Social

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A Dialogic Teaching Approach: Talk Moves to Deepen Students’ Understanding in the Geography Classroom

Leave a Comment / Dialogic Teaching, Geography, Interaction Pattern, Junior College, Secondary School, Volume 7, Issue 1 2018 /

Lim Yi Xuan Debi (National Institute of Education) Keywords Geography Junior College Secondary School dialogic teaching talk moves interaction pattern Abstract In most Singapore classrooms, lessons are typically characterised by the traditional Initiation-Response-Feedback (IRF) instructional sequence. Such an approach limits students’ ability to engage in meaningful classroom discussions and is contrary to achieving 21st Century skills. This

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