The simple reason why children hate reading is usually because they are weak at reading. Children are just like us – we tend to avoid tasks that we are weak in. For example, if we find exercising a chore, it is usually because we are unfit in the first place. Conversely, people tend to do what they do best. For example, when people choose what courses to enrol in for higher education, they tend to choose the subjects they scored
Unlike my time, students nowadays have two clear advantages – they know their PSLE grades and secondary schools also publish their historical cut-off mark. At least students know if they have a chance of getting accepted. I remember when I had to choose my secondary school more than 20 years ago. I did not know the cut-off point of the schools I selected before I submitted the form. In fact, I believe I did not even know my score. In addition,
In RG Channel Future School, we believe that curriculum should be practical and systematic. What do we mean by being practical? Being practical means using strategies and tools that are designed to be effective and efficient in real life. Seeing a student’s English results improve gives us both joy and pride. Being systematic means that we believe that there is a framework that guides us to progressively scaffold our children so that they develop. And that is where our CAL2
The MOE Workplan Seminar 2013 just ended a week ago. Let us do a quick recap of the initiatives announced.
RG Channel’s Strategic Thinking workshop equips today’s young people with both the vision and skills needed to anticipate, comprehend and solve the problems of today and to build better tomorrows.
Our CAL2 methodology is based on Bloom’s Taxonomy. We believe that the success of a student’s learning is reflective of the quality of the teacher, as well as a effective teaching pedagogy and that’s why we use it. Interestingly, the Dean of the Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore mentions that Duke-NUS uses Bloom’s Taxonomy in their teaching as well.
