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Welcome Teachers!

Welcome Teachers!. Professional Development Grade 1 to 3 June 6 to 19, 2012. You should be grouped according to you subject area. Create a group cheer. For example “ Hep hep Hooray! “ You have 1 minute to create your group cheer. When time is up, each group will be called to

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Welcome Teachers!

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  1. Welcome Teachers! Professional Development Grade 1 to 3 June 6 to 19, 2012

  2. You should be grouped according to you subject area. • Create a group cheer. For example “Hephep Hooray! “ • You have 1 minute to create your group cheer. • When time is up, each group will be called to • stand and present their group cheer! Math Teachers! Math Teachers! We are the best!

  3. 100 % PARTICIPATION • Each group will create a Poster with the title • “100% Participation.” • The poster should include the group members’ names. • Remember to be creative. • You have 10 minutes to make the poster. • As you make this poster, • you are reminding yourselves in the group that you will • actively participate in all the • sessions from today up to June 19.

  4. “…the human mind at birth is a complete, but receptive, blank slate…” (John Locke) Tabula rasa

  5. WE Are here for them!

  6. John Dewey Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.

  7. Teachers are experts!TEACHERS ARE EXPERTS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE SUBJECT AREAS.

  8. Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, translated from Turkish A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others. 

  9. Program Aims Participants will be guided to: • Produce a curriculum aligned with International Standards; • Improve and enhance their teaching practice; and, • Produce meaningful assessment tools.

  10. Planning Evaluation Teaching Practice Assessment

  11. Demands of Accreditation • A curriculum that is aligned with the school’s philosophy, mission and objectives; • a learner-centered curriculum; • well established vertical articulation; and, • integration between disciplines (horizontal articulation).

  12. STEP ONE! • The first step in planning is to set the educational aims for our subject areas.

  13. What are Learning Aims? • gives a birds-eye view of the learning program; and, • long term. • They are broad (general) statements about the purpose of the learning program; Photo credits: Mohamed Mayed, MIS Batch 1999

  14. Nature of Aims • Aims emerge from experience. It is the result of dynamism. • “Education* must, therefore, be a judicious mixture of participation in present life and preparation for subsequent events.” (John Brubacher) • Education is bound to have outcomes or results. *refers to the whole teaching-learning situation.

  15. Remember • If you are starting from scratch or feel you need to select or branch out from published aims, you may follow given examples. • If you are following a set curriculum, an examination syllabus or certification programme then your aim should at least use their published aims as a basis of framework. • Reference: CIDTT

  16. Let’s Practice • Watch the assigned video clips from the movie “The Emperor’s Club.” • Help Mr. Hundert formulate some educational aims for his classes.

  17. owell_chua@yahoo.comE-mail Subject: AIMS Grade Subject

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