marshall cavendish education global conference lecture 2

Marshall Cavendish Education Global Conference 2012

Improving Curriculum Structure and Instruction

Yeap Ban Har

Marshall Cavendish Institute


Outline Improving Curriculum Improving Instruction


Improving Curriculum Examples


Example Singapore (Science) Revised Normal (T) Curriculum in 2014

Changes in Institute of Education curriculum

Changes in competencies of future workers


Example USA (Mathematics) Common Core State Standards in 2012

Preparation of students for college and career

Performance of US students at TIMSS and PISA


Example Singapore (Mathematics) Revised Curriculum in 2013

Learning Experiences are explicit Mathematical Modelling is emphasised


Improving Curriculum Using Existing Research Using Data


Improving Curriculum Using Existing Research


Using Existing Research The Case of Singapore


Bruner’s Research CPA Approach Spiral Approach


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Concrete Pictorial Abstract

15 ÷ 3 = 5

enactive

iconic

symbolic


A curriculum as it develops should revisit these basic ideas repeatedly, building upon them until the student has grasped the full formal apparatus that goes with them.

Bruner 1960


A curriculum as it develops should revisit these basic ideas repeatedly, building upon them until the student has grasped the full formal apparatus that goes with them.

Bruner 1960

Primary 2

Primary 3

Primary 4

Primary 5


Dienes’s Research Variability


Skemp’s Research Conceptual Understanding Conventional Understanding


Energy A moving object possesses energy. The energy is called kinetic energy.


Skemp’s Research Conceptual Understanding Procedural Understanding


Outline Improving Curriculum Improving Instruction


Improving Instruction Strategy 1 Curriculum Document


Improving Instruction Strategy 2 Textbooks


Improving Instruction Strategy 3 Leadership


Improving Instruction Strategy 4 Professional Learning


MCI Pedagogy for Professional Learning As a Learner As an Observer As a Reflective Teacher


Singapore

MCI Pedagogy

for Professional Learning As a Learner As an Observer As a Reflective Teacher

Marshall Cavendish Education Global Conference 2012MCI Pedagogy

for Professional Learning As a Learner As an Observer As a Reflective TeacherSouth Korea

Hawaii, USA


MCI Pedagogy


Singapore


MCI Pedagogy


New York, USA

Singapore


Japan


The Netherlands


MCI Pedagogy


Singapore


Summary Improving Curriculum Improving Instruction


Slides are available at

www.banhar.blogspot.com

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