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This area of study will acquaint trainee teachers with the key concepts and principles in education that are necessary for effective instruction and reflective practice in primary or secondary schools. Contents of the core and prescribed modules deal with pupil development, the learning and thinking process, the social context within which schooling operates, the application of psychology in teaching and learning, and the use of instructional technologies.
There are four core modules for Education
Studies which are compulsory as they deal with basic educational concepts.
Trainee teachers will be required to choose one prescribed elective module
from those offered. The prescribed elective modules are intended to provide
trainee teachers with an opportunity for in-depth and rigorous study of
some significant areas in the field of education. They also serve as a
basis for the application of educational principles in a variety of instructional
contexts.
Education Studies
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Introduction to Instructional Technology |
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Introduction to Learning and Teaching |
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Providing for Individual Differences in Learning and Teaching |
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Social Context of Teaching and Learning |
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Assessment in Teaching and Learning |
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Group Guidance in the Classroom |
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Pupil Counselling in Primary Schools |
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Developing Creativity in Children |
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Strategies for Effective Teaching and Learning |
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IT-based Tools for Constructivist Activities |
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Creating Thinking Classrooms |
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Teaching Discipline |
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Teaching and Learning with the Internet |
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Exploring the world of I-videos |
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Teaching Mixed Ability Classes |
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Catering to Pupils with Special Needs in the Primary School |
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Learning and Individual Differences in the Classroom |
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Strategies for Enhancing Pupils’ Thinking and Learning |
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Effective Curriculum Practice in Primary Schools |
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Moral Issues in Cross-curricular Perspectives |
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Instructional Message Design |
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Thinking Skills to Enhance Learning |
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Building School-Home Relationships for Enhancing Learning |
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Instructional Multimedia Design |
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Empowering Learners to Learn |
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Motivational Web Design for Schools |
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Project Work (PW): Understanding Process and Product |
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EED253 |
Surviving and Thriving as a Beginning Teacher | Prescribed | 2 | - |
Learning, thinking and the effective use of instructional technologies to enhance teaching and learning in the classroom, integrating IT into the curriculum, evaluating and selecting appropriate IT resources, designing and creating IT-based materials for student-centered learning, promoting different kinds of learning through the effective use of web-based activities; and designing assessment tools for computer-mediated assignments.
EED101 Introduction to Learning and Teaching
Aims, structure and new initiatives of the Singapore education system. Understanding the learner: conceptual, socio-emotional and moral development of children. Understanding learner differences: multiple intelligences, learning styles and pupils with diverse learning needs. Managing the processing and organization of knowledge. Planning for effective classroom management. Assessing pupil understanding through alternative modes of assessment.
EED102 Providing for Individual Differences in Learning and Teaching
Challenging learners, enriching learning and fostering a thinking classroom culture. Motivating learners and facilitating learning through effective communication and a positive classroom climate. Examining classroom processes and different approaches to instruction: direct instruction, discovery and cooperative learning. Developing an affective curriculum. Accommodating diversity in the classroom: differentiating the curriculum for able learners and providing for children with special needs.
EED200 Social Context of Teaching and Learning
School and society: the changing socio/economic environment in Singapore; the function of schools; the school as an agent of innovation and change. Key education policies: critical and creative thinking; national education; alternative assessment. Education in the new millennium: ability-driven education; the changing teaching/learning environment. Home influences on schooling: home background and educational attainment; strategies to assist children from deprived homes. Teaching as a profession: role and responsibilities of a professional. Authority and discipline.
EED230 Assessment in Teaching and Learning
Role of assessment in the learning process; assessment practices in Singapore schools; basic knowledge and practical skills of monitoring and assessing pupils’ learning; the essentials of measurement in the cognitive, affective and behavioural domains; the use and construction of classroom tests; item analysis and test reporting; basic statistics for educational measurement; use of computer in educational measurement; evaluation of teaching and learning.
EED231 Group Guidance in the Classroom
Understanding group processes and group dynamics in the classroom; developmental group guidance to enhance learning and social functioning; enhancing teamwork and group cohesiveness; developing group norms; communication in groups; problem solving and conflict resolution in groups and the development of leadership.
EED232 Pupil Counselling in Primary Schools
The principles and practice of guidance and counselling and its introduction to Singapore schools; psychological factors that may affect the development and learning of pupils; self-esteem and learning; mental health and stress management; identification and assessment of guidance needs; the helping relationship; different approaches to counselling children and basic counselling skills.
ED233 Developing Creativity in Children
An introduction to theoretical frameworks and concepts in creativity literature and how these may be applied in the general as well as educational contexts. An Activity-based emphasis on learner participation. An interactive mode of instruction.
EED234 Strategies for Effective Teaching and Learning
Careful planning for effective teaching and learning; the planning and implementation aspects of instruction; various instructional and learning strategies for implementation in the primary classroom; ways of active involvement of pupils in the learning process; teaching of thinking strategies as an integral part of the process of instruction.
EED235 IT-based Tools for Constructivist Activities
Use of various IT-based tools to design and create various constructivist activities to help pupils learn; various aspects on the theoretical framework of constructivism and cognitivism; various strategies of using IT tools to promote creativity and thinking; use of IT tools like semantic networking, multimedia authoring tools, office-productivity software and the Internet.
EED236 Creating Thinking Classrooms
Obstacles to creating thinking classrooms; what kind of teacher are you? Mastering the loss of art of spin control; understanding the meaning and purpose of thinking classrooms; how to implement strategies to create a lively environment; using the art of deception in instilling an inquiring environment; the role of the imagination; review of successful strategies; creating the inquiring pupil.
EED237 Teaching Discipline
A practical approach to teaching discipline. A variety of classroom management techniques. Ways of helping primary school children and whole classes learn personal responsibility for their behaviour and to judge between right and wrong. Insights from experienced as well as novice primary school teachers.
EED238 Teaching and Learning with the Internet
Introduction of basic features of the Internet for educational purposes. Creating simple web-pages. Identifying, evaluating and designing learning activities using educational resources on the Internet. Emphasis on the design of web- based inquiry learning like those presented in WebQuest.
EED239 Exploring the world of I-videos
Preparation of instructional video materials for constructivist learning. Planning, storyboarding, scripting, video digitizing, video-editing using simple editing software, adding of sub-titles. Video as a form of constructivist learning. Developing rubrics for evaluating video projects done by school pupils.
EED240 Teaching Mixed Ability Classes
Biological, social, psychological and cultural factors influencing individual differences in learning; identification and assessment procedures; classroom management techniques; grouping and teaching strategies to cater to differences among pupils.
EED241 Catering to Pupils with Special Needs in the Primary School
Issues and problems of pupils with special needs; slow learners, low achievers, underachievers, children with high intellectual potential; identification procedures; characteristics, causes; differentiated curricula, educational provisions and programmes in Singapore schools; teaching methods and strategies to enhance learning, and maximising pupil potential.
EED242 Learning and Individual Differences in the Classroom
Biological, social, educational, psychological and cultural factors that may bring about individual differences in learners; identification, assessment and nature of such differences; and teaching strategies to cater to the different abilities and interests of learners.
EED243 Strategies for Enhancing Pupils’ Thinking and Learning
Cognitive and psychological factors affecting learning; the nature of thinking and types of thinking skills; the role of the teacher in creating conducive classroom environment to enhance thinking; metacognition and learning strategies; various approaches to the teaching of thinking skills and related programmes; teaching specific thinking skills to enhance learning; the assessment of thinking and learning.
EED244 Effective Curriculum Practice in Primary Schools
Frameworks and concepts in curriculum; nature, scope, aims, structure and process involved in implementing the primary school curriculum in Singapore; theory and practice of the primary curriculum; curriculum assessment; improving curriculum implementation; emerging teacher roles in curriculum implementation.
EED245 Moral Issues in Cross-curricular Perspective
Morality as subject and as process. How teachers educate for commitment, the will to act and the development of morally important skills. Curriculum subjects as sources for moral teaching. Extra-curricular subjects and moral development. Implications for primary school teaching in Singapore.
EED246 Instructional Message Design
Basic principles of message design for the development of appropriate classroom materials. The use of computers to design effective instructional messages for different instructional purposes. Developing multi-media learning objects to be used to promote higher order thinking among learners.
EED247 Thinking Skills to Enhance Learning
Cognitive and psychosocial aspects of thinking. Nature and types of thinking. Trainees sharpen their own thinking skills through interactive learning and hands-on activities in class. Trainees will examine the role of the teacher in creating a conducive learning environment in schools to enhance thinking and creativity. Teaching approaches and learning strategies that enhance thinking and creativity. Opportunities and guidance to develop lesson plans to infuse thinking into content teaching.
EED248 Building School-Home Relationships for Enhancing Learning
Key concepts, issues and challenges in developing school-home
partnerships as an adaptive response to changes in family and society; stakeholders
in education; ideas and strategies for building positive and strong partnerships
between the school and family; cross-cultural research on parental involvement
in schooling; hands-on experience in researching parent-teacher perspectives
and parent-teacher relationships in Singapore.
EED249 Instructional Multimedia Design
The concepts of media, multimedia, and hypermedia. The relationship between multimedia, instructional method, and learning effectiveness. How to systematically design and develop instructional multimedia including how to select proper media and how to integrate multimedia into teaching and learning.
EED250 Empowering learners to learn
Ways to encourage pupils to become self- directed learners. To learn smart rather than just to work hard. Issues that will help trainees and their pupils prepare themselves to be life-long learners by using opportunities provided by the technology, such as online and eLearning. Topics such as self-regulated learning strategies, metacognitive strategies, using IT as a mind tool, memory strategies, speed reading, and note taking.
EED251 Motivational Web Design for Schools
A good theoretical understanding and practical experience on how to conceptualise a motivational educational website incorporating pedagogical principles as well as web design elements. The creation of web materials for instructional purposes as well as school events such as exhibitions and Speech Day. Preferred entry level skills include intermediate user levels of design software.
EED252 Project Work(PW): Understanding Process and Product
Understanding the PW initiative. Useful classroom management strategies and skills, design of interdisciplinary project tasks as well as workable school practices suitable for primary schools. To plan and work out suitable project work topics based on various learning theories.
EED253 Surviving and Thriving as a Beginning Teacher
This module discusses the various challenges facing beginning teachers in Singapore secondary schools and junior colleges, and aims to better prepare them for their careers. Many teachers find the transition from their teacher preparation year to schools daunting because they often lack an adequate understanding of what lies ahead of them. This module will provide an opportunity for them to a) discuss and clarify their aspirations, expectations, fears and concerns; b) understand some of the key roles, responsibilities and challenges awaiting them in their relationships with other stakeholders in the school system, and c) think about their career progression beyond the initial years.