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This module shows the role of art processes in new media applications. This module describes recent contemporary art approaches as well as practical and pedagogical projects that serve as a method for introducing student teachers to Art and New Media.

This module will introduce student teachers to children’s use and organisation of semiotic systems. Student teachers will learn how, in the child’s earliest encounters with representational and expressive media, she realises the key principle of representation. This principle has been termed the ‘dual nature' of symbols and signs and derives from the work of Vygotsky.
Student teachers will learn that this dual function shows up especially clearly for children when they engage in art practices. Thus, children learn the foundations of representational and symbolic thought particularly well in art education.
Student teachers will learn how, as the child moves from lower to upper primary school, so she make her entry into the more formal semiotic systems of societies and cultures, including those used in her own society and culture. Pedagogical implications will be considered.

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QSE501

This module will equip student teachers with the subject knowledge needed to teach text types at the upper primary.  Student teachers will understand how language is used for different purposes: to describe, narrate, explain, instruct, persuade and argue.  They will study both fiction and non-fiction and how to identify organizational structure, key language features and visuals in these texts.  Through tutorial activities, they will see how all these features of texts combine to create meaning for writers and readers.

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QSM501

QSM502

This module provides the foundational understanding of arithmetic topics which form a major portion of the primary mathematics curriculum.  Problem solving processes will be introduced and re-visited in the different topics.  Module topics are: Problem solving; Foundations of the Hindu-Arabic System; Algorithms on number operations in a place value system; Classification of number systems; Divisibility; Ratio, proportion and rates.

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QSI501

QSI502

This module seeks to establish a foundation in musicianship skills (aural-training, sight-singing, keyboard skills, functional music theory and analysis) for the music classroom via the activities of creating, performing and responding.

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QSS501

QSS502

This module deals with the theoretical and practical aspects of topics in Physical Science selected from the new Primary Science Curriculum. The topics include matter and materials, forms of energy and conversions, heat, light and the solar system, magnetism and electricity, forces and simple machines.

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QSL501

QSL502

This module aims to equip student teachers with an in-depth knowledge of the history of Singapore. The emphasis is on independent learning and critical thinking. Relevant historical skills, such as handling sources, perspectives and oral history, will be covered.

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