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


 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


 Using Existing Research
 Using Data


 Using Existing Research


Using Existing Research
 The Case of Singapore


Bruner’s Research
 CPA Approach
 Spiral Approach


Chile


Concrete  Pictorial 
Abstract
15 ÷ 3 = 5
symboli
c

iconic

enactive


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
Primary 2 them until the student has grasped the full
formal apparatus that goes with them.
Bruner 1960

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


Improving Instruction
 Strategy 1
 Curriculum Document


 Strategy 2
 Textbooks


 Strategy 3
 Leadership


 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

MCI Pedagogy
for Professional Hawaii, USA
Learning
 As a Learner
 As an Observer
 As a Reflective
Teacher
South Korea


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
Singapore

New York, USA


Japan


The Netherlands


Singapore

MCI Pedagogy
for Professiona
Learning
 As a Learner
 As an Observer
 As a Reflectiv
Teacher


Summary
 Improving Curriculum
 Improving Instruction


Slides are available at
www.banhar.blogspot.com
Thank You

banhar@sg.marshallcavendish.com

yeapbanhar@gmail.com

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