4. Day -1 (Monday 2 OCT 2017) 9:30 to 12:30
by Dr. Goh Chor Boon
Venue NIE
• Welcome and launch of program
• A overview of Singapore Education System
• The Singapore teacher is well trained, confident and
professional, sees teaching as profession not as job,
and enjoys “moulding the future of the nation.”
• Teacher growth model helps the teachers to be the
competent professional, collaborative learner,
transformational leader and community builder.
• Teacher’s Pledge Ceremony attended by Minister.
• 100 hours per year of professional training.
5. 13:30 to 16:30 Mr. Goh lay guan
Enhancing the teacher student
relationship (Psychological perspective)
• History of psychology: Structuralism,
Functionalism, psychoanalysis and Behaviourism
• About psychology....... later on – humanism,
cognitive theory, gestalt theory, positive
psychology
• Personality- MBTI (Myers Briggs: four preferences
ISFP/INFP)
• Eight habits of highly effective people and seven
habits of teenagers.
8. Day -2 Tuesday 3 OCT 2017 9:30 to
12:30
Visit to Meridian Junior College (MJC)
• Pathways of Singapore Education System
• MJC holistic Education
• Sharing on MJC programmes on enhance staff
well being and work performance.
• Teacher mentoring program at MJC
• Tour of collage
• 3R time (6 time a year) R – rest, recuperate;
reflect 7:30 to 9 school starts at 9:00 till then no
students activities. Yoga, play, cook
9. 13:30 to 16:30 Mr. Jimmy Tan
Motivation and mentoring
• Motivation – some food for thought
• Motivation theories –Maslow, ERG theory, Theory X
and theory Y, McClelland’s theory of need,
reinforcement theory, equity theory, Herzberg’s-
Hygiene theory, goal setting theory.
• How mentors can apply these theories in the field of
education, how to motivate mentees.
• Activity on extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation
of mentors and mentees.
• “I am who I am because we are “
• What is mentoring? Is teaching? Is it counselling?
10. Day -3 Wednesday 4OCT 2017 (9:30 to
12:30) Mr. Jimmy Tan
Motivation and Mentoring
• Teaching –Knowledge and skill.....
• Counselling- process, coping skills, inter personal growth
• Mentoring based on principles of Adult learning
• Adult learners have a need to be self directed
• Readiness for learning
• Life’s reservoir of experience is a primary learning source.
• Inherent need for immediacy of application
• Respond best to learning when are internally motivated to
learn
• Self directed learning.
13. Day -4 Thursday 5 Oct 2017 9:30 to 12:30
Mr Jimmy Tan
Motivation and mentoring
• What Mentors do?
• Ask, reformulate statements, summarise, listen
for silence, and listen reflectively
• Activity four phases of mentoring – preparing,
negotiating, enabling growth ,coming to closure
• Mr. Goh Structuralism
• Structure your psychology
• Make your policies for certain tasks
• Get the help of the system for students
• Student is not your friend keep him in structure
14. 13:30 to 16:30 Mr Jimmy Tan
Motivation and mentoring
• Connect with the child and parents only about
the studies of the child not about other things.
• Move the whole group together
• Make your students a magnetic material so
that they can connect with you
• Humanistic psychology: value of emotions
• Busy body: how I can build busy body into
provider.
15. Day-5 Friday 6 Oct 2017 (9:30 to 12:30)
Mr. Chan Vee Bun
• Developing future, ready schools, nurturing future,
ready work force
• Fourth industrial revolution has started
• Machines are taking over
• Our aim should be –Master over the technology
• Model of education: how to cope with the new
machine world relation
• We need to think about the students’ needs and skills.
• 10 skills we will need by 2020 at our work places
(Activity)
17. (9:30 to 12:30) Mr. Chan Vee Bun
• If our schools are not ready to move in this direction
then it will be very difficult to move on
• Innovations: try to come with different ways
• Students in classroom should be made critical thinkers
(activity)
• Divergent thinking and creative thinking (Group Tasks)
• Visible learning and visible thinking
• Exhibition of thinking of the group (game of straw)
open gallery walk
• PBL, Inquiry based learning, assessment, grouping -1,
mind maps
19. Around the City
• Sentosa- sea museum, rides, musical show
• Garden by the Bay-sky line casino, light and
sound show
• Little India, Mustafa, china town Buggies
Clarke, river cruise, national museum
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