Examining e-learning in schools through the Organisational Change Model
In the Singapore education system, e-learning is fast becoming the next frontier for schools. E-learning has the potential to add great value to education, allowing modes of learning that have never been possible in the traditional classroom context. However, before we hail e-learning as the definitive step forward in education and plunge headlong into it, educators have to understand e-learning and its implications in school leadership, management,curriculum, resources and pedagogy. While a well thought through approach will bring great gains to a school, blindly plunging into it may bring great pains because the process of change can be fraught with subtle pitfalls. Using the Organisational Change Model, this article provides a framework for schools to systemically and systematically consider the issues related to the implementation of e-learning in schools and the process of change. It argues that school leaders should consider the goals, business, culture, processes, and enablers(working tools) seamlessly and coherently in order that e-learning could be anchored in the school to bring real sustainable benefits.
Building an evidence-base for teacher education: Phase I
The core purpose of this project was to characterise the development of student teachers’ professional competence and identity in Initial Teacher Education (ITE). Specifically, the project studied the impact of initial teacher education (ITE) programmes within National Institute of Education (NIE) on student teachers’ development of professional competencies and teacher identity. This, and the earlier related OER 13/09 LEL and OER 4/10 LEL work, was the first systematic attempt in Singapore to provide empirical evidence that could ultimately help to inform policy on, and practice of, teacher education programmes.
Building an evidence-base for ITE in NIE: A bridging project
In 2009, a project—OER 13/09 LEL Building an Evidence-base for ITP in NIE: A Formative Project—was funded to initiate a program of research activities that seeks to achieve a rich and contextualised understanding of the nature, substance and professional impact of student teachers’ learning within NIE’s ITE programmes. This project was a further formative step on that journey, and had four related purposes/objectives.
The first involved the extension of work begun in OER 13/09 LEL involving the making of video observations of classroom pedagogical practices, and the subsequent coding of those. The intention was to extend this work to include representative samples of teaching in Academic Subject (AS) courses.
The second was to support the work of the TE21 implementation steering group (ISG), through mapping of student teachers’ perceptions of the contribution that their program makes to the development/achievement of the V3SKs and GTCs. A new survey, the Perceptions of Programme Coverage and Achievement on V3SK and GTCs Survey, was developed for this purpose.
The third involved an extension of data collection to involve the use of interviews. These interviews sought to understand how student teachers’ attitudes, beliefs and values were engaged during their PGDE experiences, and the impact of those engagements on participants’ ‘teacher identity’.
The fourth purpose involved improvement of the research processes and tools, in anticipation of their use in subsequent research.
Building an evidence-base for initiaul teacher education (ITE) in NIE: A bridging project
"In 2009, a project-OER 13/09 LEL Building an Evidence-base for ITP in NIE: A Formative Project-was funded to initiate a program of research activities that seeks to achieve a rich and contextualised understanding of the nature, substance and professional impact of student teachers' learning within NIE's ITE programmes." -- p. 3.
Engaged learning for school leaders: the future school project of the Leaders in Education Programme
In an engaged learning paradigm, learners are responsible, strategic, collaborative and energised through the learning process. As the Singapore education system changes rapidly to respond to an emerging global economy in a knowledge age, school leaders have to be engaged in learning, especially in the areas offuturing, knowledge creation and innovation. This article describes how the Future School project of the Leaders in Education Programme attempts to engage school leaders in deep learning and provides some pointers as to how engaged learning can be achieved in leadership programmes.
An exploratory study of beginning teacher mentoring practices in Singapore
This is the fifth in a suite of five projects that aims to establish an evidence-base for the continual review and enhancement of pre-service teacher education and early career teacher professional learning and development within Singapore. Some findings emergent from these projects, especially the recently completed OER 14/13 LEL project, suggested that a supportive and sharing school culture, structured mentoring, and beginning teachers’ (BTs) attitude to learning account for their varying degrees of professional growth. During visits to schools participating in the Instructional Mentoring Programme (IMP), officers from Academy of Singapore Teachers (AST) also sensed that there existed school variations in the implementation of BT mentoring. Therefore, we collaborated with officers from the Ministry of Education (MOE) and AST to research support for and mentoring of BTs in Singapore.
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