Rethinking educational paradigms: Moving from good to great

In the fifth report, Professor Linda Darling-Hammond challenges us to rethink the way we look at our education systems. Professor Darling-Hammond was also the 9th CJ Koh Professor as well as a keynote speaker at NIE’s Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference 2013. In both her CJ Koh Professorship Public Lecture and her Conference Keynote Speech, she spoke about the importance of supporting teachers in a collaborative and supportive system. She praised Singapore’s Thinking Schools, Learning Nation initiative and how well its education system has been doing. She further emphasised thinking critically in order to solve complex problems, communicating effectively, working collaboratively, and learning how to learn.