Teaching should help students find meaning in an age of information overload: Chan Chun Sing

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Teaching today must go beyond imparting knowledge to helping students find meaning in a world overloaded with information, Education Minister Chan Chun Sing said on Monday (May 30). It should also be about finding solutions to future challenges and preparing for tomorrow's...

He added:"Beyond focusing on developing the optimal syllabus, curriculum and system, teaching must increasingly provide a diversity of models and methods to meet the diverse learning needs of our students."

"As we develop our students' abilities, we are also developing teachers' proficiency in e-Pedagogy via professional development resources and online learning modules," he said. To this end, the Singapore Learning Designers Community, which was set up by the Education Ministry's Educational Technology Division in 2017, consists of more than 20,000 educators who share lesson ideas and help each other troubleshoot technical challenges.

The refreshed character and citizenship education, which emphasisesmental health and cyber-wellness, will contribute to this side of students' development, he said, as well as a curriculum on life skills in the institutes of higher learning. "We want our teachers to go out to learn, to grow, and to bring back new perspectives that can enrich our fraternity, in order to improve the way we teach and learn in our schools," he said.

"CRPP has also successfully developed a generation of local research talent, with many choosing to remain in NIE to increase our research capabilities," she said.

 

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