Topic 4

The professionals in Education

Who are the teachers?Carmen Chan Cheung Man Wai Ng Yu Juan Joyce Yeo

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Learning Objectives

• Relate self awareness and reflection to professional discipline of a teacher.

• Explore challenges faced by teachers and brainstorm possible ways to overcome them

• Invoke the hidden attributes beneath the professionalism of teaching.

Agenda• ‘Noose’ - recent news reports on teachers

• Outdoor interviews follow up on “Noose’ telecast

• ‘Live’ from NIE’ campus- solutions to challenges

• “NIE Prof’” – uncover hidden meanings behind professionalism

• “NIE Live” reflect Passion or Conviction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H9OwORPtQg

Noose Headlines1.Teacher bashed teen and filmed

her half-naked2.Trainee teacher jailed for having sex with minors3.MOE scholar probed over lewd

act4.MOE scholar caught with hardcore

child pornography video 5.PE teacher attacks 8-year-old boy6.Teacher in court for altering

PSLE answer scripts7.MOE probes teacher's Face book rant

At CBD ……

At MOE ……

Interview by a panel of Ministry officials and principals

Contract Teaching for 6 months to 2 years

Recommendation from Principal

PracticumSchool cooperating Mentors Cooperation TeacherNIE supervision coordinator

Ms Grace

ful

At NIE ……

(Deng, & Gopinathan, 2001)

Dr Ho Cin

2001- ASK Framework (Attitudes, Skills, Knowledge)

Emphasizes attitudes, values, and integrity of teachers over and

above their content mastery and teaching competence.

2004-VSK framework(Value, Skills, Knowledge)

Comprehensive review and enhancement of initial teacher preparation programmes.

(Chong, & Cheah, 2009)

Dr Ho Cin

2004 VSK framework

2008-2009R1-R6

(NIE, 2009)

2008-2009V3SK framework(Value3, Skills, Knowledge)

(NIE, 2009)

Summary on the headlines

As an educator and a role modela)uphold the standards of the teaching

professionb)Practice self awareness and reflection as

part of their personal and professional discipline

(Boon, 2011)

1st learning outcome

Challengesa)to control angerb)draw a distinctive line between personal life and private interest or lifestylec) relationships with students-to be Friendly or friends?

Studio Nie Starsearch

•Each group is tasked with a scenario•Consider the

challenges and suggest possible

solutions

Studio Nie StarsearchCase 1-school culture

•You are struggling with the school's system and culture. •There are many teachers with long service.• They always converse to each other in dialects which you cannot understand a word.• They disseminate information and work in their own group •What would you do?

Studio Nie Starsearch

Case 2 – work/life balance

•You find it difficult to balance work and family. •One day, you completed your work and preparing to leave early for your child’s 1-year-old birthday party.• Supervisor seek your urgent help to mark some test papers

•What do in this situation?

Studio Nie StarsearchCase 3 - teach

subject not trained for

•Just newly posted to school, you are asked to teach Primary 6 Mathematics when you specialized in Chinese language.•How will you deal with this situation?

Studio Nie StarsearchCase 4 – difficult

parents/students•You work hard to guide your students.•During the “meet the parents session”, parents blamed you for their child’s poor academic and CCA performance. •What is your response?

Studio Nie StarsearchThere is no perfect solution

Explore challenges faced by teachers and brainstorm possible ways to overcome them

2nd learning outcome

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•Arrange the alphabets in the word‘professionalism’ to form words & phrases used in teaching.•Minimum length for one of the word or phrase must be 6 letters.•Each letter can only be used once.•Record your words/phrases on the construction paper.

Studio ProAnagram

Examples for your reference:

•Professional – 13 letters

•Moron is passe- 12 letters

Did not meet the minimum length of

6 letters

Studio ProAnagram

To summarize:One word stands out

– Passion-Passion or lies (13letters)•Invoke the hidden positive and negative attributes beneath the professionalism of teaching.•The conflicts between a role model and a ‘holistic’ teacher •Passion or conviction?

3rd learning outcome

Nie Live - Video clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mot9lS1MGPA

Challenges in the teaching

professionSchool Culture- Culture shock?

→ Handling mixed genderClassroom management &

roles of teacher→Form teacher > CCA > Relationship mentor???

Passion Waver ?

Nie

NoosePassion vs Conviction

Support group

Learning Objectives

• Relate self awareness and reflection to professional discipline of a teacher.

• Explore challenges faced by teachers and brainstorm possible ways to overcome them

• Invoke the hidden attributes beneath the professionalism of teaching.

References1. Boon,Z (2011). Presenting Singapore teachers for 21st century schools:

Ready?Get set, Go. In W. Choy & C.Tan(Eds). Education Reform in Singapore: Critical Perspectives. Singapore: Pearson Prentice Hall.

2. Deng, Zongyi, & Gopinathan, S. (2001). Re-conceptualising teacher preparation in the era of new educational initiatives in singapore . Proceedings of the Annual conference of the australian association for research in austrila Fremantle.

3. Chong, Sylvia, & Cheah, Horn Mun. (2009). A values, skill and knowledge framework for initial teacher. Austrialian Journal of Teacher Education , 34(3),

4. National Institute of Education. (2009, Oct). Te21 a teacher education model for the 21st century. Retrieved from http://www.nie.edu.sg/files/spcs/TE21_Executive%20Summary_101109.pdf