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YI’s Total Curriculum Framework
YI’s Total Curriculum Framework provides the blueprint for the whole school experience to realise our desired outcomes for Yusoffians. This framework is seen in below.
At the heart of the framework is the school’s philosophy in education which serves as the fuel to drive the school’s actions for every student.
In YI, we
Believe every student has talent
Inspire every student to soar
Grow every student holistically to be future-ready
The second ring shows YI’s holistic approach to achieve our student outcomes through designing our curriculum with four main components from the Parallel Curriculum Model (Tomlinson et al., 2002).
The third ring shows the four areas of growth that YI focuses:
Knowledge and Skills are aligned to national standards and are age-relevant.
Values are Integrity, Self-respect, Purpose, Inquisitiveness, Resilience and Empathy
21CC are Critical Thinking, Inventive Thinking, Communication, Collaboration and Information Skills (MOE 21CC framework)
Future-ready Habits are Inquisitiveness, Ideation, Prototyping, Entrepreneurship, Intercultural acumen and Passion (David Ng, 2020[1])
To help us realise our desired outcomes, YI leverages five enablers:
Teachers as Mentors
Technology to Enhance
Environment Our Third Teacher
Partners for Growth
Holistic Assessment
The outermost ring is YI’s desired outcomes for Yusoffians who have gone through the YI school experience. YI’s Leaders for Tomorrow will demonstrate these three outcomes:
Think Better with Inquisitiveness and Ideation Habits
Questioning and Thinking about Your Thinking!
Be curious about things around and be aware of your own thinking to promote deep understanding.
Creating, Imagining, Innovating!
Be generative, resist status quo and imagine possibilities.
2. Learn Better with Prototyping and Passion Habits
Testing new ideas!
Be adventuresome, gather data and find ways to improve.
Persisting against the Odds!
Be focused and look for ways to reach your goal when stuck. Take pride in all your work by giving your personal best.
3. Lead Better with Intercultural acumen and Entrepreneurship Habits
Being culturally sensitive and understanding!
Be empathetic and make an effort to perceive another’s point of view and emotions
Developing keen observation skills and the agency to act!
Be persuasive to sell your proposed solutions to benefit the community.
For Greek philosopher Aristotle, habits reigned supreme. The behaviours that occur unthinkingly are the evidence of our truest selves, he said. So “just as a piece of land has to be prepared beforehand if it is to nourish the seed, so the mind of the pupil has to be prepared in its habits if it is to enjoy and dislike the right things.” (Charles Duhigg, 2012, p. 270)
[1] Ng, David (2020). Future-ready Learners: Learning, Lifework, Living, and Habits of Practices. Downloaded from https://www.nie.edu.sg/research/publication/nie-working-paper-series/working-paper-series-no-20 on 11 December 2021.
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