2025 Self-Directed Learning Day Experience                            

At Zhenghua Primary School, we encourage our students to exercise agency and self-directedness in learning. We endeavour to develop our students to be digitally-empowered 21st century learners, encouraging them to be self-directed in setting goals and managing their learning using a range of digital tools and resources. 

In our students' learning journey with us, we nurture them to be leaders of character who contribute to the school, family, community and nation as empathetic, technology-adept innovators. In our Applied Learning Programme, our students learn human-centred methodologies to identify areas of needs and develop solutions to address real world problems. In this process, they learn to skillfully leverage a range of digital tools to create solutions. Executive functioning skills in organising tasks for learning, develop resilience and leadership skills are important skills that they will develop.

During Self-Directed Learning (SDL) Days, students will remain with their form classes throughout the day. Students will get to plan how to achieve their learning goals and complete their learning tasks that the teachers have assigned. Students log on to the SLS site and read the instructions before they start planning. Reflections would be done at the end of each subject assignment.

To effectively nurture technologically-savvy, self-directed learners, we align teacher outcomes with student needs. Teachers apply e-Pedagogy principles, create lessons that promote active learning and collaboration. They leverage on learning data to understand students' needs, enabling students to set their own learning goals and monitor their progress.

Teachers are enablers of student learning by equipping students to be active participants in their learning process. This includes providing opportunities for reflection, constructive feedback, and self-assessment. By modeling responsible digital citizenship and encouraging the use of human-centered methodologies for problem-solving, our teachers guide students to identify community needs and co-create innovative solutions. When teachers embody these outcomes, students our empowered to thrive as collaborative, digitally literate leaders who can address real-world challenges while engaging responsibly with technology. This comprehensive approach ensures that both our teachers and students coalesce around a shared goal of fostering resilience and innovation in an ever-evolving digital landscape.