In this workshop, facilitators will be sharing how primary one Malay language teachers incorporated Choice Board as a tool to learn adjectives. Students were given the autonomy to decide the activities that interest them in learning adjectives. Participants will experience designing appropriate Choice Boards for their lessons to cater to their students’ interests. 

Date: 7 July 2023 (Fri)

Mode of Delivery: Face-to-face workshop

Registration: Search for the course code ML-000196 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.

Writing a picture composition is a new component for Primary 3 students. Based on observation, students are unable to expand their ideas beyond what they see in the given picture. Students also have limited ideas and they tend to only form sentences based on the helping words given in the question paper. Therefore, an acronym ‘BKEMAS’ was introduced to the students and the findings prove that there is an improvement in their brainstorming skills to produce new useful words for their writing. Teachers in the project team also adopted Differentiated Instruction strategy to engage the students in writing a better quality composition. 

Date: 17 July 2023 (Mon)

Mode of Delivery: Face-to-face workshop

Registration: Search for the course code ML-000193 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.

From the project team's observation, it is obvious that Malay Language speaking students lack the interest in reading Malay storybooks and magazines.  They find some of the books too difficult to comprehend. This is the result of limited vocabulary knowledge as they are not exposed to reading Malay books. The team selected "The Reading for Pleasure Pedagogy" as their project which encompasses four specific practices: reading aloud, social reading environments, book talk and recommendations, and independent reading. Combined in different patterns and made real through the action and continual reflection on the part of the teachers, the team hopes that these practices will contribute to the development of communities of readers in their school.

Date: 29 August 2023 (Tue)

Mode of Delivery: Online via videoconferencing

Registration: Search for the course code ML-000190 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.