This workshop will focus on Zhangde Primary School’s assessment literacy journey in enhancing learner-centred assessment through feedback processes. Using the trifecta of feedback practices and the four levels of feedback as a common feedback language, teachers engaged students in the assessment cycle for effective feedback and learning. This nurtured students to become self-directed and independent learners in moving their learning forward. Effective feedback enables students to monitor their own learning in the long term, in and beyond the classroom, thus leading to positive learning dispositions.

Date: 7 July 2023 (Fri)

Mode of Delivery: Online via videoconferencing

Registration: Search for the course code MA-000316 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.

As teachers teaching mathematics at the upper primary levels, it is important to use approaches that promote active learning rather than merely transmitting information. Using the Constructivist approach, lessons involving exploratory and collaborative learning were carried out. The five practices (Anticipating, Monitoring, Selecting, Sequencing and Connecting) will guide teachers in facilitating class discussions effectively, and the use of the IT tool, classpoint, will help to create excitement in the class. Participants will take away ideas of how they could use the 5 practices to discuss any mathematical idea in their class.

Date: 21 July 2023 (Fri)

Mode of Delivery: Face-to-face workshop

Registration: Search for the course code MA-000312 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.

As teachers teaching mathematics at the primary school level, we aim to provide students with opportunities for experiential learning beyond our classrooms. 

Shopping Day and an online shopping activity were implemented for primary two students. For the Shopping Day, peer interactions were emphasised as they learnt to work in groups to take on the roles of a promoter, stall supervisor, cashier and customer to dramatise a shopping experience. This empowered learners to experience the joy of learning in the authentic settings of a supermarket and a bookshop. 

This experiential learning experience made the learning of mathematics come alive! 

Date: 4 August 2023 (Fri)

Mode of Delivery: Online via videoconferencing

Registration: Search for the course code MA-000308 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.

For teachers teaching diverse profiles of students at the primary school level, it is important to find ways to engage, motivate and develop the confidence of students in learning Mathematics. Anchored on Gamification and Differentiated Instruction, students are empowered in the lessons when they are allowed make decisions in choosing the tasks of varied levels of difficulty to complete. The escape room provides a form of formative assessment for the teachers to monitor and motivate the students to apply what they have learnt. Participants will take away ideas on how they could adapt these lesson resources and the construct of escape rooms using Google Form.

Date: 24 August 2023 (Thu)

Mode of Delivery: Face-to-face workshop

Registration: Search for the course code MA-000309 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.

This workshop focuses on the strategies that lower primary teachers can use to help their students attain fluency in learning the multiplication tables. Participants will be exposed to how they can increase student engagement, promote collaboration among students, and boost their students’ confidence in the learning of Mathematics. The sharing will also show how students could experience joy in learning as they progress and attain mastery through such an innovative approach that meets their psychological needs for competence, relatedness, and autonomy.  The positive impact of the Growth Mindset could also be achieved by prioritising the students' effort over the achievement of the final task. The workshop will conclude with the participants getting a first-hand experience of what the students may go through in a classroom.

Date: 28 February 2023 (Tue)

Mode of Delivery: Online via videoconferencing

Registration: Search for the course code MA-000307 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.

Students need to be aware of their motives, the task demands, and their own cognitive resources, in order to exert control over the strategies that are appropriate for handling a task. There are three common approaches to learning, but only deep learning improves metacognition. The project team will share how and what they had done in their two Primary 5 classes of low-progress learners so as to enhance metacognition in their students' learning. The project involved the teaching of study skills in a context that emphasises metacognitive awareness. In each case study, pre- and post-treatment comparisons showed some evidence for long-term improvements in learning and the implications for teaching.

Date: 9 March 2023 (Thu)

Mode of Delivery: Online via videoconferencing

Registration: Search for the course code MA-000319 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.

Fostering metacognition is an important aspect of the Singapore Primary Mathematics syllabus. With the aim of developing their students to be better problem solvers, the project team aims to develop their students in metacognitive skills. They enhanced George Polya’s 4 Steps to problem solving by including other questions to guide their students in tapping on their metacognitive skills. This allows their students to exercise control as mentioned by Schoenfeld (1986) whose works involved extending Polya’s 4 Steps to problem solving. 

Date: 28 March 2023 (Tue)

Mode of Delivery: Online via videoconferencing

Registration: Search for the course code MA-000315 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.

Traditionally, Chongfu School uses Mathematics trails and learning journeys to help students apply Mathematics concepts in real-life scenarios. However, the COVID-19 situation has prevented the teachers from doing so. In order to design similar experiences for students to see the relevance of applying Mathematics in real-life, the school had explored alternative means for the students to apply their mathematical skills through virtual learning journeys (VLJ). 

The VLJs were designed to help students apply their learning in an authentic learning experience whereby mathematical concepts taught in class can be reinforced. Students were expected to apply ICT skills and other critical thinking skills to solve Mathematics problems in these learning journeys. 

With thoughtfully designed booklets that are appropriate for the different levels to complement the VLJs, these experiences proved to be interactive and engaging for the Primary 2 to 4 students.

Date: 14 April 2023 (Fri)

Mode of Delivery: Online via videoconferencing

Registration: Search for the course code MA-000314 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.

Metacognition, the ability to understand one’s thought process and articulate it, is an important factor in mathematical problem solving. Chongfu Primary School’s 6-year Structured Math Journaling Approach (with Talk Moves infused) is designed to help students improve their ability to communicate their mathematical reasoning and thought processes when they solve word problems. Starting off by equipping the students with content vocabulary and functional language; the journaling approach is aligned with the Chongfu STAR approach for problem solving where Talk Moves are used to elicit students’ mathematical thinking. Participants will take away ideas on how they can adapt the strategies and resources for use in their classrooms. 

Date: 28 April 2023 (Fri)

Mode of Delivery: Online via videoconferencing

Registration: Search for the course code MA-000311 in OPAL2.0, or by clicking on the link here.