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Student-Initiated Learning
Student-Initiated Learning
The 1 hour specially scheduled biweekly should be used productively to explore and gather materials and resources to deepen your interest.
The 1 hour specially scheduled biweekly should be used productively to explore and gather materials and resources to deepen your interest.
As students, you should exercise the agency to use this opportunity to deepen both within and beyond the curriculum. This is a life-long learning trait which we hope you will develop and sustain as you grow. You will also learn to take stock, reflect, and plan the next step. In time to come, we hope you will be able to monitor and display your own growth through the different artefacts you produce from SIL.
As students, you should exercise the agency to use this opportunity to deepen both within and beyond the curriculum. This is a life-long learning trait which we hope you will develop and sustain as you grow. You will also learn to take stock, reflect, and plan the next step. In time to come, we hope you will be able to monitor and display your own growth through the different artefacts you produce from SIL.
When deciding your SIL Activities, bear in mind that the activity should :
When deciding your SIL Activities, bear in mind that the activity should :
be safe, wholesome, be grounded on shared national values
have sufficient scope for you to plan over several terms/years and engenders a spirit of lifelong learning
have room for you to practice agency and other 21CC skills
be your own choice after deliberating on what you wish to pursue as your passion or hobby.
3 Secondary Student-Initiated Learning Guide.pdfSee an example of how your senior uses SIL time productively to deepen her skills whilst enjoying her passion.
A story of an ex-Xinmin student.pptxSTUDENT INITIATED LEARNING PROPOSAL FORM
SIL proposal template.docxSTUDENT INITIATED PROPOSAL FORM
Dear Students,
If you have just embark on this SIL journey, you should use some time to think and explore the wide variety of online resources out there.
The school has also curated some SIL activities to let you make sense of what you can do. You may also make use of MySkillsFuture Portal to see what hobbies give you the skills to put you in good stead for a particular profession.
In deciding on what you wish to do, you will need to decide the frame and scope of the area. It cannot be too easy nor should it be too hard to start off. Pitch it at a level where you can enjoy steady growth for that passion.
TO ILLUSTRATE:
e.g if you decide on Origami. You have to ask questions e.g Is it just folding a paper crane? Or many other objects? That's all?
Origami has lot of math construction in there which you can examine. In fact how our satelites fold its bridging components is based on origami. In fact, this is an example of how the creativity of the hobby has translated into real life projects. There is a whole lot of materials out there but you must know how to sieve them into chunks that is doable over the course of 1 to 2 years etc. Make use of Pinterest website to help you curate what people has been doing for a particular hobby etc.
WHAT YOU NEED TO DO?
Use the proposal form on the left to guide you through in formulating your proposal. PLEASE MAKE A COPY OF THIS FORM BY DOWNLOADING IT INTO YOUR XMS GOOGLE DRIVE. You can then edit directly on it. This form will be collected 2 weeks down the road. The form is important because down the road, you will have to embed this form into your digital e-portfolio. which is a site construction.
Eportfolio Construction
For Lower Sec students, we will guide and start you off during Coding@Xinmin. Upper Sec students - You should already have a copy of eportfolio. if you run into problems on site construction, you can consult your classmates. It is really not too difficult as there are plenty of short tutorials out there.
School-Curated SIL activities
To help kickstart our Lower Sec students on their SIL journey, we have curated a list of school-based activities which students can consider.
The activities differs widely and will appeal to different groups of students. If you decide to adopt, you can approach your respective teacher to know more. .
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