Keynote Address

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TLLM Moving Forward

• Keynote Address
• By
• Ms Seah Jiak Choo
• Director-General of Education
• Ministry of Education

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TLLM Rethinking Why, What How We Teach

• 1st call to action
• we have to teach less,
• so that our children will learn more
• PM Lee Hsien Loong,
• National Day Rally, Aug 2004-

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TLLM Looking Back

• Launched in Sep 2005 by Minister

Impetus
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Vision
Rationale
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Direction
Outcome
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Focus
Approach
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Update on Prototyping

• In a Range of
• Levels
• Courses
• Scale

• A Variety of
• Domains
• Currm Models
• Pedagogic Approaches
• Assessment Practices

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Update on Prototyping
Teams of Teacher Advocates no one works alone
Research Activists HODs, MT, STs,
Teachers
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TLLM in Every School

• Lessons from our

Prototype Schools
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The ABCs of TLLM

• Advocates
• Backing
• Capacity Creation
• Demonstration

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A is for Advocates

• Discover Support Them
• Committed Innovators
• Critical Mass For Sustainability

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B is for Backing
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• top-down support

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ensure sustainability
clear bottlenecks
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sharing
time
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communities
space
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resources
partnerships
training
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C is for Capacity Creation

• Grow staff capacity gradually

outwards
upwards

• Multiply Advocate Pool

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D is for Demonstration
To Spread Reflective Practice
show

• provide evidence
• explain why how
• discuss process

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The Factors in your Ecosystem

• What do you need to do as a school leader to
  have a healthy sustainable ecosystem for TLLM
  in your school?

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MOE support part of larger ecosystem
sharing platforms
research training
curriculum consultancy
Training workshops
curriculum partnership
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Its All About the Learner
learn by ourselves
were not gonna be able to memorise all that she
says..
Teacher...talk talk talk..and she say and say
and say..
have more confidence
no homework that kills us!
learn how we want to learn..
more creative... more fun..

• Students from Temasek Primary

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TLLM Moving Forward

• Thank You