Mathematics Programme for Lower Primary

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Presentation at LSC Zonals
Yayasan MENDAKIEducation Resource Unit6 March
2004
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MISSION
To navigate, empower and position the
Malay/Muslim community at the forefront of
excellence
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Scope of Presentation

• Broad framework
• Our strategies
• Tripartite Partnership
• Interventions across
• Read With Me Programme
• Food for thought

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BROAD FRAMEWORK

• To uplift lower income strata via EDUCATION
• To create knowledge to drive the community
• To be the enabler of choice
• To enhance employability of MM workers
• To integrate volunteers expertise in MENDAKIs
  programmes
• To pursue strategic HR policies and practices

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STRATEGIC THRUSTS 2004

• Services
• 1. Locate disadvantaged families, diagnose
  underlying issues, and formulate needs for
  intervention
• 2. Ensure school preparedness through early
  intervention and empower parents with skills to
  facilitate childs learning
• 3. Engage and strengthen bonds of MM youths with
  families, schools and community
• 4. Enhance opportunities of employability for
  those displaced or at risk of being displaced by
  structural economic changes

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Long-Term Strategies

• School-readiness at P1
• Adequate preparation in pre-school years has
  effect on performance later
• eg. High/Scope Perry Pre-School in US
• Pre-requisite skills to compete in education
  system
• language literacy
• thinking numeracy
• Parental Involvement in the programmes to
  facilitate learning families

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Long-Term Strategies

• Longer-term approach
• children of pre-school age
• development of pre-requisite cognitive skills
• Short term approach
• Complement with short to medium-term strategies
• primary lower-secondary
• competence in Mathematics
• Programmes that are customised and cater to the
  needs of certain students

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Tripartite Partnership
Family
Child
Community
Schools
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Intervention Across Continuum
Youth in Action (P4 S2)
Public Education Research
MTS (Band 1 to 3)
MTS (E/NT)
Differentiated Programme (NA)
M-Power
(Band 4 below)
Read-with-Me
Maths for Lower Pri
(Band 4 below)
Tiga M/ Tiga M II
ETF
Pre-school Lower Primary
Upper Primary Secondary

(Primary 1-3)
(Primary 4-6) (S1-S5)
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Read With Me Programme

• Provide tools to increase vocabulary and general
  knowledge
• Expand students sight vocabulary
• Develop the comprehension level

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CONTENT

• Shared Reading
• Sight Reading
• Re-telling and sequencing activities
• Role plays
• Phonics
• Story Telling
• Pre-Writing Activities

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READING MODEL
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Read With Me Programme (School Based) 1999
Read With Me Parents Training Programme
(Community Based) 2000
Home Enabling Learning Programme (HELP) (Home
based) 2001
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Phase 2 Read With Me Parent Training Programme
Objectives of Programme

• To expose and empower parents to the necessary
  skills that they need to know to enable them to
  assist in their childrens education

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PARENTS CONTENT

• Reading aloud using Shared Reading Approach
• Selecting appropriate books
• Study skills homework skills
• Time anger management
• Providing positive strokes
• Parent/Child Relationship

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CHILDRENS ACTIVITIES

• Reading
• Conversation
• Time Scheduling
• Reading comprehension
• Arts Crafts
• Activities revolving around stories that were
  read to them

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Phase 2 Read With Me Parent Training Programme

• Conducted at Community clubs/centres
• During the weekends (i.e. Sundays afternoons)
• Once a week for six weeks
• 2 hours per session

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Phase 3 Home Enabling Learning Programme

• Matching of volunteers to students
• Same neighbourhood as students
• If unavailable, volunteers nearest neighbourhood

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READING PROGRAMME A holistic approach
RWM-PTP
RWM
CCs -Parents
School
Students
HELP
Home -Volunteers
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Food For Thought

• What are the areas that you have identified are
  lacking in the Malay students? Eg lack of
  preparation for P1
• What are your thoughts with regards to the
  relationship between English and Mathematics
  performance?
• How can community organizations complement the
  efforts provided by schools to assist these
  students?
• Any other comments?

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