Students and teacher are empowered
BEST PRACTICES FROM SINGAPORE S HIGH PERFORMING SCHOOL SYSTEM Empowered Educators in Singapore is one volume in a series that explores how high performing educational systems from around the world achieve strong results The anchor book Empowered How High Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality Around the World is written by Linda Darling Hammond and colleagues with contributions from the authors of this volume Empowered Educators in Singapore delves into the country s rapid rise to educational excellence on a global scale and the national effort that drives it Singaporean students routinely outperform their peers from around the world placing first or second in international assessments particularly in math and science In 2015 Singaporean students topped the league table for both the Programme in International Student Achievement PISA and the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study TIMSS With educators around the world clamoring for the Singapore secret the reality is that Singapore s excellence is the result of a 25 year drive to improve education through systemic long term and ongoing consistent and deliberative reform with an emphasis on teacher quality This book describes the interwoven strategies that merge context quality governance and continual evolution into a consistently high achieving student population Empowered Educators in Singapore How High Performing Systems Shape Teaching QualityQuite a comprehensive overview of Singapore education system Good to read everything in one go and have the big picture However for me the most valuable section is Future Challenges Namely 1 The danger of not having sufficient time to accomplish all that is needed within the scope of a teacher s work is the possibility of deep teacher frustration Hence a very real challenge that the system has to address is how to avoid teacher burnout. Empower trust vacancies in education sector 4 Value education is difficult to measure and one wonders how the measurement of the success of a system based on values education might be assessed in the future 5 Helping the low achieving students There is one challenge that is not mentioned in the report the expanding achievement gap between the students with well to do family background and those without I guess this is of a social issue than a pure educational one The slogan every school is a good school appears in the report of course And I can t help thinking every school is a good school some schools are better A cynical moment from an otherwise positive and not yet burnout teacher 146
| Empowered Educators in Singapore: How High-Performing Systems Shape Teaching Quality By A. Lin Goodwin |
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.. Empowering educators enhancing learning 2 Insufficient time is assigned to assess policies that do not work so well on the ground and which require policy amendments or even reversals, Empower trust vacancies in education sector 3 The system doesn t really allow the space for innovation and creativity