Slides for S6 Cluster ST/LT Symposium (8 July 2014) with Rita Pillai, Michelle Ng and Ang Tee Koon

1. Learning through my Network,
Growing with my Community
Welcome to Networked Learning
for Senior Teacher Postulates
S6 Cluster
8 July, 2014

2. Opening Address by Mr Zensen Goh
Vice Principal, Zhonghua Primary School

3. Introduction of Facilitators
Ang Tee Koon
(St Margaret’s Secondary)
Ang_tee_koon@moe.edu.sg
Rita Pillai
(Zhonghua Primary)
rita_pillai@moe.edu.sg
Lead
Teachers
Michelle Ng
(Teck Ghee Primary)
ng_sook_ling@moe.edu.sg
Lloyd Yeo
(St Gabriel’s Secondary)
Lloyd_yeo@moe.edu.sg
Senior Teachers

4. BLOW WIND BLOW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eu3CbGyKgiA

5. Programme for Breakout Session
Generativity
Affirmation
Getting
To Know
You

6. • Sharing of personal experiences on senior
and lead teachership which lead to positive
teacher and student outcomes,
What You Can Expect
• Re-affirm the important role that experienced
teachers play in the holistic development of
teachers and students
• Strategies to address challenges in
growing motivation, commitment and
holistic development of teachers

7. 1) Networking List
2) Slides
3) Handouts
4) Feedback Form (in pink)
Resources

8. Energiser
Activity

9. Getting to Know You
o School
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com
/z/hello-my-name-self-
introduction-whiteboard-
33589540.jpg
o Pick your favorite poster
o Think of a reason why you selected it
based on the work you do as a teacher
leader in your school
o Name

10. http://img3.wikia.nocookie.n
et/__cb20120920022758/pix
ar/images/d/d3/Tankgangint
heocean.jpg
We need to make good use of what we have. If
not, the piece of paper will remain as a piece of
paper.
What we choose to do will determine what
shapes us. It is to be purposeful and have the
end in mind. - Michelle

11. Sense of Purpose and Generativity

12. Generativity and Sense of Purpose:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzToNo7A-94

13. Sense of purpose and Generativity
Discuss …
• Put yourself in the shoes of one of the staff
members in the office. How would you have
reacted?
• Put yourself in the shoes of the office
linebacker, Terry Tate. Why do you think he
was behaving in this way?

14. Sense of purpose and Generativity (Mindset)
Change your language and you change your thoughts.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Change the way you see things, and the things you see will
change.
Wayne Dyer
A fixed mindset is one in which you view your talents and abilities
as... well, fixed. In other words, you are who you are, your
intelligence and talents are fixed, and your fate is to go through life
avoiding challenge and failure. A growth mindset, on the other hand,
is one in which you see yourself as fluid, a work in progress. Your fate
is one of growth and opportunity.

15. Developing a Growth Mindset
1
• Learn to hear your fixed mindset “voice”.
2
• Recognise that you have a choice.
3
• Talk back to it with a growth mindset
voice.
4
• Take the growth mindset action.
http://mindsetonline.com/changeyourmindset/firststeps/in
dex.html

16. Fixed vs Growth Mindset Statements
Fixed Mindset
• BT: I don’t have the
capability and talent.
• BT: I’m not ready for
evaluation yet.
Growth Mindset
• Mentor to BT: You’re
doing things that
you couldn’t a
month ago. You have
the basic ability and
it was through
dedication and hard
work. Great job and
keep working at it.

17. Experience is not what happens to a
man: it is what a man does with what
happens to him.
Aldous Huxley
http://expedino.com/wp-
content/uploads/2013/12/Green-Nature-
Road-Wallpaper.jpg
Sharing by Tee Koon and Michelle

18. Sharing by Michelle

20. Sense of Purpose and Generativity (Strategies)
Case Study

21. Sense of Purpose and Generativity (Strategies)
Observations
What were the issues?
Response
Action
What’s
your
advice? Any
Any
strategies)
Fixed
Mindset
Growth
Mindset
Personal Motivation:
Ability:
Role Perception:

22. Case Study
• Feels Senior Teachership is a ‘lesser track’.
• Innovative teacher who uses different pedagogies.
• Feels overwhelmed with current duties and other
school administrative tasks
• Was asked to consider leadership track or teaching
track
Case Study 2
• Feels not competent enough for STship
• Has worked with experienced senior teachers
, lead teachers and master teachers at
school, cluster and national levels.
• Uses traditional and frontal teaching more
than more innovative pedagogies

23. Sharing by Tee Koon

24. Affirmation (Encouragement)
Our words have the power to hurt or to heal:
The world already has plenty of discouragers,
choose to be an encourager.
http://www.thecomicstrips.com/store/add.php?ii
d=84535

25. Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
http://www.lifebeyondhepatitisc.com/resource-and-
support/encouragement-and-inspiration-from-people-living-
beyond-circumstance/
We don’t learn from experience. We learn from reflecting on
experience.
John Dewey

26. Affirmation (Reflection)
Take a phone out and sms this
number: [include facilitator number]
I used to………………………..
But now I ………………………
I will now …………….(action)
What I need from you is …….
[Note. This is for ST/LT]
Name, school

27. FAQs and Needs: On STship journey
1. How has your journey as a teacher shaped your values and
beliefs about education?
2. What are your career aspirations on the Teaching Track?
3. Discuss an issue about education in Singapore that you feel
strongly about
Standard 1: Engages in Professional Development (PLC, mentoring,
proff devt); subject discipline, PCK
Standard 2: Quality learning of Pupils
Standard 3: Pastoral Care and Well-Being of Pupils

28. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVHOqrw3
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