Download - QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher
![Page 1: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
What does it mean to be a Teacher in Singapore?
Topic 5
![Page 2: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Overview
Activity 1
Activity 2
MOE Mission Statement
![Page 3: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
MOE Vision
Activity 3
EPMS
End
![Page 4: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Take out a piece of paper
Write down the answer to this question individually
Fold it and place in the middle of table.
Activity
1
![Page 5: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
“What do you think it means to be a teacher in the Singapore context?”
![Page 6: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Form four groupsEach group will assume a role
ParentsMOEStudentsOther Teachers
As a group, discuss what being a teacher means to each stakeholder (aka expectations).Write your responses on the board.
Activity
2
![Page 7: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
Discussion Time
![Page 8: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
MOE Mission Statement
![Page 9: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
The mission of the Education Service is to mould the future of the nation, by moulding the people who will determine the future of the nation.
![Page 10: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
The Service will
Provide a balanced and well-rounded education
Develop them to their full potential
Nurture them into good citizens
![Page 11: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
1997The Ministry of Education's vision of
"Thinking Schools,
Learning Nation" (TSLN)
![Page 12: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
"Thinking Schools,
Learning Nation"
![Page 13: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Outcome
1.Thinking
2.Committed
3.Life-long Learning
![Page 14: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Stay RootedReach for the Sky
![Page 15: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
以身作则To set an example or to serve as a role model
![Page 16: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
1. Be learning organisations in every sense, 2. Challenge assumptions constantly 3. Seek better ways of doing things through
Participation Creativity Innovation
Thinking schools will
![Page 17: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
National Culture
Social Environment
Life-long
Learning
![Page 18: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
GoalAka Assumption
Tolerance for Change
![Page 19: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Each group can relook at what they have written.
Discuss whether their interpretation match what MOE wants and how similar or different it is.
Activity
3
![Page 20: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
2001“Education Service Professional Development and Career Plan” (Edu-Pac)
![Page 21: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
EPMSEnhanced Performance Management System
![Page 22: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
“Our current performance management system is a rigorous one, but with the introduction of the three career tracks - namely the Teaching, Specialist and Leadership Tracks - we need a system that could better distinguish the different competencies that are essential for success in each of the three tracks.”
Education Minister, Teo Chee Hean (2002)
![Page 23: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
A competency-based performance management system that spells out
appropriate for each of the three career tracks.
Knowledge requirements
Skills requirements
Professional characteristics
![Page 24: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Teaching Track
Allows teachers to remain in theclassroom and advance to a new pinnacle level of a Master Teacher
Leadership Track
Provides opportunity for teachers to take on leadershippositions in schools and the Ministry’s headquarters
Senior Specialist Track“strong core of specialists with deep knowledge and skills in specific areas in education that will break new ground and keep Singapore at the leading edge”
Teo (2001)
![Page 25: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
![Page 26: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Clarity
![Page 27: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
Appraisal of officers under the enhanced system will be more customised to the role they play.
![Page 28: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
• Ability to nurture the whole child
Teachers
• Ability to provide visionary leadership
SchoolLeaders
• Help their supervisees develop into better teachers and leaders
Supervisor
![Page 29: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
Contrarian Voice
![Page 30: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
http://bit.ly/18RXdNm
![Page 31: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
Discussion Time
![Page 32: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
Summary
![Page 33: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
You
MOE
Mission Statement Support
Performance
EPMS Buy-in
![Page 34: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/34.jpg)
You
MOE
Mission Statement Support
Performance
EPMS No Buy-in
Change Behaviour
$
![Page 35: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/35.jpg)
OverviewYou MOE Mission
Statement Support
Performance
EPMS
Buy-in
No Buy-inChange behaviour$
![Page 36: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/36.jpg)
Where are you?
![Page 37: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/37.jpg)
One more thing
![Page 38: QED 523 - What does it mean to be a teacher](https://reader034.vdocuments.site/reader034/viewer/2022042700/5549a8bbb4c9050c708b5562/html5/thumbnails/38.jpg)
When the going gets tough,
the tough gets going.