Chronicles of Ms Ross

  When I was a secondary school student in the early 2000s, Humanities lesson was a time of jolting down notes from the OHP. In upper secondary, there was the occasional pictures and videos but still mainly writing down notes from the PowerPoint slides.😅 Nevertheless, I enjoyed listening to the stories and liked the humanities. Fast forward to the 2020s, the  education landscape has changed drastically and we as teachers too need to embrace the new norm to help our students learn better. I had the opportunity to attend 2 webinar and would like to share some of my insights. SLS for active learning for DI (By Ms Jenny) Ms Jenny shared about how SLS can be an effective platform to encourage active learning and enable differentiated instruction. Being a virtual classroom with lesson materials, activities available for anytime, anywhere, it allows students to take ownership of their learning and be more self directed. It also encourages student-student interaction as well as stude...

Time flies, and we have almost come to the end of the semester. Its time to reflect on what we have done for the year and plan for the coming year.  So...what do I hope to take away from this meeting? I hope to celebrate the little successes and reflect/work on the areas for improvement. Would also like to be open-minded to learn from my colleagues sharing. Little successes Started a google site for the Sec 1 History classes and Sec 3 pure Geography class to consolidate students work (HI end product) and lesson resources (notes, slides, practices). This was started to let students have a platform to learn from one another's work as well as to take ownership of their learning. Students seem to like the idea of having a site where they can easily access the resources online so I'm really glad that we are embarking this on a department level in the coming year. Areas to work on As I think back on the lessons for the past semester, there are several areas that I could have done bet...