EXPERIENTIAL APPROACH TO EDUCATION
Walter Toh, an DAS Educational Therapist from Bishan Learning Centre shares with us an Experiential Approach to Education. Effective learning takes place when a learner progresses through a cycle of 4 stages known as the Kolb’s learning cycle. Using Kolb’s learning cycle (1984), the learners were being asked the 5W1H (What, Where, When, Who, Why […]
TEACHING CAN BE TOUGH
By Agaisteen Rebecca Shalinah DAS Educational Therapist & Associate Lecturer, DAS Academy As educators, we encounter different types of students. We try our level best to prepare our lessons to fit our learners’ needs. We may have to think out of the box, and painstakingly prepare our lessons, to ensure that our students are effectively engaged and […]
What are the early predictors of dyslexia?
Asia Pacific Journal of Developmental Differences, Vol. 3 No. 2 2016 Original research article by Pei Yi Fong, Vicki Lim, Shehnas Alam, Lois Lim In Singapore, early identification and intervention of literacy difficulties during preschool are important due to the heavy academic demands placed on children. Previous research has shown that parents’ literacy skills, […]
Tips for Teachers – Have fun while learning
The preference-based teaching approach aims to help the teacher reduce challenging behaviours in the classroom and at the same time help students to have an enjoyable lesson by including students’ preferred activities. The preference-based lesson plan consists of students’ hobbies and interests so as to keep students on-task and engaged during lesson delivery. This style […]
DAS Speech and Drama Arts
Do You Wish You Had a Better Memory?
We can all train our memory to make it stronger. To have a powerful memory, we must save information in an organised manner so that we can retrieve the stored information easily when we need it. Generally, when we receive new information, it is normal for us to store it in a disorganised manner, however, […]
DAS Students Get Married!
Jeric and E-lynn were my students but in different classes. I had a make-up lesson for E-lynn’s class and invited Jeric’s class to join in. As fate would have it, Jeric attended. It is my usual practice to encourage the students to exchange their contact numbers in hopes that they could maintain the friendship and […]
Gretal Passes her O Level English
I was only officially diagnosed with dyslexia when I was in Secondary 4. This means that I take a longer time to understand and learn a concept. Plus my carelessness and my complacency during my exams also lead to me not doing well in my studies and caused me to lose hope especially in my […]
Marcus Aces his O Levels
MARCUS REFLECTS ON HIS LEARNING JOURNEY I never really had a set target but once I began Secondary 4 I knew I had to buck up, so I told myself that I need to practice more for the subjects I wasn’t so good at such as Humanities, English and Chemistry. And that helped since my […]
Benefits of Small Class Sizes
DAS Students responded to a letter published in TODAY Online. Singapore to conduct a large-scale study to assess the benefits of small class sizes. By Anastasia Wen Xin Shaifudin, Lam Tze Cong Jaren and Tan Zhi Bin To read their letter click here This article was published in the Student Gallery of FACETS Vol 1 2018