By Winston Hodge Director, Training and Development Division, Ministry of Education Singapore 1. INTRODUCTION The vision of the Ministry of Education (MOE) is “Thinking Schools, Learning Nation”. To prepare a generation of thinking and committed citizens who are capable of contributing towards Singapore’s continued growth and prosperity, the Ministry is constantly revisiting its curriculum to …
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Assumptions: For it to be useful to as many countries as possible, the guide is based on a general conceptual design. However, since the concern is to show that the introduction of African languages and cultures in education is feasible in Africa today, the guide draws inspiration from concrete cases of the African reality and, …
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For the folks, especially those interested in a more fact-filled dialog on the K+12 basic education cycle, the following world data on education may prove extremely useful. Please watch out for the next post showing how some of the participating countries from the list below performed in the TIMSS 2007 International Mathematics Report and the …
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On May 17, 2011, Ms. Mailin Locsin (second from left in photo at left), Head of School of Beacon Academy in Biñan, Laguna, posted this comment: Beacon Academy is a secondary school in Biñan, Laguna. As part of a community and service project, we initiated the creation of early readers by our students. These little …
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That DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro comes out swinging — as reported in the accompanying article — on the idea that public school teachers start training in foreign language teaching is a surprise — and a difficult one to understand — considering that majority of his own teachers have not even mastered the constitutionally mandated medium …
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[The complete text of the "DISCUSSION PAPER ON THE ENHANCED K+12 BASIC EDUCATION PROGRAM" (DepEd discussion paper) as announced by Deped Sec. Armin Luistro on 05 October 2010 is available at Philippine Education Research Journal.] CANDICE MONTENEGRO, GMANews.TV Article posted October 05, 2010 – 06:13 PM To implement the program, the Department of Education (DepEd) has …
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eug12oR4n_g&fs=1&hl=en_US] RELATED NEWS: Length of school cycle and the “quality” of education Students, teachers oppose 2 more years of basic education DepEd supports P-Noy on two more years in basic education Adding 2 more years to basic education will further widen the rich & poor divide Enrile, Angara support 12-year basic education proposal 2 more …
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[The Kabataan (Youth) Partylist, led by Congressman Raymond Palatino, released the following 5 reasons to oppose DepEd Secretary Armin Luistro's backing of President Aquino's plan to increase the 10-year basic education cycle to 12. The proposal is also endorsed by former DepEd Secretary Juan Miguel Luz. -- JP] The move to add one year in elementary …
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Multilingual Education for All in Asia and the Pacific: Policies, Practices and Processes. 4th International Conference on Language and Education. Nov. 6-8, 2013, Imperial Queen's Park Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand. Correspondence related to the conference may be addressed to: Ms. Panyaphat Piam-o-pad, International Conference Secretariat Coordinator (mleconf2013@gmail.com) or Ms. Kyungah Kristy Bang, MLE Secretariat Coordinator (k.bang@unesco.org).
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