Wednesday, July 23, 2008

PRINCIPALS and teachers should become more involved and open in assimilating special needs students in their schools and strengthen their support system for these students.

This was said by Datin Paduka Dayang Apsah Hj Abdul Majid, Permanent Secretary (Core Education) at the Ministry of Education during the opening of the National Seminar and Workshop on Special Education 2008 at Universiti Brunei Darussalam yesterday.

Pictures in relation to ‘Biodiversity’; the pictures can be used for teaching science (where applicable for suitable topics/subtopics).

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The ICT industry plays a very important role in the national economic development of many nations particularly towards a knowledge-based economy.  More importantly in establishing this knowledge-based economy, ICT companies in the industry must create Intellectual Property, or IP of their own.  This was according to the Chief Executive of Authority for Info-Communications Technology Industry of Brunei Darussalam, AITI, at the Brunei Darussalam-Malaysia ICT Business Collaboration.  It was held Monday at the Rizqun Hotel International.

Dear participants,

The following are some of the learning references that can help you enhance your web designing skills using MS FrontPage 2003:
http://www.nlsd.ab.ca/publications/staff_resources/FrontPage_2003_tutorial.pdf
http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~acc/Resources/Tutorials/frontpage/FPage-II-2003-Tut.pdf
http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~acc/Resources/Tutorials/frontpage/FPage-III-2003-Tut.pdf
http://wwwlb.aub.edu.lb/~acc/Resources/WebDesign/webdesign.htm

I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you for participating in the workshop. It has been an enjoyable experience and I hope to see you again in the future. Hopefully you can utilise the skills well.

Click here to download the resource file (PowerPoint). The ideas were developed for the topic ‘Conductors and Non-Conductors of Electricity’,by Angela Jossela, Norayati Masilin @ Morsilin and Md Hamdani Mustapa.

Hi, I am back. It’s been a while since I updated this blog. Sorry for the lack updates. I’ve been busy this semester. Anyways, I would like to share my recent article called ‘Virtual Experiments in Primary School Science’. It’s in PDF version, click here to download the document.

Part I: Lesson Setup
The unit goal is to ensure children understand the concepts of place values and apply the knowledge for daily usage. The learning objectives of the lesson are as follow: At the end of the lesson, pupils will be able to: a) recognise the place values of units, tens and hundreds, b) write the value in BOTH numerals and words, c) orally pronounce the values correctly (e.g 35: “thirty-five” NOT “three five”, d) explain the usefulness of place values in the real world situation (e.g. labelling items, quantity, age, year, prices etc), and e) construct numbers in various place values mentally. The essential materials needed for this lesson are: dienes block, abacus, flash cards, concrete materials (e.g. sea shells, paper clips, stones, beads, beans, marbles. These materials can be used to represent place values in a creative and unique way, and useful for class projects/activities.

Part I: Lesson Setup
The unit goal for this topic is to enable pupils to understand about the concepts of conductors and non-conductors of electricity. With respect to learning objectives: a) differentiate between conductors and non-conductors of electricity, b) name at least 3 examples of conductor materials and 3 examples of non-conductor materials.

Suggest drawing and writing tasks that could assess understanding and performance of pupils in Primary Science and Mathematics.

There are lots of drawing and writing tasks for primary science and math that can be carried out in the classroom. For science, pupils can be assigned to draw their favourite pet, e.g. cat and label the parts of the animal. Children could also draw flowers that they know and label the parts of the flower. They could even draw their own body and label the parts. All of these activities can also be incorporated with writing compositions or storytellings. (Let children create a story based on their drawings).

Pupils face the following difficulties: “oneteen, twoteen, threeteen, fourteen, fiveteen sixteen …”; “twoty, threety, fourty, fivety, sixty”; and place value, eg. “value of 3 in 315?” Can portfolios help?

Each pupil should have their own portfolio so that the teacher can diagnose their learning difficulties. In addition, this can also help monitor their learning progress from time to time. To improve their Math’s learning especially with such difficulties, the teacher can assess pupils’ math ability on addition through step-by-step evaluation. Hence from basic to more challenging activities. First, test the pupils on addition of 1 digit number by 1 digit number; ensure they know how to add up this kind of math problem. The exercises can be facilitated through pictures, for e.g. adding 1+3 can be represented by adding 1 red apple to 3 red apples. Alternatively, they could use concrete objects to add up 1 digit by 1 digit, for example, 2+3 can be calculated using lego blocks. This can also improve their gross skills development.