Collaboration programmes
The first set of programmes is designed to promote and enhance the sharing of experience and knowledge in the teaching and learning of English based on a collaboration or teacher community model. These programmes include:
The first set of programmes is designed to promote and enhance the sharing of experience and knowledge in the teaching and learning of English based on a collaboration or teacher community model. These programmes include:
- WrITE Institute - Devoted and excellent teachers of English are invited to participate in WrITE Institutes as summer fellows (SFs) to share and learn as a group through a variety of activities. These include the sharing and demonstrating of effective strategies with regard to the teaching of writing; writing in different genres; reading, discussing and responding to articles; participating in peer review/response exercises.
- Coaching and training of Summer Fellows - Summer Fellows are further nurtured as leaders to conduct sharing and collaborative learning programmes with their fellow teachers within and across schools.
- Narrative Inquiry for Professional Development - Personal practical knowledge of teachers is to be extracted from their written narrations. The purpose of this is to help them to critically assess their own strengths and limitations in teaching and, eventually, to assist them in reformulating their teaching strategies including lesson planning and the development of teaching materials.
- Creation of professional learning communities - These communities may exist within multiple perspectives: within a single discipline or across disciplines; within an individual school or across schools; or even across regions/countries. These professional learning communities offer a platform for spontaneous learning and personal growth through a series of collaborative activities. These activities include: writers' festivals; formal or informal focused group activities such as (informal) study groups on current issues, (formal) collaboration among teachers from different disciplines to work out an integrated curriculum for civic/liberal education; and exchange teacher programmes.