COURSES


	IPC0029 - Understanding & Providing for High Ability Learners In The Singapore Classroom (Part A & Part B)

Course synopsis

This online course, delivered as 2 parts, A & B, introduces the key cognitive and affective needs of high ability learners. It sets out to provide answers to the following questions: 1) Who are high ability learners? 2) What are they like as learners? 3) How do they behave in the regular Singapore classroom? Participants will hear from high ability students currently studying in Singapore classrooms and from teachers who work with these learners. Through the activities in this course, participants will also clarify commonly held beliefs about HALs and gain ideas about how best to engage HALs during lessons.

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Objective

List key affective and cognitive traits of HALs

Dispel common myths about the social and emotional characteristics of HALs.

Understand common curricular and/or pedagogical modifications that are useful in engaging HALs in mainstream classrooms.

Outline

1. Cognitive and affective characteristics of high ability learners
2. Commonly held beliefs about high ability learners
3. Principles that guide teachers’ support of high ability learners

*Do note that the course is ONLY open for MOE educators and not for the public. Please disregard the non-MOE rate in our course fee table.

Course fee

	MOE Educators*	Non-MOE Educators**
Full course fee	S$20.00	S$110.00
Nett course fee	S$20.00	S$110.00
9% GST on nett course fee	S$1.80	S$9.90
Copyright fee	S$1.09	S$1.09
Total nett course fee payable, including GST and copyright fee	S$22.89	S$120.99

*MOE Educators include MOE & Direct Hire Staff from Independent, Specialised Independent and Specialised Schools.

**Non-MOE educators refer to those from SSP, SOTA, polytechnics, ITE, LASALLE, NAFA, University of the Arts Singapore, government-affiliated educational institutes, and autonomous universities.

Who should attend

MOE Educators

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