At Edgefield Secondary School, Secondary 1 students from the Normal and Express streams are placed in the same form class. While this ...
Apart from reducing the unintended consequences of labelling and stigmatisation, the move will also give schools the opportunity to reshape the social environment to benefit their students. And the classes at Edgefield Secondary, whose"pioneering practices" were mentioned by Education Minister Ong Ye Kung in his Parliament speech on Tuesday, is an example of how this can be done.
“With a diverse profile of students, teachers need to know how they can teach better in order to cater to the needs of every child,” he said. “So for example, how do you stretch the students who are of higher ability, or provide more scaffolding for students who might need extra help?” “Even with work submission, we’re looking at … do they need to submit the same set of work? Or can it vary?” he added. “And when it comes to marking, we also need to come up with a marking rubric to cater to all of them.”
“So we came up with this block system, where students are either in the form class or the subject class. We also looked at the ways the classroom blocks were arranged, because we wanted the classrooms to be next to each other,” he added. “Students tell us they’ve enjoyed mixing with their classmates, and they find that some of their best friends are from different streams,” he said.
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