Meeting Minutes 4 - 5/3/08
Venue: Chao Yang School, Yio Chu Kang, SingaporeTime: 5 March 2008, 1230 - 1515
Present: Bryan Lim, Sean Yap, Yan Xiao Dong, Wang Kai Cheng
| No. | Things Accomplished | Actions made |
| 1 | Travelling | Traveled by MRT to Chao Yang school, Singapore at 13: 00 pm, arrived at 13: 30 pm. |
| 2 | Class Observation | We went into some classrooms to observe the ongoing lessons and also had a chance to interact with the students of Chao Yang school. The purpose of this is to give us a gauge of the intellectual ability, attention spans and communication skills of the students so that we are able to plan our resource package for them. |
| 3 | Meeting with external teacher mentor | We met up with our external teacher mentor at Chao Yang School, Mrs. Rajesh for the first time. We had a discussion about our plans for the interactive as well as the backgrounds of the students. Besides that, we also discussed about our proposal to improve the library system of the school. |
Hi all. This is our fourth group meeting for the year. This time, our group was without Koon Chong because he went to support the tennis team in the finals. For this session, we went down to Chao Yang School for lesson observation and also to meet up with our teacher mentor, Mrs. Rajesh for the first time.
We had a quick lunch and left RI at about 1300 and arrived at about 1330. There we waited for the staff to bring us to the various classrooms with ongoing lessons, with our group being split up into two and going into two different classrooms with different age groups and intellectual ability. Kai Cheng and I, Bryan, went into a classroom where a lesson on road safety was being conducted. The students were given a worksheet with various pictures, some with safe situations and some with dangerous situations. The students were tasked to identify which situations were safe and which were not. We interacted with the students and helped them with their worksheet. Many of them were very happy to see us. Also, even though the wrong answers were written on their worksheet, when we questioned them, they actually knew the correct answers. Also, they seemed to be very interested with colouring their worksheet. They were really fun and enthusiastic children. We then moved on to a board game about dinosaurs. From the excitement in their words and the smiles on their faces when they were playing the game, we could tell how much they loved the game. All of them seemed to be seasoned professionals with the game as they explained the rules to us and showed us how the game was played. Soon after, the bell rang and the students were dismissed. We then headed on to the tables outside the general office where we gathered with our other two group mates Sean and Xiao Dong who also had a fruitful time in their class.
Soon after, our external mentor, Mrs. Rajesh arrived. She was a teacher at Chao Yang School. It was our first meeting with her. After greetings, we exchanged contact details and then started off the discussion about our group’s plans about the Resource package for the Interactive Whiteboard. Basically she gave us many tips and guidelines for us to follow in making the resource package. We also had a discussion with her about the backgrounds of the students – basically their attention span, ability in learning and more. Besides that we also talked about our group’s proposal to improve the library system of the school. Basically we discussed about the feasibility and our intended plans. However, she was unable to give us an answer for our proposal as she had yet to have discussions with the other teachers and staff. With that we thanked her for her time and then concluded this session.
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