Meeting Minutes 8
Research Education 2008
Service Learning
Meeting Minutes 8
Venue: Raffles Institution, Singapore
Time: 16 April 2008, 1200 – 1515
Present: Bryan Lim, Tan Koon Chong, Sean Yap, Yan Xiao Dong, Mrs. Lim
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No. |
Things Accomplished |
Actions made |
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1 |
Discussion and finalizing of background research overview |
We had a group discussion and later finalized or background research overview. |
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2 |
Discussion of methodology |
We discussed on the different methods on we were going to acquire the information for our background research. |
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3 |
Meeting with teacher mentor |
We met up with our teacher mentor, Mrs. Lim, and we discussed about our plans for the project, particularly the background research. |
This is our eighth group meeting of the year. This group meeting was just after our geography CCTs and we were all very exhausted. In this group meeting, after some group discussion, we finally finalized on our overview of our background research. We also discussed on how we were going to go about acquiring the information, whether through the internet, through surveys or through interviews. The finalized list is as such:
Background Research
Introduction
- What is disability (Internet)
About the Disabilities (Internet)
- Types
- Causes
- Effect of disabilities
- Cures / Medical Treatment
- Side Effects
Society
- How society perceives disabled (Interview, survey)
- How handicapped are taken advantage of (Internet, interview)
- Place of Handicapped in the society (Survey, internet)
- Adaptability of the disabled (Interview)
- How the handicapped view the society (Interview)
- How the handicapped take advantage of the sympathy of the society (Interview)
- How handicapped view each other (Interview)
Government measures / Projects related to disability (Internet)
- Actions taken by Singapore Government
- Measures taken by companies, etc
- Measures in other countries
Singapore’s situation
- The number, location, etc of disabled (Internet)
- The lives of disabled (Interview)
- The schools for the disabled (Internet)
- The careers of disabled (Internet, interview)
- The problems faced by disabled (Internet, interview)
- The Achievements of disabled (Internet, Interview)
Chao Yang School
- The school system (Interview, internet)
- Where and how teachers are trained (Interview)
- How Chao Yang and other APSN schools run (Interview)
- Budget (Interview)
- Teaching methods (Interview)
Characteristics of students at Chao Yang School (Interview)
- Behavior
- Attitude
- Learning ability
- Social background
- Street-smartness
Families (Interview)
- Family background
- Family’s ability to cope
- Feelings and opinions of family
We also met up with our teacher mentor Mrs. Lim and basically discussed on our plans for the project, particularly on our background research and also on our resource package since we finally received an email from our external mentor Mrs. Kala Rajesh and we finally could get started on our package. We were also told to hand in our personal portfolio next week. For next week we are likely to be making a trip down to the library to get valuable resources for our background.
For now, Xiao Dong will be splitting up the work for our background research and we can get started soon.
That’s it for now. Will further update you on our project.
Bryan
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