Text Box: Highlights Text Box: » Welcome Message from STU’s President, Mike Thiruman Text Box: Effective career-long professional development is increasingly being seen as vital to our students’ and schools’ success. Schools are facing an ever increasing array of complex challenges.. (Click here for More) Text Box: Welcome to Professional Development Webpage Text Box: » Overseas Teaching Attachment Opportunities! Text Box: Planning to apply for your Professional Development Leave to go overseas for a teaching attachment but have no idea how to go about it? Contact us today, we might be able to answer your queries and make some arrangements. Text Box: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Text Box: » Accelerated Learning for Lower Ability Pupils Text Box: That is, it not only boosts achievement for all students (excellence), it decreases the gap between low and high achieving students (equity). The strategies work by lifting up the lows while accelerating the achievement of all students. (Click here for More) Text Box: Professional Development Workshops

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Text Box: Text Box: STU PAL Plan » Thinking of getting additional insurance at affordable premium rates? Text Box: Kagan Singapore September 2008 Back by Popular Demand The ever popular Kagan Workshops are here in Singapore again. More >> Rounded Rectangle: Click here for more info! Text Box: Looking for a particular workshop for your professional development which is not available? Please drop us an email. Let us help with your professional development needs. Text Box: A Quest for Philosophy Many of the human concerns discussed in our General Paper (GP), Knowledge and Inquiry, and P4C classes yield in part to philosophical inquiry deepened by a broader understanding of the two branches of philosophy (ie. ethics and logic), and of the rise of modern philosophy as a social process in the light of the rise of science, nation states and globalization in both the West and the East. More>> Text Box: Rebels With Applause: Brain Compatible Approaches for Motivating Reluctant Learners This lively interactive workshop provides Primary and Secondary teachers with practical strategies based on current research on the.. More >> Text Box: Conscious Classroom Management: Bringing Out the Best in Students and Teachers Why it is that good classroom management is often invisible? How can we understand and utilize these invisible skills with our students? Conscious Classroom Management is a lively, fun, and interactive workshop that addresses these questions, giving Primary and Secondary School teachers practical solutions for successfully managing their classrooms. More >> Text Box: The Creative Teaching Framework: The Science and Art of Highly Effective Creative Teaching This two-day workshop introduces the Creative Teaching Framework (CTF), which provides a comprehensive, practical and unique framework from which you can make your teaching highly effective, interesting and creative. . It has been derived from over 30 years of diverse teaching experience, observation of thousands of teaching professionals, integration of key knowledge from experimental and cognitive psychology, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) and validated through extensive professional practice in a diverse range of educational contexts. More >> Text Box: » Conscious Classroom Management: Bringing Out the Best in Students and Teachers Text Box: Why it is that good classroom management is often invisible? How can we understand and utilize these invisible skills with our students? Conscious Classroom Management is a lively, fun, and interactive workshop that addresses these questions, giving Primary and Secondary School teachers practical solutions for successfully managing their classrooms. (Click here for More) Text Box: 4 short video clips of past Kagan workshops have been loaded onto YouTube for viewing. This videos will provide new participants a rough idea on what to expect and bring back wonderful memories for past participants (Click here for More) Text Box: Video Interview with Mike Thiruman, President, Singapore Teachers’ Union by Dr Jon Scaife, University of Sheffield, on “Assessment and Learning in Schools”: Part 1 (Click here to View video) Text Box: Videos and Interviews Text Box: 25 - 26 November 2008 Rebels With Applause: Brain Compatible Approaches for Motivating Reluctant Learners. >> Text Box: Understanding and Managing Children with ADHD in the Classroom All children get fidgety or impatient from time to time. Now and then, their attention wanders or they need to run around and blow off steam. But when inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsive behaviour are the norm for a child, it may be a sign of ADHD. ADHD can lead to problems at home and at school, with family, teachers, and peers, so it’s important to identify the symptoms and get help. More >> Text Box: Newsletter & Magazine Production for Teacher-Editors At the end of the workshop, participants should: be able to lead an editorial committee to produce professional publications that the school can be proud of. Have adequate knowledge about design, commissioning, editing, proof-reading, and how to communicate with printers and production houses. More >> Text Box: Positive Approaches to Discipline Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the former Minister for Education, at the STU Win-Win Discipline Symposium 2004, remarked that, “Discipline is integral to learning. It allows for meaningful learning to take place, not just for the individual student himself but for his classmates.” More >>