Part 3 Building a Culture of Learning | Positive School Culture in the New Normal | Webinar Series

Описание: Over the last two weeks, we looked at the importance of building a positive school culture and building a culture of relationships, particularly in helping schools adapt to remote learning in the pandemic. In this final part of our webinar series, Positive School Culture in the New Normal, we focused on the culture of learning. Schools are widely assumed to be places of learning – but does this mean a culture of learning is present? How can such a culture be nurtured and exemplified? We invited three leaders in education across Singapore and Indonesia to share how they have sustained a culture of learning in their schools, and how a robust culture of learning consequently builds school-wide resilience against education disruptions.

Our speakers covered an often-overlooked aspect of learning – empowering teachers as lifelong learners. Ms Yenny Dwi Maria, former Principal of SMPN 211 Jakarta in Indonesia, shared how a sustained practice of supporting teacher learning helped her school to transition smoothly to remote learning. Independently forming small groups in online forums, the teachers gathered to proactively practise using online teaching tools, as well as give feedback in online lesson delivery. Mrs Wai Yin Pryke, Director of Education and Community Outreach at the National Heritage Board in Singapore, similarly described how teachers across Singapore proactively share and learn from each other’s pedagogies on a nationwide teachers’ online portal, OPAL 2.0.

A culture of learning is also fostered when students receive support and mentorship from their teachers on areas beyond academic performance. Ms Elsie Jeremiah, former Principal of Kuo Chuan Presbyterian High School in Singapore, shared the touching anecdote of a Form Teacher mentoring a struggling student who was coping with the sudden passing of his father, providing the student with access to both counselling and academic help. With the school’s mantra of ‘every student can learn’, Ms Jeremiah detailed the importance of getting to the root cause of a student’s underachievement, and how a teacher going above and beyond traditional areas of responsibility can ensure a student’s success not just in academics, but in life.

▶️ Watch Part 1 and Part 2 of the series.
➡️ 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟭 | 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗼𝗹 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲    • Part 1 Building a Positive School Culture ...  
➡️ 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝟮 | 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗖𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗥𝗲𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀    • Part 2: Building a Culture of Relationship...  

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