LOG-ON SINGAPORES HISTORY LEARNING COMMUNITY

What is a learning community?

It is a group of people who share a common interest in a topic or area ,a
particular form of discourse about their phenomena , tools and sense-making
approaches making approaches for building collaborative knowledge, and valued
activities.
(www.slideshare.net/joh5700/learning-community-17576904)

Singapore History Learning Community

Singaporeknown variously as the Lion City or Garden City, the latter for its
many parks and tree-lined streetshas also been called instant Asia because it
offers the tourist an expeditious glimpse into the cultures brought to it by
immigrants from all parts of Asia. While predominantly Chinese, it has substantial
minorities of Malays and Indians.
(https://www.britannica.com/place/Singapore-capital)
Learning through actions is the best way of making the discussion as an active
process of learning and teaching. It is good when everybody in the class will
experience what the teacher is teaching. It is really true that the best developing way
of lesson is through learning by doing. The learners have many activities to be
engaged with, because through learning with their own, they will have many
discoveries and they will understand everything in their surroundings.
(chocotopseduc.blogspot.com/2015/03/singapore-history-learning-community.html)
Singapore is one of the most globalized places on earth. It is a port city that for
centuries attracted merchants and travelers from India, China, Southeast Asia, and
beyond. Its economy and population, as a result, have long had ties to the rest of the
world. Singapore embraced this reality, and created a world-class education system to
match.
Some might argue that Singapore's education system is more akin to a district than a
state or national school system. But there are clear lessons, no matter the scale of
reform.
Singapore's plan was driven by needs of the future, not realities of past. They
designed a clear system of expectations that allowed for professional growth, and
rewards successes through a number of means.
Singapores education system has garnered much international interest in the
light of its consistently high student achievement in internationally benchmarked
tests. Most recently, in December 2012, results of the Trends in International
Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) and Progress in International Reading

Literacy Study (PIRLS) held in 2011 and jointly conducted by the International
Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA) and the TIMSS and
PIRLS Centre helmed at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College showed
that Singapore has emerged pretty much at the top of the league tables again.
Singapore emerged top in Mathematics achievement at the fourth grade, second at
the eighth grade while concurrently emerging top in Science at both the fourth and
eighth grades. For performance in PIRLS, Singapore emerged top five for fourth
graders.
(krisz10.blogspot.com/)
Singapore got their independence during August 9, 1965 under their first
leader Lee Kuan Yew. After being a sovereign nation Singapore before suffers many
problems and strive for many challenges. These challenges that the newly nation face
before were poverty, diseases and ethnic strife. These challenges blocked the nation's
improvement which seriously becomes the threat to a newly independent country.
Aside from that Singapore has a poor land and natural resources and this really
became one of their problems in building their country. But Singapore was very
decisive to be futures develop country, this is why they made changes and they do it
by focusing on their education.
From the offset Singapores educational system have three imperatives:
1.
Singapore gave the students their sense of identity. They taught the students
the citizenship that they have as to their nation.
2.
Next is that the nation allow the multilingual society. Singapore has three
official languages- Malay, Chinese, and Tamil. They implemented bilingual policy, in
which they used English as a medium in school and this policy were implemented
during 1987. This bilingual policy allows the students to have a common
communicative tool for their conversation with others.
3.
And lastly the nation focuses on the improvement of Science and Technology.
They really made advancement in the field of knowledge to address their lack of
resources that will aid them to go for development.
And after 30 Singapore made a new strategy in their educational system. It is during
1997 when they release a plan for education entitled Thinking Schools, Learning
Nation. Through this the nation enhances/strengthen their teaching force, give a
greater autonomy to schools and rewarding success. In this implementation teacher
were said to wants this new strategy. Last 2012 Singapore become 37th nation
around the world who has an improved economy. They are now a nation which really
has a high income and brings changes despite of their lack of resources.
At present Singapore was hoping in these 2015 in recruiting top ranking
teachers for the good education. They give much training to the teachers and prepare
the students to be more competent and knowledgeable. Autonomy of the schools was

allowing the school to form clusters which comprises 12-14 schools. Also schools
were being given a reward for them to perform well especially in researches and
discoveries. Because of all of this Singapore gained much improvement at this
present having a strengthened educational system. They became the world's greatest
financial and trade centers. They always won a contest internationally making it to be
popular. Their students were really very good because of their educational system
that is why they are known in national school system.
(markyperz03.blogspot.com/2015/02/singapore-history-city-learning.html)
Since the late 1970s, Singapore has been proactive in promoting the
appropriate use of technologies for day-to-day activities through six national
Information Technology (IT) plans. Within this context, the Ministry of Education
embarked on three sets of ICT Masterplans for Education for all levels of schools.
In the AsiaPacific region, the major cities/regions such as Singapore, Hong
Kong, Taiwan, and Beijing are putting effort into the official policies on e-Learning
for enhancing the quality of school education. With different cultural backgrounds,
these major Asian cities/regions have different goals and approaches in the policies
on promoting e-Learning in the school education sector.
Even though Singapore is just a small country but they were rich in any
aspect especially when it come to their educational system. Singapore's education
system has been described as "world-leading" and in 2010 was among those picked
out for commendation by the former British Tory education secretary Michael
Gove. The School of Science and Technology, Singapore (SST) is a specialized
independent secondary school in Singapore, established in 2010. It offers a four-year
applied-learning curriculum which leads to the Singapore-Cambridge GCE O
Level examination. The school uses Direct School Admissions (DSA) Exercise to
obtain its cohorts with the application including a selection camp and several
academic tests. In the city, there is no need for a car. The amazing thing that I found
out is that public transportation is excellent and walking is a good way to explore the
city. All major attractions are also accessible by tour bus. Singapore's progress over
the past three decades has been remarkable, yet the island has not been
overwhelmed by development. Singapores very own slice of Las Vegas, the
gigantic Marina Bay Sands integrated resort features the citys biggest casino and a
shopping mall so big it has its own canal offering gondola rides - not to mention the
boat-like structure perched atop its three enormous curved skyscrapers which
houses the worlds highest rooftop pool. Though it may be a little opulent for some,
this place has the wow factor to say the least. Among the skyscrapers and high-rise

homes across the city its easy to forget Singapore was once home to swathes of
tropical rainforest. The good news is, it still has some left: nature reserves such
as Bukit Timah Nature Reserve the highest point in Singapore - andMacritchie
Reservoir Park may no longer be home to tigers, but offer an escape from the city
where you can work up a sweat and soak in the local wildlife with birds, monkeys
(watch out if you have a packed lunch open) and lizards frequently greeting guests.
The place of Singapore is so amazing compare to Philippines this country has
its beautiful environment and culture.
(http://www.skyscanner.net/news/10-best-things-do-singapore)