Synchronous (Onsite) Creativity / Critical Thinking / 4Cs Workshop (80 mins Onsite)
Enhancing Students’ Success Using PBL in a Singapore University’s Writing Course
This workshop provides ideas on how to use a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) approach to develop undergraduate students’ writing and communication competencies. Participants will experience how an authentic communication problem is facilitated in the Writing and Reasoning (WR) course at Singapore Management University. Through this learning process, students can hone their problem-solving, critical thinking, collaborative, communication, and presentation skills. In this workshop, participants will experience the steps in breaking down a problem, using scaffold questions to guide students’ learning, and giving feedback on students’ solutions to the problem. Suggestions on applying this workshop’s ideas to the participant’s own contexts will be discussed.
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Teaching Fellow (Centre for English Communication)
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Ivy is an educator of communication and writing courses at the university level. She advocates supporting English language learning and teaching for disadvantaged groups, which is evident in her recent research on refugees. She believes in making learning relevant and practical by exploring innovative pedagogical methods of teaching and curriculum design.