Teacher Professional Learning : The Singapore Perspective / edited by Shu-Shing Lee, Alexius Chia, Bee Leng Chua, Monica Woei Ling Ong, Pamela Costes-Onishi.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Shu-Shing., Editor.

Chia, Alexius., Editor.

Chua, Bee-Leng, Editor.

Ong, Monica Woei Ling., Editor.

Costes-Onishi, Pamela., Editor.

Series:

Empowering Teaching and Learning through Policies and Practice: Singapore and International Perspectives, 2662-9615 ; 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Teachers--Training of.

Education and state.

Continuing education.

Adult education.

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Lifelong Learning.

Adult Education.

Local Subjects:

Teaching and Teacher Education.

Educational Policy and Politics.

Lifelong Learning.

Adult Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (X, 332 p. 23 illus., 8 illus. in color.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2025.

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2025.

Summary:

This book provides an insider’s perspective of the Singapore education system that views teacher capacity building as a key lever for quality educational experiences. It describes experiences from policy conceptualisation to practice implementations of teacher learning. This book includes international perspectives in the form of expert commentaries and critique where comparisons are made between Singapore’s experiences and those of other education systems. It also describes the complexities of teacher professional learning within and across three levels: policies, partnerships, and schools, that shape policy to practice implementations of teacher professional learning from pre-service to in-service teachers. Together with the international scholars, this book shares the lessons learnt in Singapore to encourage policy makers, scholars, and schools to continue thinking about how teacher professional learning can be enhanced, caution against the direct transfer of practices, and describe how teacher capacity building lays the foundation for the education system to stay relevant, address challenges, and meet students’ needs.

Contents:

Introduction to teacher professional learning: the Singapore perspective

Part 1: Historical, political and contextual influence on professional learning

The historical evolution and context of teacher learning and professional development in Singapore

Centralized decentralization and its influences on teacher professional learning

Early childhood teacher education: Learning from teacher policies and the science of human development

Policies and initiatives for teacher agency and professional learning

How context shapes Singapore teachers’ experiences of educational change and borrowing

Teacher professional learning: Reflections on a Singapore perspective

Part 2: Partnerships with communities and its influences on teacher learning

Developing multiple perspectival mindsets for future ready teachers

Practicum: A model of shared responsibility and co-learning in developing 21st century teachers

Digital portfolio and partnerships: Enablers for the development of reflective practitioners and empowerment of teacher learning

A responsive teacher leader programme: Galvanizing the theory-practice nexus in the design of professional development for teacher leaders

Leveraging on co-constructive partnership and teachers’ experiences for a meaning-oriented professional learning and innovation

Partnerships with communities and its influences on teacher learning: Reflections on a Singapore perspective

Part 3: School-based influences and efforts on teacher learning and professionalism

A model of situated professional learning in Singapore: Lessons learnt

Teacher talk and learning in a networked learning community at the forming stage

Rethinking the facilitation of teacher professional learning through complexity theory – From the perceptions of the school staff developers in Singapore

Digital storytelling as a reflective-reflexive practice for teachers’ professional learning

Reconstructing diversity in lesson study: shaping teachers’ beliefs about teaching diverse students in Singapore

Teacher resilience, professional learning and professionalism in Singapore

School-based influences and efforts on teacher learning and professionalism: Reflections on a Singapore perspective

Final words.

ISBN:

981-9647-14-2

OCLC:

1521539588