CT COP Reflections

Hi Folks,

I hope you have had a good weekend. I know some of you are desperately marking and are looking forward to a good holiday. Hang in there, the holidays beckon! I thought I'll send you guys off into the holidays with some reflective thoughts on the session. Firstly, I thank you all again for coming and it also occurred to me that most of you rated the session as very enjoyable but when it came to networking amongst your colleagues, mist of you felt that you did not have enough of an opportunity to do so. How can we improve the session the next time? In other words, how can we allow for more networking? Maybe play a few games? I would appreciate it if you could leave a comment on how this can be done.

Secondly, I would like to thank the presenters again for their sharing. I think the one thing that caught my attention was how each of you have this desire to make your classes fun and interesting for your students. I salute you. Please feel free to use this blog to share teaching ideas with your colleagues. This is your platform. I think now as you guys and gals start to hone your teaching skills and start to raise the teaching bar, I would like to challenge you guys and gals to go one step further to aim higher, what else can you do to be truly effective lesson designers? What can you do to create the "WOW" experience for your students? It is at this point I will shamelessly point you guys and gals to the Core Principles of Learning again. Have a closer look at the Core Principles and see what you think. Revists often bring new perspectives.

Thirdly, I think there are a lot more of you who have interesting stuff to share and I would like to urge you to share them with the rest. I have a former colleague from MOE who is now ith Temasek Poly and I have been trying to get him to get his lecturers to begin a COP as well so that we can move across institutions. I think that might take some time though as he is a nw staff there and he is just settling down.

Lastly, the Lap Top Design programme is on and see you on the 22nd of September. I am sorting out the groups and will be sending you the link to sign up soon. Cheers and have a good and restful holiday!