Becoming A Self-Directed Learner – Part 1: Self-Motivation.

January 26, 2014

As parents, you need to help your children to become a self-directed learner. All learning revolves around self-learning. As educator B. J. Zimmerman wisely puts it, “Learning is not something that happens TO students, it is something that happens BY children.” There is not a single person that can help your children to learn and […]

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Becoming A Self-Directed Learner – Part 6: Social Environment.

January 26, 2014

Self-directed learners have to learn to decide whether they wish to work alone or with others for various tasks and under different situations. Inevitably, they will be influenced by people and interactions with them. These people include teachers, peers, non-teaching staffs in school, tutors, parents, siblings, friends, neighbours and relatives. There are five key points […]

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Becoming A Self-Directed Learner – Part 5: Physical Learning Environment

January 26, 2014

Self-directed learners know how to plan for and manage their physical learning environment. They re-organise and improve on it so that it will meet their needs and requirements. It will support them to improve their learning performance and outcomes. That’s why it’s important to help your children find a place that is suitable for their […]

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Becoming A Self-Directed Learner – Part 4: Strategies For Learning.

January 26, 2014

Top performers in every field has effective strategies for achieving and improving their results. In the same way, your children need to have a toolkit of strategies to gather, understand, and use information productively. When they have more strategies, they will be better prepared to improve their learning tasks and outcomes. They need to know […]

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Becoming A Self-Directed Learner – Part 3: Time Management.

January 26, 2014

The third key to becoming a self-directed leader is to help your children learn how to manage time  effectively and efficiency. Effectiveness refers to doing the right thing. Efficiency refers to doing the right things in the right way. In reality, we can never manage and control time, we can only manage and control our […]

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Becoming A Self-Directed Learner – Part 2: Self-Empowerment.

January 26, 2014

The second step to becoming a self-directed learner is to develop self-empowerment. Our Creator has designed your children to have a tremendous amount of potential. They have a huge reservoir of creativity, talent and energy to explore different possibilities to achieve success. I believe it was Glen Doman, best-selling author of a series of child-development […]

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Wisdom Through Healthy Discussion.

January 21, 2014

For some time now, I participated in a series of healthy discussions with a group of professionals from all over the world. During the discussion, we would have a domain knowledge expert who will share his views and facilitate the discussion. We meet at least once per month and work – its really hard work […]

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RIP Sir Run Run Shaw.

January 8, 2014

I read with sadness the passing on of Sir Run Run Shaw, a great media mogul and philanthropist. Although I do not know the man personally, I feel like his work has somehow been intertwined with the fabrics of my life. For that, I owe him a debt of gratitude. When I was four, my […]

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Changing The World.

January 3, 2014

“So, why do you care?!” That was the question that Professor Adlai Wertman posed to the class. He did it in his usual gentle but provocative tone. Prior to that, he had put up a slide that showed the back of two African children. It was obvious that they were malnourished and were going through […]

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Being Educated.

January 3, 2014

As we embark on a new year of study, it bodes well to reexamine our understanding of what it means to be educated. In particular, we need to broaden  our understanding of  intelligence, meritocracy and success. We need to redefine them so as to help our students meet the changing needs of society and thrive […]

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