COVID-19 Archives - iMatter Learning Centre. Tuition Centre in Yishun. Small class size

10Sep 2021 by Principal

Some Thoughts about Teaching on Teachers’ Day

COVID-19, Online Teaching & Learning, Opinion

By Mr Kwok Teachers' Day has come and passed. Like Christmas Day and New Year, this special day presents an opportunity for us to reflect on our actions as teachers and teaching as a profession. My reflections below are not exactly fresh insights. Others have written about similar ideas in the past while others will continue likewise in the future. Teaching as a profession will no doubt persist as long as civilisation exists but it is always a good thing to remind ourselves once in a while of what it means to be teachers. Those of us providing tuition services, whether as home tutors or tuition centres, are no more or no less teachers compared to our peers in mainstream schools. Despite differences in job scope, teaching with all its…

07Aug 2020 by Principal

Students in Primary 5, Secondary 3 & JC1 in 2020: Do they get the worst deal from COVID-19?

COVID-19, Online Teaching & Learning, Opinion, Tuition

By Mr Chen By now, no one can live in denial that COVID-19 has impacted all of us in our daily lives. A year ago, the acronym HBL (home based learning) was only known to teachers and students (at least the more attentive ones) but now, it has entered the consciousness of the country, if not, the world. In the old days, parents were forced to deal with HBL, say by taking leave to help their kids at home for only a handful of days a year. However, in 2020, HBL has grown into a 3-month horror in the eyes of some parents. In the old days, HBL was mostly limited to asynchronous learning i.e. kids logged into SLS or whatever proprietary platform and learned at their own pace through…

06May 2020 by Principal

Join our Crash Courses during the May 2020 School Holidays!

Biology, Chemistry, Chinese, COVID-19, Crash Course, English, Math, Online Teaching & Learning, Revision, Science

Prepare your child for PSLE and 'O' Levels with our online Crash Courses Does your child need an intense revision of what he has learned previously? Our online Crash Courses reinforce the knowledge and understanding critical to preparing for the coming examinations. Crash Courses are available for the following subjects. Check our schedule here. They are open to both our centre’s regular students and any other students of the right academic level. PSLE ‘O’ LevelsEnglishMathMathChemistryScienceBiologyChineseChinese Call or WhatsApp us at 8768 6497 or email us at info@imatter.com.sg to find out more and register. Hope to see your child in our Crash Courses!

18Apr 2020 by Principal

5 Lessons for a Small Business Owner in the COVID-19 Crisis

COVID-19, Online Teaching & Learning

First, we are apprehensive about using the word “crisis” in the title because it conjures up images of fear and destruction in our minds, in short, nothing but bad news. This is a crippling rather than an empowering mindset. We would have preferred to call the “crisis” a “New Normal” as it simply means a new way of doing things. Nevertheless, for an easy frame of reference to the current situation, we have stuck to the term commonly used in the media – “crisis”. If you are reading this, you probably already have the right mindset to seek out the lessons in this “crisis” and make good on the opportunities that arise. Lesson 1: Acceptance In any survival situation, accepting the reality we find ourselves in is the first step.…

14Apr 2020 by Principal

A New Era of Online Tuition brought about by COVID-19?

COVID-19, Online Teaching & Learning, Tuition

We are into the 3rd week of the closure of tuition centres and the question many parents and students ask is when are things returning to normal. Hey, even we ask ourselves that question! No crystal ball here. We simply can't predict how well the currently tightening measures are going to work. Tuition centres, schools and other non-essential businesses are supposed to close till 4 May 2020. Will the restrictions and closures continue? Perhaps, if the COVID-19 situation worsens and the casualties pile up. But one thing we do know is like other pandemics, COVID-19 will last for at least more than a year till it burns out by itself or a cure or vaccine is made available. Even if Singapore manages its situation well now, COVID-19 is still out…

03Apr 2020 by Principal

Adapting to COVID-19 through Online Teaching & Learning

COVID-19, Online Teaching & Learning

Bad Tidings 24 April 2020 Tuesday evening was supposed to be a time to relax after completing all work for the day. Well, at least it was till one of our tutors messaged us about an announcement on the news that all tuition and enrichment centres must close shop from 26 April 23:59 to 30 April to reduce the spread of COVID-19 in the community. Our first reaction was disbelief. Was that fake news? We had to read the news article a few times to be sure we got the message right. It was not long before more messages poured in - some from concerned tutors and others from anxious parents. The die was cast. No doubt about it - we indeed had to close our doors as stipulated. The…