The Most Functional Way to Remember School Stuff (REALLY)

The Most Functional Way to Remember School Stuff (REALLY)

Cognitive skills, Opinion, Revision, Science
By Mr Kwok It has been more than two years since I posted Achieving a Powerful Memory (Part 1): A Method Excellent Teachers (and Students) use. Till now, Part 2 has yet to be published and perhaps never will be. One of the reasons lies in the onslaught of unprecedented changes in the outside world forcing us to scrape what little time we have to make the necessary responses - in short, Covid-19 has happened. Just as importantly, I have reflected and researched a bit over the past two years about the issue of content retention i.e. memory. We have seen often enough how seemingly cognitively capable students fail miserably all because they could not regurgitate the correct content at the right time. On our end, we continually grapple with…
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Join our Crash Courses during the May 2020 School Holidays!

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!
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Join our Crash Courses during the March School Holidays!

Join our Crash Courses during the March School Holidays!

Biology, Chemistry, Chinese, English, Math, Revision
Prepare your child for PSLE and 'O' Levels with our Crash Courses Does your child need an intense revision of what he has learned previously? Our 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’ Levels P5-6 English Creative WritingMathMathChemistryScienceBiologyChineseChinese 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!
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Join our Enrichment Programmes in Nov/Dec School Holidays!

Join our Enrichment Programmes in Nov/Dec School Holidays!

Cognitive skills, English, Enrichment, Math, News, Non-cognitive skills, Revision, Science
Our Enrichment Programmes are designed for students to be away from their studies and learn new knowledge and skills, both academic and non-academic. They are open to both our centre’s regular students and any other students of the right academic level. The following programmes are scheduled to run on the given dates. Click on each of them for fees and further information. Call or WhatsApp us at 8768 6497 or Email us at info@imatter.com.sg to register. English Creative Writing for Upper Primary Students (23-24 Nov)Secrets of Studying Smart for Secondary Students(11 Dec)Design Thinking for Solving Problems in Real Life for Secondary Students (2 Dec)Water Quality Monitoring Field Trip for Secondary Students (12 Dec)Biodiversity Survey Field Trip for Upper Primary Students (11 Dec) Primary 6 PSLE Math Preparatory Course (17-19 Dec)…
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Achieving a Powerful Memory (Part 1): A Method Excellent Teachers (and Students) use

Achieving a Powerful Memory (Part 1): A Method Excellent Teachers (and Students) use

Non-cognitive skills, Opinion, Revision
By Mr Kwok Achieving a powerful memory has always been striven for in education. Though not a direct learning objective in curricula, content retention can make or break a student's grades. To help students learn better, excellent teachers use a technique known as scaffolding and we are not talking about construction here. Scaffolding is the support given to a student during the learning process so that he can achieve his learning goals. Some learning professionals also refer to scaffolding as the building of an idea on top of another idea. This is somewhat like why you go for your PSLE long before you attempt your 'O' Levels because you need all the knowledge and skills from P1-6 and S1-2 before having the capability to pick up whatever is dished to…
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