From the Teacher Workshop to Actual Classrooms With Students: What Happens When Secondary Social Studies Teachers in Singapore Redesign Curriculum, Teaching, and Learning Through Inquiry and New Literacies

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  In Roundtable Session: Impact of Professional Development and Instructional Design on Teacher and Student Learning

Abstract

This study investigates what happened when a group of secondary social studies teachers in Singapore used a web-based tool to redesign their curricula. Findings demonstrate the ways the teachers used inquiry and new literacies as guiding concepts to create new curricular trajectories for their students.

Authors

• James S. Damico, Indiana University

• Mark C. Baildon, National Institute of Education - Nanyang Technological University