Name of Teacher	Dept	Topic	Lesson Synopsis
Session 1: 7.50am to 8.50am
Lim Huey Miin	Mathematics	Application of Differentiation	In this lesson, students will work in groups to identify problem structures, pose problems with similar problem structure and solve their posed problems. The students will then be engaged in peer-assessment as evidence of their learning.
Bryden Chew	Humanities - Inquiry & Advocacy (Social Studies-Philosophy)	Globalization and Singapore	Globalization impacts Singapore in a multiplicity of ways, bringing both benefits and harm to Singapore. Students will look at the inherent tensions between Singapore the nation state and Singapore the global city. The lesson will focus on the duality of Singapore's unique position as a global city state. Students will participate in a community of inquiry where they will discuss whether a balance between growth as a global city is possible with maintaining our identity as a nation state. Students will leverage on skills in using Richard Paul's elements of reasoning as well as Socratic questioning techniques to gain deep understanding of the issue through an iterative process of discussion and questioning.
Tan Bee Lain & Chua Han Hui	Chinese Language (Higher Chinese)	Rhetorical questioning and characterization through speech, Secondary 2 Higher Chinese “Kite” by Lu Xun”	本课堂着重在语言技能的实践过程。学生将通过小组协作模式，应用所学习的语言描写和反问修辞手法，根据特定的情境为人物编写适合的对话内容。课程也将应用差异性教学，激发学生创意思维，引导学生以适当的语速、语调和感情演绎所编写的对话。这旨在创造真实情境，从语言应用中，与同侪检验语言技能的应用过程。教师将引导学生总览各种人物描写手法作为总结，帮助学生达到对人物描写手 This lesson focuses on the application of language skills. Students will work in groups to design an appropriate dialogue according to context by using the language skills of rhetorical questioning and characterization though speech. Using differentiated instructions, students will be encouraged to use creative thinking in enacting the dialogue to stipulate an authentic environment, and in doing so test its validity according to the appropriateness of language skills and context. The teacher will summarise the lesson by helping students achieve enduring understanding of character descriptions.
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Session 2: 8.50am to 9.50am
Rajeshwari Rai	Science - Chemistry	Mole Concept & Stoichiometry	This lesson will be conducted based on Differentated Instruction principles - differentiating content and process based on readiness. Students will be working in pairs to solve stoichiometry questions of various difficulty levels and present their solutions. QR codes will be used as a tool to gather responses and give feedback.
Jassie Teo	English Language	Oral Reporting	This DI lesson is part of the Year 1 Oral Reporting Unit and aims to equip students with skills to organise information in an oral report. The pre-assessment task requires students to take down notes while listening to recordings of interviews and present them using a mind-map. Based on the pre-assessment data, students are grouped according to their level of readiness, and assigned activities tiered to match the level of challenge suited for each group. Through instruction differentiated through Process and Product, students are guided towards understanding that effective organisation of information facilitates audience’s comprehension and sustains their interest.
Tan Hai Nee	Physical Education	Teaching softball in a differentiated classroom	Fielders’ choice: A student-Centered Approach How can catching or stopping the ball at your comfortably help you be effective in Softball? Quality learning involves the teacher differentiating instruction to meet the needs, interests and abilities of each individual student. That differentiation might involve the teacher adapting/modifying the content, process and/ or environment. The goal is to have students participate in activities where all students can learn and be successful in the sport.
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Session 3: 9.20am to 10.20am
Foo Ling Ling	Humanities - Geography	A Carbon-Neutral Society	The increasing use of fossil fuels and high carbon and greenhouse gas emisisons has inevitably led to a wide range of impacts. The lesson will focus on the need for coutries to go carbon-neutral. Critical thinking strategies will be used as teaching-learning tools to discuss complex and controversial issues related to issues of climate change and the quality of life by working collaboratively and sharing with the class an article analysis of their choice. Case studies such as how feasible is it for Singapore to go carbon neutral will also be discussed.
Angel Lim	Science - Physics	Current Electricity	The lesson uses an inquiry-based approach using a model to account for the behavior of simple circuits in which the brightness of bulb can be used as in indicator of the amount of current though the bulb. This model is extended to include the concept of potential difference. We will also be use visible thinking routines to stimulate further Scientific thinking in students.
Leung Hui Leng & Yeo Puay Hong	Aesthetics (D&T)	DesignThinking	Students will learn how to use sensors to trigger outputs such as the LED, piezo buzzer and motor. They will work in pairs, learning at their own pace, using an e-book as the learning resource. The e-book is designed in such a way that students who have prior knowledge of the technology could proceed quickly to the more complex arduino circuits while students who need more help will be supported by step-by-step instructions on videos. By completing the learning tasks in the e-book, students will learn about the if-else programming structure and the concept of "threshold value", which will trigger an output when it is reached.
Cassandra Hii	Science - Biology	Monohybrid Inheritance	Students will be able to learn and solve problems in monohybrid inheritance through the use of a problem-based learning (PBL) package. This PBL package will allow for self-directed and collaborative learning. Through the activity, students will also be able to understand the concepts through experiential learning and be able to apply the concept in genetics.
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Session 4: 9.50am to 10.50am
Mohd Faizal	Humanities - History	Authoritarian Regimes - Cultural Revolution in Communist China	(Potential) Appeal of Extremist Ideas- The lesson is on the Cultural Revolution in China (1966-76). Students would be able to use Paul and Elder's Elements of Reasoning as a metacognitive tool to examine the (potential) appeal to extremism. This would be linked to contemporary appeals to extremism through a simple case study of how religious "fundamentalists" continue to have broad support in areas under their control.
Michelle Quek	Physical Education	Teaching badminton in a Differentiated Classroom	Structured small-sided activities as platforms for students to explore the forehand overhead clear stroke with good trajectory of the shuttlecock to get the shuttlecock to the rear of the court. How do I contact the shuttle, and how do I project the shuttle to where I want it to go? Using the net/barrier games concepts approach and with the modification of the equipment, rules or boundaries, the Differentiated Instruction aporach will be used to help weaker students and also further stretch better students in this lesson of Overhead Clear skill to achieve the lesson objectives.
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Session 5: 10.20am to 11.20am
Asmizar bin Abu	Humanities - History	The Cold War in Europe	The lesson will be on the origins of Cold War in Europe. Students will be given two groups of sources that present contrasting opinions on whether the Cold War was sparked by ideological differences or geopolitical concerns. The Wheel of Reasoning will be the Critical Thinking Model used to examine the sources. Based on this strategy, students will then uncover the probable reasons behind the Cold War conflict that emerged after the end of the Second World War.
Daphne Chua	English Language	Establishing a Voice in Writing	In this lesson, students will be differentiated based on readiness, with groups taking on different text-examination activities of varying complexities- all of which will culminate in recognising multiple ways that writers use to create a personal voice in their writing. Such might include the choice of words, or sentence structures that can affect the mood or rhythm of a text. Hence, through this main activity, students will be led to discover the effect behind using such methods and how they can thereafter apply these skills to their own writing of Personal Essays.
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Session 6: 10.50am to 11.50am
Benedict Chua	Aesthetics (Music)	Soundscape	In this lesson, students' interest would be heighten by the choice of what a particular sound/music could mean, as opposed to what it actually means. They will be working in pairs to think creatively about the author's choice of sound (or even silence - as they can sometimes be potent in meaning too). Students will also assess the basic principles of musical representation through devices such as onomatopoeia and metonymy, and at the same time assess their efficacy in a local musical soundscape.
Benedict Chua	Aesthetics (Music)	Soundscape
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Session 7: 11.20am to 12.20pm
Tan Yin Lai	Mathematics	Pythagoras Theorem	This lesson will incorporate an inquiry-based learning approach in a Secondary Two Mathematics classroom. The Year 2 students will be working in their small groups on a few activities. Through the process of completing the activities, they will uncover Pythagoras Theorem. After which they will have to prove Pythagoras Theorem. The students will also get to explore the different ways of proving Pythagoras Theorem.
Tan Lee Khim/ Poon Han Wei	Chinese Language	说明文（运用生动/平实的语言进行说明） Expository Essay Writing	老师会根据学生的语言能力进行分组。通过小组互评的方式，学生学习以平实语言和生动的语言/修辞手法来进行说明文的写作。 In this lesson, students will learn about the difference between plain and lively language used in expository writing. They will also be able to apply what they have learnt in Yr 1. Differentiated Instruction and peer evaluation will be applied in the lesson.
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Session 8: 12.20am to 1.20pm
Fadhilah	Malay Language	Expository Writing	In this lesson, students will be able to understand how writers use language and structure to explain their ideas. Through differentiated group-work activity, they will be analyse how a central idea of a paragraph or a series of ideas over a course of a text is developed, how they are introduced and developed and the connections that are drawn between them. Students will learn how to explain topic sentences or thesis statements through different types of evidence include data, concrete examples, anecdote etc. This lesson is designed to have students learn to write an effective expository essay in which the focus are on these 2 elements - structure and organization.
K.Uthaman	Tamil Language	Short Story	This lesson deals mainly with the concept of family relationships and values. The lesson objectives are to create an opportunity to learn their mother tongue language on a more advanced level through short story and to develop analytical thinking. A strategy called the ‘Hot Seat’ technique will be used to deliver the lesson. During lesson time while some students are role-playing as characters from the stories, others will be allowed to frame their own questions and pose them to the students playing the various roles. Opportunity will be given to all the ‘characters’ to response. Through this strategy, students can compare their own perspectives with others so as to have a better understanding of the concept.
Stella Picca	English Literature	Reading through a Critical Lens	This objective of this lesson is for students to apply a particular critical lens to the reading of a short story. This lesson is part of a series of lessons which introduces Literary Theory to the Raffles Academy Literature students. In this series of lessons, students would have been introduced to Marxist Literary Theory and Psychoanalytical Literary Theory. After the introductory lessons on Literary Theory, students will then be asked to apply the critical lens to a short story. In this Open Classroom lesson, students will be asked to analyse Shirley Lim's "Mr Tang's Girls" using the psychoanalytic lens.
Chew Meek Lin	Mathematics	Application of Differentiation: Related rate of change	A inquiry-based approach is used for students to extend the solution to a two-variable problem to a three-variable problem. The instructional process involves the use of a real-world problem (1) for teacher to share the lesson objectives, (2) for students to practise applying Polya’s problem-solving strategies, and (3) for providing opportunities to move from problem solving to problem posing.
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