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Interested in meaningful use of technology in learning and teaching, Instructional leadership and Mathematics

Singapore
Joined May 2009
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#ictlt2016 Education anytime anywhere. Best keynote ever. My colleague is memorising his name "Ng Pak Tee"
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#iCTLT2016 I hope the stir in our hearts now after Ng Pak Tee 's inspiring speech will translate into a stir of good learning in schools.
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#iCTLT2016 a quotable quote is now a tweetable tweet by Ng Pak Tee
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Talking in the Hallway: 3 Questions Principals Should Be Asking by @mitchcenter: edut.to/1WOJfmP
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Eduleadership | The Pareto Principle and Instructional Leadership | @scoopit sco.lt/5NiVyj
Seven Steps to Effective Instructional Leadership Video | @scoopit sco.lt/6Eehjl
Effective Instructional Time Use for School Leaders: Longitudinal Evidence From Observations of Prin... | @scoopit sco.lt/86gF9d
PC=f(HC, SC, DC) P=professional, C=capital, H=human, S= Social, D= Decisional (Hargreaves & Fullan, 2012)
Balance emergence of network with design. (Hargreaves & Shirley, 2009 in the Fourth Wave)
the more the student becomes the teacher and the more the teacher becomes the learner, then the more successful the outcomes. (Hattie)
@schoolleadership A good principal must have the skills of a CEO but the heart of a teacher,” says Pak Tee.nie.edu.sg/files/oer/OER-NIE…
Effective instructional leadership: Tr’ perspectives on how principals promote teachg & learng in sch emeraldinsight.com/journals.… via @sharethis
pd need 2 engage current theories of y trs do what they do, if not new practice is likely to be layered into existg practice, not replace it
Extended timeframe & frequent contact were nec for PL as process of changing practice involve new learning that challenge existing beliefs.
how the time is used is more impt than the amount of time set aside for professional learning (BES NZ)
Ability to use evidence for inquiry and improvem, able to retrieve, organise and apply prof knowledge is referred as evaluative capability
o' connell (2009) found that schs in NZ ensures new initiatives built on understandg of previous work leads to sustained high achievem gains
when coping with multiple initiatives, one way to work thru is to identify and select intervention wif strong evidence base of effectiveness