Transforming Schools Through Quality Teaching, Learning and Assessment

Mathematics

Singapore mathematics pedagogy, from primary foundations to secondary problem solving.

• Beyond Answers: Mathematical Discussion in the Age of AI. The signature masterclass.
• Making Mathematics Visible. The CPA approach and the bar model method in primary classrooms.
• Teaching Fractions. Where understanding usually breaks and how to build it properly.
• Strong Foundations. Number sense, questioning and differentiation.
• Polya’s Problem Solving Approach. Understand, plan, carry out, look back. The four stages taught as a classroom routine rather than a poster on the wall.
• Mathematical Modelling. The modelling cycle as classroom practice.
• Cracking the Algebra Code. Visual, connected algebra for Grades 7 to 10.
• Differentiated Instruction in Mathematics. One classroom, a wide range of starting points.

Assessment

The area where system level experience is hardest to find and where most schools have the furthest to travel.

Mr Raj has led training and test development for national assessment programmes, working alongside ministry assessment specialists from test blueprints through to item writing and review.

• Assessment Literacy for Teachers. What each form of assessment is for and when to use it.
• Designing Formative Assessment. Assessment that changes the next lesson.
• Building Better Test Items. Item writing, distractor design and cognitive demand.
• Tables of Specification and Test Blueprints. Aligning what you teach with what you test.
• Marking, Moderation and Standards. Consistency across a department.
• Using Assessment Data Well. From spreadsheets to instructional decisions.
• Leading Assessment Across a School. Building a coherent assessment policy and the practice to match it.

Lesson Study

Teachers studying their own practice together, cycle after cycle.

Mr Raj led a nine year whole school Lesson Study programme in Singapore and has presented on it at the World Association of Lesson Studies conferences in Nagoya and Hiroshima. He works with schools internationally as a knowledgeable other.

• Introduction to Lesson Study. Principles and the cycle, in one or two days.
• Full Cycle Facilitation. Research theme, research lesson and post lesson discussion.
• Knowledgeable Other Partnership. Sustained guidance, onsite or online.
• Professional Learning Communities. Structures that make collaboration routine.
• Leading Lesson Study. For principals and heads of department, on protecting the time and the culture it needs.

School Leadership

Leadership of curriculum, instruction and assessment, from someone who has done the job.

• Leading Effective Schools. Vision, culture and instructional leadership.
• The School Improvement Blueprint. Leave with a strategic plan you can actually run.
• Developing Your Middle Leaders. Heads of department as leaders of curriculum and teaching.
• Teacher Leadership. Developing teachers as leaders of learning.
• Leading with Data. Using school data to make decisions rather than to report them.
• A Culture of Continuous Improvement. Sustaining growth through change.
• Inside Singapore’s Education System. Principles leaders can adapt to their own context.