hold open house for parents to sit in as 'students' to experience learning today.

It is very different from 20 years ago when the parents themselves study.

We no longer read from textbooks or notes directly from page 1 to page n, expect students to mug till their death to score their A's... We are doing so much more now and we need to bridge the huge gap between the conceptions of education in the past to that of today. We have moved away significantly from teacher imparting knowledge to students model towards that of student centred learning. Jargons like cooperative learning, constructivism, inquiry based learning and more can be introduced to parents and they can be 'invited' to such lessons (especially those better lesson plans that won the Most Innovative Teaching Awards in schools) and experience for themselves the difference in teaching and learning.

Wait... MOE Excelf Fest is open to the public (at least in 1 year as far as I remember) and parents can experience it if they are keen. Perhaps we should market and promote it more effectively...

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I ought to get some sleep, but my nose keeps running away...