[Pre-U] GP SLS Resource Guides for Teachers & Students

Written by: Adeline Mah, Angeline Quek, Choy Jack Kie, Divya Somasundaram, Janice Teo, Nadiah Razali, Naomi Abraham & Stephanie Chua

How the GP SLS Resource Guides came about

The GP SLS Resource Guide for Teachers and Students (GP SLS Resource Guide) was created as a one-stop document for easy access to all the GP resources on the SLS. It provides an overview of all GP SLS resources sorted by categories, and the titles are hyperlinked directly to the resources on the SLS. The aim of the Guide is to make it easy and convenient for teachers and students to view, search for and access the resources.

An accompanying Guide was created for teachers – this Guide is more detailed, with lessons sorted according to the three Focus Areas used in the SLS:

· Knowledge and Understanding: Skills and Processes

· Resource Bank for Independent Exploration

· Use of Language for Communication

In addition, to align with the revised GP Syllabus 2023, the teachers’ Guide (GP SLS Resource Guide for Teachers) shows which resources meet the different learning objectives according to the Table of Skills in the Syllabus.

Other details in the Guide include the type of resource, estimated time of completion, and alignment with ST-MOE Primers. These categories make it easy for teachers to filter and identify the resources that are most suited to their needs.

The impetus and rationale for innovating

The aim of creating the GP SLS Guide for Teachers and Students was to help teachers and students become familiar with the wealth of GP resources that have been made available on the SLS in a timely manner and to provide easy access to them. The team decided to work on this Guide as one of the ways to encourage more frequent use of GP SLS resources. Hence, the considerations for creating the Guide were largely driven by users’ needs and what they would find most helpful.

As the release of the Guides coincided with the rollout of the revised GP syllabus, the team also wanted to point teachers to resources that aligned with skills in the Syllabus to help them in their implementation. The teachers’ Guide was thus planned and designed with this objective in mind.

How the guides contribute to 21CC and AfL

The GP SLS Guide for Teachers and Students is a user-friendly resource that teachers and students can browse to identify resources most suited to their teaching and learning needs. The GP resources on SLS are very closely tied to the development of 21CC and dispositions described in the GP syllabus. The Guide provides an overview of resources that can be used during lessons or as supplementary resources to complement and enforce lesson ideas.

With increasing emphasis on e-Pedagogy and Self-Directed Learning, these Guides are valuable resources that would help teachers integrate GP SLS resources more seamlessly into their lesson design, with the various categories that can be filtered. Moreover, students would be able to have an overview of the resources available and be able to learn independently.

Advice & learning points

In designing the teachers’ Guide, the team had many discussions in order to find the right balance between providing comprehensive information and not overwhelming users of the Guide. What other teams could think about would be the essential information needed and what the user experience would be like.

It is also important to consider how the Guides can be updated easily in a timely manner since it is placed online; teachers and students would have access to the latest information. We designed the Guides to be updated without having to go through a lot of hassle with formatting e.g. pagination. This could be another consideration for similar resources.