Thursday, May 31, 2012

Humanities Educators' Conference 2012

Extracted from Mr Heng Swee Keat's (Minister for Education) speech during the Humanities Educators' Conference 2012:

"Another example is Geography teacher, Mrs Lily Lee, of Serangoon Secondary School. She maintains a very informative blog where she shares links to up-to-date news footages and relevant articles to help her students appreciate how geographical issues play out in the real world."

I felt so honored being mentioned in the Minister's speech. I was also interviewed by the Lianhe Zaobao:

English translation from the article: 
Many teachers are using new and innovative methods to teach humanities nowadays. Our Minister for Education, Mr Heng Swee Keat, shared some of these in his speech. For example, Mrs Lily Lee from Serangoon Secondary School, who has 17 years of teaching experience. To ensure that her students are updated with the latest geographical issues, she had set up a geography blog which the students can discuss the latest geography news and information. Said Mrs Lily Lee "The textbook only provides the basic knowledge. There are so many happenings related to Geography and it is taking place every day. It is not possible to teach everything in class so the blog is a good platform to share the information."




My Geography blog - http://olevelgeog.blogspot.com

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