Parachute activity
1. What are your thoughts about the activity conducted?
2. What did you learn from it?
3. Did you realise any differences between the teams?
4. How did it make you feel?
5.How do you think this activity is representative of our education system?
(You can think about how different resources are made available to different students and how they might feel. You can also think about how likely is it for students with different resources to reach similar goals.)
Some questions to ponder...
Some key take aways...
The government’s perception of students’ contributions and place in the country is determined by their academic ability.
Consequently, this leads to different opportunities and resources being made available to students.
As a result, students may not be able to develop 21st Century Competencies and attain the DOE in the same way that the government has envisioned.
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Introduce the 21st Century Competencies initiative.
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Examine the intended and unintended outcomes of having differentiated Social Studies curriculum in achieving the government’s larger purpose of ensuring economic competitiveness and social cohesion.