Dr. Chang Chew Hung's website
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| User: | Chew Hung Chang |
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| Tags: | education, geography, ict, ed tech |
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Service Profile
Administrative roles at NIE/NTU: Sub-Dean, Teacher Professional Development (In-service), Graduate Programmes & Research Office 2009 - 2012 TE21 Implementation - Portfolio Project Team member 2009 SSS/WITS committee member 2007 – 2009 IT Facilitator for HSSE on ACIS committee May 2002 – Jun 2006… Read more
Communication
Communication Check out my blog, news events and more in this section. The links are accessible on the navigation bar.… Read more
Teaching Portfolio
Teaching My Teaching Philosophy Renowned education reformer John Dewey once said “education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” As a teacher educator and university academic, I strongly believe that I am in a powerful position to contribute to education through my teaching,… Read more
My Schedule
Calendar This schedule will enable you to see which are the times that I am busy or occupied. You may propose a meeting and I will respond accordingly. Thanks. … Read more
Research
Research This page contains information on Dr. Chang's research projects and publications. If you have any questions about any of the projects or would like to have a copy of the pubication, you may contact him at chewhung.chang@nie.edu.sg.… Read more
About Me
About my work Dr. Chang Chew Hung is concurrently the Sub-Dean for Professional Development (In-service) at the Office of Graduate Studies & Professional Learning, and an Assistant Professor with the Humanities and Social Studies Education Academic Group, National Institute of Education, Nanyang… Read more
Teaching at A&M High
I had a very tiring day today I taught periods 1,3,4 and 5 for a total of 4 periods. Debbie Lange, Zandy Putsay, Debbi Robertson and Chris Diem's classes came in and I told them about Singapore. I framed the lesson around "How did Singapore develop and prosper despite the differences in the people… Read more
Interview on Good Morning Singapore (Mediacorp 8)
Dr. Chang was intereviewed today on Channel 8. Watch the video here: … Read more
Interview on FOCUS 《焦点》 on MediaCorp Channel 8 on 14 January…
Interviewed on FOCUS 《焦点》 on MediaCorp Channel 8 on 14 January 2010 about the Arctic Oscillation and the abnormal low tempeartures in the winter of 2009/2010. Keep a lookout. the show is also repeated on Saturday and Monday.… Read more
Speaking at the Science Center
The session last Saturday went very well. Despite heavy rainfall and a rather chilly morning, a good 50 people or so attended the public forum on Climate Change. Most of them were Biology students from NIE but there were definitely non-teachers and non-teacher trainees among the audience. The Q&… Read more
My first baseball game
I went to my first baseball game ever. Michael thought that my experience in DC, and USA in particular would not be complete if I had not gone for the game. I learnt the rules of the game within one game simply because it was an extremely eventful game. It did not complete after 11 innings and the… Read more
Differentiated Instruction
Today marks the last session on DI with the PGDE Jul intake 2007. I am using the time that they are moving around the learning stations to put in this entry. The overall impression I get from a quick pit stop I did with them earlier this morning was the general lack of enthusiam and belief in using… Read more
Sharing at Zhonghua
On 23 May 2007, Check Siew and I shared out experience about the school attachment I did from Januray to march this year. We spoke suring the staff contact time and I was very heartened to see many nods of agreement with the problems, suggestions and learning points we shared. I have listen some of… Read more
Community
Community Join the community of Geography Educators here on our very own social networking platform. No more worries of students being on your facebook. http://geogedsg.socialgo.com … Read more
Paleoclimates
After three weeks of meteorology, I started paleoclimatology with my AAG233 class. We worked from the Mesozoic through to the Holocene. I was surprised that they forgot their basic geology from year one but the looks of enlightenment at the end was satisfying enough for me. I also gave the first assignment… Read more
Attending Dissertation Proposal Defense
Sarah invited me to Aya's PhD Dissertation Proposal defense this morning. Her topic is on Senior Citizens' Travel Behaviour in Yao City, Osaka, Japan. After hearing about the Dissertation Committee system in the US for many years, I finally got to see and experience one in action. Still preparing for… Read more
S4 Geography Teachers' Sharing Session
S4 Geography Teachers' Sharing Session on The value of Geography in the 21st Century Date : 22 October (Thu) Time: 1500 h Venue: Outram Sec Sch Library … Read more
Farmer's Market at TAMU
Walked out to lunch with Sarah like I did yesterday and we were supposed to see student protest at the university center but there was no sign of any student gathering at all. However, I saw a very interesting farmer's market. That's wherwe I got the strawberries. … Read more
Drive to San Marcos
Today I had a very long drive to San Marcos. Met Dr Richard Boehm, Dr Osvaldo Muiz and Ms Waverly Ray. There was a very fruitful discussion and I might have convinced GCGE to sponsor some people to the Hanoi 2010 meet… Read more
First lesson with this batch of PGDEs
I feel great! It was a very engaged session. Maybe a couple of them felt sleepy at some point but by and large we had a very engaged conversation about the "who" are the learners in this course. Off hand I can remember a few characters who left an impression. I shall use pseudonyms here. Bee… Read more
Differentiated Instruction
The class ended with a task for the trainees to comment on how the course has been run so far. They have to reflect on how the EUs, EQs, DI and performance tasks have been designed and practised. Let's see how it goes. Quote of the day "A person who writes is a writer. a person who draws is a… Read more
Bubbl Brainstorming Tool
This came highly recommended from an ex-student who is teaching in a Primary School. He found it extremely useful IT tool for mind-mapping online without having to register, download or do other additional steps. The tool itself is flexible and incorporates many functions such as ease of creating sibling… Read more
Thinking about Professional Development in Geography
I have been thinking about how professional development for Geography teachers can be enahnced. This is also in line with one of the goals of my study trip. So I posted an online survey on polldaddy at http://www.polldaddy.com/s/F71A6DEEE9964ECD/ The questions asked included: 1. Describe what you… Read more
Presentation at AAG
Today’s presentation was well received. No one fell asleep… that’s an indication. But the best part of the presentation was the questions from the floor. I discovered that the AAG’s outreach to Geographical Education and the use of ICT faces the same issues that we face in Singapore as well. GIS use… Read more
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