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Talk and Workshop: Break Out of your Mind
Learning Beyond Schooling
CSI: Break Out of Your Mind!
Developing a creative learning mindset with Creativity, Innovation & Self-Expression
(Chong Wai Leng & K V Soon)
Date: August 28, 2010
Time: 2.30pm - 5.00pm
Venue: 26 (3rd Floor), Jalan R31/R, Kota Kemuning, Shah ALAM, Selangor (MAP HERE)
K V will begin with an introduction to creativity and innovation and the importance as a important part of the education. He will share his experiences in and how children can be inspired to be creative.
Wai Leng will walk you through creativity using art, writing and other approaches. Parents: be prepared for some wacky fun! This will be an activity-based workshop session for parents.
Wai Leng has been dabbling in art & music since young and believes that they are the best outlets for creative & emotional expressions. She is the facilitator of the CSI Program at CLIC.
This program is aimed at providing the tools, suggestions and ideas to create an environment for creativity and innovation in your home.
This is an excellent platform if you are homeschooling or planning to homeschool your children to help bring out creativity and expression.
CHARGE: Pay-as-you-wish
To register, please sign up HERE or SMS 012-6076161 for inquiries.
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Workshop by Prof Confessore on Learning Autonomy
Leanring Beyond Schooling
Learning Autonomy and Self-directed Learning (JUNE 5, 2010)
by Prof Gary Confessore
This is a special event organized by LBS, specially for parents and individuals. Prof Confessore gave a talk last year and opened us to the idea of self-directed learning (SDL), an ideal very close to us. SDL allows learners to be autonomous learners, allowing them greater opportunity to explore their true potential. Do register early to ensure a place.
Gary J. Confessore, Ed.D. is Professor Emeritus of Higher Education Administration, George Washington University, Washington. He is an international leader in the field of autonomous learning. In addition to serving as the Chief Academic Officer of three US colleges over the course of his career, he has published extensively in the fields of self-directed learning and learner autonomy. We are honoured to have Prof Confessore (profile here) conduct this special workshop specially for parents to help us understand and guide our children to be autonomous learners.
Read on HERE
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On Learning Chinese & Chinese Culture
Chong Wai Leng
Having used English as our first language for our family, we are faced with the challenge of educating them in their mother tongue - the Chinese language, or "putonghua" or Mandarin. We did not send them to Chinese school to learn the language, nor did we engage any tutors for them. The best place for them to learn it would be at my parents' house in Ipoh!For the girls, it was easier - they spent their early days with their grandparents when we were contemplating on settling down here in good old Ipoh.
So they had early exposure to Cantonese and Mandarin with their gung-gung and por-por, and ah-tai (great-grandmother, before she passed away). This early immersion was significant for them to understand and communicate in simple Chinese. As for our Subang-born son, it was a different story. Growing up in Subang Jaya, where even the hawkers speak English, have not helped in his acquisition of his mother-tongue. So, he would declare that he is not Chinese because he speaks English, thus he is English! That would start us panicking and worrying about what their por-por would say! And she had said many things concerning the importance of the Chinese knowing their language and culture over the years for us to know that that kind of innocent declaration would spell disaster for us if they were to reach her ears!
So it is with great joy and relief that during this trip back to Ipoh, our son has suddenly broken his resistance barrier and is attempting to speak Chinese! He says that he is now in Chinese land (since this is the only place he hears Chinese being spoken a lot!) and so, he shall turn himself into a Chinese! Good thing he likes acting and he is taking this as play-acting! All of a sudden, he is speaking in sentences and asking us how to say this and that in Chinese! And of course the person with the biggest smile on her face is Por Por!
Lesson learnt: Do not fret about our kids learning languages.......
Read on HERE
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FamilyPlace/LBS Workshop: Helping your Child Succeed
FamilyPlace
IT has been a long time (too long) since we organized our last seminar. Now we are back! To all parents to wrote in enquiring about educating your child at home, DON'T MISS THIS ONE, see you there!
Workshop: Helping Your Child Succeed
September 13, 2009: (11am – 4pm),
Venue: Lakeview Club, Subang Jaya
Conducted by Chong Wai Leng (Author or “Learning Beyond Schooling” and “Life after Babies”, homeschooling parent, writer, speaker, and a very concern mother) & Sloane Mak (teachers, founder of “Asians for English”, homeschooling parent, very concern parent) who tries hard to make changesto their lives and the lives of their children and their future.
Join us!
This workshop is aimed at helping your child get to the heart of learning through demystifying the learning process. In this workshop, participants will learn:
- How to understand you child’s learning style
- Identifying and empowering values
- Acquiring the skills to help your children learn
Please click HERE for the details of the program and how to register.
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Making Chatter Work
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English Version ?RM39.90
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Contact details :
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03-2710-6889, please ask for Aina.
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Homeschooling as an option
Learning Beyond Schooling
In light of the recent education ministry's decision to revert the teaching of maths and science in English, many people are unhappy and frustrated. Many will make some noise and gradually revert back to "what to do?" mode, just "follow-lah"!
There are those who are prepared to stand-up and make decisions on choices, and one of the choice that has come up strongly is HOMESCHOOLING.
If you are interested to find out more, we will be holding a tea-talk on Saturday (July 18, 2009), 3pm in Subang Jaya.
Click HERE for more information
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Our thoughts on Maths & Science in BM
FamilyPlace
I am sure many are upset by the decision of the Ministry of Education to revert the teaching of maths and science back to Bahasa Malaysia. We have been getting a lot of angry emails expressing their frustration over this "back-step".
Our concerns are simple, they are:
a. Decisions made are done in an unclear, unplanned and non-transparent manner. Unlike some of our neighbours who publish the entire decision-making process and recommendations. Many cannot believe that the rural students (apparent) failure to comprehend the subjects in English is the main reason. Our questions are: why? what are the measures taken to halt the decline? Being in rural schools, I am sure that the disparity between the urban are not limited to just the learning of maths and science in English, there are issues of funding, infrastructure, what are we doing about them - will all the urban schools eventually be like rural schools, because the rural schools cannot catch-up?
b. Lack of vision in education, decisions like this seems to be very short-term, knee-jerk reactions and our children are treated as rats in a lab. Yes, we agree to English Language being made compulsory to pass at the SPM level but there are no real strategies were presented except for the news clips every now and then that talks about not extending schooling hours. So shorten other subjects, cut music lessons, etc. Clueless! How then are we really going to tackle this problem of the declining standard of English language effectively? No plan have been published, just shoot off the hip. We feel it is important to note that education is not merely about learning English language. Where's the view of the big picture, where's the vision? Why can't the plans, actions, milestones, achievements be published - unless there is none.
c. Time for choices. Our education system continue to be in shackles, time for liberalization and democratization of education. We need to acknowledge the diversity of approaches to learning if we want to be all inclusive - there is no just one way. I personally doubt that the people to represent the venacular schools fighting for maths and science to be taught in their own language really and truly represent all the parents. Parents are stuck, with little, almost no choices at all. Sad.
We feel that our education system is headed for a free-fall, our children falling with it.Read Wai Leng's article in LBS.
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All the Fuss over Language
Chong Wai Leng
(Hands by Arian: Use them in the absence of verbal language)
As a child, I spoke Chinese at home - Hakka with my grandpa, Cantonese with my grandma, Mandarin with my mom (who made it compulsory for us to speak the language at home) and a combination of Cantonese, Mandarin and English with my dad, who was a school teacher and who was proficient in all the three main languages. Later, Jawi was added because he was trained to teach it!
So, what's the fuss? Read on HERE!
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“RDI®, RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION”
FamilyPlace
WORKSHOP : “RDI®, RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT INTERVENTION”
BY JENNIFER PETERS
TOWER 2, ROOM 3, LEVEL 9, DATO’ N.A. KULARAJAH, CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE, WISMA MCIS ZURICH, PETALING JAYA
ON 13 & 14 JUNE 2009
More here
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H For HEART
Chong Wai Leng
Everyone is obsessed about getting the best education nowadays for their children. Parents start excessively inputting all sorts of data into their young, stimulating their brains from the womb and performing amazing flashcard stunts as early as one year old! When kids start schooling, getting good grades means everything. To achieve that, the children are over scheduled with homework (which is endless), tuition (that includes motivational workshops to get them to study harder) and tests (to help them practise for the important exams).
One wonders: is that what growing up is all about?
Image source
Read on HERE
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