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Utah ASCD Fall Conference 2011, Park City USA, 3-4 November 2011

Location Yarrow Hotel 1800 Park Avenue Park City, UT 84060 Strategies are a teacher’s toolkit - improving those tools allows for greater success through enhanced learning. The resources from this conference are valuable assets for educators as the state of Utah moves toward the Common Core. Join UASCD for two days of strategy building in beautiful Park City, Utah, November 3 & 4, 2011. Two speakers will provide a wealth of strategies in mathematics and language arts. The conference will run from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. both days; single-day attendance will be available. Visit the website . Yeap Ban Har presents on the first day. Utah ASCD Conference View more presentations from Jimmy Keng

Third READ Conference, Eschborn Germany, 23-26 October 2011

Third READ Global Conference and Sixth World Bank ECA Education Conference: “Using Student Assessment Results for Education Quality and Systems Strengthening” Yeap Ban Har presented a case study on the use of national examination to support student learning in Singapore. Third READ Conference, Eschborn, Germany View more presentations from Jimmy Soon

National Conference on Numeracy, Brunei Darussalam, 25-26 April 2011

Vince John Wright (Australian Catholic University), Masami Isoda (University of Tsukuba) and Yeap Ban Har (Marshall Cavendish Institute) are the three keynote speakers at this conference organized by Ministry of Education Brunei Darussalam. It was attended by about 600 educators from all over Brunei. It was opened by the Deputy Minister of Education. NCoN2011 View more presentations from jimmykeng . NCoN2011 Brunei 25-26 April 2011 Workshop View more presentations from jimmykeng .

APEC-Tsukuba International Conference V, Tokyo & Tsukuba Japan, 17 - 20 February 2011

Innovation of Classroom Teaching and Learning through Lesson Study Several educators from Singapore and the Philippines attended the conference with me. All in 158 participants from 30 countries were at the conference. The next one will be in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand later in 2011. See http://www.criced.tsukuba.ac.jp/math/apec/apec2011

LEAP Educators' Conference 2011, Manila, The Philippines, 11 - 12 February 2011

Graduates from one of the programmes under LEAP performing at a dinner to celebrate the completion of lEAP that saw pricipals (LEP), heads of department (MLS) and teachers (PGDE, two batches and CTP, three batches)going through NIE programmes over the three years. LEAP Educators' Conference 2011, Manila, The Philippines, 11 - 12 February 2011 View more presentations from jimmykeng . This inaugural LEAP Educators’ Conference 2011, sponsored by Temasek Foundation, Singapore, is organised by Ateneo de Manila University together with the National Institute of Education, Singapore. It aims to provide a platform for teachers to share their teaching experiences among the teaching fraternity in the Philippines. The focus this year is in the teaching of Science, Mathematics and the use of technology in class. With globalisation and easier access to technologies, students today are better exposed to information. Teaching methods need to adapt to the social and environmental changes so that ...

NCTM Annual Meeting & Exposition, Indianapolis, USA, 13-16 April 2011

NCTM, 13 - 16 April 2011 Thurs 8.30am - 9.30am Making Mathematics Accessible: The Singapore Method Participants will learn the basic principles in making mathematics accessible to average and struggling students while challenging the advanced students. Learn a few Singapore Math strategies from Dr Yeap Ban Har along the way.   Thurs 2.30pm - 3.30pm Singapore Math: Bar Model Method Learn to use the bar model method in solving basic and not-so-basic problems from the Singapore classrooms. Dr Yeap Ban Har will model good questioning teachniques used to help students solve word problems involving whole numbers, fractions, ratio and percent.