Unteachable(2019)
What could the joy of learning look like in a place like Singapore?
76 min · Documentary · Directed by Yong Shu Ling
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Ng Meixi returns to Singapore having spent time in Mexico working with low-performing students. She joins a local school as a relief teacher but takes on a mammoth task: to pilot a new pedagogy to help students in the Normal (Technical) stream learn better. She reconfigures the classroom from a teacher-directed one to a community that aims to empower students as learners and tutors to each other. Will this work in Singapore’s result-oriented education system?
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- October 1, 2020