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Staff Development
The Staff Development Committee builds up capacity of staff members in Mayflower Secondary School to learn, create
and contribute to the Mayflower Outcomes. The Committee also seeks to empower staff innovation that is aligned to
the MF Promise.
The Committee oversees the following staff development programmes in 2017:
a) Education Officers/ AEDs (T&L)
▪ Using the Collaborative Inquiry cycle, staff members work together in department Professional Learning
Teams (PLTs) to improve classroom instruction and student outcomes. Experimentation is key and findings
from the inquiry will be shared during the year-end Staff Learning Conference in November for staff members
to learn from one another.
▪ PLTs desiring to share experimental and research findings are also supported and given opportunities to use
outside school platforms like the Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference to share with other teachers
in the fraternity.
▪ The Staff Induction programme is conducted for Beginning Teachers and new staff members posted to the
school. The programme covers the School Philosophy and Directions, School Systems like Admin, Finance,
ICT, and Professional matters like Professional Ethos and Teachers Growth Model. The on-the-job segment
gives opportunities to new colleagues to work and learn on the ground with the more experienced colleagues
in the respective subject areas, form class and CCAs.
▪ Beginning Teachers undergo a customised in-house Skilful Teacher Enhanced Mentoring (STEM) programme
conducted by our own Lead Teacher and Senior Teachers. The 9-month long learning culminates in a final
design of learning that will be experimented and evaluated for improvement.
▪ Lead Teacher and Senior Teachers in the Staff Development Committee design a series of Milestone
Programme workshops aimed at equipping staff members with key skills and learning needed over the next
few years as part of the school’s strategic goals to provide an engaging school experience that grows futureready
students and to build an evidence-based culture that supports quality decisions in the school.
▪ In encouraging all teacher-leaders in Mayflower Secondary School to develop their expertise in signature
pedagogies, opportunities through reading, discussion and experimentation have been structured into
professional development sessions to gradually help teacher-leaders to choose, develop and propagate their
chosen signature pedagogies.
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