User:Gurmit

About Me
My name is Gurmit Singh, and I am from Singapore.

I now work in Switzerland.

Quote
"Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. -- Martin Luther King Jr."

Process Leader
"When I bring you on a learning journey, we achieve the outcomes you want in your life.''"

Wiki Quote
"Wiki is like a virus. Once it gets inside you, you go outside and put it inside others. Soon, it's a wikidemic.''"

My Professional Interests

 * Facilitation
 * Informal learning approaches
 * Collaborative curriculum development
 * Building & sustaining online communities of practice
 * Narrative methodologies
 * Strengthening community involvement
 * Education policy and programming
 * Distributed leadership models
 * Public health and HIV research
 * Practitioner research

My Research Expertise
Research Associate, Centre for Research into Pedagogy and Practice National Institute for Education Singapore, 2005-2006


 * Conducted action research to improve teachers’ performance – as an integral member of a 2-year research team on Collaborative Curriculum Development in 5 schools with 30 teachers'''


 * Observation, mentoring, training workshop design, writing research reports, integrating and teaching social science research methodologies, data analysis, and scientific writing skills to build teachers’ confidence as reflective practitioners.


 * Conducted formative evaluation research into the variables affecting school and home literacy practices and reading habits - as an integral member of a research team on adolescent literacy practices in 5 schools with 200 students and 5 teachers in 5 English language classrooms.


 * Writing case study reports and recommendations, designing educational interventions to integrate social context into school curriculum, to enhance learner motivation, confidence and proficiency, and build learners’ capacity for lifelong learning.


 * Conducted ethnographic research at schools – as an integral member of a research team on building pedagogic and curriculum capacity in teachers in 5 schools with 30 teachers and 100 at-risk vulnerable students.


 * Observing teachers’ work, interviewing key informants, developing training activities, and coaching teachers at schools to develop their capacity to plan and teach with special focus on understanding and practising curriculum design and assessment, to improve student performance outcomes and engagement.

My Research and Innovation

 * [3-Os Learning Model]
 * Community Research
 * Online Mentoring to Improve Scientific Writing
 * Abstract Mentor Programme, winner of Best Research Paper Award at IADIS e-learning 2009 conference