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 Teaching Styles Civics Groups Subject Groups Number of Subjects to Offer e-Learning |
Teaching Styles The teaching system in the college approximates very closely to that in the university and all subjects, except for the Second Language and General Paper, are taught using the lecture-tutorial method.A lecture takes the form of a straightforward lesson delivered en masse to all students studying a particular subject while a tutorial is generally a follow-up lesson on the lecture, involving a smaller number of students and providing for closer interaction between the students and tutor.
Civics Groups Students are placed into Civics Groups (CGs) by the computer system once they have indicated their choice of subjects to offer during the orientation period. On admission to the College, students will participate in the orientation programmes. As of 2006, a student will be assigned to an Orientation Group which will be likely to remain as his or her Civics Group unless he or she decides to change the subject combination.Each Civics Group is under the charge of a Civics Tutor who meets the group during the weekly Civics period. Thus, a civics group corresponds to a class in a normal school. Unlike the school system, however, students do not stay in an assigned room for all their lessons but instead move to different rooms for different lessons.
Number of Subjects to Offer Students may select subjects at 3 different levels of study: Higher 1 (H1), Higher 2 (H2) and Higher 3 (H3). H1 Equivalent to half of H2 in breadth but similar to H2 in depth. For broadening purposes, to pursue an area of interest in which students do not intend to specialise, or to acquire foundational knowledge and skills in a subject area which will support their future studies at university level. H2 Equivalent to rigour of current 'A' Level subjects. H3 Subjects with a variety of learning opportunities (e.g. advanced content, research paper, university module). For students to pursue a given subject which they excel in at a higher level. Students who wish to take up a H3 subject will have to offer the corresponding subject at H2 level. Besides General Paper (GP), Project Work (PW), and Mother Tongue Language (MTL) at H1 level, students are required to offer 3 H2 and 1 H1 content-based subjects, at least one of which is a subject from a contrasting discipline. E.g. a student offering 3 subjects from the Mathematics & Sciences group would have to offer 1 subject from the Humanities & the Arts group, and vice versa. The contrasting subject can be at H1 or H2 level. Knowledge Inquiry (KI) is a H2 subject which will replace GP of it is offered. In this case, KI will be the fourth H2 subject.
College e-Learning Portal 'maTrix' The MaTrix (http://matrix.tjc.edu.sg), which refers to the College E-learning Portal, was first implemented in 2002. All students are required to sign up with the MaTrix and subscription fees will be deducted from their Edusave fund.The MaTrix aims to facilitate and enhance the learning experience of students in the College. It is used in conjunction with the lecture-tutorial system in the College. Selected topics may be covered solely online as an e-lecture, aided by streaming video, animations, discussion forums and online assessment outside of curriculum time or more commonly through a mixed mode teaching where readings, content materials and other e-resources are made available for students to access and prepare for tutorials during curriculum time. To support the e-learning portal, the College has a recently completed IT-Block housing four Computer Labs and two IT Resource Rooms. Students also have access to computers in the The Hub and College Library. In addition, there are also wireless-hotspots in the Library and under LT 1 and LT 2, for use with mobile computing.
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