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Singapore Teachers Sharing Techniques With Ann Arbor Educators During Visit

Ann Arbor Public Schools
Andrew Cluley
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89.1 WEMU

An exchange program bringing together educators from Ann Arbor and Singapore is letting the districts learn from each other.  An 11 day visit by teachers from the Southeast Asian island country wraps up Thursday.

The program, fully funded by Toyota, is a chance for the districts to share Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics lessons, and projects. This summer a group of Ann Arbor teachers and administrators visited Singapore to see how STEAM programs are taught there.

Superintendent Jeanice Swift. "We know that's some of the best development anywhere is when you put master teachers together and let them share practices and support each other," Swift says.

Ann Arbor schools began the conversion of NorthsideElementary this fall to a K-8 STEAM Academy.

Swift says the primary focus remains on STEAM, but educators from Singapore are also interested in learning about Ann Arbor's reading apprenticeship, performance arts, and rec and ed programs.

Like 89.1 WEMU on Facebook and follow us on Twitter— Andrew Cluley is the Ann Arbor beat reporter, and anchor for 89.1 WEMU News. Contact him at734.487.3363 or email him acluley@emich.edu.   
 

Like many, I first came to this area when I started school at the University of Michigan, then fell in love with the community and haven’t left. After graduating from U of M in the mid 1990’s I interned at WDET for several years, while also working a variety of jobs in Ann Arbor. Then in 1999 I joined the WEMU news team.
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