Ws Education imprint: 24 books
Private Education in Singapore
Contemporary Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Not much has been written about the private education sector in Singapore despite the fact that the sector houses about 300 private education institutions (PEIs) and enrolls about 150,000 students. Private Education in Singapore: Contemporary Issues and Challenges is an exciting book that aims to...
Creativity Fostering Teacher Behavior
Measurement and Research
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2018
This book deals with teachers' behaviors that promote the creativity of students. It includes a rating scale for measuring a teacher's creativity fostering behavior — a scale known as the CFTIndex — and a series of conceptualization and research papers, including a lead article by Professor Authur...
Tests and Exams in Singapore Schools
What School Leaders, Teachers and Parents Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Assessment, mainly in the form of tests and examinations, plays a critical role in the schooling of Singaporean students. The results are often used to make irrevocable decisions on the students' future education careers.
This book is written with school leaders, teachers, and parents in mind,...
Singapore Teachers
Narratives of Care, Hope and Commitment
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016
The narratives and analysis included in this book were written by and derived from teacher participants in a post-graduate course that the chief editor, Dr Fang, has taught at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. Narrative inquiry has been used in the course to help teachers and school...
Teaching Science in Culturally Relevant Ways
Ideas from Singapore Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This book encapsulates the vision of Singapore science educators to bring the local elements of the country to bear in the science curriculum. In experimenting with familiar materials used and consumed in our everyday lives, and applying scientific knowledge to analyse and provide explanations of...
Top the IELTS
Opening the Gates to Top QS-Ranked Universities
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Top the IELTS is an IELTS book like no other. It recognizes an essential key to the problem: students who struggle with the IELTS have problems mastering English. Hence, while other IELTS books teach strategies with long wordy explanations that hardly make sense to the average student, Top the IELTS...
Top the TOEFL
Unlocking the Secrets of Ivy League Students
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2015
Top the TOEFL is a TOEFL book like no other. It recognizes an essential key to the problem: students who struggle with the TOEFL have problems mastering English. Hence, while other TOEFL books teach strategies with long wordy explanations that hardly make sense to the average student, Top the TOEFL...
by Nury Vittachi, Step Cheung
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Sam Jam sat in a school library and challenged the school community to ask him about the origin of anything at all — and pledged to use library resources to answer within 60 minutes. Children and adults delivered clever, funny, unexpected questions: Who owned the first pet dog? Who invented toilets?...
by Mun Wai Ho, Mark Brooke
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Project-based and industry-linked learning are increasingly pursued in undergraduate studies at the university as well as at the polytechnics, 'A' levels and the international baccalaureate programmes. These courses are usually structured as part of the Final Year Projects. Their applied nature is...
Brave Beachley
The True Story of World Champion Surfer Layne Beachley
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Brave Beachley tells the tale of Australian Layne Beachley and how she chased her dream to become a world champion surfer.
"Because tough times are sure to happen.
They are part and parcel of life's plan.
But don't let those tough times stop you,
pick yourself up and say: 'I CAN!'"
SisuGirls...
Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving
The Learner's ApproachRevised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book is the revised edition of Understanding Basic Chemistry Through Problem Solving published in 2015. It is in a series of Understanding Chemistry books, which deals with Basic Chemistry using the problem solving approach. Written for students taking either the university of Cambridge O-level...
Mighty Mira
Based on the Story of Nepali Mountain Runner, Mira Rai
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Mighty Mira tells the tale of Nepali Mira Rai and how she chased her dream to become a professional mountain runner.
The moral of my story;
Live the moment, live the now.
Don't worry if you don't know the path,
Have courage, and you'll discover how.
SisuGirls is a global movement inspiring...
Did You Hear That?
Help for Children Who Hear Voices
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Did You Hear That? Help for Children Who Hear Voices is about five very different children who share one thing in common — hearing voices and seeing things that are not there.
Susie is a 9-year-old who keeps her challenges with auditory and visual hallucinations a secret until a teacher alerts...
The Young Scientists Series
In 12 Volumes
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Scientists are often presented as old men in white coats, but this series shows that great discoveries have been made by people of all ages and cultures — some are young people, and many are female.
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(L-R).The First Woman Doctor in History, The Servant Girl Who Beat Einstein,...
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