Applied Learning Programme (ALP) - PROJECT S.H.I.N.E
Approach & Pedagogy
Project S.H.I.N.E. employs the use of other subject content into its programme.
Our curriculum and innovation-focused school culture pairs students’ work in subjects such as Food & Consumer Education, Design & Technology, Science and English with ‘Design Thinking’, a creative problem-solving approach so as to equip students with the skills, knowledge, and attitudes they need for individual success and global competitiveness.
Through engagement with a series of progressively complex innovation
projects called ‘Design Challenges’, students will develop and achieve the
student outcomes mentioned above.
The Design Thinking Framework we use follows the following 4 phases:
I) Secondary One
Theme: Understanding school partners
II) Secondary Two
Theme: Understanding community partners
Project SHINE: Design challenge
The focus will be on the understanding of community partners such
as National Library Board and Chee Hoon Kog Moral Home for the Elderly. As
such, the students are given an opportunity to interact with community
partners. The project gives students the opportunity to extend the principles
and mindset of Design Thinking which they have learnt in Sec 1, so as to gain
deeper insight of their target audience through interviews and challenge their
creativity to radical ideas to improve the ways in which our community partners
connect with the different members of society.
III) Secondary Three (Selected students)
Selected students who have done well at their projects and shown deeper understanding of the Design Thinking mindset at Sec 2 Project SHINE will be selected to further pursue a Design Challenge on a more self-directed manner in small groups at the national level.