Teaching the General Paper: Strategies that Work

by Caroline M. Ho

This book is the first ever collection of papers written by GP specialists from all 18 junior colleges/centralized institute in Singapore. It will benefit any practising GP teacher, Head of Department, tutor, trainer, teacher educator or researcher with an interest in empowering pre-university students with the skills required in the General Paper. It offers a wide range of effective, practical, tried and tested strategies which have proven to have worked from the ground. These include the following:

• planning the GP instructional programme
• innovative teaching strategies
• critical and creative thinking
• integrating Literature with GP
• rhetoric and argument
• critical reading and response
• authorial viewpoint, attitude and tone
• summary writing
• summary writing
• application question
• vocabulary teaching
• extensive reading
• assessment of the GP
• useful references and teaching resources
• literature reading lists

382 pages, Paperback