Lesson 6: Reflective Thinking (Individual)

6.1 Consolidating and Deepening Understanding

As your classmates are presenting their findings, use the following questions as a guide and
record what the other groups are sharing.

1. Based on each group’s investigation, have integration efforts in Singapore been

successful in integrating immigrants? What are some examples of integration efforts
in Singapore which have succeeded/failed? What were the reasons identified for the
success/failure of the integration efforts? Can you apply any concept(s) that was
learnt in Issue 2, Chapters 4 - 7 to the conclusions that were presented? What
evidence was used to support their analysis?

2. Were the conclusions of groups in your class similar or different? In what ways were
they similar or different? Why do you think this is so?
As other groups are presenting, you may wish to ask questions in order to clarify your own
understanding. Some possible questions are as follows:

Questions for Clarification

a) What do you mean when you say that…
b) Why do you say that?
Questions about Viewpoints
c) What are the strengths and weaknesses of…?
Questions that Probe Evidence
d) What would be an example of this?
e) What evidence is there to support…
Questions that Probe Implications
f) What generalisations could you make about…?
g) How could this have affected…?
Questions that Probe Consequences
h) How does this help to…?
i) What are the long-term effects of what is being suggested?
j) How does this tie in with what we have learnt before?