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Focus from Teaching to Learning to ease participants into Learner-Focused Experiences

Initial focus on teaching by the instructor to gain learners’ trust, and to manage the learning environment.

As the workshop progresses, less presentations from the instructors and more sharing by the participants.

Aldrin was a career teacher in Singapore schools with teaching experience ranging from technical education to specialised curriculum for the gifted and talented. With inclination towards technology use, strategic and system design, he was appointed and served as Head of Knowledge Management in a top school in Singapore before deciding to leave the service to pursue further personal growth and development.

Kumanan has been involved with youth development for over 10 years and has taken keen interest in the developments of technology. He is particularly keen in the areas of using these developments to enable better classroom teaching, and enhancing the pedagogical applications of technology by teachers. Over the years, he has conducted training for Senior Teachers, in using Google Apps for Education, for collaborative and self-directed learning in schools, in line with MOE’s roadmap for ICT.

For three years, he has travelled extensively around the globe studying people and culture, and has began to unravel and understand the challenges and needs of communities in today’s world. He has since embarked on a personal journey, promoting 21st Century enlightenment and advocating corporate and civic social responsibility in the areas of education and sustainable life and living.

As a co-founder of the Singapore Google Educators Group and an Apple Professional Development Consultant, Aldrin has renewed his passion and vigour as an educator and seeks to promote and inspire a paradigm shift in the perception of education to meet the demands of the 21st century.

Aldrin is currently actively engaged in Organisational Development and Professional Development projects involving teacher training institutions, elementary to middle and tertiary level schools, International and private institutions and stakeholders such as parents, trade and industry, and education-related enterprises.

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An engineer by professional training, Kumanan brings with him his global exposure to cultures that he has gained through his extensive independent travels, and a thirst to share with youth, the exciting and boundless world that extends beyond the classrooms.

Lai Hong served as a secondary school teacher with the Singapore Ministry of Education for several years before embarking on her journey to explore the different teaching fields.

She spent the following two years in an international school in Shanghai, China, teaching the International Baccalaureate Middle Year Programme, and coordinating their experiential learning curriculum.

Currently back in Singapore as a freelance teacher, she continues to widen her teaching scope by teaching international students in classroom context, as well as on a one-to-one basis. Through these experiences, she has developed a better understanding of the various education systems in Asia, and tailors her teaching approaches according to her learners from diverse backgrounds.

Despite being based in Singapore, she continues to seek overseas opportunities to broaden her teaching portfolio. A recently-concluded teaching trip to Surabaya, Indonesia, saw her conducting a teachers’ workshop to prepare their school for its upcoming iGCSE programme.

Lai Hong believes that the best way to shape learners is to impart the right learning attitudes, and not simply teaching the content - the role of an educator is to produce learners who learn the right way, thus learning the right knowledge.

Feel free to drop her an email at chuilaihong@gmail.com