Teacher Professional Learning: The Singapore Perspective
About this ebook
Together with the international scholars, this book shares the lessons learnt in Singapore to encourage policy makers, scholars, and schools to continue thinking about how teacher professional learning can be enhanced, caution against the direct transfer of practices, and describe how teacher capacity building lays the foundation for the education system to stay relevant, address challenges, and meet students’ needs.
About the author
Dr Shu-Shing Lee is Education Research Scientist at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, National Institute of Education, Singapore. Her research interests are in teacher learning, particularly on aspects related to the structure, process, and contextual factors for sustaining teacher learning, growth, and reflexivity. Shu-Shing has published book chapters, journal papers, and served as a reviewer for Social Sciences Citation Indexed journals. She is co-editor of two books: Adaptivity as a Transformative Disposition for Learning in the 21st century, and Innovations in Educational Change: Cultivating Ecologies for Schools.
Dr Bee Leng Chua is the Chief Learning and Innovations Officer at Director’s Office at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. She is also an Associate Professor (Teaching) with the Psychology and Child & Human Development Department at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. She has conducted research in the areas of mediated learning, problem-based learning (PBL), e-PBL, and motivation and cognition. In addition to her work at the National Institute of Education, she also shares her expertise in subject disciplines such as educational studies and instructional pedagogies with schools and educators from other organizations and countries regularly.
Dr Alexius Chia is currently a Senior Lecturer of English Language and Literature at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Singapore. He holds a concurrent appointment as Associate Dean and General Manager at NIE International. Alexius’s research interests include curriculum implementation, school reform, multiliteracies, multimodality, and teacher professional learning. He has articles published in peer-reviewed journals and is the co-author of two books – Reading in the 21st Century: Understanding Multimodal Texts & Developing Multiliteracy Skills and Teaching English Grammar in Asian Contexts: Making Meaning with Grammar. Alexius serves on the editorial board of several journals.
Ms Monica Ong was a Teaching Fellow in the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, National Institute of Education, Singapore. She was also a secondary school history and geography teacher, and a Head of Department with the Ministry of Education. Her research interests include teacher learning, learning communities and pedagogy. She has conducted research in the areas of teacher learning and inquiry, networked learning communities, professional learning communities, research utilisation and research translation.
Dr Pamela Costes-Onishi is Education Research Scientist at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. Pamela's research interests include teacher learning and professional development, arts in education, aesthetically-infused inquiry-based learning, Southeast Asian music & cultures, and diversity in education.
