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ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORSAnn Yin En Yeong
is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy of Education at the OntarioInstitute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Her researchinterests include epistemology and ethics in education, student engagement, as well as theapplication of philosophical inquiry and analysis on educational administration and policystudies.
Arzami Bin Salim
was awarded a Ministry of Education (Singapore) teaching award in 1999to pursue his B.A. with Diploma in Education (Merit) in English Language and EnglishLiterature at National Institute of Education. He taught for four and half years in YishunSecondary School. He was conferred his M.A. degree in 2005 and moved on to teach atInnova Junior College. His masters thesis on oral language testing has inspired him to befurther involved in research, particularly in language testing and assessment. He also pursueda 2 weeks course on ‘Language Testing and Assessment’ atRELC, Singapore on a SEAMEOScholarship in 2006. He taught and supervised Project Work and is currently teachingGeneral Paper. His research interests include language testing and assessment, particularly inoral examination and discourse analysis.
Chue Kah Loong
is currently heading the Project Work department in Pioneer Junior College. He has been teaching Mathematics in a junior college for 5 years. He also has beena supervising tutor for Project Work for 4 years, of which he taught solely Project Work for 2years. He has been involved in various stages of Project Work, as a moderator, supervisor,mentor, assessor and has conducted workshops for other supervising tutors. His interestsinclude the different aspects of Project Work as well as Knowledge and Inquiry.
Dharmine Dharchana Moorthy
was awarded a Ministry of Education (Singapore)scholarship and has taught English language, Project Work and critical thinking skillsmodules in the secondary school, junior college and National Institute of Education. She iscurrently based in Australia where she is developing materials for teaching English languageand thinking skills for grades 11 and 12. Her research interests are teaching of Englishlanguage and the infusion of critical thinking skills for ESL classrooms.
Jarina Peer
is a teacher with many years of classroom experience. During her secondment to NIE as a teaching fellow, she trained teacher trainees in educational modules and wasinvolved in various research projects. One particular project of interest was entitled, Student-centered learning in the context of Project Work, which also resulted in a publication of a book,
Engaging in Project Work
, with her colleagues. Her research interests include scienceeducation, scientific epistemology, information technology in education and classroommanagement and discipline.
Jasvinder K Dhillon
is a Project Work tutor in Raffles Junior College. She has been teachingGeneral Paper in a JC for 8 years. For 6 of these 8 years she was in a neighborhood college.She has been involved in various stages of Project Work, as a moderator, supervisor, mentor,and assessor.
Dr. Maha Sripathy
is an education consultant, who conducts professional developmentcourses for language teachers. She has taught in Singapore and Australia, working withstudents and teachers across grade levels. Her areas of specialization are critical literacy,
teaching of writing and alternative assessment. Her research focus is in language and literacy pedagogies and culture.
Monica Sharma Menon
has been in the education service for more than 17 years. She has presented at various workshops and conferences, the most recent being the Ministry of Education (Singapore) Excel Festival 2006 and the SPHF Conference in 2007. Monica iscurrently pursuing her masters by research full time on National Institute of Educationscholarship. Her focus has always been lesson integration and innovation. She has beeninvolved in many projects and initiated several programs in her school including training her staff in Project Work. In June 2006, she was sent to Melbourne on a CurriculumCustomization Programme. Her interest areas include enhancing teacher capacity andcurriculum design.
Osric Mooi
was awarded the Singapore Government Scholarship in 1989. He graduated fromVictoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), with a Bachelor of Science (Honors) inMathematics with Physics and from National Institute of Education (Singapore), with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Education. He taught for 4.5 years in Jurongville Secondary beforemoving over to Pioneer Junior College in Dec 1999. He was involved in Project Work trialsin 2000 and 2002. Currently, he is teaching Project Work. As majority of the junior collegestudents major in science subjects, his approach is logical and analytical to suit their learningstyles.
Patrice Palmer
has been teaching ESL/EFL, Business English and Vocational English for more than 12 years in Canada and Hong Kong. She spends most of her time outside of theclassroom writing teaching materials and developing vocational English courses. Patrice hasalso worked as a teacher trainer and has presented at international conferences. She has aM.A. from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto and aB.A. from York University, and certificates in TESL and Business Management.
Praba Naidu Veragoo Tolosi
teaches Project Work at Raffles Junior College. Prior to thisshe worked as Research Associate at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice. Her interest includes researching on critical thinking skills and therefore she spends her timeexperimenting on issues pertaining to critical thinking particularly in Project Work. She feelsthat Project Work is an integral part of the junior college syllabus as it provides students withan opportunity to demonstrate their creativity and analytical thinking skills. She obtained her Masters from the University of Warwick in Postcolonial Literature after completing her undergraduate studies at Nanyang Technological University.
Teo Aik Cher
has been a supervising tutor at Victoria Junior College since 2003 whenProject Work was first introduced as an A-level subject. He has also been an assessor for written reports and oral presentations in the years when he was not a supervising tutor.Currently, he is a member of the Project Work committee that oversees the implementation of Project Work in the college, ensuring that all processes are in place.
YJC PW Committee 2006
, led by VP Wong MW (Sim Hock Seng Steven, Jennifer Liou-Lim Choon Yeoh, Samsiah Sanip, Eliza Gunasagaran, Patrick Timothy David )Integrating the teaching of General Paper and Project Work was the brainchild of Wong MWand work on this started in June 2004 and was implemented in YJC in 2005. In the 2006cycle, Wong MW charted the new direction for the integration, aimed at producing thinking,
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