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We have 40 childcare centres and 38 kindergartens on board our CPEE Internship Programmes I and II. These schools provide invaluable opportunities for our students to observe theories in practice, assist in routines and work with children on play and language activities.
UPCOMING EVENT
Early Childhood Educators Seminar 2010:
The Professional Educator: Coming Together for Children Date: 15 to 19 June 2010 Co-organisers: AECES and Ngee Ann Polytechnic (School of Humanities)
This seminar addresses standards of professional practice and fosters
skills for enhancing holistic development of children. Check back in future for more details.
BZSE Social Entrepreneur Mentors
The Diploma in Business & Social Enterprise (BZSE) has a unique learning approach. Students are provided with inspirational social entrepreneurs to be mentors. Some of these are award-winning individuals who have made impact internationally. Given the opportunities to network with and work alongside the range of local and international social entrepreneurs, BZSE students get to learn beyond what textbooks and classroom learning can achieve.
See profiles of some social entrepreneurs here.
Kenny Low
Principal and Founder
CHEC and O School
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KENNY LOW is the Principal and Founder of 2 social enterprises – CHEC and O School. He graduated from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore with a Business degree and obtained his Masters in Education Management from Monash University. For his vision and business model to meet social gaps, Kenny was presented with the Schwab Foundation’s Social Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2007. He had the opportunity to participate in the annual Social Entrepreneurs’ Summit in Switzerland, attended by key global leaders and social entrepreneurs around the world. Prior to that, he was also the 1st Runner Up for the DHL Young Entrepreneur for Sustainability (YES) Award. Kenny spent 6 years in youth services (4 years as a volunteer at a local community services agency and another 2 years coordinating their tuition services arm) before setting up CHEC formally. He was motivated by a need for transformation and change in education for the GCE ‘O’ Level private candidates, believing that those candidates should not be limited in their educational options and purpose because of missed opportunities in mainstream schools. |
Melissa Aratani Kwee
Chairperson
Halogen Foundation
[Singapore]
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Melissa is known to be a strong advocate for vulnerable communities, youth development and leadership. From 2002 to 2006, as President of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), after obtaining a degree in Social Anthropology at Harvard University, Melissa initiated groundbreaking projects such as the Stop Demand for Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children Campaign and Financial Education for Migrant Women Workers. In 2006, she founded "Beautiful People", a volunteer programme that enables professionals to mentor teenage girls who lack strong social and family support. Melissa currently chairs the non-profit group Halogen Foundation, from which aims to inspire and influence a generation of young leaders. She is also presently establishing an alternative platform to develop an ethical, transparent and fairer system for the recruitment, placement and integration of migrant workers in Singapore. . For her dedication to the youth community, she was conferred the Singapore Youth Award 2007 and Her World Young Woman Achiever Award 2007. | Jack Sim
Founder World Toilet Organization
[Singapore]
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Jack broke the global taboo of toilet and sanitation and legitimizes it for mainstream culture. He established the Restroom Association of Singapore (RAS) in 1998 to bring the subject of toilet to the centre stage of world's media. In 2001, Jack created the World Toilet Organization (WTO) as a global network and service platform where the various toilet associations, academia, government, UN agencies and toilet stakeholders learn from one another and leverage media and corporate support that in turn influenced governments to promote sound sanitation and public health policies. Since its inception, WTO organized World Toilet Summits and celebrated 19 November as World Toilet Day annually. Today, WTO is a growing network of 155 organizations in 53 countries. In 2005,he also started World Toilet College. His accolades include Time Magazine Hero of the Environment 2008, Schwab Fellow of the World Economic Forum, Member of Clinton Global Initiative, Asian Development Bank's Water Champion, Asian of the Year by Channel News Asia, and Ashoka-Lemelson Fellow, Singapore Green Plan Award, Ashoka Global Fellow and was Schwab Foundation's Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2006. |
Dr Andreas
Founder
Dialogue in the Dark, Dialogue in Silence
[Germany]
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Andreas Heinecke is the founder of Dialogue in the Dark, a museum that gives the sighted an experience of what it means to be visually handicapped. Visually-impaired guides will lead visitors through interactive galleries and get them to perform tasks in pitch darkness. The other senses - smelling, hearing, touching and feeling are heightened as the visitors go through the experience. The foundation stone of Dialogue in the Dark was laid in 1988. Since then, there have been exhibitions in over 25 countries and more than 150 cities in Asia, Middle East, America and Europe. Over 6 million visitors worldwide have experienced what it means to hear, smell, taste and touch things, without being able to see them. Together with his wife, Orna Cohen, Andreas also developed a spin-off of Dialogue in the Dark - Dialogue in Silence, to similarly help people experience and understand the world of the hearing-impaired. Over the years, Andreas has won several awards for his work, including the more recent Ashoka Fellow 2005, Deutscher Unternehmer Preis 2006 (Germany award for corporation of the Harvard Business School), Outstanding Global Social Entrepreneur 2007 (Schwab Foundation). |
Sadaffe Abid
Chief Executive Officer
Buksh Foundation
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Sadaffe is the founding CEO of Buksh Foundation, whose mission is to empower women, to be financially and socially sustainable, to innovate and to create a strong impact on the long term growth of Pakistan through microfinance loans targeting low-income households offering a wide spectrum of financial services and business development projects. Before this, Sadaffe was the CEO of Kashf Foundation (1997-2008), another non-profit organization that provides credit, insurance services and training to help poor rural and urban women in Pakistan. Kashf has blossomed into a service that has over 300,000 clients and a network of 150 branches with 2000 staff members. She helped grow Kashf from a start-up phase to a globally respected reputable microfinance institution. She successfully managed the rapid growth phase combined with a focus on business innovation and talent development. Sadaffe has studied economics and international relations from Mount Holyoke College, U.S.A. | Pierre Tami
Founder
Hagar International
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In 1994, Pierre Tami and his wife Simonetta, established the Hagar Shelter in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, as a haven for women who had fallen victim to violence and sexual exploitation. As an organization that premises on social rehabilitation and economic empowerment, Hagar’s primary mission is to create safe, meaningful employment with a decent wage for the beneficiaries and to produce profits to provide funding to social activities, through employment in fully commercial enterprises owned by Hagar. Hagar works with Cambodia’s trafficked and abused women and children through individualized and long-term holistic programs. Hagar has assisted more than 100,000 women and children through its social programs and economic projects. The U.S. State Department in 2004 selected Tami and the Hagar project as one of its six international heroes in the struggle against the global slave trade. The story of how Pierre Tami created one of the most innovative programs for freed slaves will inspire even the most entrenched cynics. Pierre, a Swiss businessman, had devoted 12 years to helping people in crisis—including a long stint in Japan aiding the homeless in the parks of downtown Osaka and several years more building up a youth drop-in center in Singapore. | Industry Partners & CommunityWith a pioneer BZSE cohort this academic year, we were able to reach out to 11 community/industry partners which are currently in collaboration with us or will be working with us in the near future.
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Gawad Kalinga (GK), Philippines |
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World Toilet Organisation |
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Food from the Heart |
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Gateway Entertainment |
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O School |
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Studio You |
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Immanuel Beauty School (IBS) |
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Eighteen Chefs |
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Big is Gorgeous |
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New Charis Mission |
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School of Thought (SOT) |
With the expansion of the PCS cohort this academic year, we were able to reach out to 26 community/industry partners which are currently in collaboration with us or will be working with us in the near future.
The list of PCS partners is as shown below:
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Institute of Mental Health, Singapore (Early Psychosis Intervention Programme) |
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Family & Juvenile Justice Centre |
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Singapore Prison Service (Prison Aftercare Services) |
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Health Promotion Board |
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Students Care Service – Educational Psychology Service |
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Simei Care Centre |
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Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore (MINDS) |
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Association for Persons with Special Needs (APSN) |
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Dyslexia Association of Singapore |
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Andrew & Grace Home |
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Children Cancer Foundation (CCF) |
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AWWA Teach Me Services |
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Spastic Children's Association of Singapore |
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HealthServe |
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TOUCH Youth |
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Singapore Association for the Deaf |
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Singapore Association of the Visually Handicapped (SAVH) |
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Rotary Family Service Centre (FSC) & Rotary-Ayer Rajah Students’ Care Centre (SCC) |
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HELP FSC |
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Presbyterian Community Services (Elder Care Services) |
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Christian Outreach to the Handicapped (COH) |
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WE Foundation |
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Yong-en Care Centre |
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AIN Society |
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Industrial & Services Co-operative Society (ISCOS) |
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Life Community Services Society (LCSS) |
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The Diploma in Chinese Studies (CHS) has strong collaborations with local and overseas institutions. All CHS students spend a semester studying in a renown Chinese university such as Zhejiang University City College (ZUCC) or Huazhong Normal University (HNU). Those on the teaching track will then proceed to complete their CHS Diploma in their last semester at the Singapore's National Institute of Education in Singapore. Meanwhile, the media track students will be attached to various established media companies for their internships or project work. Media companies which our CHS media students were attached to include SPH Chinese Newspapers Division, MediaCorp, etc. Extracts from teaching track students sharing their experience at NIE:-
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"Cultivating Self and Others - The CHS course has helped me to think in depth and become a well-balanced person. To be a competent teacher, one has to cultivate self and others. For self, we have to constantly upgrade ourselves and improve on our Chinese standard, so as to be a wise and knowledgeable teacher. We should also try to create our own teaching techniques and methodologies so as to build a bridge between us and the students for effective learning." - From Dexing, 2008 final year CHS student (Teaching Track).
内外双修，真知实学 - 德兴的“双修秘笈”
"在教育学院的学习让我深刻地体验到，要当一名称职的教师是需要‘内外双修’的。对内，我们要提升自己的华文水平，当一名有真知实学的教师。对外，我们除了要学习参考别人的教学技巧以外，还应该尝试创立自己的教学技巧和方法，为自己和学生之间建立起一座有效的学习桥梁。”- 德兴, 2008 年, 第三年中文系华文教学专业学生. |
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"Intensive & Enriching Course - The lecturers often share their teaching experiences by telling us some of the everyday happenings in the campus. These interesting and humorous stories are great sources of inspiration to the students. We also learnt new and creative methods of teaching from the lecturers." - From Cuiyan, 2008 final year CHS student (Teaching Track).
"热忱、忙碌与充实 - 教育学院的老师常常通过校园故事，分享教学经验。这些有趣的故事、幽默的讲述，积极的引导，给我们带来很大的启发。我们也从老师身上获取不少新颖的创意教。" - 翠燕, 2008 年, 第三年中文系华文教学专业学生.
我最喜爱写教案，
更喜欢亲自做教具陪伴，
虽然每次都忙得很晚，
但换来的却是无比的满足感。- 翠燕的打油诗
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| CHS Diploma The Chinese Studies Diploma is jointly designed and taught by faculty from Ngee Ann Polytechnic, Zhejiang University City College (ZUCC), Huazhong Normal University (HNU) and the National Institute of Education (NIE). The course prepares students for a range of careers in education, media, business as well as translation and interpretation.
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UPCOMING EVENT
Early Childhood Educators Seminar 2010:
The Professional Educator: Coming Together for Children
Date: 15 to 19 June 2010 Co-organisers: AECES and Ngee Ann Polytechnic (School of Humanities)
This seminar addresses standards of professional practice and fosters
skills for enhancing holistic development of children. Check back in future for more details.
| Diploma in Early Childhood Education (3-year course)
The Diploma in Early Childhood Education (ECH) is jointly offered with the SEED INSTITUTE. SEED INSTITUTE is the training and consultancy arm of the NTUC First Campus Co-operative Ltd.
Independent Education Project
Final-year
ECH students, under the guidance of project advisors, will carry
out study projects in various areas including early childhood
development, curriculum, and policy and management, at an early
childhood centre or an early childhood environment. Our partners
include early childhood centres such as My First Skool and Sparkletots Childcare Centre. |
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| Wheelock Degree NP collaborates with Wheelock College to offer the Bachelor of Science in Early Childhood Educational Studies and Leadership. Customised for our ECH graduates, the degree allows students a two-year advanced standing. They will complete the degree programme after only two years of full-time studies. Students will also enjoy a five-week Summer Immersion Programme in Boston, USA. The degree has international accreditation by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. |
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AECES Chapter On 12th October 2007, the ECH Club/Alumni became an affiliated group of the Association of Early Childhood Educators in Singapore (AECES). Two committee members of ECH Club/Alumni will be invited to all AECES EXCO meetings. Members of ECH Club/Alumni will also enjoy membership benefits such as member’s rate for Annual Child Care Seminar, networking opportunities, library facilities and resources, ongoing professional development opportunities as well as international educational tours and conferences.
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