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2007 INAUGURAL MOE-NCSS SPED TEACHER AWARD
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Outstanding SPED Teacher Award - Ms Loy Sheau Mei
Sheau Mei, as Vice Principal – Academics is an instrumental member of the Pathlight leadership team and a Master Coach for the other teachers in the school. Under her leadership and guidance, teachers develop autism-specific curriculum supports, together with differentiated teaching methodologies for students.
Sheau Mei manages very diverse group of children effectively achieving a very high percentage of engagement in her classes. Not surprisingly, students under her achieve an extremely high rate of academic success. She is driven by the belief that if schools set the students up for success, they will succeed.
Innovative SPED Teacher Award - Mr Victor Ong
Victor is the Head of IT and Design in Pathlight School. He has been able to get the best out of students with autism through careful consideration of their unique learning styles and adopting innovative approaches that tapped on their strengths. He single-handedly started the Pathlight Design Studio to provide a learning worksite to train Pathlight students with higher degrees of autism with IT and graphics inclination.
As a result of the innovation, new pedagogical approaches were explored and learning outcomes were achieved throughout the school. Other employability skills worksites- namely, Office Administration and Pathlight Café, also incorporated the same pedagogical approaches to achieve greater learning outcomes in these worksites. Victor has successfully leveraged on IT to transform the learning experiences of his students.
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