SERANGOON GARDENS SECONDARY
MiNISTRY OF EDUCATION, SINGAPORE, 2011 - 2013
At SGS, I was the Art Subject Coordinator and Senior Visual Arts Teacher, responsible for the planning, implementation and evaluation of Visual Arts and English classes following the guidelines set out in the MOE Secondary Curriculum in conjunction with Cambridge GCSE.
As the Senior Teacher, I took the lead of our 3 member Art team ensuring a cohesive, creative learning environment was developed both for teachers and students.
As the Senior Teacher, I took the lead of our 3 member Art team ensuring a cohesive, creative learning environment was developed both for teachers and students.
During my tenure, we instituted a new planning system based on tenets of UBD, updated the curriculum and assessment strategies to balance the Study of Visual Art (SOVA) with Fine Art (Drawing and Painting) skills. Art scores improved from a 60% pass rate in 2011 to a 100% pass and 60% distinction for N(A) levels and 100% pass and 40% distinction for O levels in 2012 and 100% pass and 50% distinction for N(A) levels and 80% pass and 40% distinction for O levels in 2013.
In 2012 and 2013, works by SGS Art student were selected to be shown in the Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) Student Art Collection and in 2014 3 O-Level students were selected to have their works shown in the SYF Art Show at La Salle College of Art
In 2012 and 2013, works by SGS Art student were selected to be shown in the Singapore Youth Festival (SYF) Student Art Collection and in 2014 3 O-Level students were selected to have their works shown in the SYF Art Show at La Salle College of Art
Other Key Responsibilities Included:
- 4ARTS@SGS Sub-Committee Leader heading a team of 6 for Enrichment Based Activities
- Sub Committee Leader for Arts Publicity and Awareness, instituting Sec 1 ARTS day, Arts Night Portrait Contest, collaborative Art Workshops with the International French School (IFS) .
- Head Teacher for Singapore’s Esplanade VIP project
- Art GCSE Sharing Workshop – with Cluster Schools
- Sub-Committee Leader for ‘Physical Space Project,’: with school murals, website and Art Gallery display at the Ang Mo Kio Library
- Committee Member representing the Aesthetics Department on the Innovation Committee (ICT) upgrading SGS’s website and introducing I-pad Experimental Class
- Art Research Grant for SGS to investigate the hypothesis that SOVA learning could be easily integrated into the Visual Arts classroom with a digital platform and a flipped classroom approach
- Supervising teacher for Badminton CCA. 🙂
- ‘Inspiring Teacher Award’ for the Aesthetics Department, 2012
- Selected to be a member of a 4 teacher training team developing teacher training workshops at PPPPTK in Yogjakarta, Indonesia.
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2012 PORTFOLIO
2013 PORTFOLIO
ART ENGAGEMENT AROUND THE SGS CAMPUS
The SGS Visual Arts area of the school was always a vibrant place, with students cover our walls in their creativity. In 2012, the Serangoon Community Centre invited SGS’s Art Department to paint a mural along their entrance walk celebrating community. And then every year at Arts Night, the art department hosts an Art Contest, displaying works during the night for attendees to vote. SGS was also host to many visiting school groups and the art department enjoyed showing our guests some innovative ways to explore their creativity.
VALUE INSPIRED PROGRAM
In 2012, SGS NT Art students were selected from among hundreds of Singaporean local school groups to participate in the VIP program, creating a collaborative art display at the Esplanade. The 14 students worked with Singaporean batik artist to create their own representations of what truth means to them, through perceptions of identity and discourses of racial harmony. They designed their definitions and painted them with batik in to create mini claddings. (Claddings are the spikes that are on the roof of the esplanade, to represent durians.) The students work was displayed as part of the SYF festival walk.
SINGAPORE YOUTH FESTIVAL
2011 SGS student was awarded SYF Bronze and invited to the SYF Celebration of Art Excellence. In 2012, 3 SGS students were selected as Finalists for SYF Art Excellence being included in the Grand Art Exhibition at LaSalle Art College (2013).
GRAFFITI WORKSHOPS
In 2011, SGS joined our neighbours at LFS (Lycee Francais du Singapour) for a Graffiti Party. SGS Art students worked with Graffitti Artists visiting from France and US to create personal messages and pictures.
ANG MO KI LIBRARY GALLERY
In 2012 and 2013, selected artworks from SGS’s Upper Secondary Art Program were featured at Ang Mo Kio Library
