Queenie Tan (The World) 2

Making it personal

In this hands-on workshop, we’ll cover how to use inquiry-based learning to increase student engagement in class. Effective teaching happens when our students are learning. Since they learn best by engaging with our lessons, it only makes sense that we make the lessons as personal as possible. We’ll learn how we can increase children’s engagement, attention and level of participation by scaffolding their inquiry process through provocations, brainstorming sessions, and conducting research. For those working with children aged 9 and younger.

Bio

Queenie Tan (MEd, BEd, CerT) is an Early Childhood Education Specialist who has worked with children 8 and under for the past 16 years. Being dyslexic and having worked in 4 different countries (China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia) across multilingual settings, she has developed unique strategies to help children with various learning differences/disorders learn effectively. For the past 10 years, she has held numerous training workshops for pre-school teachers at universities and teacher training colleges across Southeast Asia as well as parenting seminars and retreats for hundreds of parents. Recently, Queenie has become a published author, a podcaster (The Essence of Teaching) and a TEDx speaker. She has also been world-schooling her two sons, aged 14 and 12, since September 2016.