Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Accomplishments
Conferencepapers
Visitingfellow
Service
Courses workshops attended
Research
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Woan Pin FANG

Summary

Highly-qualified Senior Teacher focused on improving classroom instruction, discipline and course material. Passionate Teacher with experience developing and implementing curriculum at IBDP level. Collaborates with students, administrators and faculty to deliver engaging curriculum. Offering 20 years of education experience.

Knowledgeable and hands-on leader with a firm grasp of educational principles and understanding of current trends. Skilled Senior Teacher with a strategic approach to maximizing student learning. Highly skilled at motivating students through positive encouragement and reinforcement of concepts via interactive classroom instruction and observation. Successful in helping students develop strong literacy, numeracy, social and learning skills. Compassionate, creative and effective Teacher with valuable experience in classroom administration, professional development and project planning. Student-centric instructor, academic facilitator and motivational coach. Competent at performing independently or as member of teaching team. Diligent and adaptable in meeting individual student needs with warm, safe educational environments.

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Teacher

School of the Arts, Singapore
01.2015 - Current

Head, IB Economics

St. Joseph’s Institution, Singapore
01.2015 - 01.2015

Teacher

Raffles Junior College, Singapore
01.2006 - 01.2010

Associate Lecturer and Course Chair

School of Business, UniSIM, Singapore
01.2006 - 01.2009

Lecturer (Economics)

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Division of Economics, NTU
01.2001 - 01.2005

Distance Learning Programme Coordinator

The British Council
01.1999 - 01.2000

Senior Teacher

Business Studies Centre, Times Educational Services (S) Pte Ltd
01.1996 - 01.1999

Education

Doctorate of Education - Economics Education

Durham University
01.2005

Master of Letters in Economics -

University of New England
01.1993

Bachelor of Economics -

University of New England
01.1992

Skills

    Mentoring Teachers

    IBDP Economics

    IBDP Extended Essay

    Differentiated Instruction

    Concept-Based curriculum design

Accomplishments

    IBDP Workshop Leader

    Concept-Based Curriculum Workshop Trainer

Conferencepapers

  • Fang, W.P. “A critical evaluation of the impact of an e-learning programme on motivation” International Conference on e-Education, 2001, Kuala Lumpur.
  • Fang, W.P., “Is the curriculum in higher institution preparing lifelong learners in the 21st century?” Ninth EdiNEB Conference 2002, Mexico.
  • Fang, W.P., “The miracle story of Singapore – a social/economic perspective” IAREP/SABE 2002 Stability and Dynamics of Power XXVII Annual Colloquium on Research in Economic Psychology/SABE 2002 Conference on Behavioural Economics, Finland.
  • Fang, W.P., “Economics education and students’ perspective of lifelong learning in Singapore”. 2006 Summer Conference, Roskilde University, Denmark.
  • Fang, W.P, “Rethinking Economics Teaching in Higher Education” Developments in Economics Education (DEE) Conference 2007, Cambridge, U.K.
  • Fang, W. P. “Teaching economics to the gifted”. 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Giftedness, 2010, Sydney.
  • Fang, W.P & Low W.P., “Beyond the confines of the text: An alternative approach to teaching economics”. IB Asia Pacific Annual Conference 2013, Kuala Lumpur

Visitingfellow

  • Roskilde Universitet Post-doctorate Summer School 2006
  • Durham University, UK Summer 2007
  • Xinjiang Teaching College, Urumqi, China, November-December 2008

Service

  • International Baccalaureate DP Economics Examiner
  • International Baccalaureate DP World Studies Extended Essay Examiner
  • IBDP Workshop Leader
  • Erickson and Lanning Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Trainer

Courses workshops attended

  • Harvard Graduate School of Education, Differentiated Instruction, 2019
  • International Baccalaureate Economics Category 2
  • International Baccalaureate Extended Essays Category 2
  • International Baccalaureate World Studies Extended Essay Category 3, 2021
  • Erickson and Lanning Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Trainer, 2021
  • IBDP Workshop Leader Training, 2022
  • Harvard Graduate School of Education, Teaching students to ask their own questions: Best practices in the question formulation technique, 2023

Research

  • Completed a taskforce paper to determine research directions for School of the Arts, Singapore, 2016
  • Post-doctoral Summer School on Research Methodology at Roskilde University, Denmark, 2006
  • Article reviewer for EdiNEB Publication in 2003 and 2004
  • Chairperson of a conference session, Ninth EdiNEB Conference at Guadalajara, Mexico June 19-21, 2002

Personal Information

  • Nationality: Singaporean

Timeline

Senior Teacher

School of the Arts, Singapore
01.2015 - Current

Head, IB Economics

St. Joseph’s Institution, Singapore
01.2015 - 01.2015

Teacher

Raffles Junior College, Singapore
01.2006 - 01.2010

Associate Lecturer and Course Chair

School of Business, UniSIM, Singapore
01.2006 - 01.2009

Lecturer (Economics)

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Division of Economics, NTU
01.2001 - 01.2005

Distance Learning Programme Coordinator

The British Council
01.1999 - 01.2000

Senior Teacher

Business Studies Centre, Times Educational Services (S) Pte Ltd
01.1996 - 01.1999

Master of Letters in Economics -

University of New England

Bachelor of Economics -

University of New England

Doctorate of Education - Economics Education

Durham University
Woan Pin FANG