Eng Zeng Ting

I first joined my current centre as a L2 English teacher back in December 2017. I taught K1 level in 2018 and K2 in 2019. For two years consecutively, I spearheaded the refreshed curriculum for K1 and K2 levels released by our organisation. I was then promoted progressively from an ED3 to ED6 in the span of three years from 2018 to 2020. in my teaching grade. I supported my centre leader in the preparation of SPARKS assessment. I helped my centre leader in consolidating documentations for centre events (parental involvement to community involvement) from the teachers, ensuring that all lesson plans and evaluations were up to date and to tidy up meeting minutes required for SPARKS.

I officially took on the Lead Teacher role (Senior Preschool Teacher) in 2020. As a Lead Teacher in 2020, I was taking the K2 class level and leading the 0 to 3 years old team of teachers concurrently. My role includes mentoring of new staff, conducting section meetings to align centre's operational matters and curriculum matters monthly.

In year 2022, I was promoted to Assistant Deputy Centre Lead. I take on duties of both a vice-principal and a class teacher of Playgroup on a daily basis, fulfilling half a day in class and the other half in the office. As such, I have learnt from my centre leader on various operational aspects as follows:

• reporting of infectious diseases
• incidents reporting to our higher management
• crisis management (bringing children to clinic or A&E department)
• roster and manpower planning
• annual deployment of teachers
• mentoring of new staff as well as interns
• conducting classroom observations for teachers
• checking of weekly planned activities and evaluations for all levels
• checking of portfolios for all levels
• checking staff's attendance
• planning of centre enrollment and liaising with headquarters's enrollment department for new children's registration

I continue to conduct monthly section meetings and support my centre leader in curriculum meetings. I also contribute and assist my centre leader in staff's training workshops. I have led my team of teachers in planning and organising of annual workshops such as:

• Parents' Orientation
• Transition Workshop

I also work closely with external stakeholders such as Health Promotion Board for the children's annual eye check and dental check and National Library Board for Mini Molly Bus visits to our centre.

I was the Playgroup class teacher for the duration in which I worked in this centre. As a English teacher, some of my roles were as follows:

• Developed weekly lesson plans and activities to engage children and promote learning.
• Established positive communication with parents in daily conversation and formal conferences.
• Maintained organized, fun and interactive classroom to help children feel safe.
• Gave one-on-one attention to children while maintaining overall focus on entire group.
• Creating safe and interesting classroom environment for young children's exploration.
• Conduct Parents-Teacher Conferences with parents regarding their development of their child.
• Maintained well-controlled classrooms by clearly outlining standards and reinforcing positive behaviors.
• Educated students in foundational concepts such as shapes, numbers, and letters.
• Applied play-based strategies to provide diverse approaches to learning.
• Observed children to identify individuals in need of additional support and developed strategies to improve assistance.
• Addressed behavioral and learning issues with parents.

One additional role I had while I was working here was being a translator for my centre leader who is a non-Chinese as I am a local bilingual English teacher and the centre had mostly Chinese teachers from China. I assisted my centre leader in her meetings by translating information and explaining to the Chinese teachers. I also assisted her in her teachers' appraisals sessions by providing translation services.

I joined NTUC First Campus in year 2016. I was the class teacher for playgroup and Nursery 1 for the duration in which I worked in this centre. Some of my roles and duties were as follows:

• Developed weekly lesson plans and activities to engage children and promote learning.
• Established positive communication with parents in daily conversation and formal conferences.
• Applied play-based strategies to provide diverse approaches to learning.
• Assisted and supervised 12 to 20 children through the entire school day along with a Chinese teacher.
• Created safe and nurturing learning environment for preschoolers.
• Guided students to develop social, emotional and physical skills.
• Implemented age-appropriate curriculum to meet needs of young learners.
• Helped new preschool children get used to classes by giving one-on-one support.

Some additional duties would include:

• ordering of dry ration monthly for centre's cook

I first joined PCF Sparkletots in 2011 after graduating from a local polytechnic. I was in the Place-and-Train scheme with PCF Sparkletots. I graduated from Early Childhood Care and Education - Teaching in year 2013 and served a two-year bond. Some of my responsibilities were as follows:

• Worked with mentor teacher to learn about current standards and best practices.
• Cultivated positive relationships with teaching staff, parents and children.
• Facilitated small group activities and one-on-one instruction to meet individual children needs.
• Assisted with management of classroom rules, procedures and expectations to instill discipline and classroom order.
• Learnt the operations of preschool setting.