Text Box: Trainer (S) Text Box: Course Details Text Box: Application Procedure 1.    Complete the application form and email  to programmes@stu.org.sg Principal’s signature will not be required if the application is sent via email. Note, all email application must be copied to the respective school Principal (unless the sender is the school Principal) otherwise; it will not be valid.   2.    Alternatively, you could also fax the application form to 6451 5526 (Principal’s signature will be required).    For enquiries, please contact Miss Norshakinah at 64524403 ext 33. 

Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam, the former Minister for Education, at the STU Win-Win Discipline Symposium 2004, remarked that, “Discipline is integral to learning. It allows for meaningful learning to take place, not just for the individual student himself but for his classmates.” We would thus like to encourage all Teachers, and not just Discipline Masters or Counsellors to attend this workshop.

Professional Development Workshop
Text Box: Positive Approaches to Discipline

 

As a follow-up to the successful workshop on “Why Do Kids/Teens Misbehave”, the Singapore Teachers’ Union (STU) has invited the widely sought after Dr Esther Tan to conduct a workshop on “Positive Approaches to Discipline”. Dr Esther Tan is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor with the School of Human Development & Social Services at SIM University. She also conducts in-service training for Staff Training Branch, Ministry of Education and is involved in the training of school counsellors. Her workshop on “Positive Approaches to Discipline” looks at the:

 

1.       Developmental and preventive aspects of discipline;

2.       Corrective aspects of discipline; and

3.       Positive approaches to discipline.

 

There will be group discussions and hands-on activities on:

 

·        Strategies in managing misbehaviour in children and

·         How to discipline with love and striking a balance between care and control.

 

 

 

An academic and a registered psychologist trained in Toronto, Canada, Dr Esther Tan has more than 30 years of working experience in the fields of education and counselling. She holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature from the University of Hong Kong (1964), a Master’s degree in Social Work (1968) and a doctorate in Counseling Psychology (1988) from the University of Toronto. Her working experiences include high school teaching in Hong Kong, school counselling in Canada, teacher training and counselor education in Singapore.

 

Dr Tan has served more than 30 years as a teacher educator at the National Institute of Education where she was Head of Psychological Studies from 1990 to 2003 with research interests in the areas of stress management, career counselling, juvenile delinquency, parenting and family issues. She was a pioneer in spearheading counselling training for school teachers and postgraduate training for practising counsellors and psychologists in Singapore. To date, she has published more than 60 journal papers and three books:

 

1.       Counselling in Schools: Theories, Processes and Techniques (2004).

2.       Counselling Pupils (1983),

3.       Winning Ways with Teens: A Practical Guide for Parents (1997)

 

Date: Mon, 17 November 08     Deadline: 13 October 2008

Time: 9:00am to 4:30pm 

Venue: Singapore Teachers Union, 162 Tagore Avenue (S) 787752

Fees: Standard rate - $220, STU-members discounted rate - $150                                         

(Registration fees inclusive of course materials, tea-break, lunch and prevailing GST.)