Webinar on Turn-around Pedagogies for East Zone Centre of Excellence for Research by Dr Imelda Caleon

Dr Imelda Caleon, Asst Dean (Partnerships), Programme Director of the Lifelong Learning, Cognition and Well-Being Research Programme, and Senior Research Scientist at the Office of Education Research (OER), conducted a webinar on “Turn-around Pedagogies: Teaching Practices that Foster Academic Resilience” on 28 August 2020. This was conducted as part of the annual “EZ In-Conversation with NIE Faculty” practitioner-researcher dialogue session, jointly organised by OER’s School Partnership Unit (SPU) and the East Zone Centre for Excellence in Research. The webinar was moderated by Ms Monica Ong, member of SPU and Teaching Fellow from OER’s Teacher Professionalism and Learning Research Programme.

Dr Caleon, who has been involved in educational research focusing on the academic resilience of at-risk learners in Singapore, shared with the teacher-audience findings from her recently completed research study: “Lessons from Resilience-Nurturing Environments: Classroom Practices of “Turn-around” Teachers”. Dr Caleon and her team examined teachers’ classroom practices and identified ones that are likely to foster the development of academic resilience in academically at-risk students.

38 teachers and school leaders participated in the Zoom session and, based on the feedback gathered post-session, many participants found the research insights shared relevant to their work as an educator.


Dr Caleon (top) and Ms Ong (middle) at the Turn-around Pedagogies webinar