Damien meets Special Needs educators

Librarian Damien blogs his experience in meeting Special Needs educators at a voluntary session for over 20 teachers from APSN Katong School. He shares some insights into the teachers and the students:

I spoke to several of them during the tea break and it was really enlightening. I happened to ask one of them if she was an Art teacher because her handicraft was superb, and her reply was, “We are all Art teachers here”. Interesting start. Another mentioned that they have to teach all the subjects, something very different to what she was used to in a mainstream school.

I asked a couple of the more experienced ones if the ESN (educationally sub-normal) students sat for exams, and was informed that most of them would level at about Primary School standard while some took BEST programmes which were more skills-based. Some could make it to ITE. Others could progress to other APSN learning centers to learn life-skills and be employed by a VWO later on.

Read the rest of his post here.