My Teaching Subject(s)Pre-school - English, Creative Writing, Phonics
Primary - English , Creative Writing , Phonics
O level - English, Literature
A level - General Paper
IB / IGCSE - English Language, English Literature
Diploma / Degree - Mass Comm
Language - English
Special Skills - Integrated Programme, Adult Training, Group Tuition
Experience
Monica is a trained educator, facilitator and pedagogy expert who crafts and delivers various English Language and English Literature programmes and designs curriculum for schools, tertiary institutions and adult educators both in Singapore and regionally.
Prior to working as a professional Teacher Educator and Facilitator, her last appointment with the Ministry of Education (Singapore) was Head of the English Language and Literature Department at Cedar Girls' Secondary school. Monica was awarded a full scholarship by the National Institute of Education (Singapore) to complete a Master’s Degree by Research in Applied Linguistics in 2006.
Upon completion, she moved on to teacher education and consultancy and worked closely as lecturer and practicum supervisor on various courses for the English Language and Literature Academic Group, National Institute of Education. In 2010, Monica started her own preschool centre in Medan, Indonesia, and later in 2016, she founded Words Worth, an English Language and Literature enrichment centre and a one stop education portal for teachers and students in Singapore (monicamenon.com). In her role as a leader in education, she has provided many educators and fledging school leaders with professional guidance and personal development, though effective mentorship programmes in order to ensure they are able to carry out their pedagogical skills and curriculum design effectively.
She has worked with the British Council (Singapore) to develop their primary and secondary curriculum materials in 2016 and 2017 and with Cambridge Assessments (Singapore) to deliver English Language seminars to teachers in the Southeast Asian region. Between 2013 and 2017, she authored an upper secondary comprehension book “All About English: Lower and Upper Secondary Comprehension” (with Hodder Education) which is currently being used in more than 15 schools in Singapore. More recently, in 2020 she was involved in the production of the Cambridge Checkpoint Series (Stage 7 to 10) for the World English Series, also with Hodder Education, and the Student Companion Materials for the new Primary English Language, 2020 Curriculum with Marshal Cavendish. In 2022, she was asked by Cambridge English to head a project to design an English Language teacher training programme (TKC) for Southeast Asian ESL teachers.
She delivers good results in English Language and academic writing. Parents have been very pleased with their children's progress and engagement in her lessons. Many parents send their children for DSA coaching and personal statement writing to her.
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