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Ho Boon Tiong 

Boon Tiong is a Lecturer with the Science & Technology Education academic group of the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University. He graduated from the National University of Singapore in 1985 and obtained his Diploma-in-Education (with credit) the year after. He now holds a Master of Education specializing in effective schools research and management and is currently pursuing his doctoral study in the field of science teacher education, particularly in the domain of pedagogical content knowledge.

He has been involved in education since 1986. He taught Science, Mathematics and English Language at the secondary level for 7 years, including one year teaching the gifted students and two years as Head of Department. He was also a Gifted Education Specialist with the Ministry of Education for 6 years. Currently, he has been conferred a Fellow with the Teachers’ Network of the Ministry of Education since 2000.

His wide-ranging research interests include teacher education, science education, curriculum development, teaching of thinking, school effectiveness and improvement, management and Learning Organization. He has presented and published in various local, national, regional and international conferences and journals. He was awarded the Educational Research Association (ERA), Singapore / Australian Association for Research in Education (AARE) Travel Award to present his Master thesis in the AARE Brisbane Conference in 1997. He is a member of several professional bodies such as the Educational Research Association, Singapore, the AARE, the Science Teachers’ Association of Singapore, the Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Singapore (ASCD), the Singapore Center for Thinking (SCT), the Association of Mathematics Educators (AME) and the Singapore Institute of Management (SIM). He is also a much sought after workshop facilitator by schools.

More Information:

Ho Boon Tiong, MEd (Nanyang Technological University), Dip-Ed (Credit), B Sc (National University of Singapore)

Office Address:
NIE7-03-50 (Office location)
Science & Technology Education
National Institute of Education
Nanyang Technological University
1 Nanyang Walk, Singapore 637616

Telephone:               65-6790-3886 (Office)

Email address:            btho@nie.edu.sg