Professional development course

Enhancing Your Arts Practices With Emotional Competence

Understanding emotions and learning how to manage emotions are essential skills for educators. This course specially designed for Arts Educators focuses on a list of emotions commonly expressed by students. It equips Arts Educators with a set of specific emotional skills in addressing emotions as part of the relational process and how we can assess and manage emotions that arises out of classroom context.
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enhancing your arts practices with emotional competence

Course Objectives

13 hours, 5 sessions
At the end of the course, learners will be able to:
  • identify and list the different kinds of emotions commonly expressed by students;
  • appreciate the importance of addressing emotions as part of the relational process
  • assess and manage emotions that arise within the classroom context
  • create multi-disciplinary arts resources relevant to developing Emotional Competence
Meet our facilitators

DR. LIZA THIA

Currently working in private practice with children and youth with special educational needs and mental health issues, and lecturing in NIE(NTU) and SUSS, Dr, Liza Thia has trained and supervised psychologists and educators in Social Emotional Learning (SEL), inclusive education and special educational needs. Having worked in MOE for over a decade, she was also instrumental in building our local schools' capacity to support children with special educational needs. As a co-founder of the Centre for SEL, Liza is actively involved in SEL- related research, consultancy projects and curriculum development. Her doctoral research focused on developing an emotional competence program for preschools in Singapore.
Patrick Jones - Course author

MS. JOY KHAU

A music advocate, music wellness specialist, educator, performer, arranger, composer and curriculum developer, Ms. Joy Khau founded Music Solutions, an award-winning company who has been a valued Arts Education partner to our local mainstream schools, preschools, special schools and corporate organisations since 1999. Having over 20 years of teaching experience, Joy worked with many primary schools in designing and developing the PAL Performing Arts curriculum, training school teachers in the area of delivering these programmes to achieve Social and Emotional Learning goals. Beyond the mainstream schools, Joy also works with children and youth with special needs, elders and persons with dementia, cancer patients and survivors, using music as a tool to bring about person-centered care and improving quality of life. Her masters research focuses on the power of music in dementia.
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