Cheng Mei Leng

Name: Valerie

Membership level: Fellow

Gender: Female

Nationality: singaporean

Bio About

Valerie is a dedicated Lead Learning Support Educator with extensive experience working with preschool children with developmental delays under the Development Support and Learning Support programme. In her role, she leads a team of learning support educators in delivering tailored support programs within mainstream classrooms, ensuring that every child receives the individualized attention they need to thrive. In her expanded role as an Educational Therapy Professional, she delivers targeted literacy-based interventions for preschool children in both one-on-one pull-out sessions and within the classroom setting. She also collaborates with teachers to implement effective in-class support strategies that enhance learning outcomes.

"A teacher should ask herself every day, 'What have I learned today?' For in teaching, we are always students too."

Qualifications

- Bachelor of Education (Special Education), Flinders University

- WSQ Advanced Certification in Learning and Performance (ACLP)

- Specialist Diploma in Early Childhood Care and Education, SEED Institute

- Orton-Gillingham Certification