| Swee Yean taught in secondary schools and met students of diverse learning abilities. She began to use storytelling in the classroom. At first, it was to entertain and inspire the love of the English language. Her students enjoyed the daily dose of stories and told their parents about it. Gradually, she found that the oral stories stirred up empathy and in non-didactic ways created positive change in her students.
Besides telling stories to children and young people, she has performed publicly for special events and celebrations such as the Singapore Heritage Festival. She has also travelled to countries like Malaysia, India and Taiwan.
Swee Yean has also provided customised workshops for organizations such as the Ministry of Education, Singapore Discovery Centre, National Library Board, pre-schools, government schools and churches.
Being fluent in the Mandarin, Swee Yean has taught storytelling skills to Mandarin teachers as well as senior citizens. She is still involved in programmes to derive stories from senior citizens for community building. |
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| My other Arts Education Programmes
PRESCHOOL
AEP0419442 Celebrating Diversity Through Asian Folktales (performance & extension activity)
A 30-minute storytelling performance and a 20-minute extension activity for up to 30 preschoolers.
See: https://tinyurl.com/AEPAsianFolktales
PRIMARY
AEP0419442 Celebrating Diversity Through Asian Folktales (performance & extension activity)
A 30-minute storytelling performance and a 20-minute extension activity for primary school students.
Available for P1 to 6 and for SPED schools.
See: https://tinyurl.com/AEPAsianFolktales
AEP0418073 Celebrating Diversity Through Folktales
A 30-minute storytelling performance for primary school students.
Available for P1 to 6 and for SPED schools.
See: https://tinyurl.com/AEPFolktales
AEP0419108 Oral Competency Through Storytelling
A 3 x 1-hr workshop to inspire children to emulate and work hard to achieve competency in communicating a story to a listening audience. Available for P1 to 6 and for SPED schools.
See: https://tinyurl.com/AEPCompetency
POST SECONDARY
AEP0419107 Celebrating Diversity Through Stories
A 30-minute storytelling performance for secondary school, JC, CI and ITE students.
See: https://tinyurl.com/AEPStories
AEP0418173 Voices of Impact: A Storytelling Course
A 10 x 11/2-hr workshop to mentor secondary students to perform their own stories with confidence in front of an audience. Available for lower secondary, upper secondary and ITE schools.
See: https://tinyurl.com/AEPVoices |
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