Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference 2022

The Redesigning Pedagogy International Conference (RPIC) is the National Institute of Education’s (NIE), Singapore flagship biennial conference organized by the institute’s Office of Education Research. However, due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, the conference, which was originally scheduled for 2020 was cancelled.

For the first time since its inception in 2005, the 2022 edition of RPIC took the form of a hybrid event in which there was a mixture of both virtual and in-person sessions held within the NIE campus. This ninth edition was attended by over 1,300 delegates from Singapore and beyond its shores across three days from 30 May to 1 Jun, and featured more than 400 presentations in the form of keynote presentations, paper sessions, workshops and symposia.

In this issue of SingTeach, we highlight some interesting paper presentations by two fellow educators and an NIE education researcher that focus on positive teacher language, reciprocal teaching and social emotional learning. We also feature three keynote addresses that shed light on how education should be like in a post-COVID world, why classroom discourse is critical to building robust societies, and current and future directions of education research in Singapore.

We also have seven teachers from both primary and secondary schools who share with us more about the creative ways they have used technology in their classrooms, as well as how they feel schools can strengthen their role in developing students’ social and emotional skills.

If you had attended RPIC, we hope the takeaways from the many presentations and keynotes were beneficial for you in your professional learning journey in and out of classroom. For those who missed the conference, fret not – we hope this issue of SingTeach will have you covered!

SingTeach Editorial Team
Office of Education Research
National Institute of Educatio