Dr. Tan Hwee Hoon (Irene) has been an early childhood trainer for more than 13 years in training in-service and pre-service early childhood educators, conducting field supervision, mentoring teachers, reviewing programme management, annual internal and external quality curriculum audits for preschools and kindergartens in Singapore, Indonesia and China. 

She has conducted early childhood teacher trainings on Visual and Media Arts Techniques, Classroom Environment Setup, Child Health and Development, Observation and Assessment of Children, Pedagogical Principles and Practices in ECCE, Guiding Children’s Behaviour, Building Positive Relationships with Families and Communities and Professionalism in ECCE Practice. Additionally, she has worked with the teaching staff and the centre principals on curriculum development and processes for continuous review and renewal. 

She has also guided students on integrated lesson plan implementation, learning centre setup, routine care, curriculum programme, operations evaluation, professional development needs analysis as well as home-school partnership. 

As an early childhood educator, Irene believes in reaching out to families and she has worked with numerous preschools and hosted more than 70 workshops till date to conduct parenting talks and ZOOM workshops to enhance parents’ parenting skills and knowledge through understanding children’s stages of development and emotional well-being for holistic development and growth.

In terms of leadership, Irene has led a team as the centre principal and planned strategically to achieve the national acclaimed SPARK Certification award in providing quality preschool education in 2012 as well as coordinated as the Overseas Adjunct Faculty Lead in Seychelles Foundation Teacher Training Program in 2019.