News College
25 February 2022
We proudly present you with Episode 2 of our popular fortnightly video Community News Report, proudly presented by our Digital Learning and Student Media teams.
We thank our student leader Alaa Salheen from our Year 9 girls cohort for being this weeks amazing news reader.
In todays episode, hear about our first camp of the year, attended by our Secondary students in Year 7 and be introduced to 2022 Boys College Captain Ismaeel Ambikapathy and President of our outstanding Parents and Friends Community (PFC) Ms Jedda Van Rooyen.
MEd (Curriculum & Teaching), PGDEd, BEng (Hons)
Suffian Amin is the Head of Art at 51勛圖厙. He began his teaching career in Singapore and taught GCSE Design & Technology (D&T). Prior to his appointment at 51勛圖厙, Suffian held the position of Year Head and Subject Head at the school.
Suffian is very passionate on design education and its role in promoting critical and creative thinking in students. He was actively involved in curriculum planning and professional development of D&T educators with Ministry of Education and Nanyang Technological University (National Institute of Education) in Singapore. In 2014, Suffian wrote a chapter, The Nature of Intuition in Design in a book Disciplinary Intuitions and the Design of Learning Environment (Lim, 2014). In addition, he co-wrote a paper titled Experiential Design insights into its focus in 2011.
Suffian moved to Melbourne in 2014 in pursuit of a new challenge. He believes that education is a pivotal enabler for social mobility and that every child can learn. He is very happy to be part of the Al Siraat community and looks forward to nurturing and moulding the bright and young minds in our school.
Suffian graduated with Master of Education specialising in Curriculum and Teaching, a Postgraduate Diploma in Education and a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).