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Dr Cheng Lu Pien
Assistant Dean, Continuing Education, Office of Graduate Studies and Professional Learning
Senior Lecturer, National Institute of Education - Mathematics & Mathematics Education
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Dr Cheng Lu Pien is the Assistant Dean, Continuing Education at NIE’s Office of Graduate Studies and Professional Learning. She is also a Senior Lecturer with NIE’s Mathematics and Mathematics Education Department.
She earned her PhD in Mathematics Education at The University of Georgia. She teaches courses in initial teacher preparation, professional development programmes, as well as graduate courses in mathematics education.
Her research and publication interests include the professional development of mathematics teachers, teaching and learning of mathematics, reflective practice, innovative teaching practice and task design in mathematics education.
As Assistant Dean, Continuing Education, she helps to look after continuing education and training at NIE.
She earned her PhD in Mathematics Education at The University of Georgia. She teaches courses in initial teacher preparation, professional development programmes, as well as graduate courses in mathematics education.
Her research and publication interests include the professional development of mathematics teachers, teaching and learning of mathematics, reflective practice, innovative teaching practice and task design in mathematics education.
As Assistant Dean, Continuing Education, she helps to look after continuing education and training at NIE.
She has published research on the use of laboratory class cycles in school-based professional development for primary mathematics teachers (e.g. laboratory class cycle as a model for teacher development, lesson study, teacher-team development in school-based professional development programme), teaching and learning of mathematics (e.g. concrete-pictorial-abstract approach in teaching mathematics), reflective practice (e.g. developing critical reflection), innovative teaching practice (e.g. use of comics to enhance students' learning, teacher and student perception of the use of comics to teach mathematics, designing and implementing activities in the flipped classroom), task design in mathematics education (e.g. the design of mathematics problems using real-life context, making things explicit using instructional materials, selection and modification of instructional materials for classroom use, designing instructional materials to help students make connections). She also examines the teaching and learning in the constructivist learning design, inquiry-based learning.
- Deepening The Dialogic Discourse and Thinking of NTU Students Through Student-Led Book Clubs on Children’s Literature: Strengthening Prevailing Practices
Awards
* 2023 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award National Institute of Education
* 2022 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award National Institute of Education
* 2019 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award National Institute of Education
* 2017 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award National Institute of Education
* 2015 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award National Institute of Education
* 2011 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award National Institute of Education
* 2002 Recipient, Overseas Graduate Scholarship NTU-NIE
* 1995 Recipient, Association of Mathematics Educators Book Prize in the Teaching of Mathematics
* 2022 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award National Institute of Education
* 2019 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award National Institute of Education
* 2017 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award National Institute of Education
* 2015 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award National Institute of Education
* 2011 Excellence in Teaching Commendation Award National Institute of Education
* 2002 Recipient, Overseas Graduate Scholarship NTU-NIE
* 1995 Recipient, Association of Mathematics Educators Book Prize in the Teaching of Mathematics
Courses Taught
Teaching and Learning of Primary Mathematics (Pre-service)
Teaching and Learning of Lower Primary Mathematics (In-service)
Fractions: Promoting Connections and Deep Learning (In-service)
Designing Tasks to Foster Mathematical Reasoning (In-service)
Designing Learning Experiences in Primary 5 and Primary 6 Mathematics (In-service)
Making Thinking Visible in Primary Mathematics (In-service)
Mathematical Thinking in Numbers, Percents & Data Handling (In-service)
Numbers and The Teaching of Numbers (Postgraduate)
Psychology of Learning Mathematics at the Primary Level (Postgraduate)
Teaching and Learning of Lower Primary Mathematics (In-service)
Fractions: Promoting Connections and Deep Learning (In-service)
Designing Tasks to Foster Mathematical Reasoning (In-service)
Designing Learning Experiences in Primary 5 and Primary 6 Mathematics (In-service)
Making Thinking Visible in Primary Mathematics (In-service)
Mathematical Thinking in Numbers, Percents & Data Handling (In-service)
Numbers and The Teaching of Numbers (Postgraduate)
Psychology of Learning Mathematics at the Primary Level (Postgraduate)
Supervision of PhD Students
Muanfun Yaowiwat (2019) - Supporting Three Thai Primary Mathematics Teachers to Engage with Change: The Role of Reflection