2015 Seminar For Teachers by Professor Bob Marek
During the seminar for teachers, Professor Boguslaw Marek introduced innovative resources and ideas for inclusive education of children with a visual impairment. For example games involving tactile graphics, accessible ways to answer multiple choice questions, quizzes and crossword puzzles and how to make a tactile resources for children.
“Hungry Fingers educational tools are designed to give visually impaired children the confidence that with poor vision, or even without sight, they can be in command of the space around them. They can learn how objects are related to one another, and why they look, or feel different when we draw them. They can learn that space can be divided and altered in many different ways, and that they are the one who decide how they want to change it.” By Prof. Marek
Profile of Professor Bob Marek
Prof. Marek is a lecturer of English at the John Paul 11 University in Lublin Poland. Many years ago Prof. Marek developed an interest in teaching English to children and adults who are blind. In doing this work, he listened to the childrens’ comments regarding the visual world surrounding them. It was obvious to him that there were many visual concepts that the children struggled to understand. It also became apparent to Prof. Marek that there is often a lack of appropriate resources for teachers of the blind to use when teaching chal-lenging visual concepts. From humble beginnings the saying goes…. he started designing wonderful resources to meet this need. Prof. Marek had received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for his work with blind children.
2015 Seminar For Parents by Professor Bob Marek
During the seminar for parents, Professor Boguslaw Marek provided the parents and their children a platform to get a chance to explore and to make their own tactile drawings of varying complexity lines, geometric shapes, drawings of simple objects and of groups of objects, drawings of person performing different activities. They also got a chance to try on some new computer software and devices.
“Hungry Fingers educational tools are designed to give visually impaired children the confidence that with poor vision, or even without sight, they can be in command of the space around them. They can learn how objects are related to one another, and why they look, or feel different when we draw them. They can learn that space can be divided and altered in many different ways, and that they are the one who decide how they want to change it.” By Prof. Marek
Profile of Professor Bob Marek
Prof. Marek is a lecturer of English at the John Paul 11 University in Lublin Poland. Many years ago Prof. Marek developed an interest in teaching English to children and adults who are blind. In doing this work, he listened to the childrens’ comments regarding the visual world surrounding them. It was obvious to him that there were many visual concepts that the children struggled to understand. It also became apparent to Prof. Marek that there is often a lack of appropriate resources for teachers of the blind to use when teaching chal-lenging visual concepts. From humble beginnings the saying goes…. he started designing wonderful resources to meet this need. Prof. Marek had received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for his work with blind children.
2015 Lecture by Professor Bob Marek
iC2 PrepHouse hosted Professor Boguslaw Marek, PhD, OBE, of Poland in a series of workshops and lectures over five days on the “Hungry Fingers” educational materials he developed for the blind and visually impaired. A total of 44 teachers, parents and children attended the first four days, with the final day reserved for professional development with iC2 PrepHouse staff.
“Hungry Fingers educational tools are designed to give visually impaired children the confidence that with poor vision, or even without sight, they can be in command of the space around them. They can learn how objects are related to one another, and why they look, or feel different when we draw them. They can learn that space can be divided and altered in many different ways, and that they are the one who decide how they want to change it.” By Prof. Marek
Profile of Professor Bob Marek
Prof. Marek is a lecturer of English at the John Paul 11 University in Lublin Poland. Many years ago Prof. Marek developed an interest in teaching English to children and adults who are blind. In doing this work, he listened to the childrens’ comments regarding the visual world surrounding them. It was obvious to him that there were many visual concepts that the children struggled to understand. It also became apparent to Prof. Marek that there is often a lack of appropriate resources for teachers of the blind to use when teaching chal-lenging visual concepts. From humble beginnings the saying goes…. he started designing wonderful resources to meet this need. Prof. Marek had received an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth for his work with blind children.
2015 iC2 Inaugural Gala Dinner
iC2 PrepHouse celebrated its Inaugural Benefit Gala Dinner at the Grand Salon of Grand Hyatt Singapore on Thursday, 27 August 2015.
The funds raised will continue to help the needs of our children with visual impairments and their families.
We are honoured to have the presence of our Guest of Honour Mr Tan Chuan-Jin, Minister of Social and Family Development.
Special thanks to all our gracious donors, guests, clients, parents and volunteers for making this event a successful one.
On top of that, a thumbs-up to our event organizer – Directions.
2015 43rd National Para Athletics Championship
Congratulations to our winners who participated in the 43rd National Para Athletics Championship 2015. And a heartfelt thanks to all our iC2 representatives. You have indeed made us proud!
2015 SPH Foundation National Para-Swimming Championships
Congratulations to our champions!
iC2 PrepHouse representatives – Wong Meng Ee, James Ang and Isabel Morris had participated in the SPH Foundation National Para-Swimming Championships 2015 at OCBC Aquatic Centre on 25 July 2015 and came in as champions!
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