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On 7th Feb 2026, we had an amazing group of teacher-leaders from 7 ASEAN countries and the Republic of Korea gathered at Downtown East to finalise plans for the 40th ASEAN Council of Teachers plus Korea (ACT+1) Convention to be held in Singapore from 22 to 25 October 2026. The theme will be, “𝙉𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙪𝙧 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚: 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨; 𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙍𝙚𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥𝙨; 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙗𝙮 𝘼𝙄”. There was unanimous agreement on the theme suggested by the Singapore Teachers’ Union and the sub-themes. STU is organising this important Regional Convention.
Published Apr 16, 2026, 08:55 PM
Updated Apr 17, 2026, 06:59 AM
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Concurrent 2D Track 3
The most expensive bottleneck in any teacher’s week is not curriculum planning or lesson delivery. It is the feedback lag: the gap between when a student submits work and when they receive actionable guidance. For subjects spanning STEM and Humanities, where structured problem sets and extended written response both demand significant teacher time, this lag compounds across cohorts and assessment cycles into a systemic problem.
This session moves past surface-level discourse on AI in education. Rather than exploring content generation or chatbot tutors, it enters the engine room of the assessment lifecycle: examining how AI-powered marking and analytics platforms can compress the feedback loop, surface learning data at scale, and return to teachers the one resource no technology can manufacture: time.
Wong Eu En is the CEO and Co-Founder of Ren Education, a Singapore-based edtech company building AI grading and analytics tools for schools and junior colleges. Eu En began as a General Paper tutor, running his own tuition academy from 2022. That experience - watching students fall behind not from lack of ability but from lack of timely, detailed feedback — became the founding insight behind ren. He is finishing his Bachelor of Computing (Computer Science) from NUS and continues to teach today, keeping one foot in the classroom as ren. grows. Ren Education's flagship product automates the marking of essays and structured questions with 98.4% benchmarked accuracy, returning rubric-aligned feedback to students and per-class analytics to teachers — reducing turnaround from weeks to a single day. The platform is now active across 12+ institutions, reaching 50+ teachers and over 5,000 students. Eu En's mission is simple: quality feedback should be a baseline for every student - not a luxury. Ren Education builds the ecosystem for teacher empowerment, not replacement in the age of AI.
Concurrent 1C Track 1
Concurrent 2A Track 1
This lesson study examined how intentional teacher-designed use of AI tools can deepen Primary 6 students’ understanding of adaptations in living organisms. The focus remained on helping students explain how structural and behavioural adaptations support survival, rather than memorising facts.
Asmawati Bte Abdullah is a Lead Teacher in Science with more than 27 years of experience in education. She is passionate about nurturing student curiosity, critical thinking, and scientific inquiry through meaningful learning experiences that promote deep conceptual understanding and lifelong learning. As a teacher leader, she works closely with colleagues to enhance teaching and learning outcomes, championing the development of 21st Century Competencies, student agency, and inquiry-based approaches in science education. Her work includes leading professional learning, lesson study initiatives, and curriculum innovation to support both teacher growth and student development. At the school and zonal levels, Asmawati actively contributes to professional sharing sessions and networked learning communities, facilitating the exchange of effective science teaching practices. She is involved in designing engaging and challenging learning experiences for high-ability learners that foster deeper thinking and authentic problem-solving. Recognising the potential of educational technology to transform learning, she advocates for the purposeful integration of artificial intelligence in education. Through professional learning platforms, she has shared practical strategies for using AI tools and chatbots to support inquiry, personalise learning, and enhance classroom engagement. Through collaborative leadership, continuous learning, and a commitment to innovation, Asmawati strives to empower both educators and students to thrive in an evolving educational landscape.
Concurrent 1B Track 1
Concurrent 2C Track 1
Imagine the future of the classroom, where teachers & students journey into imaginative worlds shaped by their diverse inputs, and brought to life through a strategic arsenal of GenAI tools, operating smoothly at speed and with almost no cost. The teacher steers control of the tools, ensuring ethical and responsible use amidst varied student suggestions.
As students have their voices heard and translated into multi-modal outputs, engagement is only heightened and personalised as everyone contributes building their stories and worlds together. The student-teacher bond develops naturally in the process.
You will learn how to:
1. Define clear outcomes (using backward design and A SMART goals)
2. Design inclusive learning experiences (using UDL scaffolds), and
3. Decide when and how AI tools can help: safely, ethically, and in culturally appropriate ways.
You will be equipped with ready to use templates and a checklist to keep you firmly in the driver’s seat.
With 26 years of teaching experience, Sea Fong brings to the classroom a rich background in customer service and copywriting, as well as a strong foundation in the humanities. He holds a Bachelor of Social Science (with majors in Sociology and English Literature) from the National University of Singapore, and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education from the National Institute of Education, Singapore. Sea Fong has served as Head of Department (five years) and as a Senior Teacher (11 years). A progressive and collaborative teacher-leader, he is passionate about blending technology with impactful pedagogy to create engaging and dynamic learning experiences. Constantly seeking to innovate and grow, he actively shares his practices with fellow educators. In 2024, Sea Fong joined the ASEF Classroom Network 17 and collaborated with educators from Australia and Austria to explore the use of AI in climate education (Climate Alliance) —a project that earned the prestigious Gold Award for its innovative and impactful approach. In 2025, ASEF invited the team (Climate Alliance) to embark on EmpowerED where the team shared their experience with teachers from Bangladesh. Croatia, Malaysia and Mongolia.
Concurrent 1A Track 2
Imagine the future of the classroom, where teachers & students journey into imaginative worlds shaped by their diverse inputs, and brought to life through a strategic arsenal of GenAI tools, operating smoothly at speed and with almost no cost. The teacher steers control of the tools, ensuring ethical and responsible use amidst varied student suggestions.
As students have their voices heard and translated into multi-modal outputs, engagement is only heightened and personalised as everyone contributes building their stories and worlds together. The student-teacher bond develops naturally in the process.
By the end of the workshop, you will walk away with:
✅ A blueprint of bots primed to curate your specific lesson content in real-time, in minutes!
✅ More classroom time to impart the skills our students really need for the future: Critical discernment & Creative strategy!
✅ A system to track, in detail, the unique qualities and growth timeline of every student!
All these can be implemented into your classroom the next day!
The GenAI opportunity for educators is here! Seize it to command you more attention span and respect in your ecosystem, and a more motivated student community. Your strategic leverage of GenAI tools, coupled with delivering the most engaging of emotional experiences towards human-centric goals, are what will keep you irreplaceable.
Bullied and stricken with cancer, Ryan bounced back from physical and mental trauma, driving his desire to empower others even at a young age. In a fast-evolving BANI world, Ryan brands himself as a tech humanist - forging a future Renaissance where humanity and technology thrive harmoniously. He also serves as a passionate trainer for multiple education-based enterprises, having equipped 10,000+ youth, parents & professionals with 21st century life skills through his ambitious, energetic delivery style.Ryan’s strategically-honed expertise as an award-winning Youth Coach, Design Thinking Specialist and GenAI Consultant has also been referred to large-scale collaborations with local enterprises and large organisations such as Google.org, ASEAN Foundation and Samsung. He identifies and amplifies his audiences' strengths through mindsets of accelerated learning, compounding growth, and exponential impact.Ryan is obsessed with the future of education and in the classroom, where teachers & students journey into imaginative worlds shaped by their diverse inputs, and brought to life through a strategic arsenal of GenAI tools, operating smoothly at speed and with almost no cost. The teacher steers control of the tools, ensuring ethical and responsible use amidst varied student suggestions keeping themselves irreplaceable and above the grind.
