NUR ALIA BTE SALIM

Nur Alia is a Senior Educational Therapist with DAS. She teaches students with Dyslexia in the Main Literacy Programme (MLP) and was also teaching the Essential Math Programme up till 2023 to focus on curriculum development. She is in the English Language and Literacy Department (ELL)’s curriculum team. As a Curriculum Developer, she is part of a dedicated team focusing on the curriculum for both the Main Literacy Programme (MLP) and the iReaCH programme.

She is a Fellow with the Register of Educational Therapists (Asia) and a qualified trainer with a WSQ Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA). To learn more about special education, she had furthered her studies and thus has a Master of Education (Special Education) from the Nanyang Technological University/National Institute of Education (NTU-NIE).

Her passion lies in teaching and guiding students with learning difficulties and especially if they find writing challenging. As she continues teaching and working with fellow colleagues in curriculum development, she looks forward to learning with her learners and to grow professionally in this special education field.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Master of Education (Special Education), Nanyang Technological University/National Institute of Education

PUBLICATIONS

• Teachers’ Perceptions on the Effectiveness of a Process Genre Approach on the Writing Skills of Students with Dyslexia (Asia Pacific Journal of Developmental Differences)
• Do Structured Writing Instruction and Writing Checklist aid Learners with Dyslexia in their Narrative Writing?: An exploratory case study (Asia Pacific Journal of Developmental Differences)

CONFERENCES

i) Co-presented with Serena Tan Abdullah and Rosalyn Wee at the NIE Redesigning Pedagogy Conference (2017) – Do Structured Writing Instruction and Writing Checklist aid Learners with Dyslexia in their Narrative writing?: An exploratory case study

ii) Co-presented with Rosalyn Wee at the 51st RELC International Conference (2016) – Do Structured Writing Instruction and Writing Checklist aid Learners with Dyslexia in their Narrative writing?: An exploratory case study

iii) Presented at UNITE SpLD Conference (2016) – Teachers’ Perceptions of the Effectiveness of the Process Genre Approach on the Writing Skills of Students with Dyslexia.

After you’ve done your best and tried everything you can, just let it go. – Yasmin Mogahed