Ms. Lau Wing-Sze, Daisy

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Daisy was the incumbent chairperson of Hong Kong Montessori Research and Development Association (HKMRDA) between 2014-2019.  After 17 years of Montessori infant-toddler classroom experience, she is a teacher trainer for the American Montessori Society (AMS). In 2010, Daisy founded the first internationally-recognized AMS teacher training center in Hong Kong. In the same year, she also established HKMRDA. With these organizations, over two thousand teachers in the Greater China area have been trained over the years.

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 As the apprentice of Ms. Chen Shu-An, the Mother of Hong Kong Early Childhood Education, Daisy has taken on the grand mission of early childhood education. She was cofounder and ex-supervisor of Infinity Montessori Academy. In addition, she is also a lecturer of parent education courses at the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, for the past twelve years. She has continued her responsibilities in parent mentorship in Canada. Daisy has mentored over 20,000 Chinese parents in these years and positions combined, and continues to serve local universities and colleges as instructor, practicum supervisor, and conference speaker.  In 2020, she started her new chapter to help early child development, acting as consultants and project executer in China.

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 Daisy serves as the practicum consultant for Montessori Centre International, London, England, and volunteers her time for the Hong Kong St. John Ambulance Brigade KYMCA Division as the Long Service Medal President.  She has also written education-related articles and columns for various newspapers and magazines for over ten years. Recently, she has served as Montessori consultant for over twenty kindergartens in Mainland China. In May, 2017, she established the Chen He-Qin Living Education Research Centre in Hong Kong and serves as its supervisor. Daisy organized and served as the chairperson of the Montessori Asia Conference Hong Kong 2017 held at the Education University of Hong Kong.

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 Last year, on invitation of Chen He-Qin’s (Father of Chinese Early Child Education) family members, Daisy wrote an essay entitled “The Social Development of Children of Infinity Montessori Academy” for Tsinghua University. In 2017, Daisy wrote a book “Montessori Development History in China” for the Montessori Asia Conference Hong Kong. In 2018, Daisy assisted the filming and creation of “Salute to Our Principals from the Bay Area” for Guangdong Broadcast Company’s education channel. She also helped the Dongguan Recovery Experimental School and Hong Chi Association of Hong Kong to become sister schools. Over the years, Daisy conducted charitable parent education seminars for many kindergartens on behalf of provincial invitations. She has also been invited to take part in the Education Department of Jilin Province’s Scientific Child Education Research Centre and the Chinese Education Improvement Institute and the Academic Consultant of Early Childhood Development, School of Social Science of Huazhong University of Science & Technology.

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 As a mother of a 18-year-old son, Daisy is still immersed into early childhood education research. Her current research emphases are Chinese-language and literacy education in early childhood, the relationship between infant-toddler and societal development, the combination of eastern and western education, parent education, and the history of early childhood education in China. Since 2017, HKMRDA has been recognized by Hong Kong government as a registered charitable organization, which will bring more improvement and contribution to infant-toddler education to the city and beyond.

 

1st November 2018