Kumaran Arumugam has been a sports coach and physical education
teacher for close to 12 years. In
these 12 years he has held vital roles such as Assistant Head of department(sports), Head of Department
(Physical Education), Subject Lead (Physical
Education/CCA) & Director of Sports/Co-Founder for various schools
and organizations.
Despite his young age and for being the youngest Head of
Department in the CPE Singapore (committee of private education)
at 27-year-old. He has held these leadership roles to lead his departments
in attaining key success in the education industry.
Some of his successes include securing shoe sponsorship in 2019
for 200 students that are from
low-income backgrounds so that these students
have proper shoe wear for them to play sports and to take part in physical
activities.
He
was invited by various educational centers
to conduct a talk/workshop on working with students with autism.
He also collaborated with Singapore Taekwondo Federation to provide opportunities for para-athletes that
includes students with hearing loss and visual
impairment to compete in taekwondo competitions. In 2023 Kumaran also
collaborated with Singapore Disability Sports Council & Certis Cisco to launch GoalBall29 programme to identify and invite potential
players to the Goalball National Team in preparation
of ASEAN para games in 2029.
For
his effort to make a change in the disability
community in Singapore he was awarded People Choice Community Changemaker of the year at the Singapore
Disability Sports Award. This is not the first
time he had received an award; he was also voted Most Inspiring Coach
for 2018 & 2019 by his fellow
colleagues and coaches and in 2019 he also received Coach of the Year (Excellence) award for his dedication
to his students. His first award came in 2014,
where he was awarded Best Assistant Coach of the year when he was a
junior coach at Real Madrid
Singapore Football Academy.
Kumaran
also dedicates these awards to his mother
who has been his pillar of support in pursuing sports as a career. Recently he also has turned down the chance to be a
vice principal at two different orgainzation so that he can continue to work with students with disabilities as
a physical education teacher and a
sports coach. He believes he can make a difference as a educator more tthanbeing a school leader.
By
being awarded Asia’s Inspiring Icon Award in Sports
and Physical Education' Asia awards powered by World Research Congress, kumaran feel thankful and proud that special need
teachers are getting the recognized for their
effort and dedication in making this world an inclusive and accepting of
everyone with disability. This award
has given kumaran the platform to share the work he has been doing with the disability community and
hopes that more people come forward to either
volunteer or share their time with people with disabilities. Together we
can change lives and make the world
a inclusive one.
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