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Mr Lloyd Goh
Mdm Tan S.S
“Instil the right mindset in students”
Qualifications: Bachelor of Science (Mathematics), National University of Singapore
Experience: More than 30 years of teaching experience, Current JC lecturer
Mdm Tan teaches students the main Mathematical concepts along with examples to illustrate the key focus points and things to take note of. She will relate real-life examples in problem solving to help students understand the beauty and practicality of Mathematics. This will be followed up with similar questions to strengthen the students’ initial understanding. She also strongly encourages students to take the initiative to ask questions during lessons in order to grasp a more concrete knowledge of what has been taught. Mdm Tan incorporates IT during lessons, if possible, to make lessons more interesting for students too.
Mdm Tan provides questions with varying levels of difficulty to better match students with their abilities and knowledge. Thus, weaker students will be given extra practice questions to firm up their foundations, whereas the stronger students will be provided with questions that require higher order of thinking. Eventually, the aim of the lessons will be to minimise the gap between these two groups of students and prepare the students in a holistic manner to tackle the eventual ‘A’ level examinations at the end of the course.
She believes that as a teacher, she should first instil the right mindset in students – that is to say, teachers are there to assist them in their learning process. Students should possess the ownership of their learning and take responsibility in doing their work, rather than just waiting for the teachers to spoon-feed answering method and techniques because they need to learn how to adapt to the ever-changing questions that they will be exposed to.
Previous students found that the pace at which Mdm Tan proceeds, coupled with her unique teaching method and explanations, were the few aspects that helped them tremendously in their preparation for the A levels examinations.
Mr Swaminathan V.
Mr Samdish Suri
Mr Sim
Mr Timothy Gan
“Excellent grades are not hard to achieve”
Qualifications: Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering (Hons) at NUS
Experience: Current school teacher
Albert Einstein’s quote “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough” is the bedrock of Timothy’s teaching strategy. He strongly believes that keeping explanation simple, and to involve layman terms during lessons is the most effective method to relate to his students and then to reaffirm his student’s basic mathematics knowledge. Also, Timothy will inject jokes at appropriate moments during lessons to make lessons interesting and thereby build up a good rapport with his students so that he can better attract their attention.
Through his numerous years of teaching experience, Timothy feels that the poor understanding of concepts and presence of other school commitments are two key factors that have severely hindered students from having constant practice with Mathematics questions. This acute lack of practice is usually a student’s main obstacle to obtaining better grades for Math. Everyone can excel in Mathematics, and excellent grades are not hard to achieve. What a student needs is perserverance, proper guidance and practice to succeed. Hence, he uses his lessons to first shore up his student’s foundations and conceptual understanding before moving on to more rigourous practice questions.
Timothy groups his tutorial questions accordingly to their level of difficulty so that both weak and stronger students are able to pace themselves within a same class. This arrangement provides Timothy sufficient leeway for him to tackle his student’s weaknessess individually. Group tuition provides a competitive element towards learning, which is a great motivating factor for students to strive harder and learn from one another how to avoid making common errors. Timothy believes that this provides for a much more conducive environment for learning as compared to a one to one tuition.
An avid lover of both music and basketball, Timothy welcomes students to have a leisure chat and trade pointers with him in these two categories outside of Mathematics.
Mr Tham
Mr Shawn Chua
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