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Tuition Areas [...]: Choa Chu Kang, East, North, North East, West, South, Central, North West, Ang Mo Kio, Bedok/Chai Chee, Bishan, Bukit Batok, Bukit Merah, Bukit Panjang, Bukit Timah, Central (City), Clementi/West Coast, East Coast, Geylang/Macpherson/Eunos, Hougang, Jurong East, Jurong West, Kallang/Whampoa, Lim Chu Kang, Marine Parade, Pasir Ris, Potong Pasir, Punggol, Queenstown, Sembawang, Sengkang, Serangoon, Tampines/Simei, Toa Payoh, Woodlands, Yishun, Changi, Expo, Kembangan, Tanah Merah, Admiralty, Khatib, Kranji, Marsiling, Yew Tee, Yio Chu Kang, Buangkok, Kovan, Buona Vista, Commonwealth, Dover, Harbourfront, Marina Bay, Outram Park, Redhill, Tanjong Pagar, Tiong Bahru, Boon Keng, Braddell, Farrer Park, Little India, Woodleigh

Tuition/Teaching Experience: 6 years of teaching in Mathematics and Science at Fuhua Secondary at all levels
14 years of tutoring
Coached students for Math Olympiad (2016-2017)
Most Value-Added Subject teacher in 2014

Education [...]

Bachelor of Engineering (Bioengineering), NUS (2007-2011)
- Bioengineering - Honours
- Management of Technology - Honours
Postgraduate Diploma in Education, NTU (2011-2012)
- Mathematics and Science - Merit

Tutoring Subjects

Commitment / Other Details: Able to commit on any day except Friday and Saturday evenings (reserved for lecturing duties for a degree programme)
Able to start immediately and at any location

Rapport Building: Teacher-student relationships are akin to the relationship between a doctor and his patients. Like doctors, teachers must be able to diagnose the cognitive obstructions that affect the student, and is able to offer the correct remedy for it. In order to do that, diagnosis must take into account factors that lie beyond the teaching subject and must consider factors such as student motivation, natural learning potential, metacognitive abilities, studying habits, and cognitive biases. All this require a genuine relationship between teacher and student beyond the subject matter assigned. Furthermore, like the relationship between a doctor and his patients, beyond designing a highly personalised academic remedy, teaching is a position of trust, requiring sincerity and integrity. This means that good rapport is established on the virtues of the teacher, and his willingness to understand his student as a unique individual having different motivations, different potential, different habits of mind, and different approaches towards studying. And since such matters are intricately related to the support given by parents, feedback will be given to parents, communicated via e-mail, upon the completion of every session.

Keeping Up with Curriculum: As an experienced teacher of mathematics and science in a top neighbourhood school, I have been assigned the duty of setting papers at different levels, and such a task necessitates a clear understanding of the curriculum. Furthermore, I have also attended workshops organised by the Singapore Examinations and Assessment Board (SEAB) where curriculum objectives and marking rubrics designed by Cambridge were clarified. Apart from that, I have also coached students for Mathematics Olympiad, in particular, the Singapore and Asian Mathematics Olympiad (SASMO) in 2016 and 2017. All this has helped me gain a sound understanding of the Math and Science curriculum.

The current curriculum is geared towards the application of concepts and skills to solve real world problems. This means that a drilling approach, though fundamental, may only be cursory to a student's success. Furthermore, the curriculum is buttressed in the Ministry's framework for "21st Century Competencies" aimed at developing critical and inventive thinking, communication and information processing skills and civic literacy. A more holistic approach is imperative, a thing that I hope to offer.

As a Good Tutor: Above all, a good tutor must be sincere in helping the student attain success in learning. In other words, he cannot make financial matters his main motivation, although he must be fairly compensated financially to undertake his responsibilities properly. This sincerity must be accompanied with other personal qualities and virtues, such as certitude and confidence in the teaching subject and professional decorum, living up to the expectations of a good teacher.

Apart from that, a good tutor must also possess moral integrity because tutoring is a position of trust and that he must be a good role model to his student. He must also possess within himself the virtue of patience and a sympathetic attitude towards his student, treating them with love and kindness that a parent would give.

Lastly, a good tutor should also possess perspicacity and mastery of content knowledge for the teaching subject. He must acquire an understanding beyond the literal meaning of the text. This means that he must possess a good understanding of the overarching objectives of the subject matter as well as how it is linked to future applications in various careers. However, this mastery must be guided by the virtue of humility and openness to learn from feedback from any source.

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