Co-Principal Investigator, Pedagogy Development Project (Singapore) 2016 – 2020
I conceived and collaboratively led a national curriculum development project with the Ministry of Education (Singapore), to foster discovery-driven learning. I developed modern physics demonstrations relating to nanoscience, quantum physics and nuclear science that fostered student-centric and research-oriented learning.
- I led the development of 4 hands-on and 3 online demonstrations.
- All these demonstrations were scaffolded with a rigorous discovery-driven classroom pedagogy - PEOE (Predict-Explain-Observe-Explain).
- Organized a National Workshop on pedagogy for modern physics, attended by ~ 60 educators.
- The project created a national impact as the hands-on demos were distributed to all junior colleges across Singapore, and the online demos were hosted freely on the national edu-portal. The project was also featured in the national news (The Straits Times).
- I directed 2 pedagogy publications and 1 policy research brief for the National Institute of Education.
Advisor and Science Faculty, Raising a Mathematician Foundation (India) 2014 - present
The overarching vision of the non-profit organisation is to inspire passionate young students to become scientists and mathematicians of tomorrow by adopting a research-focussed pedagogy. Our work has impacted >10,000 students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds, especially underrepresented minorities, who are trained via workshops, seminars, webinars and competitions.
- I founded the organisation's sciences division by conceiving and organising the ‘Quantum Wonder’ course, which has now run 4 times. Participants have joined top-tier undergraduate programs, including Ivy League (U.S.) and Russel group (U.K.) universities.
- I have been co-organising the ‘All Girls Nurture Camp’ aimed at inspiring talented middle-school girls to pursue math and sciences in tertiary education, and thereby boost equity and inclusivity.
- >60 students and alumni have achieved international accolades (e.g. Olympiad awards).
Teaching Assistant, Department of Physics, NUS (Singapore) 2013 – 2015
- I have designed, organized and led interactive tutorials, practical sessions and exposure lectures for core and elective 8 undergraduate courses, on themes of classical and quantum physics, engineering physics, nanoscience, chaos theory, and astronomy. Student Evaluation Score: 4.32/5.
- I led and organised Physics Induction workshops to orient first-years undergraduates.
- I organised the Physics Enrichment Camps for outreach to pre-university students.
Modern Physics Pedagogy development (National Institute of Education - Singapore)
Publications:
- A cost-effective quantum eraser demonstration. Physics Education 56, 033007 (2021).
- Modern Physics Demonstrations with DIY Smartphone Spectrometers. The Physics Educator 4, 2250003 (2022).
Show-and-tell way to explain science concepts
