Mr Lee is one of the most sought after IP English experts in Singapore. An award-winning MOE-trained teacher and former subject coordinator with a decade’s experience designing and teaching engaging curricula anchored on the belief that every child can and will do well. With a wide repertoire of teaching approaches across all streams and streams, Mr Lee’s pedagogic strength lies in making the subject simple to understand and score in for all students, with those under his charge improving in confidence and frequently making the jump from fail to distinction. Outside of his teaching time, Mr Lee helps spearhead the innovation loops at illum.e that enables the centre’s meteoric growth. Mr Lee is also an international expert on curriculum matters, serving as the Principal Consultant to the Agency for Specialised Educational Institutions, Uzbekistan.
Mr Lee has been teaching English Language and IP English for more than a decade, helping various students from different backgrounds achieve As in English, IP English and Language Arts. A firm believer in Piaget’s work and cognitivism, Mr Lee’s lessons builds upon various conceptualised models and tools to help learners process information better, and to organise instructions in a sequenced and understandable, meaningful manner. This is why many students have found his lessons to be distinctively impactful to their learning after one or two lessons!
At illum.e, we believe in having top school alumni teach your children. It is an unfortunate fact that many teachers of our children in mainstream and even IP schools had average or below-average PSLE/academic scores in their own student days. Holding a Masters in Education, and currently completing his doctoral studies, the soon to be Dr Lee was a top student from Raffles Junior College in his educational life, with his GP Promotional Exams essay being featured in KS Bull. He is also the recipient of several Outstanding Contribution and innovation awards from MOE and has also presented at the MOE Teachers’ Conference and ExCEL Fest. He strongly believes in interactive and meaningful classroom experiences to stretch the boundaries of every child’s learning, to ensure that every child takes away more knowledge at the end of the lesson always.
As an avid believer in the growth mindset, Mr Lee regularly represents Singapore in his spare time on various educational networking platforms, including at the Asia-Europe Foundation’s Classnet Conference in Tokyo, Japan. He has also written scientific papers spearheading research into invasive species in Singapore as well as led efforts to collect data on microplastics in NParks’ marine conservation survey. In his spare time, he writes poetry for relaxation and is a published author of assessment books with Marshall Cavendish.