Professor Low Ee Ling
Professor LOW Ee Ling is Dean, Academic and Faculty Affairs and the immediate past Dean, Teacher Education. She is an internationally renowned expert in Teacher Education and World Englishes. She obtained her in Linguistics (Acoustic Phonetics) from the University of Cambridge, UK under the NTU-NIE Overseas Graduate Scholarship. She won the Fulbright Advanced Research Scholarship which she spent at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. She is currently a governing board member for the International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) and in 2022, became an elected fellow of the prestigious International Academy of Education (IAE) based in Belgium. Professor Low is also a member of the OECD Education 2030 Scientific Committee and the Forum for World Education (FWE) Steering Committee. In 2021, she was recognized for her exemplary scholarship by the Academy for Leadership in Teacher Education (ALiTE), University of Hong Kong.
Co-PIs
Dr Sao-Ee Goh
Dr Sao-Ee Goh is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the National Institute of Education. He received his Bachelor (Physics) and Master of Science (Education Research Methodologies) from the University of Oxford and his Ph.D. degree (Teaching, Learning and Teacher Education) from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include teacher growth and professional development, learning sciences, and system impact studies. He is experienced in mixed and design-based implementation research methods. As a secondee from the Ministry of Education, Sao-Ee harnessed his experience in education research policy formulation and implementation in his current role as academic head of strategic education research planning for the institute.
Dr Hwei Ming Wong
Dr. Hwei Ming Wong is a Senior Education Research Scientist and the Assistant Centre Director at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, NIE. She holds a Ph.D. (Education), an M.A. (Applied Psychology) and a PGDE (Primary) from NIE, NTU. Dr. Wong has more than 18 years of education research experience in assessment practices and literacy. She teaches Assessment courses and provides customised professional development workshops for schools. She was previously a primary school teacher and a specialist in MOE. She has published articles on assessment, bullying and managing students’ stress, and was interviewed by the media on bullying, managing examinations, assessment, schooling and mental health.
Collaborators
Mrs Yen Ching Chua
Mrs Chua Yen Ching is the Senior Associate, Centre for Educational Leadership, Ministry of Education, Singapore. Mrs Chua has 42 years of experience as a teacher, school principal of 3 schools and policy maker. She has experience in curriculum development, she was Deputy Director, Sciences Branch(1988-2022) and Director of Curriculum Planning and Development Division (2011-2013). In 2006, she was the founding principal of North Light School, a school for students who are more suited for an application-based education. Prior to her current appointment, she was Deputy Director-General of Education (Professional Development) from 2014-2023. Mrs Chua was awarded the Public Administration Medal Bronze, Silver and Gold in 1999, 2007 and 2020 respectively in recognition of her service to education.
Ms Mun See Tham
Ms Mun See Tham is currently the Executive Director of the Academy of Singapore Teachers, MOE, which oversees the professional learning of all MOE staff, including teachers in the schools. Before that, she was Superintendent of 12 schools. Prior to that, she was Principal of Raffles Girls’ School (Secondary) from 2013 to 2019 and Anderson Secondary School from 2006 to 2010. She also served in MOE HQ Divisions — Curriculum Planning and Development Division and Higher Education Division. Ms Tham obtained her BA and MA from University of Cambridge, UK in 1991 and in 1994 respectively, and her MA in Education from Stanford University, USA in 1998.
Professor A. Lin Goodwin
Prof. A. Lin Goodwin (葛文林) holds the Thomas More Brennan Endowed Chair in Education at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development, Boston College. Previously she was Dean of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hong Kong (2017-2022), and Vice Dean at Teachers College, Columbia University (2011-2017), where she also held the Edward Evenden Professorship in Education. Professor Goodwin served as AERA Vice President—Division K: Teaching and Teacher Education (2013-2016). She is an AERA Fellow and recipient of Division K’s 2023 Legacy Award for her “significant and exemplary contributions to the field of teaching and teacher education.”
Professor Alexander Seeshing Yeung
Prof. Alex Seeshing Yeung is a registered teacher, a psychologist, a professional translator, a linguist, and an educational researcher. Prof. Yeung has taught a wide range of school subjects, and trained over 1,000students in teacher education programs, and more than 100 school principals. He has also supervised 10 PhD students to completion. He is widely published and has a strong track record of effectively and successfully conducting large- scale longitudinal research with a mixed-method approach in Australia (16 ARC projects, Australian $6.70m), Singapore (10 funded projects, Australian $5.47m equivalent), and Hong Kong (4 funded projects, Australian $1.05m equivalent).
Dr May Yin Tay
Dr Tay May Yin, Principal Master Teacher with the English Language Institute of Singapore, has been an English Language (EL), Literature and General Paper teacher, and Head of Department. Her experiences in the Curriculum Planning and Development Division of MOE include being Specialist Inspector, Senior Curriculum Specialist, Assistant Director of Languages and Literature, and Assistant Director of Curriculum Policy. She was also Senior Lecturer at the National Institute of Education. A Fulbright Research Scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University in 2017, her research interests include language pedagogy; school-based curriculum design, development, implementation and evaluation; teacher cognition; teacher professional learning; and the practice of teacher professionalism.
Ms Pei Yun Heng
Pei Yun started her career in Public Service at the Ministry of Finance developing economic policies. Issues she worked on included the Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2020 Plan and managing the Wage Credit Scheme. She then moved on to the Strategy Group, Prime Minister’s Office when it was first formed in 2015, where she had various stints in the Technology & Data, Socio-economic Policy and Marriage & Parenthood Policy teams. She has been in MOE since Aug 2023, where she is the Section Head for HR Policy.