Teaching Strengths
- Relates abstract theories to real-life experiences
- Ability to engage students attention
- Draws correlations across all disciplines to broaden students’ intellectual horizons
- Encourages students to question-- uses the internet classroom not for posting notes and information but for questions and answers
- Deregulates practical and tutorial sessions so that they are student-centred
- Helps students to acquire critical thinking by taking uncertainty as a challenge
Biodata
Professor Ip obtained his PhD from Rice University in Houston, USA in 1980 and joined NUS as a lecturer in 1982. He teaches General Physiology, Comparative Animal Physiology and Teaching in Biology at the Department of Biological Sciences at NUS. His research areas include comparative animal biochemistry, fish physiology and bio-chemistry, and students’ learning approaches. He has received 25 teaching awards, including two Outstanding Educator Awards and three Science Distinguished Teaching Awards. He was an Associate Director at the Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning between 1999 and 2007, and is currently a member of the University Promotion and Tenure Committee.
Teaching Awards / Accolades
- Faculty of Science, Teaching Award, 1993, 1996, 1997
- Faculty of Science, Innovative Teaching Award, 1999
- Faculty of Science, Distinguished Teaching Award, 1996, 1998, 2000
- Faculty of Science, Teaching Excellence Award, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 (Honors Roll), 2006, 2007, 2008
- NUS Staff Achievement Award-Teaching Excellence, 1997, 1998, 1999
- NUS Excellent Teacher List, 2002, 2003
- NUS Outstanding Educator Award, 2000, 2005
- NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award 2006, 2007; 2008, 2009 (Honour Roll)
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