Outstanding Educator Award

" I play different roles for my students at different stages of
their learning journey: helping them to build up
fundamental knowledge; facilitating their consolidation of
acquired knowledge; and mentoring them
to invent new knowledge. "


Assoc Prof GOH Say Song

PhD, MSc (University of Michigan), BA (Hons) (University of Oxford)
Department of Mathematics

CURRENT TEACHING PORTFOLIO
  • Calculus
  • Advanced calculus
  • Analysis on metric spaces
  • Complex analysis

TEACHING ACHIEVEMENTS
  • Provides leadership as Assistant Head of the Department of Mathematics, overseeing quality of teaching and engaging in outreach activities
  • Serves as Chairman of the Department's Teaching Excellence Committee, playing a vital role in the Department's evaluation of teaching as well as the formulation and implementation of policies for enhancing the quality of teaching
  • Promotes teaching excellence by sharing expertise and experience in workshops and seminars in the Department of Mathematics, the Faculty of Science as well as the University's Centre for Development of Teaching and Learning
  • Sought after by schools to deliver enrichment talks to inspire interest and curiosity in mathematics

TEACHING STRENGTHS
  • Encourages students to be active learners by engaging them in deriving solutions and analysing examples
  • Enables students to grasp and appreciate concepts better by drawing examples from everyday life as well as using IT and Internet resources to illustrate ideas
  • Outstanding ability to make a wide variety of modules accessible to students from different faculties and backgrounds
  • Facilitates learning by building on simple concepts to simplify and extend into abstract ones
  • Knack for presenting topics in an organised, coherent and systematic way

PUBLICATION CREDITS
  • Published 27 articles in high quality international journals in applied mathematics, pure mathematics and engineering
  • Published 6 articles in international conference proceedings and compiled volumes
  • Contributed articles on teaching in university publications

INTERNATIONAL STANDING
  • Invited to deliver lectures on wavelets and applications at international conferences and overseas universities in various countries including the United States, France, Denmark and China
  • Reviewer for international journals such as Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis, Advances in Computational Mathematics and Journal of Approximation Theory

AWARDS AND ACCOLADES
  • Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2002 – 2006); Honour Roll (2007)
  • NUS Teaching Excellence Award (1997 – 1999)
  • Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2001 – 2003, 2006 – 2008); Honour Roll (2004)
  • Faculty of Science Meritorious Teaching Award (1998 – 2000)
  • Faculty of Science Outstanding Science Lecturer Award; Science Teaching Award for Mathematics (1997)

TEACHING ASPIRATION
To contribute towards the education of future generations in three roles – first, as an educator to help students realise their potential; second, as a researcher engaging in multi-disciplinary research to inspire students to connect mathematics with applications; third, as an administrator to promote teaching excellence and drive new initiatives.

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