{"id":9343,"date":"2024-10-19T14:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T06:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/?p=9343"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:50:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T05:50:32","slug":"the-aha-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/communities-and-engagement\/the-aha-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Aha!\u2019 Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Malcolm WONG Chun Heng, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences<\/h2>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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A<\/span>cademic coaching <\/span>in <\/span>GE<\/span>N<\/span>2<\/span>0<\/span>50<\/span> is not just about<\/span> tutoring; it is about <\/span>inspiring<\/span> the<\/span> passion for learning.<\/span> Malcolm<\/span> WONG<\/span> shares<\/span> his<\/span> joy<\/span> in guiding<\/span> young<\/span> children <\/span>on<\/span> their academic journey<\/span>s<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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SIM Qin Ying, Academic coaching<\/em>. AI-generated (Dall-E).\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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He vividly recalls the moment when his mentee grasped the relationship between plate tectonics, physics, and geography.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

\u201cPlate tectonics is a difficult subject for many Geography students because of the enormity of scale. I was explaining to my mentee how plate tectonics relates to what he had already learnt in science \u2013 how convection currents in the earth\u2019s magma drive plate movement, and how the resultant compression at the edges stores and then releases elastic potential energy in the form of earthquakes. The eureka moment lit up his person, which was immensely gratifying.\u201d\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Malcolm believes that <\/span>fostering <\/span>a curiosity <\/span>of the mind<\/span> and <\/span>a love <\/span>for<\/span> learning<\/span> is even more important than providing<\/span> answers<\/span>. By helping <\/span>children and youth<\/span> ignite their innate desire to <\/span>learn and <\/span>understand<\/span>, <\/span>he hopes to inspire <\/span>a new <\/span>gen<\/span>eration of <\/span>youth<\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u2190 Back to Story Listing Igniting Curiosity Malcolm WONG Chun Heng, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Academic coaching in GEN2050 is not just about tutoring; it is about inspiring the passion for learning. Malcolm WONG shares his joy in guiding young children on their academic journeys. SIM Qin Ying, Academic coaching. AI-generated (Dall-E). He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":8948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9343"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11636,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9343\/revisions\/11636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/nuscares\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}