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Singapore

Singapore

• Teaches one-on-one and group classes for the English component of standardized tests such as the SAT, UCAT, ACT, SSAT, BMAT, and GRE including sections on reading comprehension, writing, grammar, situational judgement, logical reasoning, and vocabulary.• Develops personalized study plan to match each student’s unique needs spread over several months of teaching, adapting the plan frequently based on evidence gathered in class. • Delivers 100 teaching hours per month on average for students with ages ranging from 12 – 25.

Singapore, Singapore

• Conducted one-on-one paid writing support to Yale-NUS students across different disciplines and cultural backgrounds on context-specific writing, averaging about 60 sessions per semester.• Mentored students to outline arguments from research and review drafts for sentence construction, word choice, and grammar, including work for common curriculum, electives, and final-year capstones.

• Worked with Professor Wannes Dupont, assistant professor of history on his research project on birth control and the Catholic Church in Asia. • Reviewed international, Chinese, and Filipino newspapers for about 1,000 relevant articles and coded those articles on NVivo for further qualitative analysis.• Developed a timeline of events on Aeon Timeline to analyze the development of birth control discourse in the Philippines.

Singapore, Singapore

• Worked with Professor Nicholas Smith, assistant professor of social sciences to prepare an annotated bibliography for over 40 sources on urban planning in Baguio City, Philippines.• Examined and analyzed academic and newspaper sources from colonial and post-colonial era of the Philippines about urban planning practices and philosophies.

Singapore, Singapore

• Coached competitive debate team of 40 students of top international school for 12-18 year olds.• Developed curricula for both competitive and non-competitive teams to teach public speaking, argument construction, and response strategies as well as equip students with relevant current affairs knowledge.• Directly supported a team of secondary school students that was awarded as the third best team and individual overall best speaker at national tournament for Singapore schools.

• Contributed to teaching over 100 Primary 5 and 6 students PSLE English, including comprehension, grammar, synthesis and transformation, and composition.• Developed and copy-edited material for weekly tuition classes, student and parent-directed webinars, and Direct School Admission (DSA) preparatory sessions.• Conducted over 50 1-on-1 sessions to prepare students for the PSLE Oral Examination, including personalized feedback for both the oral reading passage and stimulus-based conversation

Makati, National Capital Region, Philippines

• Conducted land acquisition research for premier real estate developer in the Philippines.• Developed model to analyze 12 social, economic, and institutional factors of prospective properties, using empirical data analysis and model development.• Proposed several possible areas and strategies for real estate development to company’s senior management.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Anthropology, Magna Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Tiwala: A Musical (Co-Director and Scriptwriter), Yale-NUS College Debate Society (President and Training.

Exchange, Yale-Nus Summer Institute For Global Strategy And Leadership

Yale-NUS Summer Institute for Global Strategy and Leadership, a program taught by Yale professors on empirical research methods.