Our Lives as eduKate Tutors
This is the quieter side of eduKate Singapore: the preparation, reflection and everyday work that sits around a lesson but is rarely visible during the lesson itself. It is not a substitute for our subject or tuition pages. It is a record of how tutors think about teaching, students, preparation and the small decisions that shape a learning environment over time.
Quick Read
- What this page is: a curated feed of tutor-life and behind-the-scenes reflections.
- What it is not: a syllabus guide, enrolment page or claim that one tutor’s experience should be universal.
- Why it matters: good teaching depends on preparation, observation, judgement and adjustment as much as on what is said at the whiteboard.
- How to use it: read the individual entries as context for the people and habits behind eduKate’s teaching practice.
What happens around a lesson
A class begins before the student arrives. Tutors review where the previous lesson ended, prepare examples, choose the right level of difficulty and decide what evidence would show that a student really understands. After a lesson, marked work, questions and recurring mistakes help determine what should happen next. The visible tutorial is therefore only one part of a longer teaching loop.
The useful measure is not whether a lesson looked busy. It is whether the student leaves more able to think, explain, practise and work independently. Sometimes that requires more challenge; sometimes it requires returning to an earlier idea and rebuilding it carefully. Tutor judgement is strongest when it remains responsive to the learner in front of us.
Stories and reflections
Primary English Online Lessons eduKate Singapore Tuition
Hello Parents, just a clip to keep you updated on our English Lessons online. As we are now halfway through Phase 2 (Heightened Alert), all’s good and smooth with us working online with students. Powering through and making the most of the situation, we will keep on doing our best to edukate our kids with the best knowledge and leverage the positives of online learning…
Work for the week. 28th May 2021. Back to Online Lessons.
Online lessons are back. So we are into the second week of Phase 2 (Heightened Alert) and we are online to make sure we keep students safe and still have their lessons. Half a year done and we are on track with all our students. Curriculum wise, we are quite happy to report that we are ahead in teaching and the disruption is minimal to…
Work for this week: Primary 6 SA2 English Papers
New papers uploaded. Tutor goes for Covid Vaccinations. 1st May is a Holiday. Mid Year Examinations are now in April. iOS and iCloud updates and expansion. Security Cameras upgraded with redundancies. What are we doing this week 26th April 2021 Wed 10pm, a blog after 3 papers. A week of working on 2020 Pri 6 English Prelim papers that we need to redo to our…
The Hainan Story Chapter One
The Hainan Story Chapter One. Newly opened restaurant at Jalan Sultan, Singapore and our first visit there today. Why? Needed dinner at 12 am. What can we eat? Always looking for some good grub. So we heard about this new place opening 24 hours and there’s a long queue there during mealtimes since its so new. So what do we do? Go there as late…
Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
“Good Morning, Vietnam!” shouts radio DJ Robin Williams in same titular movie as he wakes every one up in Saigon. That war still leave scars in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam (previously called Saigon) but time has certainly healed quite a lot of this city torn apart and now coming back together stronger than ever. Everywhere you look, Vietnam is going forward at a a breakneck…
Melbourne, Australia
Just a trip to Melbourne Australia with no other reason than having a tour around the city and tour Great Ocean Road. Again, getting away from work and trying to learn something new in Melbourne just ticked all the boxes, including the chance of a rather cheap plane ticket, which we missed and wasted the opportunity as we arrived late in Changi Airport and had…
Almaty, Kazakhstan
BE! “Equatorians” in a rather “fish out of water” situation. Kazakhstan, the last Soviet republic to declare independence and the world’s largest landlocked country with a population of 18.8 million people. A Russian-speaking country that is advancing economically at a breakneck pace and nothing like what a particular movie make them out to be. (for your own safety, just don’t mention Borat while you are…
Back to Cambridge — What a University City Teaches About Knowledge, Place and Intellectual Culture
A reflective education journey through Cambridge: how colleges, institutions, place, memory, criticism and intellectual culture help knowledge persist and grow.
A tutor’s working question
What does this student need next, and what evidence would tell us whether the change worked?
That question keeps preparation connected to the learner rather than to activity for activity’s sake.
Reader boundary
These entries are reflective and contextual. For current syllabus requirements, examination arrangements or formal education policy, refer to the relevant official source and our dedicated subject guides.
The point of showing the work behind the work
Students usually see the finished lesson. Parents usually see the timetable, the homework and the results. Showing some of the preparation in between makes the teaching process easier to understand: observe what is happening, narrow the problem, choose an appropriate intervention, teach it clearly, and look again at the student’s response. That cycle is ordinary work, repeated carefully.