Our Team

Hendry Goh is a director of ConnectLearn, responsible for marketing and operations, and one of its advisors. He advises on academic quality and marketing, and on programmes for adult learners.

Elaine Goh founded MathArchery, ConnectLearn's maths brand, and heads it. She teaches primary and secondary students in small groups at the MathArchery centre in Bukit Timah, where some of her students know her as Teacher Elaine.

How she started

Elaine began teaching maths to help her own two sons, who both have learning differences. She could not find a private tutor or tuition centre that gave them the help they needed. So she studied for a Specialist Diploma in Specific Learning Differences at the Dyslexia Association of Singapore (DAS) Academy, to learn intervention methods that work for children like hers. Maths had been her favourite subject since she was a student herself. She put that together with her diploma training to take both boys through the PSLE, and then began helping other families' children the same way.

How she teaches

Elaine works on mathematical concepts first, so that a student understands why a method works before relying on it. A P5 student who struggles with fractions, for example, may go back to the fundamental ideas before attempting harder questions. Once the concept is secure, she trains the higher-order thinking skills that the toughest exam questions test. Students practise on unexpected questions they have not met before, where they have to work out which concept applies.

Qualifications

Elaine has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the National University of Singapore. After her DAS diploma she went on to advanced certificates in dyslexia and literacy teaching and in dyscalculia and numeracy teaching, and she wrote a research essay titled "Math Anxiety: Causes and Remedies". She also holds a music teaching diploma, the LRSM.

Jeya is a memory and study skills trainer and a director of ConnectLearn, responsible for programmes. Since 1996 he has spoken and trained in nine countries, and he has taught more than 68,000 people, from school students to professionals, how to learn and retain information faster.

How he started

Jeya struggled with his own college exams, Law in particular, and his lecturer was little help. Then he found The Memory Book by Harry Lorayne, and the memory techniques in it got him through. When he became a tutor, the same methods improved his students' grades. He had never planned to teach them on a larger scale. In 1996 schools and colleges began inviting him to share the techniques with their students, and the work grew from there.

Where he has taught

He has taught in Malaysia, China, Brunei, India, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, the Maldives, Thailand and Singapore. His students are of all ages and backgrounds. He has run workshops and seminars for learners from primary school to university, and he is often asked to speak on study skills, communication skills, sales and creative thinking.

Training for organisations

Jeya also trains staff in companies in Malaysia and overseas. Organisations he has trained include Prudential, Honda, Malaysia Airlines, the Central Bank of Malaysia, Tenaga Nasional and the National Science Centre.

As a speaker

He is a past Vice President of the Malaysian Association of Professional Speakers (MAPS) and remains an active member. Toastmasters International awarded him the Competent Toastmaster (CTM) title, and he is a past President of USJ Toastmasters Club.