Daniel Jew

Daniel Jew is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of History, and Director of Studies at the College of Alice & Peter Tan (CAPT), within the National University of Singapore (NUS). He has been a Teaching Fellow at CAPT since 2014, and is currently also a Resident Fellow. He read Classics (Ancient History) at Trinity College, Cambridge (BA, 1998; MPhil, 1999; PhD, 2009) and was formerly Moses and Mary Finley Research Fellow in Ancient History at Darwin College, Cambridge (2010-2012). He is the author of several book chapters on the Greek economy, and co-editor of The Uncertain Past: Probability in Ancient History (with M. Lavan & B. Danon, 2023, Cambridge UP) and M.I. Finley: An Ancient Historian and His Impact (with R. Osborne & M. Scott, 2016, Cambridge UP).

On Being a Part of the Teaching Academy
It is very humbling to be amongst such accomplished teachers. My hope is that we can work together to harness evidence and global best practices to further strengthen teaching and learning, and educational policy, within the university.

Pedagogical Strengths
• Learner/Learning-Centred Teaching (M. Weimer, 2013; P. Blumberg, 2019)
o (Under Contract, expected publication 2025) Tan, L.Y.L., Jew, D. and Blumberg, P., (eds.), Learning-Centred Teaching Practices in Asia (Taylor & Francis)
o Lead Facilitator, Developing More Learning-Centred Teaching (NUS Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology, Teaching Enhancement Grant Learning Community) (2020-21)
• Significant Learning (L. Dee Fink, 2013)
• Constructive Alignment (J. Biggs & C. Tang, 2011)
• Living and Learning Communities (K. Inkelas et. al, 2018)

Teaching Awards/Committees
• NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award (2020, 2021, 2022)
• NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Honour Roll (2023)
• NUS Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Award (2017, 2018, 2020)
• NUS Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Honour Roll (2021)
• NUS Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences Teaching Excellence Committee (2022-present)
• NUS Residential Colleges Teaching Excellence Committee (2021–2023)