About Me

Dr Jessie Ee is the CEO of J Psychconsultancy.  She is currently a part-time lecturer at NIE.  She was an Associate Faculty member of UniSIM in 2014-2015 besides assisting in TP Supervision for NIE.  She has been involved with teacher education for over 30 years.  She was formerly an Associate Professor in the Psychological Studies Academic Group (2004-2014) and in the Early Childhood and Special Education Division (1987-2003) in NIE.  She obtained her PhD from the University of Newcastle, Australia, specializing in Educational Psychology. Her Masters degree was with the National University of Singapore in the area of Special Education in Mathematics while she majors in English and Psychology for her BA and; Special Education in her B. Ed degree. She has also been affiliated as a visiting scholar at Simon Fraser University, the University of Illinois in Chicago and Murdoch University in 2010. Her latest completed research addresses the impact of social-emotional learning as foundation skills for resilience and self regulatory processes of children, youth, and adults as well as the pedagogy skills of teachers. She has written over 140 published articles in referred journals, book chapters, and professional conference papers. Her books published to date include Preparing Youths for the Workplace (World Scientific), Thinking about Thinking: What Educators Need to Know (Mc-Graw Hill), Empowering Metacognition through Social-Emotional Learning: Lessons for the Classroom (Cengage Learning), Problem-based Learning: Lessons for the Classroom (Cengage Learning) and Infusing Thinking and Social-Emotional Learning for Children and Youths (Pearson Education Asia). She sits in the editorial board of several refereed journals including Higher Ability Studies Journal and International Journal of Emotional Education. Her research interests include pedagogy skills, social-emotional learning, resilience, self-regulation, metacognition, goal theory, motivation, problem-based learning and learning difficulties.