Complimentary Services:

Speaking, Writing, Interviews

On top of English tutoring, Joelle also offers complimentary coaching on the following whenever the need arises:

Oratorical skills:
- Public Speaking, Drama and Debate championships
- DSA Interview coaching

Writing Skills
- National and international Creative Writing competitions
- Essay writing for college admissions, scholarship applications, DSA
- Model United Nations & academic essay writing

Coaching on competitions & others

Joelle has years of experience teaching at National Junior College, where she ran its creative writing club and was also the teacher-in-charge of public speaking competitions.

As an English tutor, Joelle encourages students to take part in such national and international competitions to build up their portfolios for future college applications; she also coaches them on how to assemble such portfolios and personal statements for scholarship and college applications.

Interview skills for DSA, college admissions, scholarships

Having been a teacher-in-charge of NJC’s DSA process, where she interviewed prospective applicants, Joelle coaches students on interview skills.

Public Speaking, Drama and Debate championships

Joelle has coached students in national speech competitions & debate championships; her students have won awards at prestigious national competitions like the PESA (Plain English Speaking Awards) by YMCA, the Orator’s Cup by ACJC, poetry recitations by the National Schools Literature Festival, and Poetry Festival Singapore.

Creative Writing competitions:

Joelle’s work has been awarded the Brian Elliot Literary Prize and has been performed in the UK and Australia; she has coached numerous students to win national and international story-writing competitions, such as the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition.

Essay writing for college admissions, scholarship applications

Leveraging her own experience of successfully applying to Oxford University and to government scholarships, she coaches students on essay writing. Her students have gained admission to prestigious national and international universities.

Samples of Students' Work

INTERNATIONAL WRITING COMPETITIONS

Organised in England for all commonwealth countries, the Queen’s Commonwealth Essay Competition is the largest and oldest essay writing competition in the world; in 2024, it received 34,939 entries from around the world.

This is one of the competitions Joelle encourages and guides her students in. In 2024, these were some of her winning students:

Junior Category:

Azel Tan, Bronze

Cayden Husistein, Bronze

Senior Category:

Victoria Tan, Gold

Isabelle Koh, Gold

Denize Fernandez, Bronze

Rachel Chia, Bronze

NATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITIONS

Creative Arts Programme by MOE GEP (Gifted Education Programme): Caylin Chen, successful applicant
Winner of National ‘Write for Kindness’ Competition: Illustrated storybook by Pang Wan Leek, Soong Yuan Qi Sophie, Tan Pei Xuan, Thania Del
Radovan Lofranco, Htat Wai Wai Aung

SPEAKING COMPETITIONS

Poetry Recitation, Silver Award, 2020, National Schools’ Literature Festival
Plain English Speaking Awards (PESA) by the YMCA: Kalaisakana, who went on to be selected for TEDx Youth

All of Joelle’s students have given their permission to have their works showcased here. No part of their work may be reproduced elsewhere without explicit consent from Joelle and the students.