Dr Teo Chew Lee is Deputy Centre Director of Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice at the Office of Education Research, National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. She received Master of Arts, Instruction Design and Technology from NIE and her Ph.D. degree from University of Toronto.

She is experienced in conducting studies using both design-based and mixed-methods research methodologies. Her main research interests are in the areas of Knowledge Building Pedagogies and Learning Analytics. She founded the Knowledge Building Community - Singapore and has led the local and international Knowledge Building Community Network Learning (KBC-NL) series since 2016. Each Network Learning bring together teachers and researchers to explore germane issues on 21st-century competencies and pedagogies. These network learning sessions have reached more than 1000 teachers and researchers.

Starting in November 2019, a new research and practice platform, the student Knowledge Building Design Studio (sKBDS), was created. The sKBDS embraced an experiential learning model in which students of different ages and from different schools were brought to the NIE campus to innovate and co-produce knowledge on sustainability issues. We are into our ninth run of the student Knowledge Building Design Studio [https://KBSingapore.org].

Research Projects. Chew Lee is leading several research projects. She is currently working on a project titled "Sustained Creative Discourse: synchronous, asynchronous and blended environment". The project focuses on deriving a model that extracts the creative index of classroom discourse. Another interdisciplinary SoL project under the Centre for Lifelong Learning and Individual Cognitive (CLIC), titled Cognitive Flexibility of Adolescents. Cognitive flexibility integrates the methodology in neuroscience and learning sciences and seeks both quantitative and qualitative explanations of the flexible thinking of adolescents in Singapore.

Chew Lee has published in both local and international journals and in book series. She published her recent book: A Teacher's Playkit for Knowledge Building, Creative Ways to Make Students' Ideas Come Alive on 18 August 2023. (https://www.routledge.com/A-Teachers-Playkit-for-Knowledge-Building-Creative-Ways-to-Make-Students/Teo/p/book/9780367710729). The book delves into the journey of teachers and students in the knowledge building classroom, Chew Lee’s playkit offers practical approaches to making classrooms a place of knowledge creation. She highlights the potential and possibility of idea-centric discourse and interactions in Singapore’s high-performing education system while offering a trilogue among researchers, teachers and students. Documenting case examples of knowledge building lessons in relation to the curriculum design and pedagogical decisions and moves, as well as the formative assessment, the book focuses on those 21st-century practices embedded within the knowledge building process. It comprises a series of teachers’ journeys in different subjects and grades, demonstrating the depth and breadth of projects that students are capable of pursuing in class when they are entrusted to work with their own ideas and questions. Written for practitioners, this playkit aims to engage the wider community of teachers to play with their own lesson ideas as they engage their students in knowledge creation.

Chew Lee has conducted many keynotes, presentations, and workshops in Singapore, as well as in other Asian countries. Many of these were invited presentations and mostly focused on the classroom of the future, teachers, professional development and knowledge-building pedagogy and technology.