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Koon Teck Koh is Associate Professor in the Academic Group of Physical Education & Sports Science at National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. His research areas are in coach education and sport pedagogy. He has published more than 40 international peerreviewed papers and book chapters. He has also conducted numerous workshops and coaching courses to build the capacity of physical educators, basketball coaches, co-curriculum activities teachers and athletes.

Koon Teck has been a Physical Education (PE) teacher since 1993. He had taught PE at pre-university and secondary school levels for 10 years. He was Head of Department (PE/CCA) for 6 years before he joined Co-Curricular Activities Branch, Education Programmes Division as advisor and consultant for sports in 2004. He was the advisor for the North Zone Primary Schools Sports Council and South Zone Schools Sports Council. Also, he was the games advisor for basketball overseeing the management and organisation of the games at all levels for different age groups of students.

Koon Teck is actively involved in Basketball as both a competitive athlete and coach at various levels. His keen research areas are in coaching and teaching in PE and Sport, in particular, understanding and developing coaches and PE teachers to promote good practices. He has worked with the Singapore senior basketball team as a team manager and sport scientist to achieve a historical medal at the South East Asia Games in 2013 after 34 years where the last medal was won and maintained the same result at the same competition in 2015.

Since 2002, Koon Teck has involved in Coach Education Programmes (currently termed as SG-Coach). He lectures the theory and technical courses in the National Coaching Accreditation Programme (NCAP) managed by SSC and BAS. Notably, he initiated an integrated NCAP Level 1 Coaching Course for BAS in 2007. It was the first among the NSAs in Singapore, which combined Theory and Technical courses to promote context-specific learning experience for basketball coaches. He has shared the model with local and international practitioners and researchers.

Dr. Koh holds key appointments at the international and local levels such as Executive Board Member (FIBA Asia Representative), World Association for Basketball Coaches; Executive Board Member, Asia Association of Coaching Science; President, Singapore Physical Education Association; and Honorary Secretary, Basketball Association of Singapore. He is also an Associate Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Education, as well as Editorial Board Member of the International Sport Coaching Journal.

John Chee Keng Wang started his career as a PE teacher and Basketball coach in a secondary school. He is now a Professor in the Physical Education and Sports Science Academic Group at the National Institute of Education (NIE), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He received his Ph.D. (Sport and Exercise Psychology) in 2001 from Loughborough University. Dr. Wang is a Chartered Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of British Psychological Society. He is registered with the Health and Care Professions Council of UK as a Sport and Exercise Psychologist. He leads the Motivation in Educational Research Lab (MERL) in NIE.