Kenneth's roots as a teacher and curriculum specialist of the Thinking Programme (Ministry of Education, Thinking Schools Learning Nation 1997) have informed his pedagogical and andragogical values and beliefs as he serves the NIE. As a Teaching Fellow, he served from 2003 till 2008, both as a Practicum Supervisor as well as in courses such as the in-service IHS2012 Pedagogy and assessment, and pre-service PCG514 Teaching social studies to secondary students, and CTL201. At the Masters level, he tutored from 2006 (MED827 Issues and research in geography education) and the capstone MMM800 and its successor MED902 for ten years (2009 till 2018). At the PhD level, he co-supervised a candidate from 2015 till 2021. In January 2025, NTU granted approval for him to be the sole supervisor for PhD candidates.

In terms of teaching-related mentorships, Kenneth work was chosen as a case study in 2021 for T523 Formative evaluation for educational product development at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. In 2024, he supervised a visiting postgraduate who spent six months at the NIE. Her project was titled Exploring the use of AI and Data Science for student-centred learning. He has been a supervisor for NTU's Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) programme since 2017. As of 2026, he has mentored 36 URECA students. His students’ work has been Highly Commended in both the Education and Psychology categories of the Global Undergraduate Awards. He also co-supervised the Final Year Projects of students from the School of Social Sciences and the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Achievements of these undergraduates include having papers accepted at conferences such as the 17th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, being chosen as ‘AI in Education’ Showcase at the Research Symposiums 2023 and 2024 by The University of Hong Kong; and presented at the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London.

In terms of collegial partnerships, in 2024 he collaborated with a faculty member of the Humanities and Social Studies Education department of the NIE in helping him to think about the potential affordances for learning of generative AI, as it might be applied to Geographic Information Systems. In 2023 he hosted a year-long Industrial Attachment of a Senior Lecturer from the School of Infocomm at Republic Polytechnic. In 2022 he hosted a similar attachment of a Senior Manager from the Department of Student Development at Singapore Polytechnic.

As for the elective his team has been offering since 2018, it is themed on designing learning environments with the Internet of Things. Scholastic analyses of this course have been published through invitation in a book edited by the Co-Director of the National Centre for Research in Geography Education in America in 2024, and in 2021 in the Asian Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.