Recent Activities
A Sharing Session by an Alumnus of The Education University of Hong Kong
14.4.2018
Participants learning how to use tools including plastic bottles and cotton swabs as teaching materials for Visual Arts to help produce folders in a personal style.
The Junior Teacher's Classroom, an experiential programme organised by The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) for CDF since 2016, has all along been well received by CDF participants.
In this year's programme, apart from providing participants with the opportunity to learn how to prepare teaching materials and try to be junior teachers, EdUHK has also invited Ms Cindy CHUNG, an EdUHK alumnus who has been a tutor for the Junior Teacher's Classroom and is currently an English teacher, to share with the participants her path to becoming a teacher.
Ms CHUNG thinks that it is not easy to become a teacher as there are so many hurdles to overcome. She said, "We need to first complete a five-year programme in the Department of Education, including teaching as a student teacher for one year. After obtaining the teacher qualification, we still need to attend recruitment interviews and schools would make arrangement for candidates to try teaching students on the spot so as to test their spontaneous response and teaching ability."
Ms CHUNG told us frankly that teachers had to endure a heavy workload and long working hours and therefore the work pressure was great. Yet, her greatest job satisfaction came from the success of building a close and mutual trust relationship with students and helping them make improvements and grow happily. She said, "Ever since I became a teacher, I have been focusing on the teacher-student relationship, whereas the students' academic performance is only my second concern. I trust that good teaching is built on a good teacher-student relationship. If the relationship is good, students will naturally like the subjects and study hard to get good results."
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17 September 2018