Feedback from Students

Developing Resilient Student Teachers by Nurturing Resilience in Vulnerable Groups in Cambodia

This trip really changed my mind about teaching and education. Initially, I think I am just going to be an ordinary kindergarten teacher, I couldn’t see the things that I do can have a huge impact on children’s personal growth and development. However, the history of massive killing in Cambodia gave me an insight. When I saw the photos of the victims, I can feel their hopelessness and sorrow. Education can help us to identify what is right or wrong and remind us to protect the core value which is being eroded. Therefore, the things that I do for kids have meanings. I promise myself that as an early childhood educator, I do have responsibility to nurture the next generation. Teaching them to become a better person.

Fostering 4Cs through Engaging STEM/STEAM-related Activities

This course equipped me with a solid foundation of STEM, but more importantly, opened my mind about the possibilities of STEM education. In this course, we had tried to define STEM ourselves and constructed a model to represent STEM education in our understanding. Eventually, everyone got their special pictures. It shows that STEM education is not only a subject. It is continuously changing and evolving everyday and educators/teachers may have different views or definitions towards it. It can be a lifestyle, an attitude or a belief, that simply make learning joyful or make the world better. The Odyssey of the Mind (OM) World Finals was an incredible experience for our team as we could compete with teams from different universities, nations and races. We all truly enjoyed the OM journey of Odyssey and believed that creativity can be trained as it is not limited to adolescents. I am grateful that I could work with such wonderful teammates from HKU to participate in OM.

Internship at WWF-Hong Kong

I have a whole new insight on the social function of education. WWF involved the community a lot, and the target of WWF is to educate the public in different social issues, mainly environmental issues, but not restricted to it. The educational approach here is quite different from what we see in schools. I am really lucky to have a chance to learn this kind of educational approach so that I can use more comprehensive and influential methods in schools, instead of just speaking to the class and hope that students will bring some of the points back home.