Hi,teacher！

Hi，Derek!

As a foreign teacher in the middle school department, Derek pays more attention to sharing common feelings with his students in class. Derek said a good teacher should be patient, active, friendly, and a passion to teach and be able to move around the class and express with their bodies on what they are talking about.  Sometimes teaching can be like acting on stage. When you give out energy and you get energy back from the students you give more back out to them and turns out to be a good lesson. However, I have experienced I get negative energy from the students so I go back to basics to the book and slow it down. I then wait a spark to happen and the students get active and the energy has risen again and then off I go. In teaching the teacher never stops thinking and watching and observing on ideas what can be used for the next class. Today I constantly look, listen and think and see if it can be useful in class. Lately, I find students are aware of western festive seasons but don’t know too much in depth. So voila!! A lesson can be on a festive season this helps students to know more and vocabulary words. Every traditional festival I give student different stories that aren’t well known. In experience I discovered I had natural teaching talent for example I have my lesson plan and if something happens I see, a look, a word, and a sentence something clicks into my head and do this and I go off my original lesson plan. Natural teaching is something you cannot teach another teacher. Either you’ve got it or not. Learning never stops.

In the past students have managed to win competitions and prizes in speeches, mimicking, role play on stage due to constant practice and rehearsals and sometimes I will be in the show. In experience students seem to feel comfortable when a teacher becomes involved in the role play on stage rather than be on the side or in front of the stage observing them. Because the students think they are a part of something with the teacher not doing something for the teacher.

在以往学生节目的彩排或者比赛中，Derek也积极参与其中，成为学生的一份子，融入学生，而不是单纯地指点，这能使学生更为积极,收获更多。   

Hi，Marco!

Marco has strong interest in mathematics, he dreamed of being a mathematics teacher from junior high school, and later graduated from the mathematics department of Guangzhou Normal University and became a mathematics teacher. Marco has nearly ten years of mathematics, Mathematical Olympiad teaching experience in mainland, and about 5 year teaching experience to teach Olympic math class in many high school in HK.

Education is the inheritance of culture, you will be full of happiness when your students exist all over the world. “I appreciate improving my ability together with my students, I will continue to work hard to be a transmitter of knowledge.”Marco said.

教育，是文化的传承，那种桃李满园的幸福感，只有你是他们老师才知道，多年的教育工作，收获是师生共同进步，我会继续努力，活到老学到老为教育事业奉献余生。

Hi，Carol!

Carol is a teacher from Hong Kong. She attended one of the best Band 1 EMI (English as the medium of teaching) secondary schools in Yuen Long District when she was in Hong Kong. In the year that she passed her DSE exams, she received offers from both Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and Beijing Normal University (BNU). In the end, she decided to pursue her bachelor's degree in English Language and Literature at BNU. While studying at BNU, Carol scored 7.5 in IELTS and passed all the tests for English majors in China, including the TEM4 and TEM8. Meanwhile, she won the scholarships for Hong Kong, Macau, and Overseas Chinese Students three times and was chosen as the recipient of the Scholarships for Hong Kong Students in Beijing in the last year of her study at BNU. After leaving BNU, Carol went to the Institute of Education at University College London (UCL) and continued her postgraduate study there.

Carol’s strong educational background, coupled with her rich teaching experience, would enable her to help her students excel at DSE. She is a certified CELTA (Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) teacher with around 3 years of experience in teaching DSE English. She has previously taught in Shimen International Curriculum Center and has been the writing teacher for Form 6 students there since 2018. She has also been teaching English to Form 4 and Form 5 students there during the past two years. Her students got outstanding performance in DSE this year. All of them passed their DSE writing exams with Level 3 or above, and on top of that, a number of them scored Level 4 or above in the exam.

Carol is particularly interested in teaching Writing. She scored 5** in her DSE English Writing exam and has been working on her self-made handouts for DSE writing since she was in secondary school. To bridge the gap between learning and the exam, these handouts will be distributed to her students during lessons. These additional notes can help students improve their exam-taking skills, and indeed some of the content in her handouts resemble the exam questions (Q1. a speech introducing the annual school fair, Q4. an application letter for the position of Assistant Coach)in the writing exam this year. 

The transition from a DSE student to a DSE teacher has helped Carol develop a more in-depth understanding of the assessment framework and the students’ needs. Her goal as a DSE English teacher is to help her students excel at DSE. She also wishes her student could learn English with joy and could apply what they have learned to their future study and career.

作为前 DSE 考生和现职 DSE 老师，Carol 深明文凭试要求和考生所需。她希望自己能以“师姐”的身份帮助学生在 DSE 中取得好成绩。同时，她希望学生能在愉快的气氛中学习，并能将所学的知识和技能应用到日后的学习和工作中。

Hi，Thomas!

As an excellent math and physics teacher, he tends to cultivate student`s keen thinking. In 2021 HKDSE 7 students got level 5 stars, 2 students got full marks. In daily life Thomas teaches students to have critical and divergent thinking, do not afraid of questioning the question or limiting to knowledge on textbooks, try to solve a problem in multiple ways. This can help cultivate students' ability to think independently and prepare for further study in college.

作为一名优秀的数理科教师，Thomas致力于培养出思维敏锐的学生，在这届HKDSE考试中有7名学生考取5星，2名学生考取5星星（满分），Thomas在日常教学中主要培养学生要有批判性思维、发散性思维。他教导学生要敢于对问题提出质问，不局限于书本上的知识，在日常中训练中进行一题多解，这也培养了学生独立思考的能力，为以后的深度研学做铺垫。