okay thank you very much to him for your
introduction about me yes I’m so now
yeah and I am a part-time tgdd student
of the education university of hong kong
majoring in primary English education
and today I would like to talk about
reflective teaching so I’m going to
share with you some of my experiences as
a local in-service teacher and how I’m
fine I can actually apply the idea of
reflection into my daily teaching
routines and for those of you who are in
the field of education you may actually
consider applying some of those into
your practice and for those of you here
who are not really related to the field
of education maybe some of those ideas
can also be applicable to your own
settings and maybe your own careers as
well okay so before I really begin my
speech I would like to ask all of you
two questions the first question is has
any one of you here been actively
engaged in reflection so you will
reflect on a daily basis any one of you
here would do that
okay quite some of you good how to
question number two is has anyone in
your life taught you how to reflect like
a teacher a friend a family member has
anyone in your life talked to you about
that very field not a lot really okay so
we may have thought that reflection the
idea of reflection is actually inborn to
us we know how to reflect and actually
there is no need to really talk about
that anyway is it really the case but I
think especially for Hong Kong a lot of
us as we step out to work in a society
we will feel the situation that when we
go out to wear in the morning then we
would just go to work and then we may
work overtime and as we go home to have
our dinner would then maybe go to bed
there is not much room not much space
and not much time for us to do a mindful
reflection and that is why I would like
to talk about the idea of the importance
of reflection and so for today I would
like to focus on reflective teaching
as a teacher as an educator we can
actually reflect on the timely basis on
a daily basis on whatever is possible to
make ourselves a better teacher and also
a better lifelong learner
okay so the first thing I would like to
talk about is a little bit background
information of myself so I have been
educated here all the way in Hong Kong
from kindergarten to tertiary and for my
tertiary education I was educated in the
Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology and my major was risk
management and business intelligence but
through all these years of education in
Hong Kong I feel that I didn’t really
have someone to to teach me to talk to
me about how I can actually reflect how
I can reflect in a way that can help me
choose or help me go to direction that
can be better for myself and I remember
as I was studying risk management in HK
UST I was really struggling because what
I thought of risk management I
originally thought that it was related
to crisis management because I had an
interest in managing crises but it turns
out that risk management is about
managing business rates building or
business models for different kinds of
Institute’s or especially financial
sector and as I was approaching to the
end of my study I I saw a lot of my
classmate a lot of my cause mates they
were already looking for multiple
internships during the summer time the
winter time and some of them were
already talking about wanting to secure
maybe the return offers from certain
kinds of companies and it was not until
that that I really start to to wonder to
worry what what I was supposed to do and
I ops I start of course before that my
hai away from myself I may really want
to just try to stick to my path and then
just just finish it anyway and maybe
just follow the pop of my friends but as
I asked myself more questions and I
asked myself to listen to my inner voice
and that is the time that I really
you know maybe I should really choose a
different path maybe if I really if I
really try to follow the path of others
I may not be as good as them so that’s
the time that I really made a move and
try to do something that I really like
and that is education because I since
when I was very small I already have
interest of talking to others and as I
progress in my study I found that I
actually like to talk to students to
talk to children so I apply for a
part-time teaching post in my current
school a school very far away is located
on Atlanta Island isn’t IO which I will
share a bit more about that in the later
part of my speech so as I bombarded
myself with all these questions
I got a room and I call a space for
myself to really do some mindful
reflections as to what I really want to
choose for my future so I think that’s
the first thing about reflection at
least for me and that is asking
questions I think if you ask yourself
questions then you would get to know
more about yourself
you will have more time maybe during a
shower time that you can actually know
what you actually like to do what you
want to do okay and then reflections
when you actually reflect and ask
yourself questions of course it may not
be really helpful if you don’t take
actions but I think for myself as I ask
myself more questions I was there to to
make a move to do actions to take
actions and then I think that make very
much difference for me and another thing
is for me because I’m an in-service
teacher and as I really start teaching
because I was not trained to be a
teacher
so when I when I really started my first
day of teaching facing a bunch of
students in front of me
I remember I prepare a lot I maybe have
or prepared different kinds of
worksheets different kinds of activities
or maybe videos I tape for myself to
introduce myself for them but I turned
out that they didn’t really listen I
don’t know why I didn’t really listen it
may be because of the language that I
use because I taught them English so I
used English all the way
maybe because of the pace of my speech I
may have taught a little bit too fast
but do you know the reason so that is my
face when I can’t start my lesson so I
was really struggling but I didn’t know
how to fix the problem and as I move on
I I may have reflected but I didn’t
really know what to do so I try to work
harder maybe prepare different kinds of
worksheets
maybe you spend my time doing different
kinds of preparation but I think it was
not until I talk to my colleagues I
talked to my friends who are studying in
education that I knew what was wrong
with my teaching so I think the second
piece of advice I want to give to you
about reflection is it’s not only about
sound reflection you can reflect
together with your friends you can talk
to them sometimes they’re vice may not
be very helpful but it provides you with
different kinds of perspectives that can
help you to think so as I talk with my
very experienced colleagues I was very
blessed they talked to me and they told
me that from the observation they
thought that I may have acted a little
bit like an elder brother or friend with
the student because talking to the
students and teaching them are two
different things we talk to them we can
treat them as friends but as we teach
students there needs to be a certain
kind of Authority in the process and as
I realized that and I practiced again
and again after reflections and after
the discussions with my colleagues I
knew that how I can actually improve and
I think I have learned a lot in this
process and in this way of reflections
ok then move on I want to share my daily
routine with you as I said as I move on
from year 3 to my final year of
Education in HKUST I try to take up a
part-time teaching job in Thai oh so you
can see each of us series right here and
tile is right here so it’s like going
from the most eastern side of Hong Kong
to the most southwestern side of Hong
Kong and as you can see on this Google
map it takes around three hours to go
there every single day from Monday to
Friday
his very long chin isn’t it I think a
lot of you would say wow it’s very long
I if I were you I would not do that but
I think is a very good experience for me
and I really chose to do that as I
really as I told my friend about this as
I told my teachers about that I loved a
lot of them would say to me oh no it’s a
waste of time
you could have spent those time doing
some other things which are valuable
which which can have which may help save
your time for example maybe you can take
up jobs in a school library working as a
student helper which I really beat that
beforehand but I think that if I do not
do that I can I would not know what I
really like to do and another thing is
about time since a lot of them told me
is a waste of time but I think that time
is a very good element to the process of
reflection because a lot of us in Hong
Kong we will say we don’t have enough
time but as I as I went from the HKUST
taking minibars and the MTR and then bus
again to my destination I had the time
to do the reflection I had the time to
put my ideas down on the notebooks I had
the time to look up to the Internet to
to see what are the latest trends of
education I had the time to really sit
calmly and really think about what I’ve
done right and what I’ve done wrong
previously in my lessons and how I could
have improved accordingly so I think a
lot of us have been talking about we
don’t have enough time but I think it
depends on how you treat time maybe for
those of you who go to work who go to
study
maybe the duration is not as long as
what I did back then but you can still
make use of that period of time to close
your eyes and to sell meditate or sell
reflect then maybe it would be a better
day for you and talking about time I
want to share my experience as an
in-service teacher with you and what I
have observed in that education sector
in Hong Kong because I found that a lot
of the things that we teachers are doing
and not just teachers a lot of us we
only had to teach we
have to prepare we have to we have to go
out for professional development we also
have to we also have to go to different
kinds of meetings which may not have
direct impacts or have anything to do
with students after all but we still
have to do it it’s a part of our duty
and another thing here is actually some
extracts from a documentary of local
school teachers how they how their daily
routines really are the teachers here
what they are doing is they are having a
very formal discussions among themselves
about whether the girls in their school
because their school is a girl’s school
where the girls of the school should
have the PE uniform the shirts whether
they should tuck in their shirt into
their short or whether they should leave
it out and the discussion could go on
for half an hour an hour or even more
without even a concrete conclusion I’m
not trying to make fun of the teachers
because I think they’re very
hard-working and it may also reflect the
different teachers that their daily
routines how how they work the teachers
of other schools as well but what I want
to say is if we can allow teachers just
more room to more space to really focus
back on our own teaching to prepare for
the students to do the markings to
really reflect on our own teaching then
we will have a generation of better more
qualified teachers to teach our next
generation and I think that not only
applies to a few of Education it also
applies with other fields because I
think the idea of allowing people to
take a rest and to give them some space
to reflect is very important ok so I
think for teachers we can actually
integrate the ideas of reflection into
our daily teaching and how is that
possible I found this this kind of mind
map or routine about reflection on the
Internet
I think he’s an idea come up from
educator from the US and she talks about
the reflection process how to make
reflection possible in a
own classrooms and I think this lesson
is about STEM education since a lot of
us have been talking about stem how we
can integrate the ideas of stem and the
process of making into the teaching of
primary and as a secondary or even
tertiary students and I think ideas here
are actually not very difficult we can
ask them a series of different kinds of
questions and in the beginning they
they’re not very used to it they need
your guidance but as we repeat this all
over again in every single lesson then
they will have the habit of asking
themselves the questions and they are
already in the process of reflections
okay so I would like to share this with
you is a quote from John Dewey we do not
learn from experience but we learn from
reflecting on experience so having
experiences are not enough more
importantly is how we make that an
experience that have values in our self
we put values on experiences and we
learn from our own experiences and last
but not least I want to leave this to
all of you for those of you who are
teachers we’re not only teaching but
we’re also learning at the same time and
if you are not teaches by just
reflecting on yourself by just keeping
keep going and getting to know what you
like to do and thinking about yourself
what you have done in the past how you
want to move forward from day to day
taking up a journey of being a lifelong
learner and that’s the end of my
presentation as Paige thank you very
much [Applause]
introduction about me yes I’m so now
yeah and I am a part-time tgdd student
of the education university of hong kong
majoring in primary English education
and today I would like to talk about
reflective teaching so I’m going to
share with you some of my experiences as
a local in-service teacher and how I’m
fine I can actually apply the idea of
reflection into my daily teaching
routines and for those of you who are in
the field of education you may actually
consider applying some of those into
your practice and for those of you here
who are not really related to the field
of education maybe some of those ideas
can also be applicable to your own
settings and maybe your own careers as
well okay so before I really begin my
speech I would like to ask all of you
two questions the first question is has
any one of you here been actively
engaged in reflection so you will
reflect on a daily basis any one of you
here would do that
okay quite some of you good how to
question number two is has anyone in
your life taught you how to reflect like
a teacher a friend a family member has
anyone in your life talked to you about
that very field not a lot really okay so
we may have thought that reflection the
idea of reflection is actually inborn to
us we know how to reflect and actually
there is no need to really talk about
that anyway is it really the case but I
think especially for Hong Kong a lot of
us as we step out to work in a society
we will feel the situation that when we
go out to wear in the morning then we
would just go to work and then we may
work overtime and as we go home to have
our dinner would then maybe go to bed
there is not much room not much space
and not much time for us to do a mindful
reflection and that is why I would like
to talk about the idea of the importance
of reflection and so for today I would
like to focus on reflective teaching
as a teacher as an educator we can
actually reflect on the timely basis on
a daily basis on whatever is possible to
make ourselves a better teacher and also
a better lifelong learner
okay so the first thing I would like to
talk about is a little bit background
information of myself so I have been
educated here all the way in Hong Kong
from kindergarten to tertiary and for my
tertiary education I was educated in the
Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology and my major was risk
management and business intelligence but
through all these years of education in
Hong Kong I feel that I didn’t really
have someone to to teach me to talk to
me about how I can actually reflect how
I can reflect in a way that can help me
choose or help me go to direction that
can be better for myself and I remember
as I was studying risk management in HK
UST I was really struggling because what
I thought of risk management I
originally thought that it was related
to crisis management because I had an
interest in managing crises but it turns
out that risk management is about
managing business rates building or
business models for different kinds of
Institute’s or especially financial
sector and as I was approaching to the
end of my study I I saw a lot of my
classmate a lot of my cause mates they
were already looking for multiple
internships during the summer time the
winter time and some of them were
already talking about wanting to secure
maybe the return offers from certain
kinds of companies and it was not until
that that I really start to to wonder to
worry what what I was supposed to do and
I ops I start of course before that my
hai away from myself I may really want
to just try to stick to my path and then
just just finish it anyway and maybe
just follow the pop of my friends but as
I asked myself more questions and I
asked myself to listen to my inner voice
and that is the time that I really
you know maybe I should really choose a
different path maybe if I really if I
really try to follow the path of others
I may not be as good as them so that’s
the time that I really made a move and
try to do something that I really like
and that is education because I since
when I was very small I already have
interest of talking to others and as I
progress in my study I found that I
actually like to talk to students to
talk to children so I apply for a
part-time teaching post in my current
school a school very far away is located
on Atlanta Island isn’t IO which I will
share a bit more about that in the later
part of my speech so as I bombarded
myself with all these questions
I got a room and I call a space for
myself to really do some mindful
reflections as to what I really want to
choose for my future so I think that’s
the first thing about reflection at
least for me and that is asking
questions I think if you ask yourself
questions then you would get to know
more about yourself
you will have more time maybe during a
shower time that you can actually know
what you actually like to do what you
want to do okay and then reflections
when you actually reflect and ask
yourself questions of course it may not
be really helpful if you don’t take
actions but I think for myself as I ask
myself more questions I was there to to
make a move to do actions to take
actions and then I think that make very
much difference for me and another thing
is for me because I’m an in-service
teacher and as I really start teaching
because I was not trained to be a
teacher
so when I when I really started my first
day of teaching facing a bunch of
students in front of me
I remember I prepare a lot I maybe have
or prepared different kinds of
worksheets different kinds of activities
or maybe videos I tape for myself to
introduce myself for them but I turned
out that they didn’t really listen I
don’t know why I didn’t really listen it
may be because of the language that I
use because I taught them English so I
used English all the way
maybe because of the pace of my speech I
may have taught a little bit too fast
but do you know the reason so that is my
face when I can’t start my lesson so I
was really struggling but I didn’t know
how to fix the problem and as I move on
I I may have reflected but I didn’t
really know what to do so I try to work
harder maybe prepare different kinds of
worksheets
maybe you spend my time doing different
kinds of preparation but I think it was
not until I talk to my colleagues I
talked to my friends who are studying in
education that I knew what was wrong
with my teaching so I think the second
piece of advice I want to give to you
about reflection is it’s not only about
sound reflection you can reflect
together with your friends you can talk
to them sometimes they’re vice may not
be very helpful but it provides you with
different kinds of perspectives that can
help you to think so as I talk with my
very experienced colleagues I was very
blessed they talked to me and they told
me that from the observation they
thought that I may have acted a little
bit like an elder brother or friend with
the student because talking to the
students and teaching them are two
different things we talk to them we can
treat them as friends but as we teach
students there needs to be a certain
kind of Authority in the process and as
I realized that and I practiced again
and again after reflections and after
the discussions with my colleagues I
knew that how I can actually improve and
I think I have learned a lot in this
process and in this way of reflections
ok then move on I want to share my daily
routine with you as I said as I move on
from year 3 to my final year of
Education in HKUST I try to take up a
part-time teaching job in Thai oh so you
can see each of us series right here and
tile is right here so it’s like going
from the most eastern side of Hong Kong
to the most southwestern side of Hong
Kong and as you can see on this Google
map it takes around three hours to go
there every single day from Monday to
Friday
his very long chin isn’t it I think a
lot of you would say wow it’s very long
I if I were you I would not do that but
I think is a very good experience for me
and I really chose to do that as I
really as I told my friend about this as
I told my teachers about that I loved a
lot of them would say to me oh no it’s a
waste of time
you could have spent those time doing
some other things which are valuable
which which can have which may help save
your time for example maybe you can take
up jobs in a school library working as a
student helper which I really beat that
beforehand but I think that if I do not
do that I can I would not know what I
really like to do and another thing is
about time since a lot of them told me
is a waste of time but I think that time
is a very good element to the process of
reflection because a lot of us in Hong
Kong we will say we don’t have enough
time but as I as I went from the HKUST
taking minibars and the MTR and then bus
again to my destination I had the time
to do the reflection I had the time to
put my ideas down on the notebooks I had
the time to look up to the Internet to
to see what are the latest trends of
education I had the time to really sit
calmly and really think about what I’ve
done right and what I’ve done wrong
previously in my lessons and how I could
have improved accordingly so I think a
lot of us have been talking about we
don’t have enough time but I think it
depends on how you treat time maybe for
those of you who go to work who go to
study
maybe the duration is not as long as
what I did back then but you can still
make use of that period of time to close
your eyes and to sell meditate or sell
reflect then maybe it would be a better
day for you and talking about time I
want to share my experience as an
in-service teacher with you and what I
have observed in that education sector
in Hong Kong because I found that a lot
of the things that we teachers are doing
and not just teachers a lot of us we
only had to teach we
have to prepare we have to we have to go
out for professional development we also
have to we also have to go to different
kinds of meetings which may not have
direct impacts or have anything to do
with students after all but we still
have to do it it’s a part of our duty
and another thing here is actually some
extracts from a documentary of local
school teachers how they how their daily
routines really are the teachers here
what they are doing is they are having a
very formal discussions among themselves
about whether the girls in their school
because their school is a girl’s school
where the girls of the school should
have the PE uniform the shirts whether
they should tuck in their shirt into
their short or whether they should leave
it out and the discussion could go on
for half an hour an hour or even more
without even a concrete conclusion I’m
not trying to make fun of the teachers
because I think they’re very
hard-working and it may also reflect the
different teachers that their daily
routines how how they work the teachers
of other schools as well but what I want
to say is if we can allow teachers just
more room to more space to really focus
back on our own teaching to prepare for
the students to do the markings to
really reflect on our own teaching then
we will have a generation of better more
qualified teachers to teach our next
generation and I think that not only
applies to a few of Education it also
applies with other fields because I
think the idea of allowing people to
take a rest and to give them some space
to reflect is very important ok so I
think for teachers we can actually
integrate the ideas of reflection into
our daily teaching and how is that
possible I found this this kind of mind
map or routine about reflection on the
Internet
I think he’s an idea come up from
educator from the US and she talks about
the reflection process how to make
reflection possible in a
own classrooms and I think this lesson
is about STEM education since a lot of
us have been talking about stem how we
can integrate the ideas of stem and the
process of making into the teaching of
primary and as a secondary or even
tertiary students and I think ideas here
are actually not very difficult we can
ask them a series of different kinds of
questions and in the beginning they
they’re not very used to it they need
your guidance but as we repeat this all
over again in every single lesson then
they will have the habit of asking
themselves the questions and they are
already in the process of reflections
okay so I would like to share this with
you is a quote from John Dewey we do not
learn from experience but we learn from
reflecting on experience so having
experiences are not enough more
importantly is how we make that an
experience that have values in our self
we put values on experiences and we
learn from our own experiences and last
but not least I want to leave this to
all of you for those of you who are
teachers we’re not only teaching but
we’re also learning at the same time and
if you are not teaches by just
reflecting on yourself by just keeping
keep going and getting to know what you
like to do and thinking about yourself
what you have done in the past how you
want to move forward from day to day
taking up a journey of being a lifelong
learner and that’s the end of my
presentation as Paige thank you very
much [Applause]
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