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accomplished. In terms of administration, most of all, I can support the teachers. After all, the job of administration is for me to help teachers create a great classroom environment. Uche: I feel a sense of pride in seeing my students learn and develop into their own. Empowering students or people around me to become who they should be through teaching, mentoring, sharing of personal and professional experiences,, is part of what makes my life beautiful. My background, history and experiences shape my approach to everything that I do with my students, especially as it relates to teaching and learning. Talking about experiences, I advised a team of students who won the championship in the HKICPA national accounting QP Case Analysis Competition 2014, which was a big honour. That experience is one example that validates my belief that every student is important, irrespective of his or her academic excellence or otherwise.
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On being a writer … Charles: One of my fictions Your Flower Boy was nominated for the Pushcart Prize, submitted by the editors of New Writings in Criminal Justice at City University of New York. It is a collection of short stories about relationships between couples and individuals across different cultures. My stories often show the perspectives of both and some of the difficulties of economy they confront, communicating from one linguist in a cultural landscape to another.
I ' m writing a book. It ' s similar to the previous one. But I ' m working at a larger novel telling from different perspectives and experiences so as to picture the life and the neighbourhood community. I ' m trying to retell the story from different points of view.
How to engage with students … Charles: I think in any classroom the best way is to give your knowledge, and then also to be open to get feedback and to probably agree to make a conversation. The best classroom experiences are when you provide the basis where a conversation can form and then get their responses. Especially in China or when in any different culture, you sometimes get responses that surprise you, which makes the classroom experiences more rewarding.
I always try to listen and to have real relationships with students as an individual human being and get to know them.
查尔斯在导师关顾计划户外活动里与学生交流 。 摄影: 姚雨彤( 大三 现当代英语语言文学)
Charles meets his students in an outdoor activity of the Mentor Caring Programme. Photograph: Youth Yao( CELL, Year 3)
Adjusting to Zhuhai … Charles: My wife is from Tianjin, north of China. I would say I ' m familiar with being in a different culture. Tianjin and Zhuhai are different worlds. In terms of weather I ' m a bit more used to the north. On the other hand, I like the food in the south. Zhuhai is clean and it is easy to adapt to as opposed to Tianjin and other places.
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