By G10 Christina and Martina，G11 Stella
Opening Words
Time flies. Half of this semester has passed. However, due to the pandemic, Mr.Lee, who is in Canada, could not get to everyone’s side on time. Although the distance between us is 9,100 kilometers, and across a computer screen, this cannot stop the students from learning! In order to let students know more about Mr. Lee, the members of the newsletter club conducted an online interview. Let us have a look!
Essential Information
Name: Serge Lee
Graduated from: The University of Calgary
Undergraduate major: English, Education
Hobbies: Reading, learning Chinese
Teaching Features: Diverse and interesting classes for students to learn through practice.
Future Plans and Goals: To build good relationships with students and teach them how to grow into proper adults, and to never stop learning to become the best teacher he can possibly be.
The 2020-2021 academic year will be the first year for Mr. Lee to join our BCOS family. It will be a special year for him as he has just graduated from the University of Calgary in Canada with a Bachelor’s degree in English and a Bachelor’s degree in Education. This year is also his first year as a teacher. Although this is Mr. Lee’s first year here, he is already well liked by his students for his colorful and interesting classes. At the same time, this is also his first year in China. He has a special interest in Chinese traditional culture, and he has long planned to come to China for professional development. If you want to ask why Mr. Lee became a teacher in the first place, you have to start from his school days: he volunteered as an adult ESL teacher in Canada and found that he loved teaching. Of course, we believe that he must also like us outstanding students to have a full vision of this career. He reads a lot in his spare time and tries hard to learn Chinese by himself. Although he often meets difficulties in the process of learning, he does not give up. This is because he is looking forward to coming to China, to Jiaxing: a city with a long history and a quaint taste; a city where both his lovely students and colleagues who work together and encourage him are. At the same time, he also has a clear goal for himself, that is, to be a teacher who never stops learning, tries new things, and faces up to his mistakes and learns from them, which is also part of how he defines being a good teacher. In addition, he believes that trust between teachers and students is indispensable to a good classroom because if teachers and students cannot work together then the students cannot really learn.
This year he is serving a the Career Life Learning teacher in grade 10, as well as the teacher of Composition 11 and New Media 12, and he also leads the Entrepreneurship Club. He united our hearts, taught us some truths about life, helped us set sail on the ocean of life, and teaches us how to be adults. To provide us with higher quality teaching, he decided to strive to be the best teacher in our school! Finally, Mr. Lee wants to say to all of us: “Get out of your comfort zone and don’t be afraid to fail. Everyone fails at some point in their life, and what we choose to do next is the most important thing. Do we choose to let our failures bring us down, or do we choose to learn from them and come out stronger? I hope that all of my students will learn, in our short time together, how to see failure as a strength.” Students! Let us work together, with the teacher’s expectations, gradually towards a better future!