1. Why did you choose China pedagogy in Hongkong?
The biggest reason that drives me to choose this education project is my interest, because my childhood wish is to engage in the education industry. I studied English as an undergraduate. I thought at that time that if I were a teacher, I might not have enough theoretical knowledge, and then I wanted to study a postgraduate education project according to my own interests.
Secondly, the reason for choosing the School of Education of the Chinese University of Hong Kong is its ranking. As we all know, the School of Education of the Chinese University of Hong Kong ranks 20th in the world, which is very high.
Thirdly, I chose the general education stream, because it is a relatively extensive branch of education, and there is no specific education. I think it is more suitable for undergraduates like me who have no educational background, so that they can learn more and have more contacts. If I choose a more specific direction, such as curriculum direction or educational psychology direction, I think I may not have enough foundation, so I choose general knowledge flow as the project. At that time, I was admitted to the translation major of Hong Kong Polytechnic University, but I chose the direction of education because of my personal interest.
Second, the basic introduction of the project
The general education program of the Faculty of Education of the Chinese University of Hong Kong lasts for one year. /kloc-entered the school in September of 0/5, and almost all of them handed in their papers in mid-May of 0/6. However, you won't get your diploma until June of 1 16, which is about the length of study. Training direction and general knowledge flow is a relatively broad pedagogy direction. In fact, the course you choose is probably in three aspects: first, the course direction, you can choose some courses; There is also the direction of education policy, and you can choose some courses; There is also the direction of educational psychology, and you can also take some courses.
What kind of students is universal streaming suitable for? In fact, I think anyone with some teaching experience can learn, because you can learn more theories and enrich your practice. Personally, I think it's good for a person who has no experience and no undergraduate background in pedagogy, because its whole curriculum design is relatively broad, that is, all aspects of pedagogy are involved, which can give you a broader understanding of pedagogy.
Third, the learning rhythm and the difficulty of the course.
It's a long story about the learning progress. I really feel that this major I have chosen is cost-effective, with a fast learning pace and quite nervous. I feel more nervous and faster than when I was in Grade Two (because there are many classes in Grade Two).
You have to take 30 credits to graduate from the general flow program, but my friends, who major in general flow education and translation, can all graduate 24 credits, so we have 6 credits more than them, so think about it, after more than 6 credits a year, you are very nervous about your study.
Then, the specific aspect of the course difficulty is that we have to take 1 1 courses a year, which is rarely heard, but in contrast, my roommate takes 8 courses a year and only 4 courses a semester, but we have 6 courses a semester and 5 courses a semester. In contrast, the learning compactness of general flows is still very large.
If the course is difficult, because I have no undergraduate education background, when I entered the postgraduate education class, I was completely blind, and basically I didn't understand those theories. Teachers usually read 5-6 papers a week in each class, but you know that sometimes a paper may have 40-50 pages, which you have to finish after class, so basically if you attend class at night, you will read the papers all day, because if you don't finish reading these, you will feel puzzled and then you will not be impressed, so you must finish reading the papers. This can also be said.
On the other hand, this is the difficulty. Our major is basically based on thesis assessment. Like my classmates, most of their majors are exams, which is a relatively short pain. For example, classes are held at the end of April, and you all have exams at the end of April. After the exams, you will be liberated. But like us, they are all papers, basically starting with 5000 words. Although it is less than undergraduate thesis, it can't bear 5/6 of the thesis in one semester, and its requirements are still more difficult than undergraduate graduation thesis. Maybe my undergraduate major is English, so English thesis is simpler than pedagogy thesis? Therefore, I think when I was writing my thesis for the last course 1 1, it was challenging, and it was not as simple as I expected, because people said that going to Hong Kong to study for a master's degree was just muddling along, that is, you gangsters could get diplomas, but in fact my major was a "pit", but you could really learn a lot. After coming here, I am very interested in the whole.
I don't have any statistics about whether you graduated or not, but none of my brothers and sisters graduated, and the teachers here are also very good. As long as you do everything the teacher asks you to do, you can actually graduate, but whether the score is high or not depends on your efforts!
Fourth, teaching and teachers.
I think this teaching mode is caused by the whole history, geographical location and political reasons of Hong Kong. Its teaching modes are diverse, ranging from the traditional way of teaching students to listen in China to the western teaching ideas, such as cooperative teaching or cooperative inquiry. Like some of my teachers, they will also say that because they are in Hong Kong's special historical and cultural background, the teaching mode adopted in teaching is also a combination of Chinese and Western. I think it is more interesting and novel. Because it is also a college of education after all, you can experience the teaching methods of the most advanced teachers in the world, and he will apply these methods to this real teaching process, which is very interesting.
For the teaching staff of the project, please refer to the website of the college, which has the specific introduction of teachers. It's not just Daniel, it's amazing! Because I study English as an undergraduate, there are very few doctors and postdocs in our major, and most of them are teachers who teach English after graduation from master's degree. However, here are all doctors from Columbia University, doctors from Peking University, and doctors or postdoctoral graduates from various education majors in the United States to teach us. They not only bring more cutting-edge educational methods and ideas, but also bring you a broader vision, which I think is better.
I think there are many exchanges and contacts with teachers, but it still depends on how individuals communicate with teachers. In the first half of the semester, for example, group presentations, and then papers, you have to discuss and communicate with teachers, and some teachers say you ask me out. Let's make an appointment! Then in the second half of the semester, too, you have to talk to the teacher and let the teacher guide you, but you have to take the initiative, so if you enter this major, you must make an appointment with the teacher! About! About!
Moreover, more than half of the teachers in the general flow direction are teachers with mainland background. When they come back from studying abroad to teach Chinese, you won't have great obstacles to communicate with them. Moreover, our college has a feature that mainland students will have a professional tutor as soon as they enter our college. He is your tutor for the whole school year. He basically talks to you at the beginning, middle and end of each semester. No matter what confusion you have in your study or life, you can talk to him. This is the rule of the college, you must talk to you, whether individually or collectively, and then you can have a lot of food!
Verb (abbreviation of verb) about enrollment
In fact, in the School of Education of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the concept of class is not very strong, because everyone is a elective system, so I will briefly introduce the number of students admitted.
The College of Education only enrolls students from four departments in Chinese mainland. One is General Stream, which I studied, and it enrolled about 20 students. The other three departments are policy (educational policy), curriculum (curriculum) and educational psychology. These three departments together may not receive 15 students. If our whole college enrolls students this year (2065,438+05).
About the background of students, about half of the students admitted have no work experience, that is, they go directly to undergraduate graduate students, and half have first-line work experience. Xiaobai (like me) who has no work experience has a good school background, basically 2 1 1 or 985. Like I am a university in China, I also have school backgrounds such as Beijing Normal University, People's Congress, South China Normal University, East China Normal University and Beijing Institute of Technology. Students with work experience basically have 1-5 years of teacher work experience, and the school background is not very bad, but the requirements are relatively low, but basically there are more than one book, and there are fewer ordinary books. What I know is that only one student in this batch recorded on 20 15 is two copies.
IELTS is basically above 6.5, and the professional background of undergraduate students is diverse, but there are many English, and then there are mathematics background, Chinese background, historical background, economic background, and undergraduate students majoring in art (piano). The most special one in our group also admitted a pharmacy major, and the students were very friendly. And after discussing with them, you will find that the depth and breadth of everyone's thinking are deep and wide.
Employment resources of intransitive verbs
Employment resources are not provided by colleges, but by schools. Basically, the school has different companies to share every week. It will send you an email every Friday, and then all the important events this week will be on it, such as which company is going to give a presentation, what kind of job fair or what kind of celebrities are going to give a speech, so everyone should pay attention to the school email.
Regarding the employment direction, I actually heard from our dean. There was a tea party at the beginning of school, and the dean told us that the employment direction was diversified. For example, some people continue to devote themselves to the teaching profession and serve as front-line teachers, including junior high schools, high schools, universities and university counselors. Others enter enterprises, such as doing enterprise training, or doing some work in other directions of enterprises; Of course, there are others who are tyrants and continue to study for doctors, or doctors and doctors.