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Teacher as Light | Cathy, an outstanding teacher at Yinghua: From a college entrance examination candidate to an internationally renowned economics expert
2025-06-19
Teachers are like Lights
At Yinghua, every teacher is a 'light chaser' in education—they use their expertise as a torch and their passion as a sail, working diligently on the path of teaching and educating, and pouring warmth into the moments of students' growth.
Excellent Teacher Series This series takes you into the daily lives of these 'treasure teachers': listen to them tell their stories of education inside and outside the classroom, and see how they use their craftsmanship to ignite students' thirst for knowledge. The beauty of education lies in the details; the power of growth comes from every sincere companionship.
Ms. Wei Renwei's classroom always carries two perspectives. As an A-Level Economics teacher, she insists on preparing lessons from the students' standpoint, asking herself before each class: "If I were a student, where would I find it most difficult to understand?" This empathy allows her to always accurately pinpoint the key points of knowledge. Those deconstructed economic concepts become building blocks of thinking that students can assemble, and the colored label classification note-taking method—from her high school learning habits—becomes the scaffolding for students to build their knowledge system.
Breaking Barriers: From Experiencer to Guide
Her teaching wisdom is rooted in her real experience of breaking barriers. A top student who scored 140 out of 140 in the Shandong College Entrance Examination in English, she first experienced the embarrassment of "mute English" in group assignments at the University of Macau. It was this transformation from high scores on paper to practical expression that made her place special emphasis on language application in the classroom. Her experience of struggling with Cantonese while studying in Hong Kong became a vivid teaching tool for students from non-Cantonese speaking areas: "Familiarizing yourself with the dialect environment in advance is the key to opening up future possibilities."
Classroom Symphony: The Resonance of Small-Class Teaching
This attitude of integrating knowledge and action runs through her career. Her decision to resign from her job after two years to pursue a master's degree in education confirms her belief that "one must grow before teaching others." Now, in Yinghua's small classrooms, she maximizes the advantages of small-class teaching: the densely written personalized comments on the homework, and the customized tutoring plans for students during breaks, are the best annotations of "precise small-class teaching."
Experiences as Teaching Materials: From Mixology Class to Business Competition Team
Her classroom has no boundaries. The resource allocation principles learned in a Macau mixology class became vivid examples for explaining supply and demand curves; the journey of the first business competition team, from being ignored to students actively volunteering, was transformed into a moral education class on "courage being more precious than trophies"; and the language difficulties in the Hong Kong classroom became empathy for understanding the situation of international students. When graduates are about to leave, she always uses her personal experience to advise them: "The university laboratory holds tools that can change the world, and they are more worth exploring than scenic spots—but don't forget, developing hobbies is the secret weapon for coping with the pressures of a foreign country."
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