Comments from 2007 Summer Fellows
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The TALE
presentation were an eye-opening
experience and very inspiring
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Very fruitful
discussion and feedback session
among fellows after the TALEs
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Great
opportunity to self-reflect and
self-critique
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Great
platform to exchange hands-on
teaching experience
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The workshop
presented by Stuart was great!
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Dr. Mak has
provided helpful guidance and
facilitated the discussions.
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Facilitators
have provided ample
opportunities for explorations
and discussions among the
teacher fellows.
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Both the
speaker and facilitators were
resourceful.
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Comments from 2006 Summer Fellows
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I find the TALEs enlightening
and very useful for my teaching
practice. I learnt a lot of new
ideas which can be applied to
the students I teach.
- Some daily logs and summary
reports themselves are excellent
presentations. I'm amazed at the
creativity they have.
- Really enjoy writing every
day even it's not easy to sit
still for writing every morning
and night. But it's a good start
for me!
- Dr. Mak is very helpful and
caring. She facilitates us to
reflect and discuss and she
tries her best to make the best
arrangements for us.
- The facilitators are very
knowledgeable and provided
useful comments. Their
facilitation stimulated our
thinking, I still continued to
think after the Institute.
- Enjoying the response
groups; very constructive and
inspiring sharing.
- Appreciated very much the
opportunity to share the
teaching experience of other
teachers. Eye-opening and
opening my world to the realm of
creative writing.
- Extremely satisfied as I
have met a lot of friendly and
delicate teachers.
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Comments from 2005 Summer Fellows
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Very good, particularly the
coaching. Great to have a chance to
talk one on one with such a
renowned scholar.
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Pat is wonderful, he gives me
effective and constructive
feedback and suggestion. The
most important and precious
thing that he gives me is
freedom.
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A kind of professional
development between teachers
from different schools. A good
opportunity to exchange ideas.
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Wonderful. I have found this
stimulating and challenging as I
see the holes in my own
classroom teaching. I am more
aware of the gaps in my
studentsˇ¦ learning
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Useful for me to brainstorm
ideas and see if they can be
implemented in my curriculum
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Eye-opening.
Most of them are inspiring
especially for me as a new
teacher.
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Generally
good! I like the introduction of
writing as a process, jigsaw
puzzle, peer response groups,
pics and cults, managing
students' paper.
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A good chance
to enhance more interactive
communication and gets to know
the differences in writing style
by hearing others read their
writings.
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Comments from 2004 Summer Fellows
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It empowers me as a writer. I never expected that must praise from anybody. Now they keep calling me what you call it? ˇV Poet and what I have been writing ˇV Poems. I have never thought about myself and what I write as poetic. (From a teacher working as panel chairperson with over 24 years of teaching experience)
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The most valuable part of the Institute is the demonstration and presentation. The quality is excellent because the fellows are all experienced, dedicated and have had lessons field tested and proved to be successful. The facilitation, the questions, comments, websites, books, authors ˇK are just what we need. ˇK Iˇ¦d recommend this (the Summer Institute) to school principals. (From a teacher working as curriculum development coordinator with over 27 years of teaching experience)
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An inspired programme to stimulate teachers to write and give a chance to teachers to build up network. Wonderful! The only thing was not so good was the programme too short. (From a teacher with 3 years of teaching experience)
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I really want to thank the Institute for bringing me back the joy of writing. The timing is fine. I know the schedule is tight as we have only two weeks. This is a very valuable experience to me and very fruitful for my teaching career. (From a teacher with 3 years of teaching experience)
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The Institute was organized in a professional manner with clear expectations on participants. The commitment and enthusiasm of participants were evident, which was an element contributing to the Instituteˇ¦s success. The mixture of young and experienced teachers is a good one. Demonstrations were definitely stimulating and mostly of high quality. But more time, space needed for reading, writing other than the assignments and reflection. (From a teacher with over 20 years of teaching experience)
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Much appreciation to Greta and Deborah (the two facilitators). Barley (the director of the WrITE Project) was superb in her handling of the project as the coordinator! She provided a collegial and supportive environment for everyone. (From a teacher working as panel chairperson with 12 years of teaching experience)
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