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Jason Wong

Jason Wong. Commerce teacher from Ling Liang Church M H Lau Secondary School. School background. Eight years old In Tai Po Band two to three Both school management and students adapt to new ideas Commerce stream fairly strong Young and cooperative colleagues.

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Jason Wong

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  1. Jason Wong Commerce teacher from Ling Liang Church M H Lau Secondary School

  2. School background • Eight years old • In Tai Po • Band two to three • Both school management and students adapt to new ideas • Commerce stream fairly strong • Young and cooperative colleagues

  3. Company Programme by Junior Achievement Hong Kong(JAHK) • A 18-week programme • Students set up their own ‘real’ company • Students go through business planning, capital raising, merchandising, production, selling and liquidating. • Student-directing

  4. Teachers’ role • Facilitator • Observer • Participant • Partner • Investor • Customer • Friend

  5. Objective and guidance • Various awards offered by JAHK Not focus on profits but the process Best annual report, best booth design, best CEO, best product and so on • Student and advisor manual as a guide • Concrete guidance with room for flexibility and creativity

  6. Multi-sensory ?! Students may learn from …… • Reading the manuals • Listening and expressing in discussion • Observing others (classmates and other schools) • Self-reflecting • Testing and producing the product (technical skills) • Experiencing and interacting • FAILURES …… What teachers do is …… Allowing a safe and open platform for learning

  7. Collaborative learning • Students are divided into groups (departments) • CEO and VPs are elected to lead the company • Departments are to operate by themselves • Leadership, cooperative and communication skills are built up • Trust, cooperation and compromise are found

  8. Ownership Students would …… • run their own business • suffer loses or share profits (support from school and parents) • make up their decision and follow-up • seek help and solution themselves • interact, cooperative and evaluate throughout the whole process

  9. Fruitful learning with fun?! • High degree of autonomous • Students try something ‘new’ • First encounter with the real business world • Students see concrete ‘output’ • Students bear the accountability Teachers enjoy from ‘low-cost and high-effectiveness’

  10. Applicability • Can we do it in lower form? • Can we hold a similar program but in mini size? • Can we seek help from outside? • Can we do it cross-curriculum or inter-school? • Can we motivate the students and other teachers? Can we…… trust our students and ourselves?

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