Kimi Kong: Primary School Department Chinese teacher, homeroom teacher, grade coordinator, member of the School CPC Committee
Mr Kong has been a teacher for 12 years, serving as a Chinese teacher for foreigners, a college counselor, a state-sponsored teacher, and an IB (PYP) teacher. As of this year he has been working within the Xiehe Education Group for seven years, and has won an amazing 2nd Place in Xiehe’s 10th “Stars Program”. In 2019 Mr Kong joined SUIS Qingpu, and just last year he won the 13th “Xieli Hui Outstanding Teacher Award”.
Chinese Teaching-Creativity
With our motto of “Unity in diversity, Innovation through Collaboration”, Mr Kong not only strengthens students’ Chinese language basic knowledge, but also introduces IB concepts such as Inquiry, Big Ideas and Interdisciplinary approaches to Chinese teaching. He actively carries out Chinese Project-Based Learning by guiding students to study with initiative and inquire cooperatively, thereby cultivating students’ creative problem-solving ability.
—Li Mingwei: Deputy director of primary School Department
Mr. Kong adheres to student literacy and builds learning using everyday topics. He not only pays attention to the construction and application of students’ language, but also attaches great importance to the understanding and inheritance of culture. He boldly innovates, carries out project-based learning, leads children to apply Chinese knowledge and skills to solve problems in real situations, and focuses on students’ lifelong learning and lifelong development.
When working with Mr. Kong, it is not difficult to discover quickly that he is a serious, responsible and humorous teacher. In the classroom, Mr. Kong uses an open and leading way to help students become masters of the classroom, and he explores learning with them. After class, I often see him engaged in discussions with students and colleagues. Mr. Kong deserves the love and respect of the children.
Class Management-Love
For classroom management, Mr Kong fully respects all his students. He believes that adequate play and exercise are an indispensable part of a golden childhood, a guarantee of children’s physical and mental health, and an effective way to improve learning efficiency. In addition to PE class, Mr Kimi has been leading students in play and exercise for 20-35 minutes every day over the past three years, releasing in his students their child-like nature.
In Mr Kong’s opinion, the purpose of school is to educate students to not only adapt to society well but also to create a new future. Therefore, he carefully creates an atmosphere of democracy, equality, cooperation and autonomy in the class, and sets up 29 equal class positions where every student participates in classroom management with a “job”, with the homeroom teacher supervising the class.
—Song Liang: Deputy director of primary School Department
Mr. Kong is a very elegant teacher. He has earned a good reputation for his sound guidance for students, his classroom management, and his professional and meticulous guidance for parents through home-school communication. As grade group leader, Mr. Kong always puts forward constructive suggestions in order to open up new ideas for our grade group work.
Grade Management-Cooperation
From school activities such as the Intercontinental Carnival, parent meetings, or grade activities such as outside-the-classroom explorations, Mr Kong always makes detailed plans in advance, and then cooperates with grade teachers and parent volunteers to take action for their implementation.
