國際課程之計算機科目老師分享

Jason Hunt

澳大利亞拉籌伯大學計算機工程榮譽學士

崗位：國際課程學術負責人IT，數學教學

Q你好Jason，很高興今天能和你一起分享你的故事。為了能讓大家更多的了解你，我們先來聊聊你的大學生活吧，請問你是從哪個學校畢業的？在大學學習的專業是什么？

Good morning, Jason. And nice to have an interview with you today. Lets go back to your college life,first question is what's your major in university where you graduate from?

Jason：我的專業是計算機工程，我畢業于位于澳大利亞墨爾本市的La Trobe大學。我選擇這所大學的原因是：在我上大學的那個時代，這所大學是澳大利亞唯一一所開展計算機科學并有人工智能課程的大學。

My major is a first class honors in a computer systems engineering.?I went to La Trobe University?in Melbourne. And the reason I chose that university was at the time that was the first university to offer that type of course and certainly focus on artificial intelligence.

Q我看到你簡歷上寫著你畢業后在IT行業工作過很長的時間，請問是什么原因讓你改變了自己的職業，去成為一名老師呢？

So after you graduated, I saw your resume, you are working in the IT industry for a while.Why you decided to transfer your career into a teacher?

Jason： 這是一個非常好的問題，讓我決定成為一位老師的原因主要有兩個。有段時間我在韓國工作的時候，我作為公司的顧問，會去訪問很多公司。我那時候的主要工作是用計算機系統替換掉那些公司需要淘汰的員工，這和我父親的角色很不一樣，因為我的父親就是一名教師，而且是我的老師，我很敬佩他。所以我從事了一段時間這樣用電腦淘汰人工的工作后我也想有些改變。第一我不想再做讓別人失業的工作，我想和我父親一樣做能幫助別人的工作。第二我之前做過計算機培訓的工作，所以我和我爸爸商量后,我覺得成為一名老師是一個很不錯的選擇。

That's a good question. I'll answer that probably in two points. Um, when I was working in Korea, I was working in a lot of industries because I was a consultant. So I got to move in lots of companies and to be honest, a lot of my jobs I really liked in the IT industry was replacing people with computers and this was very different to my father. My father was a teacher. I actually had my father as my teacher at school. So there are two things I decided that I wanted to give back to people. I didn't want to be in a job where I'm replacing people with computers. I wanted to be in a job where I'm actually helping people. I've done training in computers before. And I thought talking to my father going into teaching year. Good thing to do.

Q太棒了，聽上去像是家族的傳承，請問你是在哪里開始轉變自己的職業成為一名老師的？

Fantastic. Sounds like it's a family heritage. When you decide to transfer your career into a teacher, where you started？

Jason：我是在日本東京開始的我的教育事業，我在東京的英語機構里工作了一段時間，之后我在東京成立了自己的英語培訓機構并在那里工作了5年。我們的機構向日本的學生和成人教授英語課程。

I started in Tokyo, in Japan, and I worked for an English company there. And eventually I decided to branch out and create my own English teaching company. Um, and then I built that up and eventually employed five other teachers, expand that business over five years to teach ?students and adults in? various areas in Tokyo.

Q是什么原因讓你來到了云南昆明？

Why you choose Kunming？

Jason：我聽我朋友提起過“春城”，也就是昆明。他們和我說了那里天有多藍氣候有多怡人。所以我決定來到昆明，來了之后我就意識到，這里就是我想待的地方。之后我就在昆明待了8年一直到現在。

Some of my friends had been to Kunming just traveling. And they mentioned it's the, you know the spring city and it's up in the mountains and blue skies. And I was sitting in Hangzhou looking at the sky going, this isn't blue. And I thought, I want to move somewhere where it's a better environment. As soon as I came down to visit Kunming, I realized this is where I want to be. And I've been here for, I think, nearly eight years.

Q?哇，8年也算是很長的一段時間了。那請問你在昆三中國際部任教期間有哪些心得，你覺得昆三中國際部是一所怎樣的學校？在將來的工作中有哪些想法能和我們分享一下嗎？

Wow, eight years, such a long time.can you describe the job environment, is there anything you want the school to improve or you can help the school improve?

Jason：?當然，我在昆三中國際部任教幾門不同的科目。我現在負責Keystone的項目，我會教授和幫助學生教他們如何完成Keystone的作業。我也在教授他們計算機課程，下個學年我也將會負責數學課。

關于三中國際部是什么樣學校這個問題，我覺得就我自己的角度來說。我在其他的國際學校也任教過，有些學校不是那么關心他們學生，而昆三中國際部是真的為學生提供了一個非常溫暖和有幫助的環境。三中國際部花了更多的時間和精力去了解學生們到底需要什么。在此之上再幫助學生選擇他們想去的學校，甚至人生想走的道路。

我之前在另一所和三中國際部有競爭關系的學校工作，但是他們針對每位同學都是同樣的教學方式和教學內容，但在三中國際部，我可以很自豪的說三中國際部給予了學生們更多的選擇，那些有不同的升學方向的學生有了來自學校的更多支持，比如你不想學自然科學而是人文類專業的話，我們也有相應的課程可供選擇。

I've?taught?a few things here at number three. Um, and I've?been teaching uh, helping with the keystone program and helping students go through that. Um, I helped introduce the idea of a computer course because with my background in computers, I think it's very important nowadays, the key to learning computers. Um, next year I'll?be moving into or next school year, I'll?be moving into uh, teaching the I fly program in doing mathematics, uh, because I've?done many years of teaching mathematics.

Um, and I think in answer to how the school is, um, I've?worked in other Chinese?schools, as I've?mentioned, and some of them are. Let's just say not so caring of the student. Um, and I would say number three really provides uh, a caring and supportive environment for the students. Um, and this is certainly a school that pays a lot of attention to what the students want. And will help them uh, choose different paths of where they want to go with their university studies.

I know I've?worked in a competing school in this city, which I won't say the name, but I know at that school, It's?very much focusing lots of students to the same style of study. Um, and?I'm?pleased to say that, you know, number threes a lot more supportive of students who don't want to follow the normal path, especially, uh, students who, you know, don't just want to study the sciences. Um, we've got a lot of support for students who want to study humanities and other subjects.

Q你在國際部任教過程中有遇到什么挑戰嗎？

What kind of challenge you meet when you teaching students in international department?

Jason： 我認為最大的挑戰來自學生，就進入國際部的學生而言，意識到在學習過程當中需要使用多少英語是很重要的。作為一名外國英語教師，我的工作就是用英語教授一切我需要教給學生的知識，并幫助學生讓他們的英語水平更上一層樓。所以在我任教的各科科目里，我不止是需要教授科目內容，同時也要教授英語，而這兩者之間的平衡比重很具有挑戰性。對于想要加入國際部的新學生來說，有一個很重要的事情就是，他們要明白除了學科內容外，因為各個學生英語水平的參差不齊，英語好的同學會覺得這科很簡單，但英語基礎稍微薄弱的同學就會覺得很難。有很多的科目都需要自己額外的努力。

I think the?big challenge for any student that joins an international department is uh, the realization of how much English?he's getting used.Obviously as?a foreign teacher, you know, my job is to teach everything in English?and help develop the students'? of English. Um, and so the big balance with a lot of these subjects is uh, you're not just teaching the subject, you're teaching the language. And I think for any student that decides to join in the international part to part me, you know, It's?important to understand is that extra study that they have to do. Um, and it?can be a big challenge, because you know we get a range of students. And some students may find some of this language easier to pick up. And some students might, you know, find it not so easy.

Q當你談到教學和學生的時候都讓人印象很深刻。在最后，你能給你的學生一些建議嗎？

It's very impressive when you're talking about the students.In the end, can you give your students some advice？

Jason：?作為一名老師，我認為對我的學生們來說最重要的就是在將來能找到自己喜歡的專業，因為我在大學里學習的就是我喜歡的專業，學習真的使我很快樂。所以同學們將來在大學里的第一年可能還是找不到自己喜歡的專業，但大二大三你繼續嘗試，一定能找到自己喜歡的專業。我覺得這是最重要的，無論是學習還是工作，如果你能做你喜歡的事的話那就會輕松許多，學習和工作就不再是負擔，而會成為你的一部分。

I obviously think, you know, the main thing is that students find a subject that makes them happy. Um, I know that I found subjects myself to the felt made me happy. Um, you may not find that subject in the first year of your university. You know, it might take until the second year or even the third year for some students where you find what type of subject really makes you happy. But I think It's?important to find that because, you know, I think it's very important not to just think this is just for a job.

I think, you know,It's?you that's doing everything. And if you find something that makes you happy, like I did when I did my university, it becomes so much easier to study because it doesn't become study anymore. It becomes?part of you.