Jason Wong

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

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Teachers role

• Facilitator
• Observer
• Participant
• Partner
• Investor
• Customer
• Friend

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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?