Charis Kwok

I am an enthusiastic early childhood teacher who loves to engage and interact with children through speaks, actions and body language. I have a range of experience, from assisting classroom teachers, during my practicum period and my part time job. Over the years, I have worked with children ranging from 2 to 6 years old, and this has enhanced my understanding in child development.

With my enthusiasm and positivity towards teaching, I enable myself to inspire and motivate children to become a learner who enjoy exploring their own learning environments and searching their own answers. I always want to provide children with a good quality and positive learning experiences. Also, I love to work with children with a wide spectrum of special educational needs and learning differences which supporting them to learn with languages difficulties, attentional and behavioral issues.

Through my experience, I learnt how to use different individual plan to help them in class.

Teaching Activity Leader May - July 2022

Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery United Kingdom

• Leading workshop especially history storytelling and practical exercise of Egyptian and Roman for children
• Prepared different props for the activity
• Ensured children safety in the museum 

Teacher Assistant (Primary Enrichment Programme) Mar - Apr 2022

University of Exeter United Kingdom

• Listening to children read, reading to them or telling them stories
• Helping children who need extra support to complete tasks especially children with special educational needs
• Supporting teachers in managing class behaviour and ensured children safety in the classroom

Student Teacher Jul 2020

Child Development Centre Hong Kong 

• Designed Individualise Education Programme plan for children with different special educational needs
• Proposed a digital learning platform Moodle and persuaded by the subject panel and adopted. To show fellow teachers and children the benefits of the platform and "how to amaze" them. Created a presentation slide and use case example.

Student Teacher Apr - May 2019

Fairchild Nursey and Kindergarten Hong Kong

• Implemented teaching plan in the classroom and make sure the plans were according to children ‘s interest 
• Co-constructing with children and gave control to them to find their own interest by giving them direction 

Student Teacher Nov 2018

Homantin Yang Memorial Methodist Pre-School Hong Kong

• Taught 1 infant class (3 to 6-year-old students) in English (Verbal reasoning), Non-verbal and Math, 25 classes/ week.
• Took initiative to perform online and academic research to plan and lead innovative and interactive teaching activities, e.g.

cooking, physical activities.

• Proposed, developed e-learning resources for English (verbal reasoning), Music learning using Kahoot, Google Classroom,

Padlet, Nearpod, PowerPoint for games, independently. To design educational content for children in class.

• Ensured the well-being of the children in the classroom, especially safety and hygiene

Student Teacher March 2018

Yew Chung International School (Early Childhood) Hong Kong

• Design curriculum for children in class (play-based curriculum based on child’s interest like cooking)
• Daily teaching (physical activities in outdoor area and read storybooks)

MA Special Educational Needs

University of Exeter

Sep 2021- Sep 2022 Exeter, United Kingdom

BSc Applied Child-Development (Achieved: 2:1 honour)

The University of Hong Kong

Sep 2019- Jun 2021 Hong Kong