Ms. Vivian Hong

Presentation Title: Design and Practice of an Interdisciplinary Pedagogy of HEAL(History, Environment, Anthropology, Logic) facing to Secondary School Students

International Baccalaureate Organization, United Kingdom

Past Speaker

Vivian Hong has spent years teaching humanity lessons at secondary schools in China and England whose students are from diverse cultural background. She got her MA Education from University College London and now works for the International Baccalaureate Organization(IBO) as an IB Examiner and IB Workshop Leader. On her track record, her experience including teaching History, Geography, and Chinese Mandarin, working as the Head of Humanity Department at schools, supervising marking quality of humanity subjects in IB exams, and holding training workshops facing to peer teachers with the aim of improving pedagogy skills. Her other roles including a member of peer-reviewing at the British Educational Research Association(BERA) and an Award Leader of the Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award. She is keen on sharing her philosophy on secondary school humanities education, which is: to weave a tapestry of different knowledge domains by crossing the subject boundaries.