Who I Am

"Sharing Skills, Improving Careers"

"Teaching is Researching with Fun"

Dear Everyone:

I am Soeung Sopha. I am working in National Institution of Education (NIE), known as the best teacher training collage in Cambodia.

I have been working in teaching career for about 20 years. I first started working as a primary teacher in 1995. Then I passed a selection exam to be a lower secondary teacher in 2001 after a two year training. After several years of working at lower secondary level with my bachelor's degree in English in 2006, I passed another national selection exam to be an upper secondary teacher. Thus, I started working as a teacher of English in 2007. My majors are Education psychology and English Language. To upgrading my profession, I joined the training in Georgia State University on how to teach foreign language in  early 2010. At the same year in August, I was funded by Japanese government via Japanese Development Scholarship for my Master's Degree in Educational Research and Development. Also, I joined a 11-week Brunei-US English Enrichment Project. 

I work as a lecturer in the faculty of Education at Panhasastra University of Cambodia. I teach some subjects - introduction to teaching methodology and  Basic educational research.  Also, I work as a manager of Adult English Program at the Westline Education Group Co. Ltd . My responsibilities in this position are to develop study curriculum, syllabus and teaching materials, to train teachers, to recruit both local and foreign teachers for the program.

I really love learning new things and sharing ideas and knowledge. Therefore this page is created. 

Some words:

Classroom is the Community of Learning, where teacher is viewed as a navigator of learning process while students are playing a role of the leader for the success.

Teacher can make all professions possible.

Teacher is an agent of change.

If you wish your country to be democracy, you have to teach your class democratically.

Achievement is not the grade (A, B, C, D or F), but it is defined as what your students can do after your class and/or after they graduate.

Starting your class with high motivation, and ending it with an inspiring legacy.

If you come to class with nothing new for your students, just stay home to watch some news to kill your time.

If you cannot be the best educator, you have to be the teacher in the eyes of your learners.

 

"Teachers" have to be Tolerant, Enthusiastic, Academic, Confident, having sense of Humour, Encouraging and Reliable persons and be a Scholar. 

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