Teacher Insights

Nov 26
2018

What is 'The Box'​ we're supposed to be thinking outside of?

Phil Morgan is Director of Creativity and Head of Human Technologies at ICHK I used to have a poster on my classroom wall exhorting my students to “Think Outside the Box!” I’ve taken it down and I’m not putting it back up. Here’s why… When we ask people to...

Nov 07
2018

How a Growth Mindset Helped to conquer the sport of polo

Jon Rees is a teacher of English, Human Technologies and Theory of Knowledge at ICHK In the last 11 months, Jon Rees took up the challenge of learning to ride a horse so that he could participate in the first ever Hong Kong Polo Beginners Cup in Tianjin, China. That tournament took place last...

Nov 05
2018

Bamboo Creativity

Phil Morgan is Director of Creativity and Head of Human Technologies at ICHK A few years ago I visited The Green School in Bali. In educational terms it is an almost-mythical ‘Shangri-la’ of a school – the world’s most beautiful and ecologically aware institution....

Aug 14
2018

Deep Learning at ICHK

Ray Chan is Head of PE, Activities & Deep Learning at ICHK As I reflect upon the year, my mind naturally tends towards the Deep Learning programme that we have initiated this year.  As the coordinator of this programme, I feel privileged to have worked with staff on a wide-ranging curriculum...

Aug 13
2018

The Neverheard Beforechestra

Phil Morgan is Director of Creativity and Head of Human Technologies at ICHK The thing I appreciate most about working at ICHK is the uncommon attitude to risk-taking, experimentation, and the very real possibility of failure in the pursuit of learning. If you don’t work in education you...

Jun 21
2018

The art of growing up

Ross Parker is Director of Technology, Pedagogy & Assessment at ICHK The process of becoming an adult is one of life’s main preoccupations: it takes a long time, and requires the investment of a considerable amount of personal, familial, societal energy. As a secondary school teacher I feel...

May 14
2018

A mesocosm study at ICHK

Jamie Holden is a Teacher of Maths at ICHK If you happen to visit ICHK and climb to the top of C block to visit c307, you may be lucky enough to see two things. The first is the amazing view over Starling Inlet, a view unique to ICHK. The second is several jars on

Dec 06
2017

Making school fit for its 21st century purpose

Toby Newton is Head of School at ICHK. This was his greeting to the ICHK community in the Winter newsletter. The year started with the news that we have been included in Cambridge University’s list of the 100 most innovative schools worldwide. Lists of this kind always give rise to questions...