Soonufat Supramaniam

Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Lubok Buntar, Kedah, Malaysia

Have Faith In Our Students, No Matter How Tough It Gets: The Hope & Struggles of a Teaching Artist In A Rural School In Kedah

Students from Soon's school are definitely not the most welcoming ones during his first few years of teaching. Many students from the high need school where he works have family issues. The only way of love that these kids know is through violence and anger. How then do teachers have faith and continue to hold high expectations for both themselves and their students?

Through redefining what excellence looks like in his educational practice, Soon has gathered a group of passionate educators to work on project based learning, issues based performance writing, camps on addressing social issues and improving language skills, student leadership projects, career management modules and professional theatrical productions.

His works have been selected as transformational practices in the Global Teacher's Forum in Abu Dhabi and London. Seven of his students were also selected to participate in student-led conferences in Taipei, Taiwan and Mumbai, India.

The core of these approaches is the faith that we must have for all of our students. In his presentation, he will be sharing about his redefined vision of education, encounters with his most "aspiring" students and highlights from his teaching practices as a Teaching Artist (a term he used with his team from Leadspire Academy to refer to the educators who work with them).

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