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发表于 22-7-2013 20:28:50|来自:新加坡
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故事明天讲,先放两个自我介绍
我的
My experience with the national team training has been a defining one at this point of my life. I was first selected into the national team training in 2004, when I was in Sec 4. Since then, I had had three years there as a trainee, two years as volunteer during NS and two more years as trainer and observer for the IMO.
I could still recall the time when I was a trainee. I was very motivated and worked very hard for a place in Singapore’s IMO team. However, in the end, although I made the team, I only got two bronze medals at the IMO(both were near misses for silver medals). Looking back at my student days, I feel very strongly that there are a lot of things in my self training that could have been done differently, the efficiency could have gone up many folds if it was coupled with guidance from top trainers. Subsequently, when I was training the national team, I was always eager to share my experience and offer my opinion on their training.
Having been in this industry for this many years, I can assure you that I am among the best Olympiad trainers your kid can ever get. Having worked alongside inspiring maths teachers from RI and NUSH and dedicated professors from NUS for several years, I am confident to help your child in getting the best result he or she could.
Besides national team training, I have also taught at a few of the most established and profitable centres, several secondary schools and primary schools, as well as numerous 1-1 and group maths tuition. I am aware of the difference in student capability and always try to make the training suit their level. In some centres I have witnessed how a few less professional trainers teach from the book and are unwilling to entertain related questions or incapable of explaining solutions clearly because they themselves couldn’t understand the solution. Such things will not happen at my centre because I adopt a “quality first, profit second” approach, always thinking what I can offer before what I can get, and having a strict criteria for selecting trainers. In our centre, we have a personalised schedule for every student and we put student’s talent development at heart.
I am very passionate about teaching. As early as when I was in JC2, I volunteered to go back to teach a group of River Valley High School Juniors for the SMO. Over the years, I have gathered vast teaching experience. I was also eager to improve my teaching skills, so I sat in for some lectures on pedagogy while in university. I also made good use of my participations in the IMO as observer to make friends with legendary Olympiad trainers from other countries in a bid to learn their secrets to stellar Olympiad performances. Some of the trainers include Xiongbin, an extremely experienced trainer and multiple time China team leader, whose book I used to study since my primary school days, Paisan Nakmahachalasint, the Thailand team leader and fresh Berkeley engineering phD graduate who helped Thailand became one of the top 10 teams from a team that used to be on par with the Singapore team, and Yongjin Song, the South Korean team leader who have helped Korea to maintain a top 3 performance despite the small talent pool to draw the IMO team from in Korea. My aim is to play a role in helping Singapore maintain a top 10 or even a top 5 performance in the IMO. As such, my centre would contribute a part of its net profit to finance additional national team training activities in the future.
有俊的
My long journey in the Mathematics Olympiad community began way back when I was in Secondary One. Well, technically it began when I was in Primary 6, when I won the RIPMWC and consequently represented Singapore in an international Mathematical competition held in Hong Kong, but the “real thing” began in Secondary 1, when I got into the Junior Training Team after performing well in the SMO.
From then, I was brought into a whole new realm of Mathematics I eventually came to love, and will continue to love. It was one in which creative and critical thinking are the sources of our inspiration and mental clarity forms the foundations of our playing field, one where the human qualities of perseverance, humility, appreciation and the desire to surpass one’s perceived limits play crucial roles in how we developed.
Through the trainings, and much personal dedication, I improved, and by the end of Secondary 2, I was in the National Team, where I was given opportunities to participate in international competitions like the China Mathematical Olympiad and the China Western Mathematical Olympiad, winning many top awards. These experiences further allowed me to further test my limits and learn from my mistakes. Finally, after just missing the team by a single position twice, I earned a place in the team representing Singapore in the IMO 2012, where I attained a silver medal.
At that point, I thought that my time in the Mathematics Olympiad community was over, but here I am again. I am extremely grateful to the trainers and teachers for the time and effort they put in to develop me in the subject I loved, for without them I would not have achieved what I have, and be what I am today. For that reason, and driven by my enthusiasm for Mathematics Olympiad, I continue to be a Mathematics Olympiad trainer today. Having been in the Olympiad community since a young age, I am ready to share the large amount of experience and skills I have gained to help your child develop.
Ironically though, I am currently studying Medicine locally in NUS, having given up a chance to read a course in Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge under a scholarship. Even so, this has not in any way quenched my passion for Olympiad Mathematics, and I believe I will continue to enjoy Olympiad Mathematics like I always have, appreciating the grace and grandeur of elegant solutions and the sheer purity and absoluteness of the subject we know as Mathematics. |
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