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Teaching Experience Sharing-Course on December 18, 2012
2012-12-22 16:37:24

The winter solstice is coming, and some people are preparing for tomorrow in the long nights. Such blissful nights only occur around winter solstice. They make people feel peaceful and delighted. I enjoy design and creating in the middle of night. I don’t like summer nights because they are too short, so I am going to grasp these long nights around winter solstice and enjoy creating.

For people who are good at design and creating, they probably don’t really take this seriously because it’s an interest. For people who are specialize in design and creating, they probably take everything as a challenge, a competition or a profit related issue. For me, I guess I am the former, or maybe neither of them. I just simply want to skin my heart by needle, thread and a piece of fiber. Life and nature are two great teachers and they usually give us big topics and questions without any early notice. We must keep learning and seeking for self-discipline.

Last night after class, I felt extremely satisfied and delighted because I have bumped into great creative ideas with my students for the first time through my teaching career. I saw my students learning enthusiastically with their hands and hearts. It is always touching to share stories of creative ideas. I am always thinking about what I can share in class with my students and sharing all these stories usually make us running out of time.

Leading every student into the path of design is what I am expecting and planning. In fact, I have involved design lessons into my lecture every semester for more than a decade. I’ve tried many interesting and creative lesson plans to help my students to learn design. I expect every student of mine could have their own ideas for design. Many of my elder students told me they are too old to learn it and it’s difficult for them to enter the area of design. I understand it could be a big challenge for them, but I will never give up.

To all my elder and younger students, time for us to learn new things is never enough. It is nice to gather together with each other and it is great to record our life stories by sewing. We are just people who write stories with needle and thread, so don’t stress over this.

I am talking about it with great earnestness every year. I wish to see fruitful results in the future.

Let’s press on.

Best of luck to everyone!

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