Phoebe C
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
King’s College London, Master of Science, Microbiome in Health and Disease
Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Bachelor of Science, Food Science and Nutrition
LANGUAGES
English (Fluent) ; Mandarin (Fluent) ; Cantonese (Conversational) ; Malay (Fluent) ; Japanese (Beginner) ; French (Beginner)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Private Tutor
Sabah Tshung Tsin Secondary School : Biology / General Science
A-level: Biology
GCSE: Biology, General Sciences, Chemistry, English
Primary School: Phonics (infant level), Chinese Mandarin, Mathematics, General Sciences, English
SKILLS
• Public speaking
• Educational leadership
• Documentation, familiar with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Publisher, Microsoft Powerpoint, Pages for Mac, Keynote for Mac, Numbers for Mac, Sketchbook by Autodesk, SPSS.
• Entry coding skills with RStudio and BASH
•Reading, Crocheting, Watching dramas and movies, Photography
WORK EXPERIENCE
Biology teacher
Sabah Tshung Tsin Secondary School, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
• Worked with Science department Head as special adviser on curriculum development for Biology programme.
• Maintained positive, supportive relationships and communication channels with parents and caregivers.
• Delivered lab lessons, utilising lab equipment and experiments to further student learning.
• Effectively managed classroom behaviour through deescalation and redirection techniques. • Provided interactive and digital learning sessions during COVID in compliance with quality learning standards.
• Supervised safe lab work, closely monitoring students’ adherence to all health and safety policies.
• Assessed student performance, behaviour and social development and devised improvement strategies for struggling children.
• Established and enforced clear class objectives and requirements to promote consistent education for all students.
Translator/Interpreter
Yu Gong Decoration Sdn. Bhd., Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
• Translated various documents within tight deadlines, including legal and technical content.
• Proofread completed translations to catch and fix punctuation, grammatical and translation errors.
• Conducted in-depth research or consulted with specialists to obtain information on technical information translation or scientific phrases.
• Translated original text, ensuring perfect spelling, grammar and punctuation.
• Offered quick verbal translations of documents for use by legal and business professionals. QA/QC R&D TRAINEE (03/2013 - 08/2013) Sabah International Dairies, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia
• Applied expert knowledge for daily completion of tasks and streamlining workflows.
• Monitored system functioning closely, troubleshooting and resolving issues
PERSONAL STATEMENT
I have always been enclosed in the teaching environment. My mother is a teacher, and since I was young, students would always come to my house for tuition classes. Once in a while my mother would let me handle some of the younger kids in the class, to help them get through with the tuition session.
I began to officially conduct tuition classes when I completed my formal secondary school education. One of my ex-neighbour’s kid was not performing well academically, and her national exam (for primary school level) was coming up in 4 months’ time. When I tutored her, I realised that the kid was not given encouragement to learn Maths and Science. The many years of neglect have rendered her to accept that she lacks the intelligence to understand the subjects, and that failure was a norm in her academics. It did take me a lot of effort to raise the kid’s confidence in learning again, but I was glad that our (mine and the kid’s) effort paid off because she eventually passed these subjects with B’s. I enjoyed the sense of accomplishment from this task, and since then I have been tutoring, even when I was studying in the university.
Even though I am academically prone towards the Sciences, especially Biology, I have always shown aptitude in languages. Throughout my schooling years, I have mastered English, Chinese and Malay, and this has enabled me to work as a translator and interpreter in a Chinese-based construction company in Malaysia. Being trilingual, I can easily switch between languages I believe that correct pronunciation of words is crucial in mastering a language, therefore I have also taken on the task of teaching phonics to kindergartners. I enjoy teaching Biology and General Sciences as well, because it allows the student to learn factual information about life, and also train students to think critically.
Through the years of my teaching experience, I have discovered that in order to reap the benefits of teaching, resonance from students matter as much as my own teaching skills and expertise. Several trials and errors have allowed me to tweak my teaching methods according to the students’ level of understanding, and to this day I find that tutoring is continuous process of upgrading my own teaching skills. For me, tutoring is and will always be a challenging journey in my teaching career, and I welcome it with open arms because of the numerous rewarding experiences it provides as I embark on it with every student I have.