15/03/2016
A professor speaks about how Chinese students are very weak in areas of independence, creativity, and communication. But US students have their own weaknesses too. If only we could give students the best of both worlds (hint: Impact Ed!)
China’s education system leaves students woefully unprepared for the real world
"What they lack more is the ability to bring up viewpoints and justify them."
13/03/2016
Through are partnership with the School of the Nations in Macau, we have access to the computer lab. Here students are taking notes during a "how-to" video as a step towards making their own instruction guides!
11/03/2016
We're now using ClassDojo to communicate with parents. With it we can help parents understand what goes on in the classroom and how this links to their child's progress towards learning goals.
Find out more in our post below
And check out ClassDojo at www.classdojo.com
Feedback and communication
Integrating parents into the learning process has always been a priority for us at Impact Ed. But we've been experimenting with the style and format in order to find something that really fits our requirements. And those requirements don't always match with...
09/03/2016
Alex tells us about what he's read in the papers about Real Madrid's performance. Each week we ask these students to share and discuss one news article on a topic of interest
07/03/2016
Impact Ed's new blog!
Check out the first post on our educational philosophy
A skills-based curriculum
We founded Impact Ed to fix a problem. We saw students graduate from the Hong Kong school system with not only poor English, but also weak creativity and critical thinking skills and could see how interconnected these two issues were. Rote learning,...
10/07/2015
Wearing serious shades for our outing to Kowloon Park and getting to know each other ahead of the Hong Kong summer course starting on the 20th of July.
10/07/2015
Our summer classes in collaboration with the School of the Nations are in full swing!
04/07/2015
Charles is making an Impact at the International Education Expo!
06/06/2015
Our very own student, Sherene Lai, has entered the Posties Little Journalist Programme competition!
Please vote for her in the categories of Courage, Kindness and Respect!
She's been very brave to enter, compassionate in her thoughts and considerate in her words (virtues are great)!
South China Morning Post - Posties Little Journalist Programme
South China Morning Post - Posties
05/02/2015
The outing for our ecosystems theme, exploring what Hong Kong used to be like before all the skyscrapers!
20/01/2015
Expanding creativity and natural English skills through dynamic problem solving activities, presentations, dramas and other fun activities