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Jewel Zeng

Middle School Visual Art Teacher, Middle School Student Advisor

Bachelor in Visual Arts; Master in Animation and Aftereffects; Worked for overseas branches in the energy industry for many years, witnessing the establishment and living conditions of the world's poorest countries, firmly believed in "Everyone deserves education". Now, she has 6 years of teaching experience in international schools.

At MSA, she serves as a Visual Arts Teacher for Grades 1-6. Continuously cultivate students' creativity and help them experience the connection between art and their personal lives and interests. Help children improve their global citizenship awareness through art from all over the world. Increase children's knowledge accumulation through subject integration and knowledge transfer, and create works of art with content and soul.

She likes the connection between art and human culture, Chinese intangible cultural heritage, art expression, comprehensive material research, etc... As well as the contribution of children's art enlightenment and art development for personality development.

I personally like traveling, visiting museums, swimming, and spending quality time with my son.


"Everyone deserves education ". As an adult, I fulfilled my childhood ideals to make contributions to the poorest countries in Africa. Ultimately, I see only education can make a lifelong contribution to people. Educational equality is not only reflected in basic aspects such as opportunities, resources, economy, and gender, but also in hierarchical teaching, cultural diversity, and lifelong learning. I hope in Moonshot I can assist students in gaining a deeper understanding of cultural diversity and building up positive personalities. In that way, making children to be lifelong learners.

—— Jewel Zeng

Projects2

How to enjoy learning

Disciplines/Subjects: Interdisciplinary projects Key Themes: Communication and cooperation, Creative expression, Social Awareness & Community Engagement, empathy This project focuses on the design thinking workshop, through the investigation of students' learning styles and environments in different cultural backgrounds, designs prototypes to solve practical learning problems, tests and iterates, and finally realizes the purpose of "enjoying learning" through students' own efforts. The project is divided into two parts: on-campus workshops and off-campus practice investigations, with design thinking as the main activity in campus and off-campus practice visits to Langde Primary School in Leishan County, Guizhou Province.The children carried out in-depth interaction and communication activities with the same grade students of Langde Primary School.

Fantasy Animals

Disciplines/Subjects: ELA/Visual Arts Key Themes: Animals, Surrealism, Creativity, Hybrid Creatures Learners played Exquisite Corpse to explore surrealism and creativity. They then brainstormed, sketched, and designed their own fantasy animals by combining features from at least three different animals. To prepare for their final artwork, learners participated in a watercolor techniques workshop, practicing wet-on-wet, dry brush, salt texture, and alcohol effects. They applied these techniques to create their fantasy creatures using drawing, watercolor, and ink. As an ELA component, learners wrote aproximately 50-word background stories describing their creatures. Sentence starters, vocabulary prompts, and peer feedback supported their writing. The project concluded with presentations, where learners shared their artwork and stories.