Disovankiri Boung's Profile

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By Shiina Adachi

 “I love teaching. I have been doing a lot of teaching activities. Even before I came to Japan, I used to teach to Cambodian students English and mathematics. So, yeah, I really love teaching,” he said. 

 Disovankiri Boung, Cambodian, is in the third year right now, supporting freshmen with multicultural cooperative workshop, (MCW), as a teaching assistant this fall semester.  MCW, is a class offered to all freshman. First-year-students work together with people with different culture background.

 Kiri, his nickname, said that there were two big reasons why he wanted to be an MCW TA. The thing is that he loves teaching. He would teach his friends and lower-class students mathematics, English, and science at his school.  He has a dream of becoming a teacher someday.

 He said, "I wanted to use my time to help other people because I believe, in my life, I have been receiving a lot of help from other people." He also continued, "I might not have come to study abroad without APU scholarship or some other help, so I feel the responsibility that I should also help other and share what I know."
The most important thing he cares when he talks and presents is if they are creative and fun so that students don't feel bored. He was the only TA who suggested to have a game for the final presentation. 

 Kiri says he hasn't faced any serious problem lucky yet, being an MCW TA, but the one thing could be that he sees problems, but he doesn't really think he can solve it. 
"Sometimes, I know the class contents are boring, but I cannot change it because that's what the academic office decided to let us do, and I also know students will feel boring," Kiri said. In order to solve this, he has to talk with his TA partner, Ayumi, and the part don't need to be explained as much as they can.

 The second difficulty for him could be "time." Now he is in the third year and the second semester, so he is also busy with writing and researching the thesis. While most of his friends are doing a hunting-job on Wednesday, he has a work as an MCW TA, so he can't participant the seminars or guidance companies held. "But that's not really a problem for me," he smiled and said. 

 Kiri is not sure yet if he will work in Japan after graduating, or go to graduate school to be a professor in the future. If he goes back to Cambodia, he will teach Chinese as a part-time teacher.  Kiri also mentioned that he wanted to teach economics and business to Cambodian. 

 He explained, "I think economics teach people to think creatively, so I want Cambodian people to have their own businesses and look more into long-term, instead of short-term"







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