Mr. Liem is a Physics and Technology teacher at Him Lam Boarding School for Ethnic Minority Students, Chau ThanhA District, HauGiang Province.

He is a determined,energetic young man who has strong will. He was born from a poor family, so he wants to help poor and minority students. In his village, people grows fruits as the land is in the Mekong Delta area which is suitable for growing fruits. Many of the villagers are Khmer who are poor. Thus, most of his students in the school are Khmer students who are the minority in the HauGiang Province.

His unique in teaching pedagogy is setting up a Student Club and use the club as a platform for students learning. Through the club he encourages students to learn from each other. He urges them to join competitions, so that they can improve themselves and make friends and learn from each other. His motto to the students is “share, explain and excel together”. The Student Club that he set up at Him Lam Boarding School for Ethnic Minority is called, “Scientific-Technical Research Club”. The Club is the gathering of students who love science and technology. Through the Club students are encouraged to develop ideas from their real lives and use it to make their hometown more beautiful and comfortable. He encourages problem solving skills in his class, using the community as the source for the students to practice. Students has to observe and indicate the problems of the village such as flood which can destroy the fruit gardens of the village. They will then work together to solve it with knowledge of physics and science from his class.

He also set a teachers’ club at his school, so that teachers can exchange teaching techniques to help the students with different learning styles.He organizes training sessions and workshops for teachers in science and technology.

Mr. Liem learns several new skills in technology through self-taught. For example, during the time that the PMCA group visited him at his school. His English proficiency is at the beginner level, so he used a mobile App called, “iTranslate” to translate our conversation so we can communicate. We told him before we left to study English more to improve his English skills. He shook our hands with determination and answered“Yes Iwill.” Thisreflectsonhiscommitmentanddetermination.