Chang Tien-wan says that she has taught writing classes for youths, mothers and aborigines, and at literary retreats, but that it has been these writing classes for prisoners that have been the most rewarding to her.
張典婉指出，自己曾在文藝營、青少年寫作班、媽媽寫作班、原住民編採班等都上過課，但得自於監獄寫作班學生的回饋最多。