I am very motivated to equip young minds to learn more about the academic world. I have worked as a private tutor for the past six years and have a consistent track record of five star student evaluations.
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...and Rome for my undergrad, receiving a B.A. of Classics from Augustana College in Rock Island Illinois, I traveled to the far East (China) to teach English for 3 years, fell in love, and returned back to the U.S. I'm happily going back to school to study Electrical Engineering, currently working towards an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Boston University. My wide educational background and teaching experience make me a great tutor. I have...
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...warm welcome to you! My name is Ying Xu and I am an orchestral conductor beside being a language teacher. My goal here is to teach you Chinese with efficiency because that's the standard in my profession as a conductor. Help you to become the person you want, and help you to realize your dream. My process is simple - you tell me your goals and I will make plans so we can make it...
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I have an engineering background and a strong knowledge of maths, and I speak native Mandarin Chinese. I also have managed a Chinese school and culture center. I would like to tutor all levels of students Maths and Chinese and help you to achieve your goals in different subjects. I look forward to working with you!... I would like to make my students feel more comfortable with their subject study and help them achieve a better...
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...Dental Medicine as a D2. Since middle school, I have been volunteering at different programs to assist disadvantaged students on catching up on their studies, building strong study habits, gaining confidence in their abilities, and acting as a mentor. I am most passionate about Chemistry, Grammar, and Math. I am a strong advocate for education. Everyone should have access to high quality education and could be a pathway to a higher quality of life for...
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...Bard College Conservatory of Music, where I graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and a B.M. in Music Performance. I have several years of experience tutoring a variety of subjects, including Politics/Government, US History, ESL, and Beginning Mandarin Chinese. In terms of my experience tutoring Mandarin, I am particulalry experienced in helping students work on fundamental pronunciation and speaking skills. As a classical musician, I have had the opportunity to perform in fifteen countries....
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...their academic abilities, especially when learning feels overwhelming. As someone with ADHD, a processing disorder, and testing anxiety, I understand the challenges many students face in the classroom. I also understand the growth that comes from developing effective strategies and learning how to adapt. I strive to create a supportive environment where students feel comfortable asking questions, taking risks, and viewing mistakes as part of the learning process. I believe problem-solving is a critical life...
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Hi, I am currently a 6th grade Mandarin dual immersion teacher in Idaho. I utilize different technology applications and songs to create more engaging classes. I love exploring different teaching techniques, and designing different class activities. I have been teaching English and Chinese for about six years with different age ranges. I look forward to be your tutor.
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My interest in numbers led me to a bachelor's degree in Actuarial science and a master's in Statistics with the focus on data analysis. I was on the Dean's Student Awards List the entire undergraduate years and in honor college during the first two years of study. While exploring my passion for statistics during my master's degree, I also have taken part in various financial classes and machine learning classes at Columbia.
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...can learn better by using visual aids, hands-on activities, and group work. Encouraging students to think critically and develop problem-solving skills like open-ended questions, encouraging students to ask questions, and providing opportunities for students to apply what they have learned in real-world contexts. Managing student behavior by setting clear expectations, providing positive reinforcement for good behavior, and addressing negative behavior in a constructive and respectful manner. I've gotten my education from a wide range of...
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...in biology. I am currently working in a biochemistry lab at NYU Medical Center and applying to medical school, with hopes of training to be a pediatric surgeon in the future. I have worked as a teaching assistant for a Columbia biology lab course, taught ESL to immigrants from China, and tutored extensively in math, science, and test prep. I especially enjoy tutoring science because I believe that sometimes a little bit of personalized attention...
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It's my mission to meet students where they're at and help them improve in practical, meaningful steps that they can go on to implement themselves in order to achieve success.
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I enjoy tutoring and genuinely want my students to succeed at school and in life. Throughout college, I tutored students in physics and math. I was also a physics TA for four and a half years in undergrad and a calculus TA for one year. Since graduating, I have independently tutored over a dozen students ranging from elementary school to university undergrad. ... Make sure the student is not only able to do the problems but...
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...went to Shanghai International Studies University in Shanghai, China, and majored in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language. After graduation, I came to the United States and got my Master's degree in Education from Michigan State University. I have three years' teaching experience in public schools in the US and have been successfully tutoring a wide range of age groups and proficiency levels. I am patient, easygoing and flexible. I love teaching authentic Mandarin and...
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...in East Asian Languages and Cultures and a minor in Chinese. I am currently considering graduate school in China as a way of immersing myself in Chinese culture and broadening the range of my academic experience. I have tutored students since my time in high school at Walter Payton College Prep. My first tutoring job came about when my math teacher at the time asked me to work with three students in Trigonometry and Algebra...
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...my students' innate motivation and ambition through the power of storytelling, so I always try to empower my students by giving them greater command of language. It helps that writing can often be incredibly fun. When I'm not at work, I am a musician studying violin, guitar, and voice. I also try as much as I can to get to the beautiful lakes of Minnesota and the Boundary Waters, or to the hills in winter...
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...page. I am a Chinese American, who finished my K-12 education in China. Under the Chinese education system, I have a very strong fundamental knowledge of math and science. I learned college level general Physics in grade 8, general Chemistry in grade 9, and college Calculus in grade 10. So if you need any help in these subjects, you are in good hands. I have years of tutoring experience and am friendly, patient and good...
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...to help those who have an interest in learning a foreign language, and or improving their foreign language communicational skills, more specifically Mandarin Chinese. I graduated with B.A in Chinese and Criminal Justice from the University of Rhode Island this past spring. I found that during my college career, understanding various teaching styles really impacted my foreign language learning comprehension abilities, and impacted my overall motivation to continue to succeed in perfecting my language proficiency....
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...I'm here to help students who are interested in learning Mandarin Chinese and I'm eager to spread culture and share lots of interesting things from my country. I follow a relaxing and creative teaching method because I believe that the process is way more important than the result. I don't want my students to spend their precious time and life staying in a boring and tedious session, memorizing all the vocabulary and struggling with assignments....
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...and have been taking classes since I was eight years old. I mostly do hand-building and have gone through a number of phases. When I was very young, most of the ceramic sculptures I made were dragons because I was obsessed with them. When I first began studying Chinese in high school, I made ceramic tiles with Chinese characters on them. Most recently, I have been making ceramic lotuses and sunflowers. Origami is another craft...
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Ottawa Mandarin Chinese 2 Tutoring FAQ
Students taking Mandarin Chinese 2 build on the language skills they acquired in Mandarin Chinese 1 in order to improve their fluency in the dialect and gain a more complete understanding of Mandarin Chinese-speaking cultures. The biggest challenge for many students taking Mandarin Chinese 2 turns out to be keeping their knowledge of previously learned concepts fresh and ready for active use while learning new material. Certain challenges that first appeared in Mandarin Chinese 1 may persist as obstacles that need to be continuously surmounted in more advanced coursework.
When learning new vocabulary, students are still expected to express terms in traditional Chinese characters, simplified Chinese characters, and Pinyin Romanization, as well as pronounce vocabulary using the unintuitive tonal system of Mandarin Chinese. If students struggled with any of these topics in their previous coursework, it might spell trouble for them in Mandarin Chinese 2. While it is difficult enough to expand your understanding of increasingly complex grammatical constructions, learn additional vocabulary, and master new social details, it is the cumulative nature of the course that often proves to be a student's most imposing challenge. Classes spend relatively little time in reviewing previous course content, and you may have a hard time figuring out exactly which concepts it would most benefit you to review. Even if you can self-identify the weak points in your understanding, mastering this content can be extremely difficult without knowledgeable assistance.
If you are looking for guidance in your course, Mandarin Chinese tutoring might be just the thing to help you streamline your studies. Whether you need help with vocabulary or a grammatical concept from your previous course, your tutor can focus on exactly the material you need to review. Your tutor can create a customized learning plan for your Mandarin Chinese 2 tutoring sessions that focuses on the material you struggle with most, saving you time and energy by not asking you to review concepts that you have already mastered. If it is your speaking skills that could use more practice, your tutor makes for an excellent conversation partner. If it is reading or writing in Mandarin Chinese that you find most confusing, your tutor can help you work through targeted practice exercises, providing feedback and answering any questions you may have about the material along the way. If you need to prepare for an exam, your tutor can help you focus on reviewing the content that it will test. No matter what your particular concerns are with your Mandarin Chinese 2 course, your tutor can help you address them.
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Recent Ottawa Mandarin Chinese 2 Tutoring Session Notes
We worked on Lesson 13 Asking Directions. Giving directions is one of the hardest topics in learning Mandarin. We worked on direction and location words. Also, we practiced comparative sentences, special Mandarin word usages such as "dao," "guo", and resultative complements.
I did needs analysis at the beginning including at the student's current level, Chinese learning background, expectation from this tutoring session, and the general schedule to meet every week. We started some vocabulary for "family tree" as warm-up, and I left some homework for preview and extra homework. She didn't show me grades but I prepared some exercise as a quiz to see where she is. From her feedback, we decided to use her textbook as the main materials, include all language skills especially grammar and writing. We'll meet once a week for 90 minutes at 2:00pm, at the Library.
In the session, I was impressed by her Chinese proficiency. She has no difficulty understanding my questions and can express herself perfectly. We went over the grammar and practiced two sets of questions, we also had a dictation to help her review the vocabulary. I truly enjoyed working with her.
The student made a mother's day card for his mom in Chinese. He also needed help preparing for his math test tomorrow, so we reviewed the distributive, commutative, identity, and associative properties of addition and multiplication. He also completed some challenging problems using those properties and then I gave him some FOIL problems, which he figured out on his own with no teaching from me.
The student and I started off by going over common conversational phrases and trying to have a conversation in Mandarin using the question-response format. We went over "Where are you from?", "Where is the bathroom?", "What time is it?" etc. We also went over two old dialogues, one involving hobbies/going out and one involving family, in order to review old vocabulary. We finished off by going over a new dialogue which expanded the vocabulary relating to hobbies.
This is the last session and we did revision of most the vocabulary of the semester. There were at least three different kinds of vocabulary, and we made sentences or asked questions to connect them together to strengthen the usages of them as well as the recognition. With scaffolding the student could made sentences using most of the vocabulary.
