...to each student, but I also want to help students discover their style of learning and how to maximize it for the future. I tutor all the basic sciences up to the AP and SAT 2 level(Chemistry, Biology, and Physics); Mathematics (up to Calculus III/Multivariable Calculus); French and Chinese up to the AP level; and SAT. My favorite subjects to tutor are French, Chinese, Biology, and Physics, because these are the subjects I am still...
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...vocabulary and grammar separately in different topics, and then put them together into a language task. This helps my students consolidate what they have learned through meaningful conversations and negotiation of meaning. For example, in a lesson about transportation, I set three topics for the first half of the class: how to go to Chicago, what I need to do to go to Chicago, and how to transfer between different means of transportation. After students...
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...my PhD degree in Organic/Material Chemistry from Johns Hopkins University. While in my graduate study in Johns Hopkins, I taught both organic chemistry and college chemistry (for both lecture and laboratory parts) as a teaching assistant to the corresponding professors in the Chemistry Department. In addition to the teaching experience for more advanced chemistry subjects, I also ever tutored junior high's on Math and Sciences, and high school students on Chemistry, Algebra, and Geometry, etc....
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There are some techniques which can be learned and mastered through training in order to improve the learners' interpretive, interpersonal and presentational competence in Chinese. I am confident that learning will be easy, interesting and efficient, and that my tutored student will be one of the best among his or her peers.
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...the client. I also found that helping students construct their academic or application essays is a good chance for me to know my client and to help the client build a better academic future. I am a believer of "Education can change people and society". I believe that problem solving skills, study skills and autonomy are highly related with each other, and encouragement always works as a catalyst in learning. In my spare time, I...
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I'm a recent graduate from University of Minnesota. I completed a dual degree in psychology and mathematics. I have been tutoring for more than a year and I am looking forward to meeting new students here and helping them achieve their goals.
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...new language can be exciting and intimidating at the same time, but it surely opens a new world/ culture to you! If you decide to give it a try or need help along the way, I will be with you for your language learning journey. Teaching approach: I have rich experience in teaching language immersion, so I like to speak the target language (Chinese) as much as possible in my teaching. It largely helps you...
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...short-term experience teaching Mandarin Chinese this year. I accomplished the 120-hour TEFL/TESOL training course at International TEFL/TESOL training (ittt) on March 30 and got TESOL certified on April 1. I was graduated from College of DuPage with AS, AA, and AGS in May 2018. I love volunteering and interpretation for all kinds of people. Here, I'd love to help others to understand the language I usually speak. If I can do some specific subjects, I...
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...over 335 million speakers, and as the modern *lingua franca* for international relations and commerce, is spoken in over 100 countries across the world! With mastery of these three global languages, you will find yourself capable of communicating with an enormous 25% of the entire global population! That's a lot of territory! Once you have the language basics down, there remains only one question to ask yourself: Where do you want to go? I look...
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...dedicated, resourceful tutor with a wide knowledge of Math and Chinese. Here are some facts about myself: - Spent 1 year learning how to teach second languages to students - Lived in China for most of my life - Taught my husband to be fluent in Chinese - Completed a Finance Bachelor's degree in the US with a 3.89 GPA in under 3 years - Received an A grade in every math class I have ever...
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...a BS and MS in biochemistry from UCLA and working at NIH for two years, I taught high school chemistry, biology, and physics for five years. I love learning -- especially math and science related. As a result of my love of learning, I also love being able to teach others the things that I have learned. I have taught high school biology, chemistry and physical science and have tutored in SAT Math prep there...
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...a native Mandarin Chinese speaker from northern China where Mandarin Chinese is born. I graduated from a Chinese university and learned to teach a second language from a graduate school in the US and graduated with a 3.88 GPA and scholarships. I have two years of experience teaching Mandarin Chinese as well. I have worked with students from 6 to 80 years old, ranging from K-12, college, working and retired adults, and homeschooled students. Right...
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...adventure, new experiences, and even some romance. I love the Chinese language and culture, and am very happy to have a chance to share in that interest with you as we learn Chinese together. Some of my other interests include.. music! I love listening to and singing along with music. I've even tried my hand at writing songs on the guitar and ukulele. Over the summer in China, I enjoyed going out to the plaza...
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...writing are tools that can be used to articulate oneself and ideas. Strong and reading comprehension skills strengthen the impact and merit of your thoughts and that is what I strive to give students; I want to foster genuine interest and confidence in a student's reading and writing so they have the power to share their passions and opinions. I am currently a senior at Union College, working towards a BA in English and a...
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...with students to identify their strengths, address their challenges, and set achievable, meaningful goals. My approach is data-driven, ensuring that the educational materials and strategies I provide are not only aligned with current academic standards but are also tailored to each student's learning style and aspirations. I am dedicated to continuous improvement, both for my students and for myself as an educator. By staying updated with the latest trends in education, technology, and career development,...
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...name is Jimeng and I am a Mandarin Chinese tutor. I am a native Chinese speaker. I love teaching and helping others, and I believe that is best done by being kind, confident, and patient with every student. I began teaching teaching while I was in grad school. In Beijing, I worked as a Traditional Chinese pharmacist. This involved lots of work with prescriptions and patients, but also with research and paperwork. While obtaining my...
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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 Halifax 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.
