A mandarin teacher‘s CV
Sophia Sun
Blog:www.blog.sina.com.cn/sophiaisonline
Education
◆Bachelor degree, Teaching Chinese as a foreign language, Heilongjiang University,
◆Advanced studies on teaching method, Beijing Language and Culture University
Working experience
Private Chinese studio 2010/3 – now
◆HSK 4&6 preparatory courses for some Tsinghua, BLCU, Peking University students.
◆Provide one to one Chinese lessons for the senior manager of Siemens and Volkswagen, basing their working requirements to train their business Chinese.
◆Via Skype, teach staffs in U.N.
◆Be the tutor for British school and German school students in Embassy House, redesign the book Easy Learn Chinese, and use it as a stuff to teach students new words and grammar in dialogue.
Chinese teacher in the Beijing Sinoland Cultural College 2009/2-2010/2
◆Taught several classes which was composed by some students from Japanese, German, American, Australia, and Colombia students.
◆Taught five different courses which were the beginner level, the basic level, the middle level, the improved level and the advanced level.
◆Taught some Spoken Chinese courses, to correct the students’ pronunciation mistakes, help students to speak Chinese naturally, which were well popular in students.
◆Using stories and photos to teach Chinese characters, and classifying the characters by their different radicals, students could learn Chinese in a interesting way and could learn over 500 Chinese characters in two months.
◆Via Power Point to introduce Chinese culture, and show thousands of beautiful pictures to arouse students’ interests. Although I like Chinese Culture, I have no idea of the culture centralism, and never persuaded students to identify with all Chinese cultures.
The books I have used to teach before
Conversational Chinese 301Ⅰ&Ⅱ, Short-term Spoken Chinese elementary &, pre-intermediate, Intermediate Spoken Chinese, Boya Chinese primary, intermediate & advanced, Easy Steps Chinese, Easy Way To Learn Chinese Characters, New Practical Chinese Reader 1 & 3, A Practical Business Chinese Reader Revised Edition