Chinese Track Faculty

Confucius, a Chinese philosopher, stated one thing that has been with me from the start of my teaching, “Teach according to each student’s ability and needs”. I have taught Mandarin for all grades for the past years; the most amazing stage is the exploration stage. The young children use their five senses: sight, smell, hearing, taste, and touch to embrace this culture that is Chinese. Teaching a foreign language lets each child take hold of this amazing adventure in discovering a whole new perspective of the world. I am very lucky to be assisting these children in this discovery! I sincerely enjoy watching these children learn a whole new culture. It is extremely rewarding to watch children immerse themselves in an unfamiliar culture with only their curiosity in common!

I feel very happy when I see children learning another language and culture. It is a rewarding opportunity for me to teach the wonderful children at TIS. I believe TIS has created a positive environment for children to learn a new language in a natural and fun way. Not only do the children learn the language, they learn about the culture as well. This gives the children a positive attitude and builds a strong foundation for their bright futures ahead.

I enjoy teaching. I love to share my experience and specialty in Chinese Language and Culture with kids. I’m happy to watch the kids grown up under Chinese atmosphere. I also love the multiple culture environment at TIS.

I love to teach because I can be with the kids every day. Teaching them Chinese and playing with them every day not only helps me remain a kid at heart, but I learn a lot as well. The International School gives me a wonderful opportunity to share the Chinese language and culture.

I love that The International School is a multicultural melting pot. It is amazing to see the students learning different languages and cultures. I love to be with students and share what I know with them. Through their pure eyes, I can see our world’s future.

I am always excited to work with children to learn through the immersion program and to watch them making their progress. It is really one of the blessed gifts that young children can pick up a language naturally if they are exposed to the immersion environment with a certain amount of time. I am glad to see the students have the opportunities to explore a lot more within the provided international curriculum and multicultural community setting. Our goal is to lead the students to become life long learners with worldview values to enhance them as global citizens.

I really enjoy teaching. I love my students and enjoy working with them and teaching them.

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Teaching is so much more than just a job to me. I enjoy the time I spend with kids and I love to see them grow healthfully and happily with more knowledge. I treasure their unique talents and want to help them make the most of those talents. I also love the multiple culture environment at TIS.

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I knew what I wanted to be at age 10 and have never had a second thought. Teaching, I know, will be my lifelong career.I have been teaching since 1996 – 3 years in Taiwan, and the rest in the U.S. In these years, I get much more than I can give. From the children’s eyes, I see our future; from their points of view, I see how the world going to be. As an educator, I enjoy being with our future masters! The happiest thing for me is to see our future masters learn joyfully, grow confidently and responsibly and make a progress by time!

During all these teaching years, I did lots of continuing education courses in Psychology and Education. I came to live in the USA in 2005. I did volunteer tutoring at the Clark College and private Chinese tutoring in both Vancouver and Portland. I love teaching because I love kids and I love learning and discovering new things with my students. I love to help my students understand the joy and satisfaction that comes out of being able to read, write, think, talk, listen, ask questions and find out the answers to their questions. I am happy to see my students enjoying their learning and making progress every day. I am so happy that I have the opportunity to teach at TIS. TIS has a very good learning environment for both the teachers and students.

Working at The International School is a wonderful opportunity for me to introduce Chinese culture to the lovely children. I enjoy working with the children and love seeing them progress.

Before coming to the U.S. in 2001, I spent seven years studying Chinese language and literature. Having seen a lot of children from Chinese immigrant families lose their heritage language, I made my decision to be a teacher of Chinese.

My native city has two ethnic groups, the Mongolian and the Hans. Brought up in two different cultures, I learned how to observe and understand things from different perspectives. This privilege of a bicultural consciousness has renewed me in a different form when I start to work at TIS. I experienced traditional and strict educational system in China. While in America, I was trained to be a student-centered, open and inspiring teacher. I can be very motivated by competition but I also value the power of teamwork.

I believe that TIS is always the right place for me. As an immigrant in the U.S., I always feel touched to see my own culture and language are so celebrated and respected. Please allow me, together with other teachers, to listen, to talk and to progress, as well as with you and your children throughout the year. As the Chinese track lead teacher, I am always available as a resource to parents, teachers and students whenever questions arise. Your supports always make our school prosper.

My favorite thing about teaching is being with the children. I especially like the little ones in preschool and kindergarten.

My favorite thing about teaching is sharing my language with people of different cultures. TIS provides many different language classes to the Portland Community – that makes it special!I have been married to my husband Tin Sang for many years. We have a daughter, a son-in-law, and wonderful grandsons.

Children are the national flower and the world future. I enjoy helping them learn different culture. I am happy to see them gowning up every day.