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Newsletter
（02/28/2010）
From Principal
Elaine Hsu
Seminar (02/28 2:10-3:10pm)
Topic: “How
to Support Your Children’s Chinese Language Acquisition"
Speaker
Gail Wang is currently the coordinator for teacher professional
development and outreach at Cheng&Tsui, a Boston based publisher
of Asian languages and cultures. Gail has been an English as Second
Language teacher for decades in both China and the US. She later
switched to Chinese language teaching, and has done teacher training
in language teaching methodologies. Mrs. Wang also worked for many
years in major museums in the Boston area with rich experience in
programming and exhibition as well as teacher trainings on China and
Chinese culture.
School directories
were distributed to
the students last
week (02/21). There's only one directory per family. For families
with more than one students enrolled, the oldest child will bring
home the directory. Please remember to obtain the directory from
your child. We also would like to especially thank Choli Teng, Wally
Mei, George Wang, and Irene Huang for their contribution in making
this directory possible.
Parent Duty list
for the whole school year has been posted on our school website:
(http://www.thechineselanguageschool.org/newsletter.shtml).
On snowy days,
Chinese School cancellation will be posted on our website. You will
also be notified via email. Makeup day for last school cancellation
(12/20/2009) is 04/04/2010 (Easter Sunday).
From Vice
Principal Kai Chuang
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David & Tracy Hong
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劉秋蓉
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Sandia Chau
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Kathy Lam
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葉健榮
林秀鳳
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Edward & Sandra Perriello
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William & Reardon Grillo
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Parents on duty should report
to the Office (Room 243) at 1:45
pm. If you cannot come,
please contact Vice Principal, Kai Chuang（781-863-8213
，kaiyao_chuang@yahoo.com)
.There is a $50 fine for absence without prior notice to the Vice
Principal.
From Curriculum
Director Tung-Mei Pan
On
03/14/2010, the National Council of Associations of Chinese Language
Schools (NCACLS) will offer a National Preparation Test for the 2010
SAT II Chinese exam.
Test Place: The Chinese Language
School, 17 Stedman Rd, Lexington, MA 02421.
All 9th graders are
required to take the test; it is voluntary for 7th and 8th graders.
Scores will be available by April 30. For further
information, please come to the Office or check the following web
site: http://www.ncacls.org .
From Curriculum
Director (acting) Dai-Hua Shiao
Hello
everyone, my name is Shen Tang and I am currently teaching Bilingual
I at TCLS this school year. This is my first year teaching, although
I have had two years of experience being a Teacher Assistant to the
07~08 Bilingual II (now Bilingual IV) and 08~09 Bilingual II (now
Bilingual III) classes. The teachers whom I've worked with provided
me with great insight and useful mechanism to teaching--how to
effectively engage younger students in learning a complex language.
Also, I have been tutoring Chinese outside of school for two years
now, which more or less helped with teaching more formally
within a classroom setting.
I was born in
Shanghai and lived in Tianjin, China up until I was five. I went to
Kindergarten in Boston and attended first grade at Pierce School in
Brookline. When I was eight, my family moved back to Tianjin where I
graduated from elementary school (completing sixth grade). Seventh
and eighth grade I attended Clarke, living with my mom in the U.S.
while my dad took care of my two younger brothers in China. Now my
brothers are here with me and my mom, while my dad works in China and
visits as often as he can.
Being a sophomore
in high school, I am throughly inexperienced compared to the other
teachers--most of them having taught at the school for ten, or twenty
years. Although at first the classroom environment was quite
nerve-wrecking, I believe that it has proved to be an exciting
endeavor. Teaching Chinese to English-speakers (most of them younger
than 9) is a challenge that tests my ability to use these two
languages interchangeably in a effective way. I find myself often
looking forward to these two hours every week, as I have quickly
grown to love the kids I teach who all teach me something new every
Sunday.
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