Experience
Over the past 4 years, I have taught 1-to-1 home tuition and small group home tuition to more than 20 students. As of Oct 2022, I'm currently teaching one P1, two P4s, two P5s, one Sec 1 and two Sec 2s.
Other than developing the student's Chinese competency, I help to cultivate an interest in the language among my tutees too. I believe that passion is the best teacher, and I enjoy helping my tutees to discover interesting ways to learn Chinese. Since young, I always have a passion for Chinese and Chinese culture, which is why I wanted to help my juniors to explore their yet-to-be-discovered interest in Chinese as well. This passion has also helped me clinch the Wan Boo Sow (Chinese Studies Minor) prize as the best performing student in the minor in Chinese Studies in the graduating cohort.
After assessing the student's personality, preferences and current level of Chinese competency (strengths + weaknesses) I can then tailor my teaching method accordingly to each individual to make sure that each tutee gets the most out of each lesson. I will provide the student and parents with lesson plan options by the 2nd lesson.
Example approaches: helping the student to prepare for next week's lessons, making use of media content to increase the student's vocabulary and cultivate interest, doing assessments together to improve thought process, going through homework/tests to identify common mistakes, make use of interactive games to increase vocab recall. My best performing tutee has improved her Chinese standards from D7 to A2 after 2 years of tuition, and my other tutees also have an average improvement of 2-3 grades after 6 months of tuition.
Having worked as a Bilingual (English, Chinese) Copywriter for a creative agency for more than 1.5 years, majored in Communications and New Media, minored in Chinese studies in NUS and taken electives on English/Chinese translation, I am a bilingual individual who can facilitate the lessons in either language, depending on the tutee's language proficiency.
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