Singapore Math And Chinese Tutors

Gu ChongQing

ben — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:22:09 +0000

ChongQing graduated from Lanzhou University of China (中国兰州大学) with Diploma in Chinese language literature (中国文学系汉语言文学专科). Upon graduation she worked as news writer for local broadcasting company. Through professional and career skills training, ChongQing has become a skillful Chinese writer. She sprinkles her writings with concise and lively phrases to present fine and delicate details. Her outstanding style of writing has won her many journalism awards, of which the highest was Provincial silver award for TV news reporting (甘肃省电视新闻二等奖).

Professional Career Coach

In her profession ChongQing was often assigned to coach interns and new staff on the job. ChongQing enjoys these assignments as they gave her precious opportunities to meet and share her experiences with students from different cultures. She took pleasure in researching and pursuing new ideas together with them. It was rewarding to see students and young staff making professional production under her care.

As career coach ChongQing always inspired students and young staff to strive for excellence. She taught students the proper usage of Chinese language and the skills of writing. Students are assured of the best guidance in Chinese language as she helped them to build confidence for greater achievements.

Volunteer Tutor And Freelance Writer

With her expertise in Chinese language and written communication, ChongQing took initiatives to contribute her part to people around her. She worked as volunteer tutor during her free time to help students on Chinese Literature and Classics. She was also freelance columnist with Chinese newspapers and magazines, contributing poems, essays and stories. Her longest story was more than 100 thousand words.

ChongQing was always able to kindle interest among her students on Chinese language. She believes that interest is the best teacher. She accepted students as they are and helped them to explore on their strengths for better learning. Her approach was to stimulate students’ interest on language learning. Students naturally achieved academic excellence when they were inspired to discover more about the Chinese language.

Learning And Tutoring Singapore Chinese

ChongQing moved to Singapore and became permanent resident in 2003. Through church contacts she came to know the primary and secondary students of Geylang Methodist Schools. She enjoys talking and helping these students to embrace Chinese.

ChongQing loves the process of getting to understand these students and to help them discover the beauty of Chinese language. She often finds herself in a new learning journey as she explores creative approaches to inspire Singapore students to learn Chinese with interest.

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Geylang East

ben — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 02:00:44 +0000

Our tutor at Geylang East serves secondary students staying or studying around Geylang East Avenue 1.

Our Students

Students studying near Geylang East are mainly from Geylang Methodist Primary and Secondary. We are also serving students staying near Geylang, Sims Drive, Aljunied and Paya Lebar.

Subjects

Our tutor at Geylang East offers Chinese and Higher Chinese tuition to primary and secondary students. Our secondary students are from Normal stream and Express stream.

Tuition usually starts one-to-one for weaker student. Students of the same level and standard are grouped together when they are equally strong in foundation. Maximum size of our group tuition is 2.

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Toa Payoh

ben — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:59:05 +0000

Our tutor at Toa Payoh serves secondary students staying or studying around Lorong 7 Toa Payoh.

Our Students

Students studying near Toa Payoh are mainly from First Toa Payoh Secondary, Pei Chun Primary, Catholic High and CHIJ. We also have students staying near Bishan and Serangoon.

Subjects

Our tutor at Toa Payoh offers Chinese and Higher Chinese tuition to primary and secondary students. Our secondary students are from Normal stream, Express stream, Integrated Program (IP) and International Baccalaureate (IB). We also offer Chinese tuition to students attending International Schools.

Tuition usually starts one-to-one for weaker student. Students of the same level and standard are grouped together when they are equally strong in foundation. Maximum size of our group tuition is 2.

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Tampines

ben — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:57:30 +0000

Our tutor at Tampines serves secondary students staying or studying around Tampines Street 82.

Our Students

Students studying near Tampines are mainly from St Hilda’s and Junyuan. We also have students staying near Bedok, Pasir Ris, Simei and East Coast.

Subjects

Our tutor at Tampines offers Math and Chemistry tuition to secondary students. Our secondary students are from Normal stream, Express stream, Integrated Program (IP) and International Baccalaureate (IB). We also offer math and chemistry tuition to students attending International Schools.

Tuition usually starts one-to-one for weaker student. Students of the same level and standard are grouped together when they are equally strong in foundation. Maximum size of our group tuition is 2.

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Kallang Airport (Near Dakota MRT Station)

ben — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 01:53:03 +0000

Our tutors at Kallang Airport serve primary and secondary students staying or studying around Katong, Geylang, Guillemard and even Marine Parade. As the location is conveniently located above Dakota MRT station, we are also able to serve students traveling by MRT.

Our Students

Students staying or studying near Kallang Airport are mainly from Broadrick, Chung Cheng, Geylang Methodist, Haig Girls’, Kong Hwa, Tanjong Katong Secondary, Tanjong Katong Girls’ and Tao Nan.

Students who travels by MRT lines are staying or studying near Bishan, Bedok, Eunos, Marymount, Paya Lebah, Serangoon and even Bukit Timah or Holland Drive. They are from ACS, Anglican High, St Grabriel’s, St Anthony’s Canossian, Montfort, St Patrick, SOTA and many others.

Subjects

Our Math tutor at Kallang Airport offers Math tuition to Secondary students. The Chinese tutor offers Chinese and Higher Chinese tuition to both Primary and Secondary students. Our secondary students are from Normal stream, Express stream, Integrated Program (IP) and International Baccalaureate (IB). We also offer tuition to students attending International Schools.

Tuition usually starts one-to-one for weaker student. Students of the same level and standard are grouped together when they are equally strong in foundation. Maximum size of our group tuition is 3.

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Christina Tay

ben — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 09:21:20 +0000

Christina has more than 20 years of experience in education. Her international exposure began in the University of Hong Kong where she worked as counselor, helping youths with personal and academic problems. After obtaining her diploma on adult conversational language, Christina became language teacher with an education institution. With her years of international experience and exposure, Christina is always able to identify with students and helps them integrate into the learning environment quickly to enjoy the language. She soon developed her own course materials and teaching techniques to become private mandarin tutor. Today, Christina is a successful mandarin tutor, seeing students either on small group or one-to-one.

International Outlook

Christina is well connected with friends through her international involvements. When studying in Canadian Theological Seminary, she was Chairman of International Student Association and led the student body to host several multi-cultural activities. Through these involvements Christina established strong contact with students from different parts of the world.

As Christina helps overseas students build strong friendship with each others, she finds it important to help her non-Mandarin-speaking friends learn simple phrases to communicate with Chinese from China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia. As there are always keen learners on Mandarin language, Christina had many opportunities to help her friends bridge the language gap.

Adult Conversational Mandarin Course

Christina designs the Adult Conversational Mandarin Course to stimulate student interactions for learning. It consists of interesting and innovative topics that encourage students to express their feelings, ideas, and opinions. Students will learn to discuss a variety of topics, such as:

Describing Things
Reading a menu
Supermarket
How much is this?
What’s the weather like?
How can I get to Chinatown?

The course is most suitable for anyone who wants to learn conversational Mandarin for social and general purposes. It is designed for beginners of Mandarin language. If you think mandarin is hard, Christina’s Adult Conversational Mandarin Course is designed to help you develop your oral communication skills.

Course Features

During the course, students are given opportunities to work in pair and group. Christina also prepares stimulating themes to encourage students to share their ideas. Through high degree of interaction, students are engaged in lively conversation on interesting subjects and relevant social topics.

The course also incorporates creative exercises such as songs, games, competitions and role-play activities to stimulate vocabulary-building. These exciting and interesting activities are effective in enhancing student’s memory power.

Student’s Testimonies

“The teacher is a cheerful and pleasant person. She is diligent and conscientious, teaching every student seriously and earnestly. I am very happy with the learning environment here. Initially I knew nothing about the language. I have made good progress and I am very much better now. I have also referred friends here to learn.”
Shu Jing, Operator

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Please email Christina Tay or complete the contact form below. We will revert back to you as soon as possible.

Li Su Qin

ben — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 21:39:37 +0000

Su Qin is known for her quality tutoring, especially with PSLE students. She is able to ignite a strong interest on Chinese subject among students. Born in Lanzhou of Gansu China (中国甘肃省兰州市),Su Qin has been working as full time Chinese tutor in Singapore since 2005. She started with teaching in intensive PSLE Chinese camps (小六会考集训营) for reputable primary schools. As she was well-liked by many students and their parents, she soon established a strong referral network through private tutoring. SuQin is forever grateful to these parents and students who introduce her to other new students.

Tutoring With Success

Su Qin always adjusts her subject materials and teaching style according to the learning profile of the individual. She inspires students to be uncompromising with academic achievement and encourages them to be always ahead of level.

SuQin’s students are mostly studying in schools near Ang Mo Kio and Bishan, such as Ai Tong School and CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School. Naturally many of her students continued their Chinese tuition with her from Primary into Secondary school.

Professional Qualifications

SuQin scored with Distinctions in China’s Grade Certificate Of Putonghua Level Test (中国国家普通話水平测试) and effortlessly obtained Certification with Singapore’s Chinese Entrance Proficiency Test.

In China SuQin also obtained Occupational Qualification Certificate in Psychology (心理咨询师职业资格证书). With her growing interest in child education and psychology, Su Qin also enrolled with Singapore Academy Of Human Development to pursue the Double Diploma (双文凭) in Counseling Skills and in Family Life Education (专业辅导文凭与专业家庭生活教育文凭) . She will complete the course in 2011

Personal Reflection

Su Qin attributes her tutoring success with her Christian belief on joy and love. She brings the spirit of joy and love to her students, always believing that a happy student is a successful student. Her joy in teaching and her loving care with students are strong motivation for many students to want to achieve academic excellence in the Chinese subject.

SuQin takes every tutoring as an “engagement of trust”. Every new assignment begins with a strong sense of expectation from both parents and child. As the learning journey progresses, tutor’s responsibility is to transform student’s expectations into learning confidence. The most heartening reward is to sense the trust growing within the student and the parents.

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Yang Shu

ben — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:14:55 +0000

Born in China LiaoNing Province (辽宁), Yang Shu started in accounting career upon her graduation from local college. She worked for various China state enterprises and banks For more than 10 years. In 2002, Yang Shu made her boldest decision to move from cold Northeastern China to hot sunny Singapore, with the preparation to switch over to teaching career in the city state known for world class education. Today, Yang Shu is a successful tutor, popular with students staying around Sengkang, Pasir Ris, Simei and Tampines. Many of her students are from Compassvale Primary, Meridian Primary and Siglap Secondary School.

Professional Tutoring

Upon arrival in 2002, Yang Shu started as teaching assistant with a Chinese enrichment center and soon moved on to work as Chinese tutor in tuition centre. During her spare time, she also accepted tutoring engagement through personal referrals.

Yang Shu’s tutoring style and technique soon gained recognition among parents as her students made significant improvements on academic performance. She became independent professional tutor as the demand for personal tutoring increased.

Professional Qualifications

In her constant pursuit to improve Chinese tutoring skills, Yang Shu completed her Diploma In Chinese Language Teaching (华语作为第二语言教学专科课程) in Singapore. The course is an extension program from Shanghai Fudan University which is one of China top University. International Cultural Exchange School of Fudan University (复旦大学国际文化交流学院) is well known for their high teaching quality and outstanding research achievements in teaching Chinese as a foreign language.

Yang Shu also makes good connection with local educational establishments to ensure that she is constantly updated on Singapore educational policies. She attends workshops and seminars regularly keep her abreast with latest teaching trend and policies.

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Low Siew Noi

ben — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 05:49:46 +0000

Being the last batch of graduate from old Nanyang University (南洋大学), Siew Noi is effectively bilingual. Driven by strong interest in teaching children in Sunday School, she seeks all opportunities to learn about creative teaching skills to minister to children. She completed Certificate courses on Practice And Principles Of Children’s Ministry and on Counseling Skills. Her strength in Chinese language soon made her popular among friends who are facing difficulties motivating their own children to study Chinese language. With her training on creative teaching to children, she was able to help many children overcome the fear of learning Chinese. Siew Noi is fully competent in tutoring Chinese and Higher Chinese at Primary and Secondary level.

Professional Qualifications

Siew Noi was one of the early batches of Diploma graduate from Singapore Confucius Institute at Nanyang Technological University (南洋理工大学孔子学院). She graduated with Diploma in Teaching Chinese Language (汉语教学教育专业文凭). Her pursuit in Singapore Confucius Institute also earned her Basic Chinese Teaching Certification (快捷汉语 – 基础级核心教程教师资格证书课程) and Immersion Program Certification with China Shandong University International Education Institute (山东大学国际教育学院).

Siew Noi is also Certified Conversational Chinese Instructor with Singapore Eduation Curriculum Development Board (新加坡教育部课程规划与发展 – 华语会话培训班). She is also a certified NTUC tutor.

Teaching Primary Students

Siew Noi teaches with the purpose of promoting students’ interest in Chinese, to the extent of accepting Chinese as a way of life. Not only is she interested to improve students’ academic performance, she is constantly leading students through multimedia resources and creative teaching methods to improve their level of Chinese knowledge, especially in the area of Chinese history, culture and values.

Siew Noi is a registered Relief Teacher with Ministry of Education with many years of teaching experiences. She is regular relief teacher of Tao Nan Primary School (道南学校), Tanjong Katong Primary School (丹绒加东小学), Geylang Methodist Primary School (卫理美以美小学), Eunos Primary School (友诺士小学) and St Joseph Institution Junior (圣约瑟小学) and Kong Hwa Primary (光华小学). She was Part-time Professional Chinese Tutor with Confucius Institute.

Teaching Secondary Students

Siew Noi is an experienced private tutor on Chinese and Higher Chinese with students from lower Primary to upper Secondary. She motivates her students to learn Chinese through creative teaching style and resources. Under her influence, students often cultivate good habits in listening to Chinese TV news and reading Chinese Newspaper.

Siew Noi is also a certified teacher with Ministry Of Education to teach Mandarin to non-Chinese Secondary students.

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Irene Lang

ben — Sun, 30 May 2010 15:34:09 +0000

Irene Lang has more than 20 years of experience tutoring Chinese to Primary and Secondary students. She strongly believes that every student is unique with diverse language learning style and capacity. She works with every student according to his or her personal needs and tailors each lesson according to student’s learning progress. Irene specializes in using creative teaching methods to reach her students. She tutors every student with flexibility and creativity, focusing on bringing the desired results over time.

A Personable Tutor

She has a gift for identifying the barrier that prevents a student from understanding a particular learning material. She would always apply the appropriate teaching method with specific target to overcome the learning problem. By making it easy to learn, her students would successfully comprehend the materials and complete their assignments consistently.

Irene is a very patient tutor and she cares for the well-being of her students. She works diligently and earnestly with the students to prepare them to perform well for tests and assessments. To this end, she stays up-to-date on the newest teaching curriculum from the Ministry.

Proven Track Record

Irene specializes in working with students from non-Chinese-speaking homes. Most of her students are those who find Chinese language especially challenging. To overcome learning fears, Irene would plan creative activities with students during holidays. This would motivate the students to want to learn the language well.

Due to her approachability and special personal qualities, Irene is able to maintain excellent relationships with all her students. Irene also believes in stimulating students with openness and sincerity. Students who are encouraged would respond with greater effort, some showing dramatic improvements in academic achievements. Most importantly, most of her student would want to continue with her from primary to secondary. Even past students would maintain close contact with her and make new referrals to her.

Interests and Hobbies

Irene plays the harmonica and enjoys photography. She is especially good in floral arrangement for all occasions. Another area that excites her is to be a cook in the kitchen.

Irene is also active in church, participating in various ministries. Besides contributing her part in floral arrangement and cooking, one ministry she particularly finds joy serving with is the Children’s choir.