Singapore Math And Chinese Tutors

Guillemard (Opposite Kong Hwa School)

ben — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:55:23 +0000

Our tutors at Guillemard serve primary and secondary students staying or studying around Guillemard, Geylang and Aljunied.

Our Students

Students staying or studying near Guillemard are mainly from Kong Hwa, Geylang Methodist, Haig Girls’ and Broadrick. We also serve students staying around Kallang, Katong and Paya Lebar.

Subjects

Our Math tutor at Guillemard 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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Wang ShuYun

ben — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:48:07 +0000

ShuYun obtained her Diploma in Education (中专师范文凭) from MinQing Institute Of Education in Fujian Province, Fuzhou (福建省福州市闽清县坂东师范培训学校). Upon graduation she was engaged as Primary School teacher by local district (闽清县白樟学区). For 8 years she taught in several Primary schools within the district, specializing in Chinese language teaching. By the third year ShuYun was already a recognized outstanding Chinese teacher and her class consistently tops the district in Semester Assessments.

Localizing Professional Skills

ShuYun’s passion for teaching continues even after her relocation to Singapore. With strong encouragements from friends, she started as assistant tutor to a friend giving small group Chinese tuition. As she applies her skills and experiences acquired in China, she soon settled in quickly and adapted her teaching style to suit local learners. Within short period ShuYun has become well-liked by students and parents.

Through referrals and enquiries her student base grows steadily and she is now an independent professional tutor. ShuYun takes every assignment seriously and benchmarks her performance with other tutor friends. She gathers feedbacks regularly from students, parents and peers to ensure that her students are making quality progress towards academic excellence.

A Humble Aim

ShuYun believes that a good teacher is a humble learner. She is constantly mindful that “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Even the beasts of the earth, the birds of the heavens and the fish of the sea declares new things to us each day. She takes every opportunity to learn about Singapore education and look out for training opportunities to improve her teaching skills. Her aim is to return to her earlier height of an outstanding Chinese teacher, in Singapore.

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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.