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“Chinese as a Foreign Language”
Class 1
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Obtained ECE certificate from Conestoga College, was
with YMCA Ontario Early Year Centres, and now is working with Butterfly
Learning Center. When in China, she had been award winners in speech
competition, performing arts, and hosted children's programs with
school and city radio and TV stations. She has been a teacher of Grand
River Chinese School since April 2011. |
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“Chinese as a Foreign Language”
Class 2
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Graduated from a university in China in English
language, and ECE from Conestoga College, worked in early child
education after graduation, currently with Butterfly Learning Centre. She has been a teacher of Grand River Chinese School
since 2011. |
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Credit Chinese Language Beginner's Class |
Graduated from UWO
with Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Science, and Bachelor of
Education. Worked as a computer engineer before she started her
teaching career. Taught Mandarin to English speakers before she
returned to teacher college in Western Ontario to get fully certified
and licensed as Intermediate/Senior OCT teacher. Also works with
Waterloo Region District School Board from Mon to Fri. She has been
teacher of Grand River Chinese School since 2009. |
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3-year-old class 1 |
Obtained diploma in Early Child Education in
China, also with certificate of Chinese Putonghua second level class A,
currently in ECE program at Conestoga College. Since 2002, she
has been working in early child education.
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The
3-year-old class 2
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Obtained
ECE certificate from Conestoga College, with ECE Bursary due to
excellence in study. When in China, she graduated with bachelor’s
degree in law, and also holds class 7 certificate in Chinese pipa
music. She had been a journalist with Anhui TV in China for 3 years,
and a bilingual language teacher for 2 years in China. She has been a
teacher with Grand River Chinese School since 2013.
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JK class 1
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Graduated from a normal teacher's college in China
majoring in English Education, and obtained an Early Childhood
Education diploma from Seneca College. Worked as a program facilitator
in Ontario Early Years Centre for years. Have proven experience in
planning and implementing developmental programs for infant to school
age children. She has bee a teacher with Grand River Chinese School
since November 2007. |
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JK class 2
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In China she graduated from an Education Institute in
elementary education, and from a Normal University in Chinese language
and literature. She had been a teacher over 10 years in China, in
primary school, special education, and in early child pre-school. A
member of Writer's Society of Xiamen City. She has been a teacher with
Grand River Chinese School since 2012.
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After graduation
in China from a collage, she worked in Singapore for 3 years in early
child education, teaching Chinese language to students of 3 to 6 years.
She is currently in the 3rd year of ECE program at Conestoga College.
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SK class 1
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She graduated from a
Normal University in China with her major in Pre-School and Early
Year Education, and performed research and practice in teaching methods
for years in her positions with Kindergartens. In teaching, she is
always in a role of the best friend of the students, encourages the
children to learn through trying different things. She won awards many
times in her previous jobs. She has been a
teacher of Grand River Chinese School since January 2009.
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SK class 2
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Edified by her artistic
family, she has a broad knowledge and a strong passion for Chinese
traditional culture.
Graduated from an international language university with major in
French language and culture, she was a French language teacher in
Shandong University of Technology & Science. With fluent Chinese,
English and French, well experienced in arts formative education for
children. She has been a teacher with Grand River Chinese School since
2009.
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Graduated from a
key university in China, majoring in English Education, certified
Chinese Putonghua (a.k.a. Mandarin) teacher. After working for a few
years, she studied in the United States and received her Master's
degree in education. She is good at using various teaching methods
including multimedia tools. She has many years of experience in
teaching young children. She has been a teacher of Grand River Chinese
School since 2009.
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Grade 1 class 1
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Graduated from Capital Normal University of China
majoring in English Language and Literature, and taught Chinese at the
Foreign Training Center at Capital Normal University, also worked as
Chief Editor of Fashion Magazine of China. She is one of the founders
of Grand River Chinese School and has been teaching with Grand River
Chinese School since 2007. |
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Grade 1 class 2
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Graduated from a normal university in China majoring
in Chinese Language Education, and taught for years in a primary school
in China. Also worked as a editor with a Chinese newspaper. She is one
of the founders of Grand River Chinese School and has been teaching with Grand River Chinese School
since 2007. |
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Grade
1 class 3
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Graduated
from Shanghai Normal University and achieved a BA degree for English
education. She worked as a high school teacher in a top school for over
ten years and has accumulated much experience in teaching and classroom
management. She was also an executive member for the international
department of the school, and has organized many culture exchange
activities between students in Shanghai and overseas. She values
cross-cultural education and is dedicated to it. She began to teach
with Grand River Chinese in Nov. 2008.
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Grade 2 class 1
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Completed her degree from Nanjing Normal University .
She has taught Chinese, art, and science for nearly 10 years in primary
schools in Jiangsu province in China. She was promoted to a Senior
Teacher position from the provincial board of education and has been
presented with multiple municipal level awards for teaching excellence.
Kun Zhang is a distinguished educator and is greatly passionate about
bringing the Chinese language and culture to students of all ages. She
has been teaching with Grand River Chinese School since 2014. |
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Grade
2 class 2
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Graduated from a Normal University in China,
and obtained Master degree in Arts. More than 8 years of teaching
experience both in middle school and university in China. She loves
teaching Chinese language and arts. Good at communicating with all
kinds of students, and teaching based on their different backgrounds.
She has been teaching with Grand River Chinese School since 2012.
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Grade
2 class 3
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Obtained B.A. in Pre-school Education from Liaoning
Normal University, taught for 9 years with Kindergarten of Ganjinzi
District Bureau of Education in Dalian City, worked as a kindergarten
teacher of all grades as an English teacher and general teacher, group
lead of teaching and research, and the Principal in charge of
education. She is one of the founders of Grand River Chinese School and
has been teaching with Grand River Chinese School since 2007.
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Obtained M.A.
and B.A. in Chinese language and literature, and certificate of Chinese
Putonghua of second level class A, high school teacher certificate in
China. She has been teaching Chinese language in China to foreign
employees in an international company. |
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Grade 3 class 1
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Graduated
from a normal institute in China majoring in Chinese Language and
Literature, with 16 years of experience in teaching Chinese Language
with primary and secondary schools in China. Participated in the
Chinese Language Education Reform Project in China, developed new
concepts and methodology in Chinese language education emphasizing
self-learning capability and skill training, with multiple research
papers wining awards. She is one of the founders of Grand River Chinese
School and has been teaching here since 2007.
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Grade
3 class 2
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M.Ed. from a
Normal University in China, certificate of Chinese Putonghua of top
level class B, and was a high school teacher and group head for years.
Was honored with excellent teacher at municipal and school levels. She
has been teaching with Grand River Chinese School since 2013.
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Grade 4 class 1
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She graduated from a Normal University in China, and
obtained her Master's Degrees of Education in China and Canada. She
accumulated extensive experiences through her many years of work as an
English language teacher in a senior high school and an administrative
officer in a university in China. She is one of the founders of Grand
River Chinese School and has been teaching with Grand River Chinese
School since 2007. |
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Grade
4 class 2
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Obtained Bachelor
and Master's degrees in China and Master's degree in
Canada, taught Chinese language in Singapore, and work in student
guidance in KW.
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Grade
5 class 1
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Obtained
B.A. in Chinese Language, Literature and Education from a University in
China. She had been teaching Chinese language with high schools in
China, private schools and universities in France for a total of 8
years before joining Grand River Chinese School in 2009.
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Grade
5 class 2
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After completing B.A., worked with a high school as a
teacher and Educational Research Group leader for 10 years. Also
received training at Beijing Normal University as one of the key
teachers. Certified Chinese Putonghua (a.k.a. Mandarin) teacher.
She has been teaching with Grand River Chinese School since 2009.
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Grade
6 class 1
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Obtained B.A.in Chinese language from a teacher's
university in China, she has 15 years experience of teaching Chinese
language in China. In Canada, she has been a Chinese language teacher
in multiple international language schools including being appointed by
Peel District School Board. She has been a teacher with Grand River
Chinese School since 2011.
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Grade
6 class 2
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She graduated from Shanghai Normal University,
majoring in English Education. She had worked with a key high
school in Shanghai as an English teacher and class supervisor for
several years, and was a winner of "honored teacher" for several times.
She was also a group head in teaching. She supervised students to visit
the partner school in Australia for culture exchange and worked there
assisting their Chinese teacher for 3 months. She taught at a Chinese
school in Edmonton, Alberta. She has been a teacher with Grand River
Chinese School since 2009. |
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Grade
7 class 1
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Graduated from Northwest China Normal University,
taught in a secondary vocational school for 8 years in China, taught
Chinese for years with Ray Chinese School in Chicago and Standard
Chinese School in Toronto, and is one of the founding teachers of
Standard Chinese School. Accumulated rich experiences in teaching
Chinese overseas and establishing Chinese school overseas, also
attended conferences on overseas Chinese language teaching. She is one
of the founders of Grand River Chinese School and has been teaching
with Grand River Chinese School since 2007.
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| Grade 7 class 2 |
Graduated from a
famous university in China with B.A. in English Language and
Literature, taught Chinese Language to foreign students at Beijing
Language University for 3 years, and afterwards worked as a journalist
in China wining multiple awards. Also taught Chinese Language at
Tianhong Chinese Language School in Toronto for years. She is one of
the founders of Grand River Chinese School and has been teaching with
Grand River Chinese School since 2007. |
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Grade
8
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Graduated from a normal university in China and has
been a teacher over 30 years, including primary school, high school and
university in Chinese language, law and English, with associated
professor title in China, and certificate of Chinese Putonghua Class A,
Chinese-English translation certificate from University of
Toronto. She is one of the founders of Grand River Chinese School
and has been teaching with Grand River Chinese School since 2007. |
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Credit
Class 1
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Ontario certified teacher (OCT), she has been working
as a supply teacher with Waterloo Catholic District School Board since
2007. She also works as a Mandarin teacher with Waterloo Public
District School Board International Language Program since 2007. She
won a Teacher Award for excellent teaching in Chinese essay writing,
her students won multiple awards in an essay writing contest. She is
also a handcraft interest class instructor.
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Credit
Class 2
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B.A. in English Education, had years of English
language teaching experience in China; Bachelor of Education from
Queen's University, Ontario Certified Teacher, worked as a supply
teacher at a private school in Kingston, Ontario and public elementary
schools in Prince George, BC; also taught at the Chinese schools in
Kingston and Prince George. She has been a teacher of Grand River
Chinese School since 2009.
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Olympic Math
teacher 1
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He has written numerous
math contests over the years, including attaining Certificate of
Distinction on the Fermat, School Champion on the Hypatia (scoring
34/40), School Champion on the CSMC (scoring 49/60), and School
Runner-up on the Euclid and COMC contests. He participated on the
Waterloo ARML team in 2016 with a strong division A performance,
placing second on the team in the individual round. He was also School
Champion in the CCC contest in 2015. He led the Math and Computer
Science clubs at Cameron Heights, as well as the Reach for the Top
Trivia team. Currently he is a Computer Science student at the
University of Waterloo. |
Olympic Math
teacher 2 |
His achievements in
CEMC contests include - School Champion
Award for Gauss (2015), First in the Region for the Junior Canadian
Computing Competition (2016), School Champion Award for Cayley (2018),
School Champion Award for Galios (2018). He has won a Gold medal for
the Canadian Kangeroo Contest every year from 2014 to 2017. Currently he is a student at the University of
Waterloo. Since 2018, he teaches Olympic Math with GRCS.
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Olympic
Math
teacher 3 |
He
has achieved various accolades in various Canada and US math/computer
contests, such as honor rolls and school champions in multiple Canadian
math contests such as Gauss, CIMC, CSMC, Fermat, Hypatia, and Euclid.
Additionally, in Canadian Open Math Contest (COMC) scored first amongst
grade 10s and third place amongst all competitors in the southwestern
region of Ontario. In American Mathematics Competitions (AMC) he got
qualified for the American Invitational Math Examination (AIME) 3 times
since grade 8. In the team competitions, he scored perfect on the
individual section of the Canadian Team Mathematics Contest (CTMC) and
has participated in the Harvard-MIT Mathematics Tournament (HMMT) twice
in 2021 and 2022. He also entered honor roll in CCC contest and
achieved the silver level in USCCO．He has been the chair of school math
club since grade 10, where he taught introductory and intermediate math
contest concepts and gained good feed back from students and
teachers.
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Math teacher 4 |
She
won awards in 5 consecotive years in the Nine Chapters of Mathematical
Art Contest. She also got 3rd place in the National Engineering Month
math contest. She’s doing the IB programme, and got a 98 in pre-IB math
last year.
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Math Enrichment class
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With
a bachelor's degree in Math Education from Soochow University and a
Master's degree in management from Nanjing University, she also holds
an MBA from the University of Alberta, where she taught undergrad
business students. Since moving to KW region, she has has been doping
math teaching and tutoring, specializing in elementary-school math with
Eastern Asian pedagogy.
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Programming
Class
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Achieved
a score in the top 10% for both the junior and senior divisions of the
Canadian Computing Competition. Winner of the Github and Ethereum
prizes at JAMhacks VI (2022), second place overall in the 2022
Highlander Engineering Challenge hackathon. First Lego League regional
qualifier in 2017 and 2018. National second place in the Mathematica
Thales math contest 2014. Math Kangaroo 2017 national gold medalist.
Teaching assistant in 2021-2022 programing class of GRCS .
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| Chinese
Folk Dance |
Helen Hong is a
dancer/choreographer. She started her dance training at age 4. Trained
in dance by Beijing Dance Academy, China’s premier national dance
institute, and served as an instructor / choreographer at the National
Academy of Chinese Theater Arts where she won several awards at
national dance competitions. She had distinguished professional dance
career in China. To preserve and promote Chinese performing arts and
culture in a newly emerging and changing Canadian culture, Helen
founded a professional studio of Chinese dance that offers Chinese folk
and classical dance classes in London. Since 2008, she has also
offered Chinese folk dance training at Grand River Chinese School
in KW.
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| Chess |
His
achievements in chess include: Canadian Universities Chess Champions
2011, Placed 3rd in Canada for Under-16 National Competition 2009,
first place in under 14 Chess Competition in Ontario 2007, awarded the
title of National Master in Canada. Currently he is studying at
UW in Mathematics and Finance. He taught chess at Grand River Chinese
School in 2008, and has been teaching again since Jan. 2012.
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Supervisor
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Hang
Liu, B.A., M.Ed., completed formal teacher’s training from a Normal
University in China, and obtained Master of Education in Canada. She
taught for years in Shandong University and Beijing Jianshe University,
also taught for 11 years in Ottawa Xinhua Chinese School, including
teaching Chinese to a class of Anglophone / Francophone Canadians. She
was one of the 7 founders of Beijing Jianshe University, established
the Kanata campus of Ottawa Xinhua Chinese School and was the Executive
Principal of the campus. She had been working for years in schools
in Ottawa and Waterloo regions as Multicultural Liaison Officer /
Settlement Worker in Schools, and had served thousands of students,
parents and teachers.
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