Teaching
Courses I have taught
Le Jardin Academy (Kailua, HI; website)
2022, August-present
Secondary Teacher/Mandarin for grades 9-10 (IB Middle Year Program) and 11-12 (IB Diploma Program)
STARTALK (a federal grant program managed and funded by the National Security Agency; website)
2022-2024, Agnes Scott College (Atlanta, GA) 2023-2024 STARTALK Chinese and Korean Immersion “Career Pathways” Program (website coming soon)
(2 years) Instructional Lead; co-authored grant, recruited teachers and students, guided curricular decisions for global career readiness for Chinese and Korean work.
2021-2023, Agnes Scott College (Atlanta, GA) 2022-2023 STARTALK Chinese Immersion “Career Pathways” Program (website)
(2 years) Instructional Lead; co-authored grant, recruited teachers and students, guided curricular decisions for global career readiness for Chinese work.
2021, Agnes Scott College (Atlanta, GA) STARTALK Residential Teacher Program
(Summer) Instructional Lead; c0-designed and taught curricula for Chinese language teacher education
2017, Agnes Scott College (Atlanta, GA) STARTALK Chinese Program for Students
(Summer) Instructional Lead; concurrently designed curricula, led teachers, and taught grades 6-12 students
2016, Fargo Public Schools (Fargo-Moorehead, ND) STARTALK Chinese Program for Teachers and Students
(Summer) Instructional Lead; taught grades 4-8 students
ʻIolani School (Honolulu, HI)
2022, April-June, Fourth Quarter
Long-term sub for Chinese 1A (7th grade), Chinese 1B (8th grade), and AP Chinese (2 sections)
Brigham Young University–Hawaiʻi
2022
(Winter) Chinese 102: Elementary Chinese, in-person, on campus [semester-end student evaluations]
2021
(Fall) Chinese 101: Elementary Chinese, in-person, on campus [semester-end student evaluations]
(Fall) Chinese 202: Intermediate Chinese, in-person, on campus [semester-end student evaluations]
(Spring) Chinese 201: Intermediate Chinese, moved online to Zoom, Canvas, and Flipgrid due to COVID-19 [semester-end student evaluations]
(Winter) Chinese 102: Elementary Chinese, moved online to Zoom, Canvas, and Flipgrid due to COVID-19 [semester-end student evaluations]
2020
(Fall) Chinese 101: Elementary Chinese, moved online to Zoom, Canvas, and Flipgrid due to COVID-19 [semester-end student evaluations]
(Fall) Chinese 202: Intermediate Chinese, moved online to Zoom, Canvas, and Flipgrid due to COVID-19 [semester-end student evaluations]
(Spring) Chinese 201: Intermediate Chinese, moved online to Zoom, Canvas, and Flipgrid due to COVID-19
(Winter) Chinese 102: Elementary Chinese, moved online to Zoom, Canvas, and Flipgrid due to COVID-19
2019
(Fall) Chinese 101: Elementary Chinese
(Fall) Chinese 202: Intermediate Chinese
(Spring) Chinese 201: Intermediate Chinese
University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
2017
(Spring) Chinese 102: Elementary Mandarin (see also Chinese Curriculum Group page)
2016
(Fall) Chinese 101: Elementary Mandarin
(Spring) Chinese 312: Conversational Intermediate Mandarin
2015
(Fall) Chinese 311: Conversational Intermediate Mandarin
(Spring) Chinese 399: Directed Readings in Intermediate Chinese
(Spring) Chinese 486: Chinese for Academic and Professional Purposes
2014
(Fall) Chinese 485: Chinese for Academic and Professional Purposes
(Spring) Chinese 332: On-line Intermediate Mandarin Reading and Writing
(Spring) Chinese 102: Elementary Mandarin
2013
(Fall) Chinese 101: Elementary Mandarin
Punahou School, Honolulu, HI
Fall 2015 - Spring 2018
Teacher in after-school Chinese immersion to grades 2-3
Various work in China
2006-2012
Various ESL teaching and Chinese-to-English translation work
四川商务职业学院 (Sichuan Business Vocational College)
2005-2006
Teacher of English, focus on reading and listening skills
Tacoma Community House
2004-2005
Adult Literacy Specialist, working on foundational reading skills with non-literate American adults
Courses I am prepared to teach
Standard Chinese (focus: proficiency, interaction, communication)
- Novice proficiency
- Intermediate proficiency
- Advanced proficiency
- Selected Readings
- Chinese Linguistics
- Chinese Dialects
- Chinese Sociolinguistics
- Chinese SLA corpus methods
- Chinese Language Teaching, Assessment, & Curricular Design
- Introduction to Linguistics
- Phonetics
- Phonology
- Phonetics and Phonology of Intonation
- Pragmatics
- Sociolinguistics
- Psycholinguistics
- Emergentist Approaches to Syntax
- Corpus Linguistics
- Cognitive Grammar
- Construction Grammar
- Conversation Analysis/Interactional Linguistics
- Second Language Acquisition/Development
- Child Language Acquisition/Development
- Basic Training in TESOL
- Needs Analysis & Task-based Program Design
- Modern American Usage
