Ms. Zhou from Stuyvesant High School shared her first 3 months' experience and useful strategies as a Chinese teacher.

1. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
By Zhou Laoshi
Learning Chinese:
周老师
Easy as a piece of cake
or
Hard as nails

2. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
Stuyvesant High School
• Stuyvesant High School is one
of nine specialized high schools
in New York City, United States.
• Stuy. has contributed to the
education of several Nobel
laureates and other
accomplished alumni.
• Stuy. has had 2nd highest
number of National Merit
Scholarship semi-finalists.

3. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
Students Body
• Around 800 out of 28,000
are annually accepted at
Stuyvesant.
• For the 2013 academic
year, the student body
was 72.31% Asian and
21.44% Caucasian, 1.03%
African American and
2.34% Hispanic.

4. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
Non-heritage Speakers are not
at disadvantage.
• Reason 1: Many students speak Cantonese
or Min Nan Dialect, which makes learning
Pinyin challenging.
• Reason 2: Non-heritage speakers are often
motivated to learn writing characters.

5. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
Guess how many characters my beginner
students can learn to write in the first class?
• 2, 5, 10, or more?

6. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
In my class, the answer is…
20

7. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
Instead of teaching them writing characters,
I teach them
drawing characters

8. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
Chinese Characters are Living
Symbols

9. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
A Story In My Class

10. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
Pinyin is even easier to learn,
but powerful to use.
• Most of the pronunciation in Pinyin is similar to
English, like: b, p, m, f, d, t, n, g, k, h.
• Within one month, mostly of my class (first year to
learn Chinese) can read most of the Pinyin clearly.

11. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
I show them mouth shape, as well as
tongue position.

12. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
Do not start with bo po mo fo

13. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
As they learn more…
The world gets more
interesting:
– Food
– Culture
– People
– Countries
– Career

14. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
More Choices for Food
• You can order a wider range of Chinese food in
Chinese restaurants in Chinatown and around world.

15. By Zhou Laoshi
@Stuyvesant
Explore a Culture of thousands of
years
Martial Art Acupuncture Calligraphy