Teaching Chinese/Teaching English
Welcome!
My name is Susan Rhodes. Let me introduce myself to you and tell you why I am now teaching Chinese and English to speakers of other languages (TCSOL and TESOL).
When I went to college, I was interested in studying comparative linguistics. I started studying Chinese because I believed that the most important issue facing my generation was the relationship between the United States and China. After I started studying Chinese, I loved working with the language and so I ended up just majoring in Chinese language at Queens College (before they even offered Chinese as a major), and went on immediately to get a Master’s in Chinese Language and Literature in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.
I had a wonderful career teaching Chinese at the University of Maryland and a NYC high school; worked with the China Council of the Asia Society for 6 years and then was Associate Director of the Center for U.S.-China Arts Exchange for 12 years. In the early 1990s I decided to study for a Master’s in Public Health (at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health) so I could contribute to work on the AIDS epidemic. Through the last 15 years of working with public health and economic development issues, I had the pleasure of continuing to work with China, conducting trainings in Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, blindness prevention, and non-profit health management.
Between my Chinese studies jobs and my public health jobs, I have traveled to China 14 times, spending time in: Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, Kunming, Xishuangbanna, Nanjing, and a small village in Shandong Province.
At this point in my life, I have decided to return to my first love of teaching language. At the same time as pursuing the TCSOL certificate at Teachers College, I have also completed the certificate program in TESOL at the New School. My current TESOL teaching and my student teaching in the TCSOL program confirm how natural it feels to return to classroom teaching and how much I enjoy helping students learn and improve their language skills.
I still believe that the relationship between the U.S. and China (in fact between China and the rest of the world) is the key foreign relationship in arts, politics, education, health, and all aspects of contemporary society. I think that achieving both the TESOL and the TCSOL certificates will equip me to make a significant contribution to this relationship.
My name is Susan Rhodes. Let me introduce myself to you and tell you why I am now teaching Chinese and English to speakers of other languages (TCSOL and TESOL).
When I went to college, I was interested in studying comparative linguistics. I started studying Chinese because I believed that the most important issue facing my generation was the relationship between the United States and China. After I started studying Chinese, I loved working with the language and so I ended up just majoring in Chinese language at Queens College (before they even offered Chinese as a major), and went on immediately to get a Master’s in Chinese Language and Literature in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.
I had a wonderful career teaching Chinese at the University of Maryland and a NYC high school; worked with the China Council of the Asia Society for 6 years and then was Associate Director of the Center for U.S.-China Arts Exchange for 12 years. In the early 1990s I decided to study for a Master’s in Public Health (at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health) so I could contribute to work on the AIDS epidemic. Through the last 15 years of working with public health and economic development issues, I had the pleasure of continuing to work with China, conducting trainings in Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS, blindness prevention, and non-profit health management.
Between my Chinese studies jobs and my public health jobs, I have traveled to China 14 times, spending time in: Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Harbin, Changchun, Shenyang, Kunming, Xishuangbanna, Nanjing, and a small village in Shandong Province.
At this point in my life, I have decided to return to my first love of teaching language. At the same time as pursuing the TCSOL certificate at Teachers College, I have also completed the certificate program in TESOL at the New School. My current TESOL teaching and my student teaching in the TCSOL program confirm how natural it feels to return to classroom teaching and how much I enjoy helping students learn and improve their language skills.
I still believe that the relationship between the U.S. and China (in fact between China and the rest of the world) is the key foreign relationship in arts, politics, education, health, and all aspects of contemporary society. I think that achieving both the TESOL and the TCSOL certificates will equip me to make a significant contribution to this relationship.
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