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Teachers Week at Keats School

The 4th week of each month is our “Teachers Week” at Keats. During this week, we hold various teaching seminars and fun activities for Keats teachers. Each seminar has a unique focus, such as exchanging teaching experience, creative teaching methods, how to teach grammar, how to help students memorize new vocabulary, how to make Chinese learning easy and fun, how to give outdoor lessons etc. The seminars are led by experienced teachers and all participants have one week to prepare for their presentation.

One interesting topic for one of the seminars this week was “How to help students improve their Chinese in a very short time?” The teachers needed to share their experience/secrets in creating efficient in-classroom exercises, class structure arrangement, review and testing. In the end, the teachers needed to prepare a class simulation for other teachers. After one week of careful preparation, the teachers were fully ready for the seminar. One of the teachers shared her experience in helping students memorize new words. She split the words by characters and used the single characters to make another word which the student had learned. She them used these created words to make a sentence which explained the new word. In this way, the students can quickly recognize the sound of the character since the students learned this character before. The sound gave the students a hint of the new word they are memorizing. This method was tested to be very efficient and effective. The teacher excitedly told us that once she mentioned the sentences, her student can immediately tell her the word. Finally, the teachers designed the class simulation according to the student’s age, length of stay, characteristics, hobbies, goals, etc. Other teachers expressed that they learned a lot from their colleagues and would put what they have learned into action next week.

The management team couldn’t agree more that this method is a successful one and would like to promote this method in the next week’s teaching. The vice-president Joy Huang commented on this method and stated her suggestions on modifying this method based on different learning habits and goals.

Many teachers find that the Teachers Week is very helpful and meaningful for them to improve their Chinese teaching skills. Although they are all very experienced in teaching Chinese, continuous improvement in teaching is a life-long action for teachers, no matter in which subject.  Keats School serves as a catalyst that integrates all effective and modern teaching methods to help Keats teachers increase their teaching ability from a very high starting point as if they were standing on the shoulders of giants. The Teachers Week is a week to share experience, to show wisdom, to learn new things, to improve ourselves, and to enjoy success.

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Filbert | Indonesia

Small Group Chinese Class

Before I came to Keats School, I had no confidence in my Chinese proficiency. I did not have the confidence to speak Mandarin Chinese and chat with Chinese people. However, after 4 months of study at Keats, I become more and more confident in speaking Chinese now. Studying Chinese in China at Keats School has been the best decision I have ever made. There are many games in the class, and my teacher’s teaching methods are also very interesting. My experience at Keats School has changed my view of China and Chinese people.

 

Sanny | USA

Intensive One-on-One Chinese Classes

I have to say it’s tons of fun. I have been here for 2 weeks. Not knowing what it was gonna be like, I was more than surprised at how great it is. The teachers are great, they are understanding. They do a Chinese language program that suits just you. The location is perfect for learning Chinese in China.

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Ben | USA

Small Group Chinese Class

My first semester that I studied at another school, and the pressure there was pretty high, the classroom hour was long, and the homework was pretty tedious. Since I came to Keats, I found I have a lot more opportunities to speak in the classroom. My classmates all are fluent and love speaking and participating in the class. We have great classroom dynamic.

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Matteo | Italy

Small Group Chinese Class

I really enjoy studying Chinese in Kunming at Keats. The teachers are great and my classmates are awesome. It is an unforgettable experience for me. I also got the chance to travel to other places in Yunnan. Those places are amazing and you definitely need to visit these places when you study Chinese in China at Keats.

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Ida | Italy

Small Group Chinese Class

I have studied at Keats for 2 semesters. I highly recommend Keats School. If you are very interested in taking a Mandarin course in China, I would suggest you come to Kunming. Kunming people are very friendly. The weather in Kunming is great. So I recommend that you study Chinese at Keats in Kunming.

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Amauri | USA

Small Group Chinese Class

The teachers at Keats know how to read the students and how to help students learn Chinese language easily. They know the level of the students. I am a slow learner, but they managed to adapt to my learning. They made the class very fun, very exciting. I am pleased that not only I got to learn the culture and the language, but I also got to make amazing friends, really unbelievable, Chinese friends and European friends, American friends, from all over the world.

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Hitanshu | UK

Intensive One-on-One Chinese Classes

It doesn’t matter what level of Chinese you have, or even you can start from the zero level. Your teacher will prepare the lessons according to your requirements. The advantage of living in the school is that you will have your tutoring, you will have your private accommodation with your own bathroom and all the meals provided. I highly recommend everybody to actually take the whole package because you get to meet other students.

Nicholas | Canada

Intensive One-on-One Chinese Classes

At Keats, I have a lot of opportunities to practice what I have learned. I really like this school, because I can learn Chinese in one-on-one style, so I think this is the best immersion program in China and my teacher is the best teacher. I feel that without my teacher, my Chinese will definitely not improve so much. I’m very happy because, at Keats, I have improved my Chinese significantly.

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