{"id":312,"date":"2020-09-24T06:55:52","date_gmt":"2020-09-24T10:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/?p=312"},"modified":"2020-10-14T13:27:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T17:27:32","slug":"after-a-break-yan-huang-is-back-at-t-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/2020\/09\/24\/after-a-break-yan-huang-is-back-at-t-c\/","title":{"rendered":"After A Break, Yan Huang Is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

T.C. Welcomes Returning Chinese Teacher<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Abigail Ernst and Abigail St. Jean<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Huang grew up in \u6c88\u9633\u5e02(ShenYang City), in the \u8fbd\u5b81\u7701 (Liaoning) Province in China. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of Huang’s school pictures of her as a young girl.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

 She went to high school and college there. She went through a very rigorous process to get into the Dalian University of Foreign Languages in China where she majored in English Language and Culture. She had to take the Gaokao exam, which was \u201cthe lone criterion for admission into Chinese universities.\u201d Her high school classes lasted from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and many students would stay after school to self study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After majoring in English Language and Culture at Dalian University of Foreign Language, she came to the US as an international student in 2009 and started teaching at TC in 2010. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huang\u2019s first job was as a Chinese teacher at T.C. She taught from 2010-2018. Following teaching at T.C, she \u201cworked as a graduate lecturer, teaching an intermediate Chinese course [that] was all delivered in Chinese.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was drawn to teach Chinese because, \u201cChinese is a critically-needed language in the U.S. About 1.2 billion people (around 16% of the world’s population) speak Chinese.\u201d By becoming a teacher Yan Huang hopes to \u201chelp people know an important language and understand a different way of thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 When she attended George Mason for graduate school, she earned a master\u2019s degree in teaching English as a Second Language. After 2 years of continued education, she decided to come back to T.C. \u201dTC is where I found a community and built a relationship with my students,\u201d she said, “Once a Titan, always a Titan.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although school is virtual this semester, she is still optimistic about teaching and is very excited to meet all of her students. Huang thinks that, \u201cVirtual learning is the best for our students now in this global pandemic… We want to keep our students safe and healthy and we are working to make teaching and learning better day by day.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Along with teaching Chinese, Huang is passionate about her art. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Huang wants her students to know that she is also interested in the arts and practices oil paintings, still-life drawings and digital drawings. Huang hopes to someday see the intersection of both of her interests in her teaching, \u201cMaybe I want to teach both Chinese and arts some day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cChinese is a critically-needed language in the U.S. About 1.2 billion people (around 16% of the world’s population) speak Chinese.\u201d By becoming a teacher Yan Huang hopes to \u201chelp people know an important language and understand a different way of thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"yes","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/IMG-9762.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acpsk12.org\/theogony\/2020-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}