Wilmington Friends School, DE
Jianglin Shi has been teaching Mandarin for more than 15 years in American schools. She teaches 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th grade Chinese at Wilmington Friends School in Delaware and is also a 6th-grade advisor.
Jianglin received her bachelor’s Bachelor’s degree in Integrated Studies (Education and Mathematics), she also has a music education degree from Jiangsu Education institute in Nanjing, China. With various skills, she creates cultural experiences in her classes through integrating Chinese art (brush painting, paper cutting, and calligraphy etc.), music, food, and architecture to make learning enjoyable for students. Jianglin uses American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency guidelines and can-do statements, She creates and implements “backward design” lesson plans, starting with the goal of the lesson and then developing the strategy for attaining that goal.
Favorite quote about teaching:
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.