[My Students] 009. Tim Badley's Comment

Peter can help you acheive your goals in Chinese in many ways.

1. He provides you handouts that explain grammatical rules.

2. He explains to you the current usage in Taiwanese daily conversation.
3. He also records for you useful sentences to review later.


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**Note by Peter:

Tim is really a proactive and enthusiastic learner. After finishing our trial teaching, he gave me some ideas on my teaching style (see the below article). I printed them out and put it in my teaching file in order to remind myself to notice it when I teach him every time. So I adapted my teaching style to meet his requests, this helped our classes go smoothly.

Private tutoring should be entirely student-oriented and tailor-made. In order to fulfill this, I follow students’ requests and endeavor to meet their needs.

In fact, I welcome all of my students to offer me any suggestions about how they want our teaching to go on. It shows that I care about my students' opinions, and the most important thing is that you are committed to your studies. Being a learner like this, there is no reason you cannot make great progress in your Chinese.

ATTITUDE DECIDES ALTITUDE.　態度決定高度。

Tim’s email is as follows: tim.badley@hotmail.com


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**Written by Tim:

Here are some of my notes from the last session.

1. Don't over teach me. I prefer quality over quantity.
    I want to create sentences rather than have too much vocabulary that I can't use.

2. Try to stick to the book. Even though Taiwanese may use different words,
    I'm trying to create sentences and dialog from the words used from my course.

3. You are doing well.
   
    For the class, I would like to try this format:
      1) Speak for 15 minutes in Chinese.
      2) Review homework.
      3) Go over grammar.
      4) Preview future lessons; go over March TOP
      5) Review lesson