1. Donald’s Teaching Mission
Here given a brief introduction of my teaching background.
I am a qualified Chinese language teacher in Palmerston North community and E-learning
Consultant on Internet with over 2 years’ Chinese language teaching experience. Currently I am
delivering a few Chinese learning courses in local community (Community Education / Night
School Classes in Queen Elizabeth College, Palmerston North Community Center), along with
around NZ (on line), the course options are:
 Free Chinese learning Course (Free Introduction Course)
 Comprehensive Chinese language (Mandarin) Course (Applied)
 Life Chinese Training Course (Basic Chinese for Travelers)
 HSK Chinese language courses
 NCEA (National Certificate of Educational Achievement) Chinese level course
 One Personal Counseling (20/40/80 hours)
Following listed my Chinese language teaching/learning website:
Website: https://chalkle.com/chinesepn (campus learning)
https://chinese.moodlecloud.com (web learning)
http://www.qec.school.nz/community-education.html (night school in QEC)
LinkedIn: https://nz.linkedin.com/in/donald-tang-34181b9a
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/chinesepn
I was rewarded a B.A. degree major in Chinese language and literature by Xiamen University of
P. R. China. After graduation, I had worked for a state-owned publishing house as an editor for
over 10 years in P. R. China.
I have acquired relevant education qualification and certification from UCOL with a sound
knowledge of current practice and a repertoire of strategies to use in teaching and learning,
assessment, programme design and teaching practicum. These elements contribute benefits to
me to deliver qualified teaching tasks in New Zealand.
Basing on the purpose of teaching practice and personal interests, in the last two years, I
operated a free Chinese language teaching/learning project in UCOL, Massey and City library
voluntarily.

2. The Chinese (Mandarin) learning class in UCOL 7-1-01 (2105/10/30)
This class is welcomed by local community people and it gets many achievements as following:
 Enabling students to acquire basic listening， speaking， reading and writing capabilities
of Putonghua (Mandarin) through atheoretical and practical earning and training exercise;
 Enabling students to approach Chinese culture and have a solid ground for their further
study of Chinese language;
 Utilizing multiple-intelligence education strategy and student-center teaching philosophy
to teach students with different nationalities and various ages;
 Enabling relaxing and motivated class atmosphere to encourage students participating in
the interactive learning of group tasks, discussion group, role players to increase efficient
learning productivity;
 Encouraging effective communications among pupils with various culture backgrounds to
giveand receive feedbacks in order to reflect their learning outcomes and learn from each
other’s previous experience;
 Integrating instruction and practice, learning and application as well as creative and
innovations have been incorporated in the course;
 Pleasant study feelings and learning fun are introduced into the class.
My teaching philosophy guide my teaching tasks as following:
 I believe, teaching tasks are like opening a door for the students instead of merely leading
them through the door.
 I believe, it is important to create an atmosphere where the learners feel comfortable to
exchange ideas and discuss feelings about the issues raised through activities.
 I believe, a good teacher will do as a lighthouse to guide the students steering on the right
channel to achieve their definite goals.
 I believe, it is essential to use multiple teaching ways to enhance students to understand
lesson contents and teaching objects.
 I also believed, good teacher always keep learning along with their teaching. Ongoing
teacher development is important and essential.
 I believe that people learn from each other, so I always encourage learners to give and
receive feedbacks to achieve improvements collaboratively.

3. At present, a budding interest in learning Chinese in NZ reflects a growing awareness of
community people and students’ benefits, as more people in NZ and the Manawatu region
travel to China for work, business and leisure. As Chinese becomes more and more important
and popular language across the world and NZ government also has realised it, I am sure you
would benefit a lot from my training course.
Hope you enjoy the Chinese learning.
Yours faithfully,
Donald Tang