LOVING TREE ACADEMY - Key Persons
Ms. Grace Zhang received her Bachelor's Degree from Zhejiang University with a major in journalism and her Ph.D. from the Institute of Journalism and Communication at Zhejiang University. She has worked in Zhejiang Youth Daily, Zhejiang Daily, Zhejiang TV Station, China Xinhua News Agency for many years. She used to be a workaholic until her child was born. For the first time, she realized that she loves children so much, and for the first time, she found the importance and significance of early childhood education. In order to be a good mother, she used her spare time to learn the course of Children's Psychology, Preschool Education, and Early Childhood Autism Intervention and successfully graduated.
Incorporating infinite energy and happiness with her children, Ms. Zhang finally decided to change her original career plan and join the big family of Loving Tree Academy. She is patient, gentle, careful, and most importantly, responsible. She loves all the children as she loves her own child, and she hopes to accompany these children to grow up happily and healthily. In addition to teaching children the basic knowledge of the books, she also hopes to pass on more positive energy to the children and cultivate their correct attitudes and methods for things. Ms. Zhang believes that every child is a unique seed. They are born out of the desire for life. They have their own thoughts, their own independent personality, and soul, as well as unlimited potential and hope. Ms. Zhang wished to learn and grow together with the children of Loving Tree Academy!
Kelly got a bachelor's degree in finance and psychology at the University of Denver, Colorado, and then she decided to continue her studies in the psychology field. Due to the love of children, she gave up a number of business school offers, chose to study at the University of Texas at Dallas, and eventually achieved a master's degree in human development and early childhood disorders. This teaching experience has helped her accumulate a diversity of language teaching experience. She found that children learn the language much faster than adults, and children have their own set of memorizing methods. So she created her own teaching methods and helped children learn Chinese in the process of doing more with less. In addition, Kelly began to practice piano when she was three and this helped her lay a great music foundation. She has been trained in professional vocal music, during the phase of teaching in Yunnan for three months, Kelly presents as the junior music teacher and English teacher.
Mengjie received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Fine Art in Fashion Design from Academy Art University, San Francisco. Mengjie applies fashion and art professional skills to teaching. She likes spending time with students and inspires them to create artwork in their visions. Mengjie finds that each of them is talented with a unique perspective. Mengjie has studied Chinese Calligraphy for 12 years when she was young. Growing up in China makes her understand and appreciate the importance of Chinese culture. She would love to tell Chinese history and Chinese tradition to young students. Mengjie wants to build a close relationship with her students. Becoming friends with students lets her know their thoughts better and it creates a joyful learning experience at the school.
Ms. Chen graduated from Hunan Normal University, and she obtained a Master of Laws from California Western School of Law. She holds attorney licenses in both China and New York State. As a mother of two young kids, Ms. Chen started focusing her interests and energy on cultivating kids in 2016. She studied related programs such as Children Psychology, Early Childhood Education and etc.; she volunteered in AWANA Program for Children during weekends and obtained love from children in her classes. As a Chinese mom, she is passionate about teaching Chinese as a language and Chinese culture. She is a firm believer that a child can build up his/her confidence through learning the culture of his/her heritage, and the best way to learn the culture of his/her heritage is through learning the language. Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom, and Ms. Chen believes Chinese is a doorway to Asia wisdom.
Ms.Chen is committed to building a team of high-quality instructors; to organize our instructors to attend the seminars in the area of Children Psychology and teaching skills etc.; to build the bridges between our instructors and the parents of our children so that we can together raise children with high self-esteem and strong social skills.
Mr. Luo got a bachelor's degree in elementary education at the University of Iowa, Iowa. Growing up in Shanghai, China, Mr. Luo was heavily impacted by his parents whom both used to be Chinese literacy educators, and the family atmosphere made him feel fascinated in the field of education. During his college years, Mr. Luo attended practicums that included literacy, math, science, and whole-class instruction. He also spent over a year in a kindergarten classroom as a tutor and volunteer, which made him realize the importance of having a right start at a young age even more. Mr. Luo did appreciate how the standard American education allowed students to be themselves and build up interpersonal skills, and he also believed that "Practice makes perfect" and he was really into guiding students to make a real-world application based on the knowledge they learned. Mr. Luo believes every single student is and will be different, and his teaching philosophy is to be fair, friendly, and have high expectations for each student. Every child has special gifts, and it's the teacher's job to discover, activate, and maximize these amazing potentials.
Job Titles:
- Educational Administrator
After graduating from Nanjing University, Yijing chose to go to a graduate school in California for further studies and has been awarded full scholarships. Since 2014, she has been actively participating in volunteer activities in both schools and the community, such as organizing fundraisers for children who are struggling with hunger and collecting books and other materials for the children who need help. In graduate school, Yijing used to be a part-time Chinese and gym teacher in different after schools. After obtaining a master's degree in Statistics, she still keeps a passion for children and education. So she quit a top-level finance and insurance company in the United States, and she spent a lot of time and energy in the Loving Tree Academy to help children become more interested in learning Chinese. At the same time, Yijing has a deep foundation in dance, and she has been the president of Nanjing Scarlett Dance Company for three consecutive years. She is good at breaking down each dance step and imparting it to the children in children's preferred language, making it easier for children to understand and memorize. Even though she started teaching in Loving Tree Academy for just a few months, she has become good friends with many of the children.
Vicky Li received dual degrees in English Language and Air Transportation in China, then gained a master's degree in Education at the University of San Francisco. Born in a family of educators, Vicky decided to dedicate her life to education early when she was an undergraduate student. Now she already has ten years' experience in teaching. Her teaching experience includes instructing high school English and ICAO English in China and teaching Chinese, English and math in the US. Vicky always loves being with kids, especially after she became a mother. She understands kids and treats every kid as her own with patience and a warm heart.
In language teaching, Vicky pursues a combination of language teaching theories and methods she's learned during graduate study and Loving Tree's teaching approaches to achieve better teaching progress and results. In math teaching, her goal is to let every student feel that math is interesting, charming and enjoyable. Thus, she prefers student-centered class where students themselves attempt to comprehend, think and finally solve problems with her guidance. By this way, students become real participants in class with growing interest and passion for exploring math. In the past years of Math Kangaroo Competition, Vicky's team attained gratifying achievements. Several students received gold medals and silver medals.
Zhengxia Yi obtained a master's degree from San Jose State University. She has more than two years of experience as a math tutor and grader. She has been loved by students for her rich and childlike math courses for a long time. She has her own unique experience in data management and integration. In the process of getting involved in mathematics teaching, She is good at capturing the difficulties and mistakes in mathematics topics, combining textbooks and practical knowledge to help students solve problems in a short time, guiding students to master the principle of solving problems by drawing inferences from one case quickly and effectively. Ms. Yi is committed to letting children learn something in a relaxed and lively classroom atmosphere, helping children build good self-confidence, know how to learn independently, and constantly stimulate children's infinite enthusiasm for learning. Ms. Yi also firmly believes that "things are different, and people have their own strengths". It is necessary to respect every student, and on the basis of common education, try to give full show and cultivate the strengths of every child, create talents, and improve students' personal value.
Zhou Xiaobo graduated from the Foreign Language Department of Zhejiang Normal University and the Foreign Language Department of Zhejiang University. She had been a senior high school English teacher in a key middle school in Zhejiang Province of China for 10 years. And taught in the off campus college entrance examination review class. Led lots of students to participate in China's college entrance examination and achieved excellent results. As a qualified teacher,she loves education and has rich teaching experience .After coming to the United States, she joined the Loving Tree Academy teacher team and became a Chinese teacher. Her teaching characteristics: patient ,meticulous, steady and teaching in fun,such as teaching students to sing, making up word puzzles, asking students to guess the new words they have just learned, and organizing students to perform the text in the form of drama, etc.