Tingyu's Teaching

Just like Albert Einstein said, "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge" (Saur). In a competitive world today, a great teacher is not someone who pushes students to learn all facts in class, but someone who can emphasize and encourage them to face their ignorance by challenging themselves and seeing their improvement compared with where they started. I believe the essence of American education is to respect students’ feelings and trigger their creativity and curiosity. As an instructor in ENGL1101 and 1102 in GSU for the first time, I strive to provide an interactive student-centered class blended with Chinese-style critical guidance to make full use of freshmen’s innate drives to explore, understand, create, and understand the world and fulfill their’ subjectivity at the university level.

You can download my ENGL 1101 & 1102 teaching syllabus.

Here is my teaching rubric for ENGL1101 and 1102.

Tingyu tried to inspire genuine interaction with the ENGL 1102 content. My instructor answered questions in detail. She really tried to get the class to interact. I appreciated the enthusiasm in which she wanted everyone to stay engaged. She constantly checking over everyone's shoulder questioning students every time they seemed to be deviating from the task on hand really created an environment of strict enforcement. She was really nice when correcting mistakes. She was very kind and helpful to any problems or questions we had.

Here are the student writing samples in ENGL 1101 and 1102 classes with my detailed feedback.

Here is my teaching reflection for ENGL1101 and 1102 in 2024.