Dear Students and
Parents:
1, Update on student
registration. As we are
looking forward to our
first day of the new
school year, I am
pleased to share with
you great news: It was
another successful Open
Registration Day last
Sunday (August 29th).
There were 79 students
and their families
registered on that day.
To date, the total
number of students
registered is about 200
for language classes and
about 100 for Culture
activity classes.
Welcome to CCC Chinese
School! Welcome to the
new school year. Thank
you for all your
continuous support!
2, Introduction of new
teachers:
Zhenwen Liu (刘真文) XQ-1
class. Ms. Zhenwen Liu
has 36 years of
experience in teaching
Chinese in middle school
at China. Ms. Liu
obtained her Bachelor
degree in Chinese
Language and Literature
from Jiangxi Institute
of Education in 1960s.
She taught Chinese at
Shangrao No. 2 Middle
School in Jiangxi
Province. She was
certified as Senior
Teacher in 1991. After
1990, she taught Chinese
in Shangrao No. 1 Middle
School. Ms. Liu has
received multiple
teaching excellence
awards in her career. We
are grateful to have Ms.
Liu as our teacher.
3, Introduction of Youth
Teachers. The school
encourages the
involvement of
school-aged students in
teaching the cultural
and language classes. It
is our pleasure to
introduce a group of
lovely youth instructors
who will teach in this
coming school year.
According to regulation
rules past by the school
council regarding
teenage student
teachers, a class taught
by a student teacher
must be supervised by an
adult supervisor whom
will be responsible for
resolving issues that
are beyond the
capability of the
student teacher.
Jacqueline Hsia (Art-2A
Class). Class
Supervisor: Peizhen Xu.
Jacqueline Hsia, an 11th
grader from Colonie
Central High School and
former student graduated
from Chinese School, has
been learning Chinese
Brush Painting for five
years and has been
taught by teachers in
China and Professor Lefu
Gu. Two years ago, she
worked ass a teacher
assistant for Teacher
Jiang ShuJun and last
year, she taught a
Chinese Brush Painting
class for beginners.
During the summers, she
tutored Chinese Brush
Painting. She enjoys
many forms of art,
including sketching,
digital painting and
graphics, and painting
with other mediums. She
also plays Chinese
Zither and frequently
performs at various
Chinese cultural events.
Amy Yao (Art-4 Sketching
for beginners)
Supervisor: Wen Ma. Amy
Yao, a senior at
Niskayuna High School,
has currently enrolled
in CCC Chinese School as
a student in the
Advanced Chinese class.
During the 2009-2010
Chinese school year, Amy
served as a Teacher's
Assistant for Mrs.
ShihChia Thompson, the
previous Art--4
instructor. The purpose
of this class is to
reinforce basic and to
introduce new sketching
techniques and skills by
developing confidence in
drawing and a solid base
in observation. Chinese
language will be
incorporated into the
lessons on a daily basis
as students grow in
their knowledge and
creativity. If you have
any question or
concerns, please feel
free to reach Amy at her
cell phone, (518)
729-8651, or by email at
amy.ye.yao@gmail.com.
Amy is looking forward
to meeting her students
soon.
Linjie Xu (Handcrafts)
Class supervisor: Aiping
Chen. Linjie, a senior
at Shenendehowa High
School, has been a
teacher's assistant for
the Handcrafts class for
2 years, and will be the
teacher for this class
this year. The
Handcrafts class is
designed specifically
for young students who
are interested in making
their own handmade
crafts. A variety of
materials will be used
to make these crafts.
This class will teach
them techniques in
paper-folding, cutting,
beading, etc. There will
be one project per
class, and one or two
long-term projects to
work on over breaks and
during free time. The
students will gain
confidence in their
abilities when they
successfully complete
their projects.
4, Employment
opportunity: Are you
confluent in English and
Chinese and is looking
for a job?
Ophthalmologist office
(Dr. Mabel Cheng) at
Latham is looking to
hire a bilingual (fluent
English and Chinese)
receptionist. Full-time
or Part time
administrative and
patient service work.
She is looking for
someone reliable,
responsible and
committed to the
well-being of her
patients. Exceptional
telephone & patient
service skills required.
Duties will include:
-answering phone calls
-scheduling appointments
-answering questions via
phone/email
-greeting visitors,
-gathering patient’s
personal and insurance
information.
Skills:
-bilingual (English and
Chinese)
-phone experience
-computer experience
If you're interested
in this position, please
send your resume (782
4913) or call 782 7777.
Looking forward to
seeing you all in the
School!
Regards,
Jianzhong Tang
Principal, CCC Chinese
School
We are pleased to
announce a good news:
through Professor Yiping
Wu, our CCC Chinese
School Children’s Chorus
has received a
invitation to perform
with a professional
group in the Proctor
Theater in December.
This is a wonderful
opportunity for our
students to show their
talents. In order to
have a good start for
the Children’s Chorus, I
would like to encourage
more students to join
the Choir. Please note
the followings:
· Age to enroll
Children’ Chorus: 7 to
14;
· Time for the Class:
Children’s Chorus I:
3:10-4:1-pm, at Shaker
Junior High School;
Children’s Chorus II:
4:30-5:30pm at CCC
building (11 Avis Drive,
Latham NY 12110)
The newly established
CCC Chinese School
Children’s Chorus is
unique as it consists of
Children from Chinese
Community Center at the
Capital region and
promotes Chinese
culture. Members of the
Chorus will learn
singing modern Chinese
songs as well classic
traditional Chinese folk
songs under the
supervision of
professional teachers.
With improved skill
overtime, more
opportunities for public
performance will be
available. We
congratulate the
establishment of the
Children’ Chorus and
express our best wishes
for its success in
representing the CCC
community and promoting
Chinese Culture.
Welcome to CCC Chinese
School Children’ Chorus
CCC Chinese School
1) Two sessions of
Children’s Chorus:
In order to meet the
demand of students who
has the conflict of
taking other culture
classes but would like
to take the Children’s
Chorus class, the school
administration has
decided to hold two
sessions of Children’s
chorus. The time
schedule and location
are as follows:
Children’s Chorus
section I:
3:10pm-4:10pm, at Shaker
Junior High School;
Children’s Chorus
Section II:
4:30pm-5:30pm, at CCC
building (11 Avis Drive,
Latham, NY 12201.
Please indicate in your
registration form which
session you would like
to register. Thanks!
2) ESL classes will
be continued.
Teachers from Literacy
New York Greater Capital
Region will continue
providing two levels of
ESL classes free of
charge to students.
Descriptions of these
classes are as follows:
Beginning English
Class (ESL-1): This
class is for beginners
with emphasis on basic
conversation and
survival skills. We
cover greetings,
shopping, health terms,
and general language
used in everyday
situations. We also work
on pronunciation,
correct use of
prepositions, verbs,
pronouns, etc.
Listening, speaking,
reading, and writing are
combined in the class.
Class participation is
encouraged. Teachers
of this class: Mary
Gordon is a retired
teacher and has been a
volunteer with Literacy
New York Greater Capital
Region for 4 years. June
O’Connor is a staff of
Literacy New York
Greater Capital Region
and has been a tutor for
more than 20 years.
Intermediate English
Class (ESL-2):
We emphasize
conversation and
encourage everyone to
join in the discussions.
We discuss topics of
interest to the group...
Chinese and American
culture and customs,
current events, etc.
There is also vocabulary
building and some short
essay writing. There is
a bit of grammar but it
is not a focus. The
objective is to help
participants become more
comfortable speaking
English. Martha
Harausz is the
facilitator of the
group. She has a degree
in education and has
been a tutor with
Literacy New York
Greater Capital Region
for 4 years.
There is no registration
for ESL class required,
please come and enjoys
the class!
Cordially,
Jianzhong Tang
Principal,
CCC Chinese School
1, Registration
As announced earlier,
the starting day for the
fall semester of
2010-2011 will be on
Sunday, Sep 12th.
However, up to today,
many student have not
yet register. We need
your help for a good
start of the new school
year. I’d appreciate if
you could help sending
an email message to
encourage students
parents of your class
and to remind them
registration if they
have not done so. In
doing so, not only to
avoid paying $10 later
fee (Post mark
08/31/2010), but also
greatly help to reduce
the amount of work for
school administration at
the beginning of the
semester.
2, Next open
registration day.
For the convenience of
student to register,
school decided to held a
another Open
Registration date which
will be: Sunday, August
29th 2010, (星期天,
8月29日1:00-4:00pm). 地点:
CCC Building, (11 Avis
Drive, Latham, NY,
12110). Detailed
Registration info and
Registration form can be
downloaded from Chinese
School Website: http://albanychineseschool.org
Thanks for your support!
3, Introduction of new
teachers.
Quanxi WU( 吴全喜) new
teacher of JTMLP 4—1
class. Mr. Quanxi Wu is
an experienced and
certified teacher in
Chinese Language and
Literature. He obtained
his bachelor degree from
Hubei University, China,
with major in Chinese
Language and Literature.
He has had almost thirty
years (from
1981-current) teaching
experience in Chinese
Language and literature
in China as well as in
United States. Mr. Wu
has received multiple
teaching excellence
awards in his career. In
addition, Mr. Wu has
hobbies of playing
Chinese Chess,
Ping-pong,
Pencil-drawing and
Chinese Calligraphy. We
are lucky to have Mr. Wu
to be one of our
teachers.
Aiqi DONG (董瑷齐) new
teacher of XQ-1 class.
Miss Dong obtained her
Bachelor degree from
SUNY Albany, and has had
two years teaching
experience at Albany
Chinese School as a
substitute teacher in
Chinese language and
Dancing Teacher for very
young children. During
the two years of her
teaching, she
demonstrated her
capabilities on quickly
identifying children’s
individual learning
needs, and planning and
preparing instruction
accordingly so that
children can learn with
their full capability
and confidence. In her
new class, Miss Dong
will teach children
Chinese Pinyin, Chinese
Characters, reading and
story telling. At the
same time, children will
have fun.
Cordially,
Jianzhong Tang
Principal, on behalf of
CCC Chinese School
administration team
Children’s Chorus:
Objective: to build
self-confidence through
practice music under the
supervision of a
professional teacher.
Practice consist of,
basic vocal arts, ,
instruction of tone,
rhythm and ear training,
learning Chinese
classic, traditional,
popular songs, and
performance. Professor
Yiping Wu holds a doctor
degree of Musical Arts
in Choral Conducting and
Pedagogy, and has many
years experience in
teaching music theory,
aural skills and studio
voice. He has won many
awards in his honorable
career, and is currently
Conducting SCCC chorus
and vocal chamber
ensemble. Student age
for this class: 3rd
grader (or age 8) and
up.
Chinese as a Foreign
Language –New 4 Year
program:
Objective: By following
a well designed
curriculum for four
school years, students
are expected to achieve
a proficiency in the
Chinese Language
equivalent to that
acquired from a two-year
language course in
college. Target
Applicants: Incoming
high school freshmen who
has never studied the
Chinese language before;
adults who have never
studied the Chinese
Language before or have
studied but willing to
re-start through a
systematic approach.
Program director and
teacher: Ruby Pu (董音),
she completed her
undergraduate study in
China and graduate study
in the United States.
She has twelve years of
experience teaching
Chinese Language at the
CCC Chinese School and
is a multiple Teaching
Excellence Award
recipient from the
Northeast of National
Association of Chinese
School. For more
details, Please contact
Ruby Pu at dongyin@aol.com
AP computer Science:
This class is a two year
program for Chinese
School Students of 9th,
10th graders with good
math skills. Class will
be taught at the same
level as a college 200
level computer science
programming course with
emphasis in the last
half year in preparing
for the AP test.
Students would need a
Laptop and textbook
assigned by the teacher.
Class meets from
3:00-4:00pm every Sunday
at Shaker Junior High
school and is Free of
tuition. Maximum class
size 8. Teacher Tony Yan
holds a Master degree in
Computer Science and has
12+ years of IT
experience, of which the
last 10 years in
programming with Java,
the designated language
for AP Computer Science
A. Please Email:
binyanmail@yahoo.com
(Tony Yan) for details
Want to be a teacher for
CCC Chinese School?
CCC Chinese school is
looking for teachers for
Art, Martial Arts, music
(specifically, Guitar
teacher), and Chess. Any
of you interested in
teaching these classes
or know some one who may
be interested in, please
contact Jianzhong Tang,
at principal@albanychineseschool.org;
or Vice principal Qian
Tao at Qian06@yahoo.com.
CCC Chinese School at
Capital District of NY
Please Register! The
Next Open Registration
date will be:
时间： Sunday, August 29th
2010, (星期天,
8月29日1:00-4:00pm).
地点: CCC Building, (11
Avis Drive, Latham, NY,
12110).
Detailed Registration
info and Registration
form can be downloaded
from Chinese School
Website: http://albanychineseschool.org
Dear Students and
Parents:
It is my pleasure to
introduce to you some
new teachers for this
school year:
Anny YIN ( 尹德全), new
teacher of XQ-2 class.
Ms. Anny YIN is a
patient and experienced
teacher. She obtained
her Bachelor degree and
Master degree in Music
Education from Shandong
Normal University and
Shandong Arts College in
2001 and 2005,
respectively. She taught
Piano class at Shanghai
University from 2005 to
2007 before she
immigrated to United
States. She has been
teaching Piano class at
TomLee Music in the past
two years. We are very
grateful to have Ms. Yin
to join our Chinese
school to teach Chinese
Language class and music
classes.
Fei XIE (谢 菲), new
teacher of JTMLP 2-3 and
Art-4B (素描) class. Ms.
Fei XIE is a talented
artist. She Graduated
with a B.A. from
GuangZhou Academy of
Fine Arts in China in
2001. She also obtained
a B.A. plus graduate
program at the Visual
and Communication
Collage in 2003 and
later on in 2005 a M.A.
at the Institute of
Higher Research on
Economy and Commerce,
both of which institutes
are located in Paris,
France. Her major is on
Graphic Design and
Visual Communication.
She is fluent in
Mandarin, Cantonese,
English, and French. She
will teach both Chinese
language class and Art
class at our Chinese
school.
Xinyue TANG (唐心越)，new
teacher of CFL-1 Class.
Ms. Xinyue TANG is a
data administrator at
New York State
Department of Health.
She graduated from
Nanjing University with
Bachelor Degree of
Science in (2003) and
came to United States to
study in 2007. She
obtained her Master
Degree in Management
Science from the
University of Tennessee
in 2009. She is fluent
in Mandarin and English.
She loves to teach
Chinese. We are very
pleased to have her join
the Chinese school to
teach the new beginner
level Chinese as Foreign
Language class.
To keep up with the
increasing number of
enrollments, there will
be new teachers and new
classes for the upcoming
school year.
Introduction of new
teachers and description
of new classes will be
continued to send to you
in the next several
school announcements.
Herein, I’d like to
remind you that you are
encouraged to register
your child (ren) if you
have not done so. In
doing so not only you
could avoid $10 late fee
(deadline, post mark by
08/31/2008), but also
greatly reduce the
amount of work for the
first week of the
school. Your continuity
support to the school
work is appreciated.
Please down load the
registration form from
the links:
http://www.albanychineseschool.org/2010CS_handbook/RegistrationForm2010_2011.pdf
http://www.albanychineseschool.org/2010CS_handbook/RegistrationGuide2010_201
Cordially,
Jianzhong Tang
Principal, on behalf of
the School
administration Team
Dear Teachers:
I hope all of you are
enjoying the wonderful
summer. After all the
hard work for the past
school year, we all
deserve a good break.
Time goes by quickly,
ready or not, it is time
again to start the
preparation tasks for
the new school year
2010-2011. To teachers,
who taught last year and
continue to teach,
welcome back! I am
grateful your continuing
effort to serve the
Chinese Community. To
new teachers, welcome
aboard, Herein, I’d like
to announce to you the
following:
Administration team for
the school year
2010-2011:
School Council Chair:
Xiaodong Yang (school
policies, operation
rules)
School Principal:
Jianzhong Tang (General
administration)
School Vice Principal:
Tao Qian (Educational
program, staff support)
School Vice Principal:
Gang Dong (Educational
program, school
Logistic)
School Vice Principal:
Aiping Chen (CCC
enrichment program)
School Treasurer: Yi
Zhang (School
accounting)
School Database manager:
Jianhua Chen (school
database management,
registration)
School website manager:
Peizhen Xu (school
website management, news
letter editor)
Contact information for
staffs above can be
found from the school
website at
WWW.albanyschineseschool.org.
Please feel free to
contact us for any
questions or help.
Text book ordering:
Please place you order
for text book for the
upcoming school year if
you have not done so, to
vice principal Gang Dong
ASAP at: donggang36@gmail.com
.
Teacher’s meeting for
new school year
preparation:
Please mark your
calendar for the
schedule of teacher’s
meeting for preparation
of the upcoming school
year, which will be:
11:00am Sunday, Aug
22nd, 2010 at CCC
building. Reminder memo
for this meeting will be
sent to you when we
approaching the week.
Enjoy the rest of the
summer!
Jianzhong Tang
Principal, on behalf the
CCC Chinese School
Administration Team
Dear Students and
Parents:
I hope all of you are
enjoying the wonderful
summer. Time goes by
quickly. On behalf of
the CCC Chinese School
administration team; I
welcome you back for
another wonderful new
school year. As the new
school year approaches,
our school
administration staff has
been working hard to
insure a smooth school
starting day. Enclosed
with this announcement
are links to the school
website for Registration
Guideline, Class list
and Registration Form.
You are encouraged to
review, print out the
registration form, and
register for class
before August 31st 2010
(postmark). The starting
day for new school year
will be Sunday,
September, 12th, 2010.
It is appreciated if you
could print clearly your
updated email address
and phone number when
filling the registration
form, which will be very
important for school to
communicate with you
effectively.
Thank you in advance for
your continue support to
the CCC Chinese School.
I am looking forward to
see you all in the fall!
*http://www.albanychineseschool.org/*
<http://www.albanychineseschool.org/>
http://www.albanychineseschool.org/2010CS_handbook/RegistrationForm2010_2011.pdf
http://www.albanychineseschool.org/2010CS_handbook/RegistrationGuide2010_2011.pdf
http://www.albanychineseschool.org/2010CS_handbook/CCC_ChineseSchool_calendar2010_2011.pdf
http://www.albanychineseschool.org/2010CS_handbook/CCC_Language_and_Culture_Evening_2010SummerII.pdf
Cordially,
Jianzhong Tang
Principal, on behalf of
CCC Chinese School
administration team
