Joseph Z

I'm American born Chinese, so I've always wanted to learn Mandarin Chinese, including how to write characters. Excluding the times when I was really young, I only learned how to write characters regarding stroke order, never the spacing or the size. This was kind of the first time in a while I started learning those aspects again, so thank you!

Learner · 2 days ago

Thank you for greeting the early learners by name! This is a fairly large session, so it's nice to establish that sense of community. It's nice that you established the boundary about not searching up answers but kept a light attitude about the fact that some learners may search them up anyway. You also add a lot of little jokes throughout the session that lighten up any tension that may have been there, since a lot of these learners have never met one another. As for strengthening learner confidence, you're not really going through practice questions, so I've marked N/A for the category.

Tutor · 1 mo. ago

-The learners are not learning anything new in this session! The Jeopardy game itself is a check of their understanding of Humanities topics, so there's no need to check their prior knowledge. -This is a large session that is meant to imitate a game show. Thus, it does not seem necessary to adapt to the learners' specific needs. -This session is constructed such that all of the learners (that wanted to be competitors) are engaged. They all got to take turns choosing a category and answering questions within that category. Overall, the learners seemed to have a lot of fun! -This is an unconventional (community) type of session, but you still do a great job at checking the learners' progress! After each major point that you make, such as reading the directions, you ask the learners if they have any questions so that you can move on. This definitely proved to be helpful because some of the learners did not fully grasp the directions, which would have given their competitors an unfair advantage.

Tutor · 1 mo. ago

Hi Joseph! Thank you for hosting this session about Chinese History. I am very impressed by the efforts you put in preparation for this session. Rather than doing Google Slides, I liked how you use Canva to design your presentation. This is my favorite tool, that allows me to include beautiful visuals onto the slides making my audience more engaged while listening. In your session, I liked how you made the background color to brown illustrating a scene at a museum for an ancient historical work. Furthermore, I can tell that you also spent lots of time in choosing the visuals for your session. Like the pig on slide #3, it’s definitely a great choice that reflects the time period you are talking about. Other than that, you clearly did your research in finding and researching about the facts about Chinese history. For the later slides about the origin, it is sophisticated yet summarized in a way that allows your learners to understand. Overall, great work!

Tutor · 1 mo. ago