2023 Summer Camp at Burlingame Recreational Center, Burlingame, California
Jamie's Mandarin Summer Camps
Session One: 6/19-6/23 Session Two: 6/26-6/30
Looking for a dynamic and joyful way to learn Mandarin? Look no further than Jamie's Mandarin Drama Camps! Students will read, write, and act out familiar tales from classics or video games with a twist each week. The twist comes from the student's brainstorming and imagination, allowing them to rewrite the story in Mandarin. Not only will your children learn Mandarin, but they will also exercise their public speaking skills and gain confidence in their abilities.
To prepare for the play, students will use various materials to create art for the stage and costumes or learn how to complete video production. Jamie's exceptional Mandarin Project Camp has been running for many years and is more vital than ever. Our pedagogical approach is to develop your child's language skills while they enjoy engaging and purposeful tasks. With this child-centered joyful camp, your child will complete age and language-level-appropriate tasks and learn to work with others.
On the last day of camp, the children will present finished play to you, showcasing their Mandarin skills and creativity.
Register Link: 6/19-6/23 6/26-6/30
Jamie's Mandarin Summer Camps
Session One: 6/19-6/23 Session Two: 6/26-6/30
Looking for a dynamic and joyful way to learn Mandarin? Look no further than Jamie's Mandarin Drama Camps! Students will read, write, and act out familiar tales from classics or video games with a twist each week. The twist comes from the student's brainstorming and imagination, allowing them to rewrite the story in Mandarin. Not only will your children learn Mandarin, but they will also exercise their public speaking skills and gain confidence in their abilities.
To prepare for the play, students will use various materials to create art for the stage and costumes or learn how to complete video production. Jamie's exceptional Mandarin Project Camp has been running for many years and is more vital than ever. Our pedagogical approach is to develop your child's language skills while they enjoy engaging and purposeful tasks. With this child-centered joyful camp, your child will complete age and language-level-appropriate tasks and learn to work with others.
On the last day of camp, the children will present finished play to you, showcasing their Mandarin skills and creativity.
Register Link: 6/19-6/23 6/26-6/30
Jamie's Mandarin Classes/Workshops cater to K-12 students, including heritage speakers seeking to advance their proficiency and novice learners interested in starting Mandarin Chinese as a second language. In our small-group classes, students are grouped based on their proficiency levels and ages. For enthusiastic and dedicated learners, we engage in weekly in-depth book reading with multimedia tasks, providing constructive feedback for each job. Additional resources and materials are offered to foster diverse language learning needs. Our pedagogical approach is children-centered and creates joyful and meaningful learning! Jamie has over 15 years of experience teaching mixed-age and level classes with effective differentiation methods. In addition to the Pinyin and BoPoMoFo phonetic systems, we also offer simplified and traditional characters based on individual preferences. Learning is joy! Contact: [email protected]
SMALL GROUPS and 1:1 MANDARIN CLASS
K-12 and Adults
[Level] Novice, Intermediate, Advanced
[Year-Round Schedule] After School & Weekends, Summer and Winter camp
* email for more details
[Class Description] I use simple but effective materials drawn from various textbooks, level-reading books, stories, comics, video clips, and short stories that are carefully crafted for each learner's needs and interests. Most importantly, for their temperaments. Each carefully designed class aims to advance their reading, to listen, speaking, and writing skills in a collective and joyful learning classroom. To help students achieve steady advancement, I guide them to forester an effective reviewing habit weekly. The submitted assignment will receive in-depth feedback. Students who attend classes regularly and follow the reviewing steps have advanced steadily. My goal is to help students develop a long-lasting interest and provide the tools to promote self-study for life.
Pre-Schoolers to K
[Level] Parents & Me Mandarin/ Exposure- Intermediate
[Year-Round Schedule] Weekends/ Drop-in is ok/ Please email for more info
[Class Format] Zoom and In-person option
[Class Description] Jamie's Parents & Me Mandarin class is a successful series that has run in the local recreational center for the past ten years. In March 2020, the class carried its success into Zoom Classroom. In each class, children enjoyed the carefully crafted curriculum and the contagious energy from Teacher Jamie. Not bounded by the tiny Zoom boxes, Jamie's teaching promoted infectious joy and laughter to each child in the Zoom room! This class is designed for preschool to Kindergarten children who might have little to no Mandarin learning experience. You and your children will sing and voice out Mandarin through songs, stories, fingerplays, games, and creative body moments. Students will learn 3-5 key verbs and nouns via simple sentences formed in each class—topics of the class focus on children's daily life. Fun and hands-on art and science activities also integrate with the authentic themes related to the learner's everyday life. Reviewing materials are provided after each class. The small group ( 2-4 students) Zoom class runs from 30min-40min for age appropriateness and effectiveness.
* "Jamie is an extraordinary teacher who made learning a language fun for kids. My son started attending Jamie's drop in classes for young learners with no mandarin background. For almost a year, he refused to speak or unmute during class. Jamie patiently worked with him and thought of creative ways to get him engaged. She gave him space to get comfortable with the class setting, playing videos that he likes, and even involving our dog as a subject to engage him. With Jamie's tireless efforts, he now enjoys her class tremendously and asks to spend more time with her. He is now starting to speak more in mandarin and recognize a few Chinese characters. We can't be more proud of his growth with Jamie's program. Highly recommend Jamie's class for anyone looking for a fun environment to learn Mandarin. " ~ Heidy, California, 2021
- "I highly recommend Jamie's lessons, especially during this time of Shelter-in-Place. My kids ages 7, 5, and 3 have been doing weekly online Zoom lessons with Jamie for the past couple of months and enjoying the extra language enrichment. Jamie curates really well-thought-out themed lessons plans and materials, which keep the kids interested and entertained across their different levels. One week might be about washing hands, daily routines, while another week might be about the weather, and the next week might be about seeds and how they grow. The kids are fully engaged during the lesson, and it gives my husband and I a much-appreciated break from having to homeschool." ~ Kathy, California
[Parents' Feedback]
"Our two children, ages 11 and 9, began online Zoom sessions with Jamie Laoshi about two months ago. Both children had previously attended Mandarin immersion schools in San Francisco and so are accustomed to the Chinese language. However, what I have noticed is that in short time, they have progressed quickly and in a more happy and engaged way than I ever saw when they were in school. Jamie is truly gifted in keeping them interested in the language by using interactive teaching methods that encourage the children to speak and learn, while also understanding their personalities and individual ways of learning. Jamie assigns some homework each week, which includes practice reading and writing characters, reading stories, and reciting sentences that they record and send to her and also write down. I could not be happier with the way that Jamie Laoshi is helping our children maintain their Chinese. Her patience and joy have impacted our children's learning of Chinese in a beneficial and memorable way."~ Anna, California
"I highly recommend Jamie's lessons, especially during this time of Shelter-in-Place. My kids ages 7, 5, and 3 have been doing weekly online Zoom lessons with Jamie for the past couple of months and have been enjoying the extra language enrichment. Jamie curates really well thought out themed lessons plans and materials, which keep the kids interested and entertained across their different levels (the oldest knows zhuyin while the youngest is just starting to speak words in Mandarin). One week might be about washing hands, while another week might be about weather, and the next week might be about seeds and how they grow. The kids are fully engaged during the lesson, and it gives my husband and I a much appreciated break from having to homeschool." ~ Kathy, California
"Teacher Jamie is engaging, patient and obviously enthusiastic about teaching Mandarin to children. She is able to tailor her lesson plans according to not only her students' different levels, but also their various background and interests. She uses a multitude of ways to keep them engaged and interested during a lesson using various games and visual tools such as character blocks. My active 7-year old has thrived under her instruction and I have personally noticed an improvement not only in his conversational skills, but also his reading comprehension, which has been the most welcome surprise. I would recommend Teacher Jamie in a heartbeat. " ~ Emily, California
"Teacher Jamie is a dynamic, engaging teacher, who knows how to use songs, repetition, reinforcement and fun to keep young kids interested and learning. My 6-year-old daughter loved Teacher Jamie's Parent and Me class last year. When the opportunity arose to have her take small group classes with Teacher Jamie over Zoom during shelter-in-place, I decided to give it a try. I've been really impressed at her ability to keep the kids engaged despite the challenges of video conferencing, and how she's quickly mastered online tools to use videos, songs, screen sharing, and even online competitive quizzes to reinforce her teaching. My daughter often gets bored and distracted during Zoom classes but Jamie makes sure she's having fun and paying attention. It's only been a few weeks, but I've already seen a fair amount of progress in my daughter's ability to recognize and write words. I highly recommend Teacher Jamie's Zoom classes!" ~ Tina, California
"Jamie Laoshi has been able to get my elementary-aged son excited about learning Chinese again. She is thoughtful about her small group structures, has great classroom management skills in helping the kids stay on topic, while still encouraging the kids to express their thoughts using conversational Chinese. She uses creative teaching methods such as Bingo, speed games and tactile character blocks to promote retention from multiple facets. I think this all comes from her extensive experience teaching in the community as well as at private schools in a multitude of levels. I recommend her without hesitation. " ~ Amy, California
Samples of Jamie's Students' Published Essays
[About Teacher Jamie] Teacher Jamie has extensive teaching experience and training for Pre-K to 12th Mandarin Education. For the past 11 years, she taught in Mandarin immersion schools ( public and private), also took up leadership as a World Language Lead and Project-Based Learning Lead in the Bay Area, California. Her pedagogical approach and curriculum design are learner-centered, real-world-based, and aim to foster lifelong learners. Her teaching feedback from both learners and parents is- engaging, fun, personalized, meaningful, hands-on, and rigorous. Under her coaching and encouragement, her students have published essays in Chinese newspapers and a published book. At schools, while time allows, Jamie implements Project-based language learning to seek a deeper connection with the real world. In 2008 she also found Mandarin Speaking Playgrounds in San Francisco and led Mandarin Song& Storytime to serve the communities. Her passion for education was only re-ignited by learning about and practicing the Reggio Emilia. The projects she worked on with her students were invited and presented in Project Round Tables, Early Childhood Education teacher training classes to share what she learned from the student with cohorts. One of her projects was still used as a teaching demo by an established ECE professor. Gao is a published writer since 4th -grade back in Taiwan. During her earlier years living in Manhattan, she wrote a weekly column in a Chinese e-newspaper. As a life-long learner herself, Jamie practices Wing Chun kungfu (a big fan of Bruce Lee) and loves the art of Chinese calligraphy. During her spare time, she works on her passion projects, including writing children's books and short stories. Gao enjoys traveling and exploring the wonders of the world with her son.
[Interview about Jamie's Chinese learning picture book, " Blue Balloon"] 6/3/2020
[Interview about Jamie's Chinese learning picture book, " Blue Balloon"] 6/3/2020
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Below [Some of the Students' Notes I collected from last two years year]
Below [Students' Published Works in Chinese Newspapers]