Boxford Chinese School (BCS) recently honored the efforts and achievements of its students in June at its third annual awards ceremony.
?The award recipients are all passionate about learning Chinese and reach high academic standards. This combined with their positive influence on the BCS community distinguish them as role models in studying Chinese,? said Ms. Ying Su, founder and principal of BCS.
The Principal?s Award was given to students for their excellence in learning Chinese. Those who earned this high recognition were Gregory Balek, Camille Devoe, Catey Favreau, Raquel Leslie, and Matthew Welsh.
Achievement Awards were awarded to students for their achievements in learning Chinese. F. Berrian, Mia Ciavola, Nola Ciavola, Ethan Downey, Keira Fowler, and Taylor Mastrogiovanni received this honor.
??I am very happy to share my knowledge in Chinese to help other students as well as my own children,? said Ms. Su. ?My students? enthusiasm for learning the Chinese language and love of challenges bring joy to my teaching.?
Ms. Su recognizes parents? support of their children's education to be essential to their children?s success.
?I am fortunate to have many great parents who value our Chinese lessons and recognize our ability and efforts at BCS,? said Ms. Su.
Likewise, BCS? students and parents greatly appreciate Ms. Su as well. Ever since she founded BCS in 2009, there has been rising interest in the surrounding communities as Ms. Su has a unique teaching style as well as the skills to back it up.
Ms. Su allows for much flexibility in her classes in many different aspects. Each class? pace is set in consideration of the students? own abilities and preferences, facilitated by small classes, to bring out each student?s potential. Since the students can comfortably learn at their own pace, coupled with the encouragement that Ms. Su gives, the students at BCS develop confidence in their Chinese.
Catey Favreau has been learning Chinese at the Boxford Chinese School for three years and is a rising college freshman. ?Chinese is a hard language, much harder than others perceive it to be, but Teacher Su makes learning Chinese easy,? said Favreau. ?I have gone from being embarrassed about speaking in Chinese and going to Chinese events and places, to a confident and proficient speaker in Chinese.?
"Catey will be attending Mount Holyoke College in the fall where she will be majoring in Political Science and Chinese,? said Favreau?s mother, Marilyn. ?She will be taking third year Chinese as a freshman. We credit Ms. Ying Su with helping her learn Chinese and in encouraging her interest. We know that Catey will be able to use what she learned with Ms. Ying Su in the future.?
Aside from reading and writing, pronunciation is a detail that Ms. Su pays special attention to in her classes. The results of her efforts can be seen in the students? interactions with others outside the classroom.
?I have received many compliments about my pronunciation,? said Favreau.
?Over the past couple of years, Ms. Ying Su has greatly increased my ability and my confidence in Chinese through the Boxford Chinese School,? said Gregory Balek, a college student who has been learning Chinese at an accelerated pace at BCS. ?My favorite aspect of Ms. Ying Su's teaching is her ear for pronunciation. Since the Beijing accent, which she possesses, is the gold standard of Chinese, I am very happy that she is the one correcting my pronunciation. Ms. Ying Su can teach her students very effectively at a fast pace, but can also slow it down depending on the student's need.?
Balek added that ?since Ms. Ying Su is a native Chinese, she is able to give interesting cultural background to each lesson?s content.?
?We have been lucky to have found Ms. Su's Chinese school. My daughter's fluency and pronunciation have increased greatly in the short period she has been taking classes at Boxford Chinese School,? said Penny Devoe, mother of Camille Devoe, who has been taking classes at BCS for just over six months.?
Unlike the aforementioned older students, Matthew Welsh is an elementary school student at BCS. Welsh?s grandmother, Cheryl Jolley, expressed her thanks to Ms. Su for her ?outstanding teaching of Matthew this past year.?
?You provide a strong foundation for his learning of Chinese and I have seen his writing of the characters and his confidence speaking Chinese grow as the year progressed. You have an excellent sense of pacing and encouragement which has contributed to his strong performance and continued interest in learning Chinese,? said Jolley.
The learning pace is not the only thing that is flexible as BCS also offers flexible scheduling options. If something important suddenly appears, a lesson can be cancelled and rescheduled without extra charge as long as Ms. Su is given at least a 24-hour notice.
?It has been very easy working with Ms. Su as she is flexible and accommodating with our busy schedules,? said Penny Devoe.
Not all high schools currently offer Chinese, such as the one which Raquel Leslie attends.??The Boxford Chinese School has given our daughter, Raquel, the opportunity to study a language that her school would have never offered,? said Leslie?s father, Mark.
The student body also consists of adults as learning Chinese opens up possibilities of traveling to China for personal and business reasons as well as teaching Chinese-speaking students.
Apart from Chinese classes, BCS also offers English-Chinese oral and document translation services. The school has provided interpreting and translation services for local public schools for parent-teacher conferences, testing in Chinese, and for school documents such as parent-student handbooks, student report cards, district survey forms, and class announcements.
BCS students? proficiency in Chinese is not only recognized by the school itself, but by other organizations as well. After receiving an Excellent award in the 2011 contest, Rita Ding, a BCS student, scored 253 out of 260 in the 2012 Chinese Culture Contest for Overseas Chinese Teenagers.
This placed her in the group of 53 American students who earned Excellent awards of which only 4 were from Massachusetts. The contest was organized by the Chinese School Association in the United States (CSAUS) and sponsored by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of the People?s Republic of China. Ding was invited to a 15-day sponsor-paid summer camp in Beijing, China.
Also, in November 2012, Ding took the SAT II Chinese with listening test for the first time and received a perfect score of 800.
For more information about Boxford Chinese School, go to boxfordchineseschool.com or call 978-887-3037.
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