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Questions for a teacher job interview:1. Why are you interested in this position? Center college is famous for its personalized education that enables Centre students to achieve extraordinary success in advanced study and their careersI love the more personal teaching and learning environment in liberal arts colleges. I. The intimacy of small classes allows me to take a more active role in the education of every individual student. The great teacher-student interaction gives me an opportunity to teach broadly across various fields. The perfect balance between research and teaching will also benefit my research as well as finding interesting and relevant topics. 2. How will/could you involve students in your research?My research interests focus on second language acquisition. Particularly, my studies explore the cultural challenges and difficulties that foreigners encounter in their Chinese learning experience. All of students of learning Chinese as their second language can take part in my research and share the cultural barriers and language learning difficulties in the process of learning a second language. They either could be the co-researcher or the participants of the research. 3. What courses could you teach here? I have a rich experience in teaching Chinese language and Chinese culture, Chinese literature. I believe I can teach all the topics that relates to china.4. What sorts of research projects/topics could you pursue here? 5. When could you start in the position?My teaching at Seton Hall in spring term will end at the beginning of May, after that I will be able to start in the positionWhat do you see as your greatest accomplishments in your career to date? What shortcomings have you dealt with?6. How would you describe your interactions with students? /In my teaching, I understand that students come to the class with personal learning motivations and various learning capabilities. I see myself as a facilitator, supporting each student for their individual academic pursuit. With my years of teaching experiences, I believe that developing a good rapport with my students is crucial to achieve the education goals. As a mentor, I am also very open-minded to students creative qualities and encourage them to realize their fullest potentials. I love to create a constructive7. What is your teaching philosophy?Through my seven years of language teaching, with students at various levels, and my experiences as students in various institutions, I have learned that developing a good rapport with students, meeting the various needs of students, and maintaining a constructive classroom atmosphere are crucial to the achievement of teaching goals. . I make a great effort to know my students. Since language classes are small enough, I learn their goals of language learning, their majors and interests, and their schedules. I make myself available outside the classroom by encouraging students to come to office hours, I schedule one-on-one appointments whenever necessary in addition to office hours if students have conflicting schedules, and I use email extensively to communicate with my students. I have great respect for the individuality of each student. I have a willingness to listen and answer any question. The students always sit in a circle rather than in a row behind each others backs. They often work in groups or with a partner in order to focus on communicative rather than a teacher-centered approach, thereby making room for individual expression. I love teaching. And I believe that students bring so much energy into their education and into my life. Teaching offers me an opportunity to constantly improve my knowledge through the interaction with my students. I often think that I get more from them than they get from me even though I know they do gain enormously. 8. What questions do you have for us?According to my understanding that our college prepare to start the East Asian Department. I am very interested in it. I would like to know about the proposal.Are you interested in further developing study abroad program ? This position could be renewed upto three years. I was wondering if after three years, with the buiding of the east asian program, is there any chance that the position will lead to a permanent position at center college?(You should prepare several questions in advance. Asking these questions led to more lively discussion among the interviewers and allowed everyone抯 individual personalities to emerge.)TeachingAre you a good teacher?What makes a good advisor? Do you think it is important to challenge your students? How would you do that?As a mentor, I am also very open-minded to students creative qualities and encourage them to realize their fullest potentials. 9. It is the third week of your introductory class and you notice that some students really arent paying attention, some are sleeping and some arent showing up - what do you do?First , I will talk to them in person and try to find what are the reasons for their behavors in class, and second I will also review my teaching plans and course outline to adjust to the needs of students, if their needs are legal and reasonable.How do you feel about having to teach required courses?I feel that no matter what courses that I teach, I will try my best to prepare it well in advance and devote myself to the teaching and hope students will finally learn and benefit from the courseHow do you motivate students?For the language learning students, I believe that learning a second language is not the sole purpose in language learning. It also involves the understanding about a culture, history, literature, arts , its people of the country. There fore, I took efforts to introduce Chinese culture and Chinese civilization in my language teaching to motivate their language learning, which achieved great success. How would you encourage students to major in your field?For those who want to learn Chinese,. Leaning Chinese language will not only open a door to the understanding of china, but also provide an great opportunity of career. But as I said they should learn more about china in addition to the language. In your first semester you would be responsible for our course in _. How would you structure it? What textbook would you use?1. Chinese civilization (undergraduate)1. A Brief History of Chinese Civilization, Conrad Schirokauer, Harcourt Brace & Company, 1991. we will cover the development of Chinese civilization from the beginning of the Chinese to the last feudal dynasty of Qing Dynasty, as well as the famous artists, poets and philosophers of the time.2. Chinese civilization ( Graduate)Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed by Patricia Buckley Ebrey. 1993Heritage of China - Contemporary Perspectives on Chinese Civilization, Edited by Paul S. Ropp, University of California Press, 19903. Asian Social lifeThere has been a dramatic transformation around the Pacific Rim since the 20th century. China and Japan have become economic superpowers, It is even said that this 21st century will be an Asian Century. In this course you will explore and learn to appreciate the culture of two East Asian countries: China and Japan. These two countries have long histories and share a great deal of traditions and belief systems. Yet each country possesses unique and distinctive characteristics in terms of the land, people, and culture. You will gain a broad view and sincere understanding of the East Asian cultures through readings, hands-on cultural activities, video-viewing, and discussions. Topics include material culture (involving cultural artifacts), people, customs and traditions, thoughts and beliefs, contemporary issues, and films1. China: Its History and Culture (4th Edition)by W. Scott Morton, Charlton M. Lewis, Charlton Lewis 2. Culture and Customs of China: (Culture and Customs of Asia)by Richard Gunde 3. Japan: Its History and Culture by W. Scott Morton, J. Kenneth Olenik, W. Scott Morton, Charlton Lewis4. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture) (Paperback) Yoshio Sugimoto3. Modern Chinese Literature in English TranslationThis course is a survey introduction to Chinese Literature from 1918 to the last decades of the century. The course is intended for students who have little or no knowledge of the Chinese language, history, or culture. All readings and class discussion are in English.Class lectures will present important historical and literary background to the period under scrutiny. Students will read English translations of representative works by major writers such as Lu Xun, Ding Ling, Xu Zhimo from May Fourth Movement and the intellectual radicalization of the 1930s, through and out of cultural revolution and the liberalization of the post-Mao era, as well as women and native writers from Taiwan, and some avant-garde writers in China. In addition to reading that covers the primary literary genres fiction, poetry, and essay, students will enrich their reading by selected documentaries and feature films. The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature.Eds. Joseph S.M. Lau and Howard Goldblatt. Modern Asian Literature Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007.The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century. Eds. Bonnie S. McDougall, and Kam Louie. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 4. Asian Literature in English Translationwe will concentrate on the development of Chinese literature from ancient time to the end of Ming Dynasty. Through a close study of the famous classical Chinese literary works, including poems, stories, novels, plays, etc. that appeared during the long period of more than 2000 years, students will have the opportunity to explore their own ideas of what the wide variety of the classical Chinese literature is like, as well as, to understand the