Work Experience
Education
Katarina is a native Mandarin speaker. She is able to understand Cantonese as well. She is using both traditional and simplified Chinese characters. Katarina loves to help students achieve their goals in study. She is a professional teacher with more than 15 years teaching experience for IB, IGCSE/GCSE , A level, AP, and Ancient Chinese subjects. She used to work for an international school in Hong Kong and had three years of full-time homeschooling teaching experience. She also worked as a university tutor at the School of Chinese (HKU) for 2 years.
She used a variety of teaching methods in the classroom, such as grammar-translation, the communicative approach and task-based learning. She also helped her students enhance their memory. In her spare time, she likes to cook and trains her birds to talk.
Her students are from different schools worldwide including Eton College (Windsor), Sevenoaks School (Kent), ALDAR academy (UAE), RAHA International School (UAE), Twente International School(Enschede), Harrow International School (Hong Kong), English Schools Foundations (Hong Kong), Chinese International (Hong Kong), German Swiss International (Hong Kong), St.Paul's Co-educational College (Hong Kong), Diocesan Boys’ School (Hong Kong), International School of Beijing (Beijing), Shanghai American School (Shanghai) , Dulwich College Shanghai (Shanghai) etc.