Austin Great Wall Chinese School

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The AGWCS (Austin Great Wall Chinese School) has been teaching Madarin (Chinese) to Austinites for multiple years. With 39 teachers teaching from the arts to yoga, it is school that is embracing Chinese culture.

1 Location
2 Board Members
3 Classes
4 Student Population
5 External links

[edit] Location

Currently, AGWCS is located at Webb Middle School at 601 E. St Johns Avenue.

[edit] Board Members

The AGWCS board members are a group of volunteers that help run the school. The following are the current board members (as of Spring 2006):

Zheng, Yan -- Principal, Overall activities
Li, Yue -- Assistant Principal, also teacher and teaching activity
Xiang, Jeannie -- Academic Dean, also teacher and teaching activity
Wei Wei -- Parent/Teacher Association Coordinator
Zhang, Cindy -- Treasurer
Zuo, Haiyan -- Secretary of External Affairs
Luo, Ning -- Web Master, Web development and administration

The 2004-05 year consisted of the following board:

Jiang Jun -- Principal
Song Xiao -- Assistant Principal.
Tang Ying -- Assistant Principal
Wang Zhu -- Treasurer
Wu Long Guang (Frank) -- Webmaster
Luo Wei -- External Affairs
He Yan -- Teaching programs and requirements

[edit] Classes

Currently, classes are divided into in-school classes and afterschool classes. The regular classes are normally linguistics and adult orientated classes (such as Tai Chi) while the afterschool classes are for the students and include such classes as Art (there are four levels of experience). Classes are held from 2PM to 3:50PM CST on Sundays while the afterschool classes are held from 4:00PM to 5PM.

Classes are set up by semester so for an entire year of education, one must sign up for both fall and spring semesters. Books and other materials must also be bought by the students/parents.

Throughout both semesters, there are occasional holidays that either results in no class or a festival being held on campus.

[edit] Student Population

Although contradictory to what is commonly assumed, the student population at AGWCS is not limited to native Chinese, but has various nationalities enrolled into the school. There are even classes that are orientated to those that do not know the Chinese language at all (these classes also are diverse).