Full-Day Chinese Bilingual School

A growing global economy leads to demands for bilingual talents. The arising China leads to a global craze for Chinese language learning. The American education crisis, the degrading of social morals, and the concerns of parents for the future of their children, all motivates Dr. Lang’s Chinese Bilingual School to provide a quality Chinese bilingual education starting with young children. Hence, Dr. Lang’s Chinese Bilingual School gladly upgrades its after school bilingual program into a full-day private bilingual educational service using the Accelerated Christian Education Curriculum.  

Admission Requirements

We are now enrolling 4 to 12 years old children with no residence or nationality restrictions. Admission is based on the completion of application forms, submission of birth certificate and a current physical exam report. Each applicant must take the diagnostic tests of various subjects to determine his or her beginning level.

Educational Objectives

Using the biblical, individualized, self-instructional, mastery-based concepts of the Accelerated Christian Education as its core curriculum, and early academic immersion model for Chinese language acquisition, Dr. Lang’s Chinese Bilingual School aims to prepare your child for the world today and give him/her the bilingual tools necessary to succeed in the future.

A Chinese Bilingual Model

Dr. Lang’s Chinese Bilingual School provides a quality Chinese Bilingual Education where children can start learning Chinese as early as 4 years old and are taught in Chinese subjects such as math, art, music, and China studies corresponding to  students age and performance level. Two to three hours of school time each day are committed to Chinese learning. However, the purpose is not to teach new content in Chinese but to reinforce what’s already been taught to them in English while acquiring Chinese language skills.

What is Accelerated Christian Education?

Although there are many choices in education today, A.C.E provides biblical principles with Scripture, academic excellence, character training, and spiritual growth. A.C.E curriculum reflects high standards and is built on a biblical foundation that will prepare your child for the world today and give him/her the tools necessary to succeed in the future.

A.C.E. was formed in 1970 not only to meet the academic needs of children but also to provide Godly character training. The result was a curriculum that helps parents and churches train young people academically and spiritually, an accelerated educational curriculum that focuses on God’s plan for each individual child to excel.

A.C.E.’s concepts are based on the following Five Basic Laws of Learning：

• A student must be at a level where he/she can perform
• He/She must have reasonable goals.
• His/Her leaning must be controlled, and he/she must be motivated.
• His/Her learning must be measurable.
• His/Her learning must be rewarded.

A.C.E. offers the following distinctives：

• It provides a foundation of Scripture, with Biblical principles, wisdom, and Godly character development.

• It stresses the God-given uniqueness of the individual and his abilities.

• It places the child at his exact academic ability level through diagnostic testing.

• It incorporates personal goal setting and character traits into the daily program.

• It teaches critical thinking skills that produce academic excellence.

• It utilizes multimedia and computer technology.

• It encourages parental involvement.

What makes A.C.E. different from conventional schools?

1. Individualization

Individualization makes a child’s learning more effective and successful than that in conventional schools, public or private. Compare:

A.C.E.

Students

• Work as individuals

• Learn at their own rate of learning,

• Learn at their own  level of performance.

• Set their own goals

• Learn to plan and meet goals

• Learn to be responsible for their own actions

• Tested when ready

Results:

• Slow students achieve at their own pace

• Gifted students advance and accelerate

Conventional schools

Students

• Are grouped by age

• Ignore individual’s differences in rate of learning and levels of performance

• Follows  teacher’s lesson plans

• Can’t control their own learning

• Tested at the same time, ready or not

Results:

• Slow students fail

• Gifted students are held back.

2. Everyone achieves

A student entering the A.C.E. curriculum for the first time is given diagnostic tests to determine his precise performance level. These tests identify learning gaps. The student is then prescribed academic material to strengthen his/her specific weakness. He succeeds because he receives curriculum that meets his needs. Each child builds upon concepts he fully understands and progresses when he/she is academically prepared for the next step, his/her knowledge and skill retention improves. Mastery is foundational for future leaning and leads to academic achievement.

3. Character Building Based on Biblical Principles

More important than academic success is character training that prepares students to meet challenges and opportunities in today’s world. A.C.E. embeds sixty character traits into the curriculum and presents role models who displays uphold high standards of personal character strength.

Biblical values and principle are unashamedly incorporated throughout curriculum. These time-honored values help students build a lifetime of meaningful and lasting relationships in accordance with Biblical principles.

A.C.E. Subjects and Textbooks

• Course work includes English, Math, Word Building (spelling), Literature, Creative Writing, Science, Social Science, Bible, Foreign Languages,  Art,  Music, Typing, Health, Speech and other electives.

• A.C.E. has taken the conventional textbook style and divided it into bite-sized, achievable work texts called PACEs. Each PACE is more or less equivalent to a unit in a textbook.

• Each level consists of 12 PACEs in each subject. PACEs integrate Godly character-building lessons into the academic content and self-instructional activities are carefully designed to develop thinking skills and create mastery learning.

• Students begin their PACE work by noting their goals, the concepts they will learn, a Bible verse, and a corresponding character trait. From the beginning of each PACE, they know what is expected and they assume the responsibility for their own learning!

• Throughout the curriculum the introduction of new vocabulary words is computer controlled so that no new vocabulary is used without the student first leaning its meaning and pronunciation. Also, these words are repeated a certain number of times to ensure mastery.

• Full-color explanations and illustrations add excitement to each lesson, and innovative learning activities reinforce the interesting text material.

• Each PACE contains Checkups, which are mini-tests covering a section of the PACE. If mastery in an area is not achieved, the Checkup will reveal that weak area. Students can then take the time necessary to review and learn those concepts before proceeding to the next.

• Upon completion of the activities and Checkups, students prepare to take the Self Test, a practice test. Here students evaluate themselves and a supervisor  determines readiness for the final test. When the Self Test is successfully completed, the student turns in the PACE and take the final test the next school morning. The final test objectively measures student mastery of the material.