{"id":1546,"date":"2018-11-10T21:30:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T21:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2020-03-30T00:29:43","modified_gmt":"2020-03-30T00:29:43","slug":"dr-chin-shefi-joins-language-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/2018\/11\/10\/dr-chin-shefi-joins-language-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Chin-Shefi Joins Language Department"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eva Schiller ’21<\/strong><\/h4>\n

This year, Pingry welcomed Dr. Sabrina Chin-Shefi into the Middle and Upper School Language Departments, where she will be teaching Chinese 2, Chinese 5, and Chinese 7. Eager to get more involved in the Pingry community, she has already explored several committee meetings and will eventually decide which ones she is interested in. She is also very excited to be helping out as a producer for the upcoming school play. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Chin-Shefi attended Fu Jen Catholic University in Taiwan, where she earned a B.A. in English Literature and Language; she went on to receive an M.S. in Instructional Media at Indiana State University and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Kansas State University. Before coming to Pingry, she was a Chinese teacher and overseer of various Chinese programs at Father Ryan High School in Nashville, Tennessee. Even before she worked in America, Dr. Chin-Shefi worked with students at the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a lecturer and participant in professional committee boards. <\/span><\/p>\n

Despite her years of experience, she notes that adapting to Pingry life is not the easiest. \u201cI find the schedule is my biggest challenge,\u201d said Dr. Chin-Shefi, especially when working with the conflicting schedules of the Middle and Upper School. In spite of these minor difficulties, Dr. Chin-Shefi maintains that she feels very welcomed into the Pingry community and that her experience has been \u201cso far so good!\u201d As she continues to work with her students, she plans to \u201cdo the best that [she] possibly can, and help those who are taking [her] classes to be able to do better.\u201d Besides teaching, Dr. Chin-Shefi loves traveling, as well as visiting her friends and loved ones. \u201cI also like to do some gardening work,\u201d she added. <\/span><\/p>\n

When asked about what inspired her to teach, Dr. Chin-Shefi answered right away: \u201cbecause I <\/span>love<\/span><\/i> teaching,\u201d she laughed. However, her choice of profession goes much deeper than that. \u201cI enjoy communicating with people about concepts because it\u2019s concepts that determine where we\u2019re headed,\u201d she remarked. \u201cWe have to constantly adapt by learning from others and reflecting on ourselves.\u201d With her insightfulness and dedication, Dr. Chin-Shefi has already established herself as a valued member of the Pingry community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Eva Schiller ’21 This year, Pingry welcomed Dr. Sabrina Chin-Shefi into the Middle and Upper School Language Departments, where she will be teaching Chinese 2, Chinese 5, and Chinese 7. Eager to get more involved in the Pingry community, she has already explored several committee meetings and will eventually decide which ones she is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":1469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[207,32],"tags":[35,33,37],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eva","category-faculty-staff","tag-faculty","tag-faculty-and-staff","tag-new-faculty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1547,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions\/1547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/students.pingry.org\/record\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}