Main Profile for Wang Ling

Wang Ling is originally from Yiyang, China. She received her master's degree in education from Hunan Normal University. She has been an English teacher at the First High School of Liuyang ,Changsha since 2002. She is head of the English department and has extensive international exchange experience. Her school has had five sister schools (one in the UK, one in the US, one in South Korea and two in New Zealand) and she wrote the first partnership agreement for her school. With Ms. Wang’s leadership, her school visited its sister school in the UK every year in July and in return the delegation from UK will visit them in October every year. Ms. Ling visited the sister school in UK in 2009. She enjoys reading, yoga, and playing bridge. She has a husband and a daughter. During her year in the United States, Ms. Ling looked forward to sharing the different ways of celebrating the Chinese traditional Festivals with her American students and experiencing the typical American festivals by herself. Her primary objectives for participating in TCLP were to share her culture with American friends so that they know more about China and to learn new teaching methods to bring back with her. She was hosted by Chariho Regional High School in Wood River Junction, RI and was an alumni buddy for Li Ning. For the 2023-2024 academic year, Wang Ling will serve as an Alumni Buddy for exchange teacher Yuan Zhen.