Supervised School Homework

School homework will be well finished under the supervising of our experienced teachers; one-on-one assistant(s) will be provided to help understanding and solving homework problems.

Chinese

Chinese lesson is offered once a week from Monday through Friday at varieties of levels depending on students' backgrounds and 30 minutes reading and in-class-homework every day. We are using simplified Chinese character textbook from Jinan University. We offer 16 lectures and two (mid and final) exams per academic semester. Any problem from our students will be solved by our Chinese language teachers one-on-one daily.

Mathematics

Our math program is the strongest among all available math classes/programs in the metro. Our students are trained on the math fundamentals and extensive ways of applying the fundamentals to complex and brain twisting problems. Past achievements proved that our students could go to math competition and PISD's Credit by Exam and achieve great results without any extra preparation or special training. Another excellent value of our great math program is that it is FREE to our students.

Our math program is consisted of three levels of math classes for each grade:
Standard Math:
Standard Math coordinates with national standards to help our students to strengthen school, and get familiar and understand formats and techniques of the state and PISD assessment tests (such as PACE, TAKS, CogAT and MAP). It includes basic skills and concept, problem solving strategy, figure recognition, critical thinking and logic.
Advanced Math I:
Additional to Standard Math, advanced math I challenges students with more complex problems. Students in this class are advanced one grade higher and completely finish 6th grade math at the end of the 5th grade.
Advanced Math II:
Additional to Advanced Math I, advanced math II gives students even more challenges. Students in this class are advanced two grades higher and prepared for the PISD's Credit by Exam test to jump to 8th grade math at the end of the 5th grade.

Reading and Writing

Reading and writing provide extensive training and exercises to our students daily. These reading and writing exercise includes vocabulary, sequence, main idea, inference, concept connections, reading comprehension, basic writing skills, spelling, grammar, and etc.

Our comprehensive exercises and general test preparation are designed to help our students to strengthen school reading and math, and get familiar and understand formats and techniques of the state and PISD assessment tests (such as PACE, TAKS, CogAT and MAP).

We also provide our students optional English writing class, which is taught by professional English writing instructor.

Table Tennis (Ping-Pong Ball)

Table tennis or ping-pong is an enjoyable sport, that can be highly competitive, where each player tries to outscore his/her opponent through the use of skill, strength, speed, stamina and strategy. Table tennis program is offered to our students as a serious and exciting sport and to provide an environment where students of all skill levels can participate. QD Academy has the nation’s top ping-pong club and the best ping-pong coach in U.S. and has trained out several national champions and top players in past 4 years.

QD Academy provide a wide variety of ping-pong classes, from entry-level group lesson to master-level one-on-one lesson. For either purpose of simple exercise for good health or becoming the nation’s top athlete as golden ticket to your dream college, our ping-pong program will surely help you to achieve your goal and make your dream become true.

Chess

Chess program is offered to our students as a tool to improve the critical thinking, decision-making, as well as, scholastic performance and social skills. QD Academy works with the best chess coach to provide our students the best chess program. Currently, three levels of group chess lessons and private lessons are offered from entry to advanced levels. Free chess club and mini-tournament are provided to our students every day.

Chess is counted as sports and contribute to a student's college application total score points and is adopted by all of the nation's top universities. QD Sports & Arts Academy’s chess program is for our students’ beneficial only. Unlike other schools’ chess program, QD Academy didn’t profit a single penny from this program in past 6 years.

Leadership Speech

Leadership speech (story telling for K-3 students) trains and improves our students’ leadership, speech, organization, and social skills. It helps students to build up strong self-confidence to face a wide variety of challenges. Our leadership speech and story telling program has been a great success. The well-organized and prepared lessons have brought great impact to our students' speech, organizing, and leadership skills. All students have gained great confident and speech skills from the program. Some students, who were too shy to talk in front of others before, became weekly speech winners. What a great improvement!