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Language Immersion: Sharing Teaching Skills and Classroom Experience
This workshop was webcast live online at 5:00pm (EST), Feb. 5, 2010.
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- Video 1: Introduction (50MB)
Education Department, China Institute
NYU Project for Developing Chinese Language Teachers (DCLT)
NYS Asian Languages Bilingual/EST Technical Assistance Center (ALBETAC) - Video 2: Demo Spanish Class (73MB)
Dr. Victoria Gilbert, Saint David’s School - Video 3: Panel discussion (112MB)
Ms. Louise Wang, China Institute - Video 4: Panel discussion (100MB)
Ms. Joyce Ranieri, Spence School - Video 5: Panel discussion (87MB)
Mr. Jason Cummings, Greens Farms Academy - Video 6: Q & A (65MB)
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On Feb 5, 2010, the Confucius Institute at China Institute (CI@CI) will partner with NYU’s Project for Developing Chinese Language Teachers (DCLT) and The Asian Languages Bilingual/ESL Technical Assistance Center (ALBETAC) to host a workshop on Language Immersion: Sharing Teaching Skills and Classroom Experience. This workshop will focus on how to teach a foreign language class using the target language to maximize student learning. Victoria Gilbert, a highly experienced Spanish teacher and current Chair of Foreign & Classical Languages at the Saint David’s School, will present a 20-minute demo Spanish immersion class, during which workshop participants will be able to role play as students. The demo will be followed by a panel discussion of teachers sharing experiences on teaching and using the target language in a foreign language classroom.
Friday, February 5, 2010 ~ 4:30-7:30 PM
China Institute Library (located on the 2nd floor), 125 E 65th St. New York, NY 10065
Free
Dinner will be served
Seating is limited. Please RSVP by February 1, 2010 to Shenzhan Liao at sliao@chinainstitute.org or call 212.744.8181 x 118.
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Incorporating Real Life Experiences into the Language Classroom
Incorporating authentic materials, such as restaurant menus, bus passes, and paintings into the Chinese language classroom is a highly effective method to help students gain a tangible understanding of the target language and culture. However, these authentic materials are limited in scope and cannot produce the same results as a real life, authentic experience of language and culture.
Accordingly, at China Institute, wherever possible we incorporate into our language programs practical, real world scenarios, through which students can become immersed in the target culture and use the target language, thus providing our students a critically important opportunity to apply and enhance their language skills in a culturally engaging environment.
We do this also in the knowledge that the “Communities” standard, according to ACTFL’s “five C” foreign language learning standards, is often the most challenging for Chinese language teachers to meet. Real world, practical experiences can help teachers better meet this standard, and effectively guide students to apply their Chinese language skills in an unconventional educational setting. This type of learning will require Chinese language teachers to think beyond his/her language classroom walls and reach out to the community, utilizing any available resources in order to achieve an immersive learning experience for the students.
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DEVELOPING GLOBAL COMPETENCE FOR A CHANGING WORLD: LEARNING CHINESE IN NEW YORK SCHOOLS
In today’s global knowledge economy, every student needs to graduate from high school college-ready and globally competent. This is not just good education policy, it is good economic policy. But education as usual will not produce graduates with the cross-cultural skills that will be needed to lead New York State into the future, according to a report issued by the New York Task Force on Chinese Language and Culture Initiatives, convened by China Institute and Asia Society, and comprised of business and education leaders across the state.
To prepare students for success in today’s global environment and to be competitive with other cities and states, New York must develop and implement a strategic plan to close the enormous gap between the growing interest in learning Chinese language and culture and the available opportunities in New York schools. Expanded opportunities for students to learn Chinese and other critical world languages will help to provide students the skills that will enable them to be leaders in New York, the nation, and the world.
Bearing in mind current budget constraints, but also aware that human capital will be critical to future prosperity, the Task Force has called on elected officials, educators, business and community leaders, parents and students to:
1) Create a state and city international education initiative, with an effective leader, to raise awareness of the importance of modernizing New York’s education system for the new global realities;
2) Develop a strategic plan or “roadmap” with specific goals for expanding the number of Chinese and other less commonly taught language programs around the state;
3) Recruit and prepare high quality Chinese language teachers, and
4) Expand cross-cultural collaborations between New York and Chinese-speaking regions.
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From Chang’an to Xi’an: Ancient Capital to Modern Metropolis, 2009 NEH Summer Institute
China Institute’s professional development program for K-12 educators, Teach China, will host a 2009 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in Xi’an, China, entitled “From Chang’an to Xi’an: Ancient Capital to Modern Metropolis.” The program will run for five weeks, from July 6 – August 7, 2009. For complete details and application instructions, visit www.chinainstitute.org/edu/NEH2009, or contact Kevin Lawrence at klawrence@chinainstitute.org.
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