Chinese+Materials+Sharing+Session

//Post ideas, information, and resources from the Chinese Materials Sharing Session here.//


 * Discussion Topics**

//**Student Programs**//

 * Concordia Language Villages
 * Use Chinese to teach students to DO things (i.e., swimming, etc.)
 * Table 3
 * Standards-based unit plan
 * UVA Forum
 * Practice Teaching
 * Daily Self-reflections
 * Self-assessment Checklist
 * Microteaching, demonstration, and feedback
 * E-portfolio
 * Cover page
 * Teaching philosophy
 * CV
 * Thematic units
 * Thematic lesson plans
 * Videotaped teaching demos
 * Self-reflections
 * Future professional goals
 * Table 9 - CA FL Project, BYU, Hunter College, U of Hawaii
 * Materials
 * No main text
 * Teachers in training developed units to use with students
 * Textbooks as supplemental materials
 * Offering credit
 * Offering credit


 * Table 10 - Elementary program
 * 5th grade, bus transportation, Audacity, SOPA test from CAL
 * Math-based and science-based elementary programs
 * K-5 program, hands on activities

**//Teacher Programs//**

 * Certification/credit - It may not make sense to offer credit unless it leads to certification
 * Content-based/enriched/related instruction
 * As a tool for advocacy
 * Demonstration lessons are powerful
 * Hands-on, math-based immersion lessons (immersion 101 for Chinese & Japanese)
 * Practicum (student camps/summer programs)
 * Science-based lessons (done as a bilingual exercise)
 * Guest teacher program
 * Increased training in Beijing (4 weeks)
 * 2 weeks @ Stanford
 * Language proficiency in English and cultural/social factors that affect teacher learning
 * Brainstorm in pairs or small groups, then share as a group
 * Facilitate some of the workshop in Chinese
 * Limit text in English (handouts, readings)
 * Provide materials in Chinese
 * Use Chinese-speaking apprentice leaders as facilitators, mediators
 * Mentoring, Leadership, & Change
 * Apprentice leaders
 * Focus on the challenges of navigating professional relationships
 * Advocacy
 * Mentoring
 * Practical strategies (pedagogy and professional networking)
 * Professional conversations
 * Materials - Will write annotated bibliography and webliography
 * Museums
 * Teacher-generated materials
 * Textbooks
 * Why do you use it?
 * What do you like about it?
 * Integrated Chinese - Matriculates into college level study
 * Websites
 * Bryant University - Cultural track program (teach teacher-participants with no prior knowledge of Chinese culture or language, work with Chinese language teachers who may not have strong pedagogical background - the two work together)
 * George Mason, Indiana, Hunter College, DePaul - Challenges faced in residential v. non-residential programs, developing a community of practitioners and giving them a chance to practice via FLAP grants, summer programs
 * Ohio State - Strategic planning with cohorts of teachers that move through 3 years
 * San Francisco State - Literacy
 * UC Berkeley - Shared scope and sequence for their program and considered how to incorporate mentoring and how to make use of nearby STARTALK children's programs
 * U of FL - Contact program coordinator if you want to use the "really cool poster" they developed
 * U MN - Immersion

//**Resources**//

 * [|Basic Skills Revisited: The Effects of Foreign Language Instruction on Reading, Math, & Language Arts] (Penny Armstrong & Jerry Rogers)
 * [|Improving Students' Capacity in Foreign Languages] (Mimi Met)