Some screenshots from the CET webinar: 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers”. Particularly interesting, as I had just finished the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen.R.Covey. Inspirational!
EXPERT CORNER – Part 3 A dialogue with a university teacher with regards digital technology in the classroom. University Teacher 1 strongly believes in keeping her teaching skills fresh and up to date through regular training. She recommends Confucius Institute’s free summer training, available to overseas Chinese teachers and China-based teachers alike. We finished…
EXPERT CORNER – Part 2 We discussed Hanban’s International Curriculum for Chinese Language Education，the CLT (Communicative Language Teaching) approach， teaching Chinese characters and using the student’s mother tongue in the classroom. In 2007, Hanban’s Curriculum was developed with regards teaching Chinese abroad. The learning environment, and aims, of those abroad is inevitably different to…
EXPERT CORNER – Part 1 A dialogue with a university teacher with regards digital technology in the classroom. University Teacher 1 has been teaching Chinese for more than 20 years and has seen all of the changes and development in the industry first-hand. Using technology is a teaching basic for her. It’s not only a…
[wpvideo sswcLS00] I created a monster! After seeing my Powtoon video, a teacher friend went ahead and made her own video for a lesson about friends. Now I need to make an even better video..!
whitehouse: whitehouse: President Obama is answering your questions on education and college affordability in his first-ever Tumblr Q&A today. Tune in right here at 4 p.m. ET, and make sure to follow us @whitehouse. Happening now. Watch → http://whitehouse.tumblr.com/ Education, education, education. US-style.
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http://crazyfreshchinese.com/ A great place to get fresh, Chinese slang! The host, Jessica Beinecke, also hosts OMG! MeiYu for Voice of America, which teaches American English slang to Chinese students: http://www.youtube.com/user/OMGmeiyu Finally, listen to a fun interview with Jessica on Pop-Up Chinese’s Sinica podcast: http://popupchinese.com/lessons/sinica/omg-in-conversation-with-jessica-beinecke Her comment about learning Chinese being “2D”, peaked my interest. In…