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Technology Integration in a Chinese Classroom
Image by George W. Hart Technology Integration in a Chinese Classroom I feel very fortunate working at a one-on-one laptop school at which each of my high school students uses his/her own laptop in...
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How can I do better by integrating technology in a differentiated classroom?
image by David Ingram As a high school Mandarin teacher, although I have been differentiating my instruction, I constantly seek ways to improve how I teach and what I teach. Last week’s Coetail course...
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What will the future bring?
image by Sean MacEntee How will education as we know it change because of technology? The first question came to my mind was “What is Education?” In the American Heritage High School Dictionary it...
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Breaking Through: Course Five Final Project
image by TheNoxid This is my final COETAIL course with Robert Appino at SSIS. It has been a journey of inspiration, self-reflection and sometimes exhaustion. Finding time to complete the projects has...
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The Power of Sharing and Brainstorming
During the second class of our COETAIL Course 5 program, each of us presented a 2-minute elevator pitch about our final projects. After each pitch, our cohort members asked clarifying questions and...
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Is What We Teach Relevant to the Learners?
My final COETAIL project is Using Personal Goals to Improve Motivation and to Hold the Learners Responsible for Their Own Learning. As a high school Mandarin teacher, in addition to the various...
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Course Five Final Project: How to Improve Motivation?
Who Owns the Learning? I currently teach grades 9 – 12 Mandarin and IB Mandarin B Standard Level at Saigon South International School. My final COETAIL project is Using Personal Goals to Improve...
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Do You Know about Genius Hour or 20% Time?
As I mentioned in my previous post Course Five Final Project: How to Improve Motivation, I have been giving my Mandarin class students 30 minutes in most of the classes throughout the school year to...
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Some Thoughts for Personal Goal Project
If you are reading this post, I would encourage you to also read my previous posts- Do You Know about Genius Hour or 20% Time? or Course Five Final Project: How to Improve Motivation if you haven’t....
View ArticlePresenting Differentiated Instruction at 2014 國際學校華語教學工作坊 / 2014...
To share my passion about differentiated instruction, I presented a session about differentiation at 2014 國際學校華語教學工作坊 / 2014 International Workshop: Pedagogy of Chinese as a Second/Foreign Language in...
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