Events
Chinese Character Learning and Teaching By Dr. Meng Yeh
In this workshop, Dr. Meng Yeh from Rice University aims to answer the following questions based on empirical research results and demonstrates effective strategies for character teaching: How do students learn characters? What are the best practices to teach characters? Should characters be taught from the very beginning? What kind of exercises will help the student’s character acquisition?
Student-Centered Chinese Classrooms By Dr. Weiling Wu
This workshop is designed to engage participating teachers in addressing multiple issues related to creating a student-centered learning environment for students of Chinese. The questions being discussed will include: What does student-centered teaching mean in Chinese classrooms? What are the key concepts of student-centered learning?
Joint Concert at Walter Payton College Prep
Performances given by Valparaiso University Symphony Orchestra, Hangzhou Arts Academy, Shanghai Normal University, and Students from CPS.
Bringing Culture Into the Chinese Language Classroom
As world language teachers, we’ll agree that gaining cultural skills is an important part of achieving competency in a world language.
YANG STYLE TAIJI QUAN
The Confucius Institute in Chicago is pleased to offer a taiji class. Taiji or taijiquan, sometimes called tai chi or tai chi chuan, is a noncompetitive, self-paced system of gentle physical exercise and stretching. To do taiji, you perform a series of postures or movements in a slow, graceful manner. Each posture flows into the next without pausing.
The Confucius Institute in Chicago WORKSHOP Developing the Students’ Communicative Skills by Dr. Weiling Wu
This highly interactive workshop will focus the first area of the National Standards – communication. It will examine three-mode communicative activities in Chinese classrooms. It will also offer strategies and ideas for developing students’ skills to use the language for communication purposes at different proficiency levels.
The Confucius Institute in Chicago WORKSHOP Rhyme It! Act It! Speak It!
Action rhymes, conversation rhymes, catchy chants and skits…what a magical way to start students’ journey of learning Chinese. Rhymes and chants are songs without melodies, and they make learning Chinese easy and fun. The same way songs stay in our memory long after facts have faded, the words connected to rhymes stay with us.
2011-12 NCTA Teaching about Asia Seminar
The East Asian Studies Center at Indiana University, Bloomington, organizes this seminar on behalf of the National Consortium on Teaching About Asia (NCTA), a national initiative supported by the Freeman Foundation of Stowe, Vermont. This year the Chicago Seminar is again hosted by the Confucius Institute, Chicago.
WORKSHOP Teaching Chinese at the Beginning Level by Kun Yu
Yu Laoshi from Beijing Language and Culture University is going to share her experiences of teaching Chinese to non-native Chinese speakers with Chinese teachers in Chicago. At the workshop, she will discuss what the major tasks are and how to execute them effectively in Chinese classrooms. Confucius Institute in Chicago invites you to join us for the workshop.
