9. Chinese Guest Teacher Program April 23 rd , 2010 Presented by Hongmei Zhao Hanban Chinese Guest Teacher [email_address]
10. New Program in 2008 -2009 • Chinese Bridge Delegation Trip • Two Hanban guest teachers offer instruction • Teaching assignment Grades 1 and 2 5 days a week for 30 minutes Level Ⅰ, Middle and High School 5 days a week for 50 minutes
11. Expanded Program in 2009-2010 • Expand Chinese program into two Primary Schools, two Middle Schools and High School • Two guest teachers and one local Chinese teacher offer instruction • Teaching assignment: Grades 1 and 2, 5 days a week for 20 minutes Grades 3 and 4, 5 days a week for 30 minutes Level Ⅰ,ⅡHigh School, 5 days a week for 50 minutes Level Ⅰ, Middle School, 5 days a week for 50 minutes Grade 7, 5 days a week for 50 minutes for one quarter
12. District Support • New teacher orientation • In-service training • Foreign language department quarterly meeting • Support team: Administrators, teachers and parents World language chair as head mentor Mentor teachers in each school
13. Cultural support • A local Chinese teacher as a cultural mentor • Support from principals • Teachers and American parents regularly take GT to experience the life in US Living support • A furnished apartment shared by two guest teachers • The district provides the transportation to school
14. Community Support • Chinese New Year Celebration in 2008 and World Pulse Program( Chinese, German, Spanish) in 2009 http://occhineseprogram.shutterfly.com/ • Exchange Program between two schools in US and China http://oakcreekbeijing.shutterfly.com/
pictures are from our visiting teacher who is sponsored through the Confucius Institute. Her name is Janice Lin. She teaches elementary Chinese at Cardinal Elementary School in Brownsburg, Indiana.
Chen-Lin Wang is the East teacher
Tingting Shang is the West MS teacher Although we do not have pictures, we do have Chinese Levels I-IV at Brownsburg High School and elementary Chinese at Reagan Elementary.