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Author Archives: ciforschools

MEP Year 10 Intensive Study 2022 – Tourism Project

January 9, 2023by ciforschools

In this blogpost, MEP Project Manager Yasmin Lambert talks about the Year 10 Intensive Study event which took place in June 2022. To read more about the project and see […]

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2023 Newman Prize for English Jueju Poetry Competition Now Open to UK Students!

December 7, 2022by ciforschools

We are pleased to announce that the Newman Prize for English Jueju, a poetry competition sponsored by the Institute for US-China Issues, University of Oklahoma (OU), is open for submissions […]

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19TH ANNUAL CHINESE TEACHING CONFERENCE Q&A WITH KATHARINE CARRUTHERS

November 7, 2022by ciforschools

This week we are speaking to Katharine Carruthers, the IOE Confucius Institute Director & UCL Pro-Vice-Provost for East Asia, about the upcoming 19th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference on this Saturday […]

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19TH ANNUAL CHINESE TEACHING CONFERENCE Q&A WITH VICTOR WU

November 1, 2022by ciforschools

This week we are pleased to publish our interview with Victor Wu. Victor Wu is part of our team at the CI, supporting teachers in his role of Teacher Training […]

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19TH ANNUAL CHINESE TEACHING CONFERENCE Q&A WITH ZHU HUA

October 21, 2022by ciforschools

This week we are pleased to publish our interview with Zhu Hua, Professor of Language Learning and Intercultural Communication, UCL IOE, who will be speaking at the plenary session on […]

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Teacher Training Workshop Programme for 2022-23

September 30, 2022by ciforschools

‘Planning for Progression’ This year we are pleased to announce the return of face-to-face workshops at the UCL IOE CI teacher training centre in Woburn Square, London. We have designed […]

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Teacher Training Workshop, Planning for Success: Curriculum Design 1, Tuesday 18th October

September 26, 2022by ciforschools

We are delighted to announce the return of face-to-face workshops at the UCL IOE CI in Woburn Square. We have designed a series of six workshops across the year, all […]

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Annual Chinese Teaching Conference Postponed to Saturday 12th November

September 21, 2022by ciforschools

Following the announcement on September 20th by the Aslef union that drivers at 12 train companies will walk out on 1st October, we regret to inform our teaching community that we have […]

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“Connecting Classroom Learning to Real-life issues: Using UNESCO Sustainable Goals” Conference Workshop: Q&A with Yi Zhang

September 7, 2022by ciforschools

Yi Zhang, Teacher of Mandarin at Willink School, will be running a workshop at our Annual Chinese Teaching Conference on Saturday 1st October. The topic is on “Connecting Classroom Learning […]

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19TH ANNUAL CHINESE TEACHING CONFERENCE Q&A WITH YUEMEI LI

August 17, 2022by ciforschools

  This week we are grateful to have Yuemei Li as our interviewee.  Yuemei, who teaches at our Confucius Classroom School Devonport High School for Girls in Plymouth, Devon, will […]

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19TH ANNUAL CHINESE TEACHING CONFERENCE Q&A WITH LUCY WICKS

August 1, 2022by ciforschools

  This week we are pleased to be interviewing Lucy Wicks, who will be presenting the workshop “Progression in Phonics: Developing Learners’ Confidence in Speaking” at our 19th Annual Chinese […]

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Enquiry-based CPD Programme for Experienced Teachers of Mandarin – 2022-2023

July 21, 2022by ciforschools

We are delighted to announce that the Enquiry-based Subject Expert Micro-programme 2022-2023 is now open to applications. This unique Mandarin-specific and enquiry-based professional development micro-programme – which has been delivered […]

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Mandarin Upskilling Course – 2022-2023

July 17, 2022by ciforschools

We are pleased to announce that our Mandarin Upskilling Course, now in its fifth year, is open for enrolments for a September start. If you are a qualified primary or […]

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Bookings for our Annual Chinese Teaching Conference – Now Open!

July 7, 2022by ciforschools

We are excited to announce that our Annual Chinese Teaching Conference will be running again this year on Saturday 1st October at the IOE. To book your place, click here. […]

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CPD Programme for Early Career Teachers of Mandarin – 2022-2023

June 8, 2022by ciforschools

We are delighted to announce that the Early Career Professional Development – Mandarin Teacher Micro-programme 2022-2023 is now open to applications. In line with the Early Career Framework, this highly […]

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2021 Young Photographers’ Competition – Results

April 6, 2022by ciforschools

We are pleased to announce the winners for the 2021 Young Photographers’ Competition. Entrants were able to enter their work in any of five categories: Chinese Community and Friends, My […]

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Call for Workshop Proposals

February 10, 2022by ciforschools

The theme of the 2022 Annual Chinese Teacher Conference is “Be the Change”. If you are a teacher with an idea for a workshop for the conference please get in […]

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Work experience at Qumin for MEP Tourism Project winners

January 5, 2022by ciforschools

Winners of the MEP Tourism Project 2021 were recently treated to a day of work experience with the China-focussed digital marketing agency Qumin in Camden, London. The winners were students […]

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Young Photographers’ Competition 2021 – Now Open!

December 1, 2021by ciforschools

We are excited to announce that our Young Photographers’ Competition is now open for submissions. The contest, now in its seventh year of running, aims to challenge cultural stereotypes of […]

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Schools and Universities Day 2022

November 30, 2021by ciforschools

*Please note that the event was initially planned for Friday 21st of January and has now been rescheduled to Monday 28th March 2022* The sixth Schools and Universities Day will […]

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Student experience – MEP tourism project 2021

October 20, 2021by ciforschools

Year 10 Mandarin Excellence Programme students at Queen Mary’s Grammar School in Walsall created this video (below) to summarize their experience of the Mandarin Tourism Marketing project they did in […]

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KS4 STUDENT PROJECTS: FREE RESOURCES LAUNCHED!

October 11, 2021by ciforschools

We are delighted to be able to launch twelve new MEP Student Projects for use with your Key Stage 4 students. We hope these resources give your Year 10s or […]

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Mandarin Tourism Marketing by Year 10 Students

October 7, 2021by ciforschools

In this blog post, MEP Coordinator Kay McLeod describes the Year 10 Tourism project which started in 2021. You can view the permanent project website here. In July 2021, Year […]

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10th Anniversary Celebration for the UCL IOE PGCE Mandarin Alumni Network

September 29, 2021by ciforschools

The inaugural meeting of UCL IOE PGCE Languages (Mandarin Pathway) Alumni Network took place on Zoom on Thursday 9th September.  This event marked the 10th anniversary celebration of PGCE Mandarin […]

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UCL IOE CI for Schools, 18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference on Saturday 11th September

September 15, 2021by ciforschools

The 18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference took place on Saturday 11th September 2021 at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London. The IOE Confucius Institute Annual Chinese Conference is […]

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18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference – Kay McLeod and Xiaoming Zhu in conversation

August 31, 2021by ciforschools

Xiaoming Zhu (XZ) and Kay McLeod (KM) sat down to chat about the upcoming Annual Chinese Teaching Conference on Saturday, September 11th. Below is an edited version of their conversation. […]

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UCL IOE & The British Council to Continue Delivery of MEP 2021-2024

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We are delighted to announce that the Mandarin Excellence Programme will continue to be delivered by the UCL Institute of Education in partnership with the British Council for a further […]

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18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference – Q&A with Kim Wang

August 9, 2021by ciforschools

This week we are interviewing Kim Wang, who will be presenting the workshop “Mandarin through Project-Based Learning to connect to the real world and the real audience” at our 18th Annual […]

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18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference – Q&A with Sylvania Choy

July 19, 2021by ciforschools

In the run up to the Annual Conference, we took the opportunity to interview Sylvania Choy, who will be presenting the workshop “If students can lead in the classroom, why […]

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18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference: Pre-Conference Plenary Q&A with Andrew Scrimgeour, University of South Australia

July 14, 2021by ciforschools

Our CI is delighted to welcome Andrew Scrimgeour to our Annual Chinese Teaching Conference this year, where he will be delivering a pre-conference plenary on Friday 10th September, on the […]

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ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2021 – Q&A with Yi Zhang & Fu Xiong

July 13, 2021by ciforschools

This year we have two separate workshops both centred on student engagement, to be delivered by Yi Zhang and Fu Xiong. Yi Zhang will focus her workshop on effective strategies […]

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CPD Programme for Early Career Teachers – 2021-2022

July 13, 2021by ciforschools

We are delighted to announce an exciting and unique CPD micro-programme which has been developed by IOE CI for first-year and second-year Early Career Teachers (ECTs), formally called NQTs and […]

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Annual Conference 2021 “Teaching Resilience” – Q&A with Katharine Carruthers

June 22, 2021by ciforschools

Today we are speaking to Katharine Carruthers (KC), the IOE Confucius Institute Director & UCL Pro-Vice-Provost for East Asia, about the upcoming Annual Conference. We are also pleased to be […]

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Annual Conference 2021 – Q&A with Philippa Vallely, UCL IOE CI Teacher Training Coordinator

May 24, 2021by ciforschools

We are excited to announce that we are preparing to host the 2021 Annual Conference in person at the IOE this year, subject to Government guidelines. This year the Conference will […]

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Mandarin Upskilling Course – 2021-2022

May 17, 2021by ciforschools

We are delighted to announce that our teacher training course, the Mandarin Upskilling Course, is open for enrolments for September, in what will be its fourth year of running. If […]

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Newman Prize for English Jueju competition – Winners announced!

April 30, 2021by ciforschools

You may remember at the start of the year us telling you about the Newman Prize for English Jueju competition from the University of Oklahoma that we were collaborating with, […]

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UCL IOE Confucius Classrooms celebrate the Chinese New Year!

February 26, 2021by ciforschools

春节快乐! This month saw the end of the Year of the Rat and the start of the Chinese New Year of the Ox. While festivities looked a little different this […]

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PKU student support programme

February 12, 2021by ciforschools

UCL IOE Confucius Institute have always enjoyed a close relationship with Peking University (PKU), our partner University in China. In November 2020, we launched a new programme in collaboration with […]

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UCL IOE Confucius Institute Young Photographers’ Competition 2020

February 10, 2021by ciforschools

Run by IOE Confucius Institute, The Young Photographers’ Competition is for young people aged 18 years and under. The aim of the competition is to ignore the cultural stereotypes of […]

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MEP Independent Evaluation Webinars

January 22, 2021by ciforschools

Here at the UCL IOE Confucius Institute for Schools we have been proudly delivering the Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) in partnership with the British Council since its launch in 2016. […]

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MEP Independent Evaluation

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Four years after its launch in 2016, the Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) delivered by the UCL Institute of Education in partnership with the British Council was independently evaluated and the […]

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MEP Independent Evaluation Launch

January 19, 2021by ciforschools

The IOE Confucius Institute for Schools has been delivering the Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) since 2016, in partnership with the British Council. It is an intensive language programme, funded by […]

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2021 Newman Prize for English Jueju – Poetry competition now open to UK students!

January 13, 2021by ciforschools

After our online poetry “teach-in” last term, where Dr Jonathan Stalling presented the Jueju session How and Why to Write Classical Chinese Poetry in English we are pleased to announce […]

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Jueju Poetry- workshop summary and competition details

December 16, 2020by ciforschools

On Tuesday 8th December, Dr Jonathan Stalling from the University of Oklahoma presented a Jueju session on ‘How and Why to Write Classical Chinese Poetry in English’. In his own […]

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Jueju (绝句) Poetry Teach-In

November 9, 2020by ciforschools

Jueju (绝句) Poetry Teach-In with Professor Jonathan Stalling, University of Oklahoma Tuesday 8th December, 3.30pm-5pm Dr Stalling was due to speak at our Annual Chinese Teaching Conference in June, so […]

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AQA GCSE Mandarin Chinese Event

November 5, 2020by ciforschools

Following the success of our GCSE Mandarin Day that took place in December 2019, we are thrilled to let you know about our upcoming AQA GCSE Mandarin Chinese Event. On […]

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Pre U Twilight Sessions with former Chief Examiner

November 3, 2020by ciforschools

The UCL IOE CI is pleased to announce two free twilight sessions for teachers of the Pre U examination, to be delivered in November and December. These are participatory discussion […]

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My first weeks as an NQT – Andrew Zhang

October 28, 2020by ciforschools

Andrew Zhang was a former PGCE student last year, who has completed his first half term as an NQT. We caught up with Andrew to see how he was getting […]

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2020 Young Photographers’ Competition

October 14, 2020by ciforschools

The UCL IOE Confucius Institute Young Photographers’ Competition for 2020 is now closed. The competition has been running for six years and has seen some excellent photography from young people […]

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Mandarin Resources for Schools MARS

MARS – Mandarin Resources for Schools

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We are very excited to announce that our Mandarin Resources for Schools (MARS) page is officially up and running! About MARS MARS, the abbreviation for Mandarin Resources for Schools, is […]

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