2021 Young Photographers’ Competition – Results
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
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 […]
Work experience at Qumin for MEP Tourism Project winners
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 […]
Young Photographers’ Competition 2021 – Now Open!
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 […]
Schools and Universities Day 2022
*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 […]
Student experience – MEP tourism project 2021
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 […]
KS4 STUDENT PROJECTS: FREE RESOURCES LAUNCHED!
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 […]
Mandarin Tourism Marketing by Year 10 Students
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 […]
10th Anniversary Celebration for the UCL IOE PGCE Mandarin Alumni Network
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 […]
UCL IOE CI for Schools, 18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference on Saturday 11th September
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 […]
18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference – Kay McLeod and Xiaoming Zhu in conversation
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. […]
UCL IOE & The British Council to Continue Delivery of MEP 2021-2024
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 […]
18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference – Q&A with Kim Wang
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 […]
18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference – Q&A with Sylvania Choy
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 […]
18th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference: Pre-Conference Plenary Q&A with Andrew Scrimgeour, University of South Australia
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 […]
ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2021 – Q&A with Yi Zhang & Fu Xiong
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 […]
CPD Programme for Early Career Teachers – 2021-2022
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 […]
Annual Conference 2021 “Teaching Resilience” – Q&A with Katharine Carruthers
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 […]
Annual Conference 2021 – Q&A with Philippa Vallely, UCL IOE CI Teacher Training Coordinator
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 […]
Mandarin Upskilling Course – 2021-2022
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 […]
Newman Prize for English Jueju competition – Winners announced!
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, […]
UCL IOE Confucius Classrooms celebrate the Chinese New Year!
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 […]
PKU student support programme
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 […]
UCL IOE Confucius Institute Young Photographers’ Competition 2020
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 […]
MEP Independent Evaluation Webinars
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. […]
MEP Independent Evaluation
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 […]
MEP Independent Evaluation Launch
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 […]
2021 Newman Prize for English Jueju – Poetry competition now open to UK students!
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 […]
Jueju Poetry- workshop summary and competition details
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 […]
Jueju (绝句) Poetry Teach-In
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 […]
AQA GCSE Mandarin Chinese Event
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 […]
Pre U Twilight Sessions with former Chief Examiner
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 […]
My first weeks as an NQT – Andrew Zhang
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 […]
2020 Young Photographers’ Competition
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 […]
MARS – Mandarin Resources for Schools
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 […]
Summer Showcase 2020 Highlights
As we settle into the start of a new academic year, we want to remind you once more of the brilliant work that was submitted as part of our Mandarin […]
MEP Summer Showcase
Students on the Mandarin Excellence Programme (11-15 years old) all begin in Year 7 and study Mandarin for 8 hours per week (4 taught hours and 4 hours of self-study). […]
HANBAN TEACHER CPD TRAINING SUMMER TERM – JUNE 2020
Our Summer Hanban Teacher CPD training took place online, during May and June 2020. A series of three online CPD training events over the past couple of months were a […]
Online Annual Conference interview with Simone Haughey
The final workshop of this year’s Online Annual Conference will be delivered by Simone Haughey, Confucius Classroom Manager at Robin Hood Primary School. The workshop is called “The creative classroom – […]
In Memoriam: Dr Jane Orton
Earlier this year we received the very sad news that Dr Jane Orton had passed away. As we approach the anniversary of her unforgettable plenary session at the IOE CI […]
Online Annual Conference interview with Yadi Luo
Yadi Luo, Head of Mandarin at St Mary Magdalene Academy will be presenting her workshop ‘How to prepare students to stand out from the crowd and score high in the […]
Upskilling Course 2020-2021: Apply now!
Are you a qualified primary or secondary school teacher interested in learning Mandarin Chinese? Then you should consider our Mandarin Upskilling Course: the ideal opportunity for teachers who would like […]
ONLINE ANNUAL CONFERENCE INTERVIEW WITH FINLAY DAVIDSON
In the run up to our Online Annual Conference we took the chance to interview Finlay Davidson, Leader of Teaching & Learning for Mandarin at North Gosforth Academy. Finlay will […]
‘Chinese History for Teachers’ – A new online resource
We are pleased to share with you a new online resource that has been created by Dr. Toby Lincoln and Dr. Lauren Walden from the University of Leicester, and designed […]
Online Annual Conference interview with Paul Edwards
As part of this year’s Online Annual Conference we are pleased to announce the workshop ‘The Mandarin classroom. Combining student engagement and parent power’. The workshop is presented by Paul […]
Annual Conference 2020: Plenary
To launch our “Online Annual Conference” we would like to introduce Professor Zhao Xia, an expert in Contemporary Chinese Children’s Literature from Zhejiang Normal University. Professor Zhao kindly took the […]
Annual Chinese Teaching Conference 2020 – Online Series
As we recently confirmed, due to the current global situation, we are unable to hold our Annual Conference as planned this year. However, we still want to share some of […]
Online courses and webinars from the British Council
We are pleased to share with you a collection of practical resources and professional development opportunities developed by the British Council in partnership with the BBC: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/support-teachers-teacher-educators Please have a […]
Case Study: Teaching Mandarin remotely in Spain
Many of you will know Elliot from his workshops at our Annual Conference. He is currently working in Spain and has kindly shared us with the steps he has taken […]
Online Teaching Resources for Teachers
Teaching Resources from the CI (including from our CC and MEP schools): https://mandarinexcellence.edublogs.org/ A vast amount of resources here, including character booklets for Jinbu 1 and 2, Jinbu 1 and […]
