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 […]
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 […]
*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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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). […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
CI Teacher Training This webpage contains teacher training materials have been used or created as part of teacher training workshops delivered by the IOE Confucius Institute. Dynamic Classrooms: Technology and Online Classrooms Teacher […]
Please find below a message from the IOE Confucius Institute for Schools team, as posted in our e-forum on 30th March: The Annual Chinese Teaching conference scheduled to take place […]
