2016 Conference Presentations
Below are the presentations from this year’s Annual Chinese Teaching Conference. A huge thank-you to all the 2016 presenters.
Friday 17 June 2016
- The Mandarin Learning Journey at Finham Park School; building confidence in speaking and listening (Danni Yan & Helen Lewis)
- Building Chinese and Stakeholder Engagement (Jennifer Buster)
- Facing and embracing: Recognising the challenges and opportunities with new MFL directions (Alex Ferraby)
- Project based collaboration between schools via online educational platforms and smartphones (Kim Wang & Annette Yuan Jun Liu)
- Designing a culturally rich and well-integrated Primary Mandarin Curriculum (Rhoda Pennington)
–Curriculum outline example (RP)
–Suggested topic areas for primary curriculum (RP)
–Lesson 2 – Shopping in Shanghai (AS, FW,VZ)
–Frank – Year 8 (AS, FW,VZ)
–Year 7 writing project – Election Assistant (XL, HY)
–Year 7 speaking project – Interview (XL, HY)
–Year 9 writing project – CSI Investigation (XL, HY)
–Year 9 project – Property brochure (XL, HY)
- Linking Speaking to other skills (Peishu Lin)
- Using technology to advance students’ engagement and to enhance teachers’ feedback (Gloria Shen)
- Bringing in guests to enthuse learners (Irene Mainwaring)
Saturday 18 June 2016
- FCSE presentation (Anne Martin & Alice Webb)
- Senses and Movement in Teaching Grammar (Dian Huang)
- Effective strategies in teaching speaking and listening for new Chinese GCSE (Fang Xiao)
–Conversation dice chart – Foundation (FX)
–Conversation dice chart – Higher (FX)
–Mandarin speaking assessment – Year 7 (FX)
–www.creativechinese.com/london/ (SL)
- Active Learning (Thomas Godber)
- Using Google Classroom to support students (Katie Wang)
- Moving beyond rote learning- engaging learners & building independence through key learning strategies (Chris Webster)