12th Annual Chinese Teaching Conference
12-13 June 2015
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On the main stage
Read more about the plenary sessions:
Friday 10am – Conference Opening – You, Your School, and Beyond
Friday 1pm – Mandarin in Hull – From vision to reality
Friday 4pm – Building capacity – Teacher training
Saturday 10am – Talking Heads – Developing Chinese in your school
Saturday 1pm – Literature in your Chinese classroom – 学海无涯
Workshops
We are pleased to be joined by a very talented array of workshop presenters. Workshops include:
Progressing from Mandarin teacher to Head of Department and beyond
Jennifer Buster
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Cambridge Pre-U: A student’s perspective
Yan Burch & Alexandra Kirienko
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Myth or reality: Is it possible to teach a full lesson in Mandarin only?
Aurelie Sanner & Chris Webster
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Active learning in Mandarin
Cheng-Han Wu
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Innovative approaches to progression in Mandarin (primary)
Meryl James
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Activities with a twist for more active pupil engagement
Peishu Lin
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Chinese is real business
Yuemei Li & Zonghui Gan
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Promoting a student-centred classroom
Jia Ding
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Teaching the Cambridge Pre-U Mandarin Chinese literature paper
Thomas Godber
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Bringing Chinese religion and philosophy to life
Thomas Godber
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A hands-on and practical approach to teaching and learning Mandarin Chinese
Simone Haughey
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Integrating technology in the Mandarin primary and secondary classroom
James Trapp & Sole Amian
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Contextualising language learning – Industry mentoring programme
Alex Ferraby
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A real education in the real China
Natalie Syers & Alex Seigal
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Constructing a sustainable Mandarin curriculum model preparing students for GCSE
Helen Lewis & Kate Howarth
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How to build positive learning environments
Shaz Lawrence
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Differentiation – All students can learn Chinese!
Shaz Lawrence
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The Flipped Classroom
Shaz Lawrence
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Rethinking your assessment styles for Key Stage 3 and GCSE Mandarin
Finlay Davidson & James Stagg
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