Conference Workshops

Below are links to various workshops from our Annual Chinese Conferences from 2015 onward.

These materials all cover pedagogy related to Mandarin Chinese at Secondary level and are ordered by year.

2019

• TT film workshop activities and feedback – Kay McLeod
• Busy teachers optimising learning and reducing workload – Victor Wu and Pia Maggioni
• Teaching Mandarin with SEN learners – Yi-Shan Lu
• Creative and independent learning through homework: engaging students outside the classroom – Puchan Liao
• Differentiation in the mixed ability classroom – Lucy Wicks
• Self-regulated student learning (meta-cognition) in practice for Chinese teaching and learning – Lijing Zhang
• Looking forward to a new curriculum – Intent, implementation and impact – James Stagg
• Developing students’ independent learning competence (GCSE speaking and writing focus) – Frank Wang
• Behaviour Management in Classrooms – Jane Woo
• I, We, You, learning system to engage students and help them progress – Katie Wang
• Making writing interesting and interactive – Zeng Bin

2018

•  Learning and teaching Chinese through games – Olle Linge
  • Further Information
• Teaching Mandarin to Dyslexics – Dr. Theresa Munford
• Intensive Chinese learning in the Mandarin Excellence Programme (MEP) – Chunlei Li
• Strategies to enhance information from long-term memory – Monica Jang
• Using a learning cycle to accelerate students’ learning progress, to keep learners motivated – Katie Wang

2017

• Motivate the indifferent, stretch the eager – Liqun Dai
• Target Language for Optimum Progress- Encouraging Spontaneity In Your Classroom – Chris Webster
  • Additional materials:
    • TL Wall Posters
    • TL Toolkit
    • Target Language CPD
    • Pinyin Linkwords Wall Display
• Use differentiated activities to engage, motivate, challenge Chinese language learners – Katie Wang
• Student-led Chinese Outreach – Kay McLeod
• Action Research in Chinese Classrooms – An Initiative – Jane Woo
  • Action Research Planning Guide

2016

• Active Learning – Thomas Godber
• Moving beyond rote learning- engaging learners & building independence through key learning strategies – Chris Webster
• Senses and Movement in Teaching Grammar – Dian Huang
• Flipping the Chinese classroom – Shaz Lawrence
  • www.creativechinese.com/london/
• Managing a project-based classroom with Class Dojo – Xuenian Leng & Haiyan Yin
  • Year 7 writing project – Election Assistant
  • Year 7 speaking project – Interview
  • Year 9 writing project – CSI Investigation
  • Year 9 project – Property brochure 
• Using technology to advance students’ engagement and to enhance teachers’ feedback – Gloria Shen

2015

• Assessment for Learning: expand your toolkit – Sara Long
• Active learning in Mandarin – Cheng-Han Wu
• Promoting a student-centred classroom – Jia Ding
• Contextualising language learning – Industry mentoring programme – Alex Ferraby
• Exploratory practice – Rob Neal
• Language for Classroom Use – Chris Webster
• Chinese immersion (CLIL) and MFL – Developing effective cross-curriculum programmes – Juan Cole
• Optimal use of target language in the Mandarin classroom – A. Sanner & C. Webster

All workshop materials from our Conferences (2015 onward) which cover a wide range of topics can also be found here.