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 Training – Thursday 8th February 2018

Interactive Technology Tools Padlet

Conference Workshops

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

These materials all cover technology-based ideas and methods for teaching Mandarin Chinese at Secondary level and are ordered by year.

2019

• Lights Camera Action! Using film in the Chinese classroom – Xiaoming Zhu & Dr. Carol-Mei Barker
• Using pop songs to learn Mandarin and culture – Chang-Chi Chen
• Chinese music and Chinese language teaching and learning – Lik Suen and Beibei Wang
• Fostering Learning through virtual classrooms – Lina Li

2018

• Low-tech and high-tech ways to liven up the KS3 Mandarin classroom – Ben Stainer
• A video interaction to promote authenticity and spontaneity – Yuchen Li
• Creating an immersive learning environment with technology – exchange trips and homestays – Jingjing Ruan
• Get linked globally – case study of e-pal and Skype project with Chinese schools – Yuemei Li

2017

• Bring your classroom alive with technology! – Allysa Liu
• Working with Technology: News-based Learning with the Chairman’s Bao – Sean McGibney & Theresa Munford
• Using Social Networking to develop CFL learners’ Intercultural Communicative Competence– Ruan Jingjing
• Developing MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) for Chinese Learning – Yu Bin & Lily Chen

2016

• Using Google Classroom to support students – Katie Wang
• Project based collaboration between schools via online educational platforms and smartphones – Kim Wang & Annette Yuan Jun Liu
• 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

• Developing a Dynamic Classroom — Working with technology – Philippa Vallely & I-H. Huang
  • Dynamic Classroom – Book creator and iMovie

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