Students will use 是 and 不是 to create their own sentences. Examples: I am an American, I am not Japanese etc.,
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Students will rehearse language used when meeting someone new. The greetings will also include asking someone's name. Students will then create a cartoon using ... Read More...
Students will demonstrate their understanding of basic greetings: 你好，早上好，你叫什么名字？，我叫，你贵姓？They will translate Chinese characters into English and write pinyin to ... Read More...
The Bloom’s Taxonomy Tasks are selected to show the lower thinking skills to higher order thinking skills:
Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Ana... Read More...
The Bloom's Taxonomy Tasks are selected to show the lower thinking skills to higher order thinking skills:
Knowledge
Comprehension
Application
Analy... Read More...
Download the Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down activity cards
Download the Stoplights activity for Assessment
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In the first week of school, be sure to explain to students what the grading system for Chinese classes will be.
Below are examples of how students will be g... Read More...
Use this Lesson Plan for the first week of High School Chinese.
The Learning Outcomes for Week 1 include:
Why learn Chinese?
The map of China
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A few years back, the language teacher would plan lessons, teach the students, and then assess the students. The teacher rarely shared learning outcomes or crit... Read More...
How do teachers know that students have mastered new content? Use some of these formative assessment ideas to check their understanding.
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Task Cards are a great resource for assessing student's understanding of Chinese units of work. Each Task Card provides students with a real-life task to compl... Read More...
This Lesson Plan includes I Can Statements, Sentence Patterns, Essential Vocabulary and ideas for culture integration. 4 weeks suggested.
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Assessment is a continuing process that measures the student's development of knowledge and skills. There are 2 forms of assessment - Formative and Summative.
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Usually teachers use assessment to test student's knowledge. However, Assessment For Learning is different in that it focuses on ongoing assessment different ty... Read More...
Students will demonstrate their learning by creating a craft. See below:
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Interpersonal Communication
'I Can' Statements - Level: Novice low and Novice Mid
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Interpersonal Communication
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When planning an Inquiry-based unit of work, the focus is on the student. The teacher will pose big questions and develop activities that encourage students to ... Read More...
Why not have a 买东西 Shopping Day one day a month, when students can exchange coupons they receive for small Chinese artifacts?
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Download printable stickers #1 here
If you don't have sticker paper to print the stickers, you can cut out the stickers and students can paste them into a Re... Read More...
At the beginning of the school year, I set up a class economy. Every week I give out Panda money to students who are putting in a lot of effort, produced outsta... Read More...
Download the 'Big Game' Learning Outcomes for students
Using this theme, students will describe a football team's clothing, buy tickets to a game, and descri... Read More...
Download the vocabulary, learning activities, and Outcomes for the theme: Let's visit a Chinese restaurant
Before every theme, it is important to give studen... Read More...
From the first week, I encourage students to speak Chinese. Even if they can only say 你好 or 再见 I introduce a Chinese only Zone.
I display the Chinese only Zo... Read More...
Work Stations are a great way to engage reluctant students in the learning of Chinese. They work at their own pace, and produce products that are assigned for e... Read More...
Choice Boards are Assessment Tools that give students choices on how they will demonstrate their learning.
Choice Board_On the farm
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