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Mark Cruthers Survival Spanish: Course Details and Demo Activties Espanhol – Espagnol

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Added by Mark Cruthers on October 10, 2009 at 10:16am — No Comments

Mark Cruthers Spoken English - Conversational English - Part 4

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Alex Vaewsorn Mandarin education resource for teachers

Hello all, I've been admiring community networking pages like these as I compile resources for Chinese teaching in the US. I invite anyone interested to join our site and check out our free resources: themandarincenter.org. We've linked to numerous blogs like yours, educational video hosting sites, schools and more. We also have an interactive map of almost all K-12 Mandarin programs, with descriptions, in the US ; Contact me here or at t… Continue

Added by Alex Vaewsorn on October 7, 2009 at 8:30am — No Comments

Marcus Marshall Chinese Learning

Hello everyone, Nimen Hao, I hope the new school year has started off very well for you. I know that all of you are very busy but I hope you will help me. As I have been working on curriculum, lesson plans and teaching methodology in the Chinese classroom I would like you to respond to the following hypothetical situation. The situation concerns two foreign language classrooms in a high school, ninth through 12th grade; one classroom is a Spanish language classroom the other is a Chinese langu… Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on September 14, 2009 at 1:50am — No Comments

Marcus Marshall Chinese course checklist and expectations

Hello everyone, I hope and pray that your summer is going well. I am writing this blog to ask for your help; one of the summer projects I was asked to do, was to develop a course expectations for Chinese 1, 2 and 3. What is the knowledge and skills we want students to have after one year of Chinese 1, Chinese 2 and Chinese 3. If any of you have documents, drafts or thoughts in this, please share with me. Thanks. The following is the format for this course expectations/course checklist: Standard… Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on July 14, 2009 at 7:02am — 2 Comments

Marcus Marshall Mentoring for Chinese teachers

Hello everyone, I know you all must be really getting tired in hearing from me. Please stay with me, the blogging will slow and probably even stop. If is summer break and I am looking back on the past school and preparing for the next year. I would like your feedback, thoughts and experiences in mentoring. It has been a couple of years since I mentor a teacher and this coming school year will be mentoring 2 new Chinese teachers for our school district. I want to do it right and would like your i… Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on June 21, 2009 at 2:57am — No Comments

Philip Wilson Proficiency

Perhaps the ACTFL and Foreign service proficiency goals are not appropriate for school students. Learning a language is intimately connected with identity and meaning for young people. Its about building a sound pre-proficiency basis and this means alot of investigation, reflection, comparison and above all a rich and supportive learning environment (no more rigorous Friday afternoon character memory tests...) Its about learning to make sense of Chinese starting with what they know about their f… Continue

Added by Philip Wilson on June 16, 2009 at 1:29pm — 1 Comment

Marcus Marshall Chinese tones

Hi everyone, As I continue to reflect on my past year of teaching, many things come to mind. I have just discovered some great material on wikispaces which I am going through. I have been looking for teaching strategies, a classroom demo and teaching methodology on the teaching and learning of the Chinese tones. At this time, I only find your links, web sites, videos and audios on your wikispaces. I am sure you agree that it is quite a big jump for American students to start learning Chinese, fi… Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on June 16, 2009 at 7:23am — No Comments

Marcus Marshall Chinese language difficulties

I hope you will let me continue to write to all of you about thoughts, concerns and issues, so I may learn from all of you. This past school year, I tried to advocate for Chinese language with my school district foreign language colleagues. During the year, we meet all together for inservices and usually, teachers share teaching methods, classroom strategies and curriculum. All of these inservices were based around Spanish, French and German. I talked with our World Language district leader to h… Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on June 16, 2009 at 2:44am — No Comments

Marcus Marshall Thoughts on Chinese "cognates"

Hello everyone, The school year is about finished and I hope you all have had a great year. At the end of a school year, I like to take time to look back, reflect on my teaching year. It has been a super year, yet feel so much could have been done better and many things should be changed. During this past year, I have tried to put into practice all what I learned from colleagues, in-services, meetings, conferences and workshops. In the following, I have some concerns and issues I feel I need you… Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on May 23, 2009 at 12:00am — No Comments

Mark Cruthers Integrating Technology with Real English

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Added by Mark Cruthers on April 5, 2009 at 1:04pm — No Comments

Mark Cruthers ESL ENGLISH LANGUAGE INTRO

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Added by Mark Cruthers on March 25, 2009 at 5:04am — No Comments

Marcus Marshall Happy New Year!

I want to wish you all a very Happy Chinese New Year!祝大家新年快乐！恭喜恭喜！ Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on January 25, 2009 at 11:53pm — No Comments

Lauren Rosen Student tools for messaging

Please take a minute to take my one question poll on student preferred tool for messaging. I'm especially interested in reaching those who work with language students. Sorry for any cross-posting. http://twtpoll.com/t67coj Thanks for your help. I know this is very unscientific. Lauren Continue

Added by Lauren Rosen on January 9, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

Marcus Marshall What numbers do you have in Chinese classes?

大家你们好！ I am doing an informal research on the number of students taking Chinese and would like it if you would tell me about how many students take: Chinese 1, Chinese 2, Chinese 3 and Chinese 4 in senior and high schools. Also, about how many of these students continue to study Chinese in college or university. Thanks so much for taking a few minutes to send me the information. marcus092000@yahoo.com Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on November 24, 2008 at 1:32am — 3 Comments

Marcus Marshall Need Chinese teacher!

Hi everyone, Sorry that it has been so long in writing on my blog and site. It has really been very busy with my Chinese teaching. This past week, I got word from my school district that they have approved for an additional Chinese teacher in the district. Now, comes the fun; trying to find a native Chinese language teacher. If you are or know of an interested Chinese teacher, please let me know. I would love to talk with him/her. I pray and hope I will hear from someone and please pass on this… Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on November 2, 2008 at 12:19am — 1 Comment

Marcus Marshall Chinese tattoos

Hi, I hope you can help me. I have a student who wants to get a Chinese tattoo, which reads or means “Never forget” His mother past away and wants a tattoo to remember her by. I am not into tattoos, but am afraid this student will get something that really does not mean what he wants it to be. Also, if anyone has a Chinese phrase that would work, please let me know. Thanks. Marcus Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on September 29, 2008 at 1:15am — No Comments

Marcus Marshall The Beijing Olympics

The openning ceremony was so very beautiful and very impressive. I feel a great pride for China and the Chinese people. It is a great event and time for the country of China. How are you as Chinese teachers going to use these Olympics in your classes? What are you saying and including in any lesson plan on the Olympics? Thank you for sharing any lessons, ideas and thoughts. Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on August 10, 2008 at 1:52am — 2 Comments

Jess McCulloch Seven Wonders of the Whiteboard Challenge

Are you new to using an interactive whiteboard (IWB)? Have you used one for ages but want some other ideas? Are you using an IWB regularly but know you could use it better? Then you are invited to join the Whiteboard Challenge! Whiteboard Challenge Wiki The aim of this challenge: To improve the use of interactive whiteboards in the classroom and to stimulate more discussion about how they can best be used. What the chall… Continue

Added by Jess McCulloch on August 6, 2008 at 12:22am — No Comments

Marcus Marshall "Mongol" Movie

This weekend, I caught up on a couple of movies presently playing. One was the popular “The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor” and the other was “Mongol". It was interesting to hear some Chinese in both movies. Perhaps this a sign of a growing interest in things that are Chinese. “The Mummy” had nothing that was historically true in it; made references to the first emperor of China, his tomb and terra cotta soldiers. It was a fun and exciting film to watch. However, on the other side, the movie… Continue

Added by Marcus Marshall on August 4, 2008 at 7:30am — No Comments

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