Workshop 1: Experience "Flowers on a River" and the Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird painting

Friday, March 31st

Led by China Institute's art educational experts, participants delved deep into the exhibition "Flowers on a River and the Art of Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting", which presents 100 masterworks by 59 artists including 8 women artists from the 14th to early 20th Century. One of the highlights of the exhibition is Flowers on a River, a 42-foot horizontal scroll by one of the greatest artists in Chinese history, Zhu Da (1626-1705), also commonly known as Bada Shanren.

A hands-on flower painting workshop followed the docent-guided tour and discussion. Dinner will be provided.

Workshop 2: Teaching Flowers on a River: An Exhibition-based plan for Teaching Chinese language and Culture

Thursday, May 11th

For this follow-up online program to the March 31 visit and discussion of the China Institute exhibition Flowers on a River: The Art of Chinese Flower and Bird Painting, Masterworks from Tianjin Museum and Changzhou Museum, a team of students in the NYU MA program in Teaching Chinese joined together to design and present a comprehensive approach to teaching Flowers on a River in our Chinese classrooms. Unit and lesson plans, resources for teaching, and perspectives will be available soon!

According to The Glossary of Education Reform, student engagement “refers to the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught.” This workshop used real classroom examples to demonstrate effective strategies for students’ engagement, such as how to help students develop and enhance their learning interests through authentic and culturally relevant materials, how to create opportunities for meaningful communication, and how to use the PACE model to teach grammar effectively. The speaker shared a wealth of ideas, strategies and practical tools for motivating and engaging students in learning the Chinese language and culture.

2018年ACTFL全美最佳外语教师金璎老师作如何激励学生主动投入中文学习的讲座。金老师通过教学实例展示如何通过真实教材，有意义的交流，以及运用 PACE (Presentation, Attention, Co-construction, Extension)模式教学语法等方法鼓励学生主动参与教学活动。与会老师将获得许多有效地激励学生参与中文学习的方法，策略和工具。

Visuals have been proven to be an effective tool in teaching languages. 

This workshop features the Shadow Play（皮影戏）, an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment using opaque figures in front of an illuminated backdrop to create the illusion of moving images. 

Scroll through the slides to learn more about this event!

CDCE (Courages Dialogues with Chinese Educators) is a group of Chinese heritage educators and non-heritage Chinese language and culture teachers promoting courageous dialogues among teacher.

In this workshop, presenters from CDCE shared effective strategies to create and foster an inclusive Chinese classroom, as well as practical ways to prepare and build inclusive Chinese curriculum. Participants engaged in deep-dive discussions through small group reflective activities.

Zoe Shen (沈腾), an NYU Alumnus, former English-Chinese Immersion teacher at Washington DC Yu Ying Public Charter School (华盛顿育英中英双语学校), current Shanghai World Foreign Language Academy teacher (上海世界外国语学校) discussed the basics of Concept-base learning (CBL), and demonstrated practices in curriculum development, teaching strategies and learning activities in language classrooms. Specifically she examined:

 ·What is Concept-based learning (CBL)?

• ·How CBL facilitates deep learning （深化学习）

• ·How CBL helps transfer concepts to actual practice (知识和概念迁移）

• How CBL engages students in active learning (学生积极参与学习）

• How to develop CBL curriculum and learning activities

Jointly Presented by NYU Project Developing Chinese Language Teachers (DCLT) and the NYU - NYU Shanghai joint MA TESOL program.

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) is the process of developing the self-awareness, self-control, and interpersonal skills that are vital for school, work, and life success.  Incorporating SEL into the Chinese language classroom makes it possible to enrich your content and curriculum and allows students to achieve their learning goals and acquire social skills in a healthier environment.  This session is based on classroom practice and aims to share how to embed and encourage social and emotional learning in Chinese classrooms. Effective strategies, practical ideas, and useful resources will be shared so that participants will have a chance to examine and reflect on various ways to enhance students’ learning experience by embedding SEL related content and information in your classroom. 

We are delighted that master teacher Ying Jin, Cupertino High School. ACTFL National Language Teacher of the Year (2018); California Teacher of the Year (CLTA, 2017), joined us to present this exciting event! 

Have you been using visuals in teaching?  Are you aware that our brain can process visuals 60,000x faster than facts?  In teaching cultures, visuals can be especially effective in promoting understanding, motivating students, stimulating thinking, and triggering emotions.  

This workshop with Dr. Tang discussed how to teach culture using visuals and explored ways to finding and creating meaningful visuals for teaching. 

Led by Ben Wang, CI’s Senior Lecturer in Language and Humanities, this free virtual workshop is designed for K-12 educators (though we welcome all to attend) to help advance a deeper understanding of the uniqueness of Chinese classical poetry. In addition, by sharing his personal collection of the rare original couplet in calligraphy, Mr. Wang will showcase how the calligraphic art form expresses meaning and personal style, while capturing the moments of a feeling.

This virtual workshop (via ZOOM) is presented by Confucius Institute at China Institute in collaboration with the New York University Project Developing Chinese Language Teachers (DCLT).

Sun Xi, President of Washington State Chinese Language Teachers Association and a teacher at Seattle JingMei Chinese-English Immersion School, shared a wide range of resources in her talk on developing resources for thematic units for Autumn Moon Festival and Chinese New Year, integrating about language, culture, history, society, math and other content goals to develop a lesson. 

每年我们都庆祝中国新年，但你有否开发过一个把语言、文化、历史、社会、数学和科学结合起来的中国新年主题教学单元？今年NYU DCLT邀请华盛顿州中文教师协会会长、西雅图景美中英双语学校、纽约大学校友孙希老师, 示范了她所制作的“中秋节主题教学单元”，然后带领大家一起合作制作了“中国新年”主题教学单元大脑风暴。请保存在你的资料库里，以后每年做一些增补更新就可以再次使用。

Participating teachers brainstormed and shared activities and materials for the Chinese New Year thematic unit.