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Archive for December, 2009

  • Dec 2009
  • 11

Mandarin Teaching Credential Program for Aspiring Teachers

At Better Chinese, several of us received our master’s degrees from Stanford University’s School of Education (SUSE) and have benefited greatly from our academic experience there. Thus, I was especially delighted when I discovered that Stanford University announced they are offering a Mandarin teaching credential through the Stanford Teaching Education Program (STEP) beginning in June 2010.

I’m glad to see the launch of this teaching credential program at Stanford. It shows that the demand for Chinese teachers is needed to keep up with the growing number of classrooms filled with students wishing to learn the language!

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  • Dec 2009
  • 11

Online Learning System to Supplement Chinese Classrooms

Chinese Language Teaching (Is CLT a commonly used term now?  Much like ELT?) has been through a lot of changes, fueled by better understanding the needs of the students and teachers.  We begin to see that publishers and program developers start to develop materials in the market space they want to serve.

However, the value of a successful program or framework is not to do whatever the market demands.  The real value is the developer’s ability to analyze & digest the market requirements to come up with a novel and holistic solutions for the learners and educators.

Recently, I’ve joined the craze, ...

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