CLASS

Archived News/Announcements

Year 2007 News And Announcements

Dec 16th, 2007

A Call for Proposal for 2008 CLASS meeting at ACTFL Convention

Submission Deadline: January 11, 2008
A call for proposal is now open to all CLASS members
2008 ACTFL ANNUAL CONVENTION
November 21-23, 2008 at Orlando, Florida

This year all CLASS sessions for K-12 Chinese teachers went very well at ACTFL Convention on November 15-18, 2007 at San Antonia, Texas. CLASS is now accepting session proposal for its 2008 meeting in conjunction with ACTFL Convention. Session proposals need to be submitted through ACTFL system by logging in at http://ACTFL.org. Be sure to check off CLASS as the co-sponsoring organization. Each presenter can only submit one proposal to allow more CLASS teachers to make presentations at the national conference. Each 75-minute session can include up to three presenters.

The theme for the 2008 ACTFL Convention is Opening Minds to the World Through Languages. CLASS welcomes proposals with focus on the teaching and learning of Chinese at K-12 schools in the following areas:

• Learn culture through language (using examples of interdisciplinary approach)
• Standards-based instruction (methods, curriculum design, teaching materials, etc.)
• Performance- based assessment for K-12 Chinese learners
• Integration of technology into the Chinese classroom

To better serve our members, CLASS has created A Proposal Submission Hotline to help our members write good proposals. Please send your draft by or before December 20 to CLASS News at CLASSNews@yahoo.com .

“Tips on how to prepare proposal”

Prepared by CLASS Executive Director, Dr. Yu-Lan Lin.

The attached documents from ACTFL will also provide detailed guidelines for your proposal submission. Please include the following information in the draft of your proposal:

• You first and last name:
• E-mail address:
• Your school name and address:
• Your phone numbers (in case we need to discuss your proposal on the phone with you)
• A brief description of your proposal (125 words)

2008 CLASS Conference Chair: Yuanchao Meng (CLASS First Vice President)
2008 CLASS Program Chair: Shouping Li (CLASS Second Vice President)
2008 CLASS Proposal Submission Hotline: Janice Dowd (CLASS Curriculum Consultant)

Dec 16th, 2007

Mandarin Chinese 2
Developer Requirements and Expectations

Take your teaching to a new level by taking your instruction online! LEARN NC is currently seeking a developer for the online Mandarin Chinese Level 2 course to be offered in Fall 2008 through the N.C. Virtual Public School. Ideally, this developer could also serve as the instructor of the course, in which case a separate contract would be negotiated. For insight into the unique design of these courses, see the promotional video at:

http://www.marinegrafics.com/chinese/promo.htm

The following are minimal expectations/requirements for this opportunity:

Native or fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese
Background in language education and second language acquisition
Basic familiarity with the Internet, word processing, and use of Chinese characters in the electronic environment
Willingness to take 2 online instructor preparation courses beginning October 17, 2007 (11 weeks)
Willingness to work with a development team
Ability to communicate effectively in English with development team
Desire to be a part of a pioneering effort to bring Chinese language and culture to students who would not otherwise have the opportunity to learn!

For additional information and to apply, please contact:

Dr. Bobby Hobgood

Director of Research and Development in Online Curriculum and Instruction

LEARN NC – UNC School of Education

Tel: (919) 962-8944

Email: bhobgood@learnnc.org

9/26/2007

全美中小學中文教師協會

舉辦第四屆學生作文比賽

Fourth National CLASS Essay Contest

Essay topic:

This year’s topics echoe ACTFL 2007 theme: Connecting Languages and Cultures. Please encourage students to write about personal multilingual and multicultural experiences and incidents in narrative form.

For 9^th to 12^th grades:

不同言語同樣情意

― 記語言文化融合的趣聞樂事

For K to 8^th grades

小小外交家的見聞

Deadline:

All entries must be postmarked no later than Oct. 1, 2007.

Please sent your students entries (one hard copy and the electronic file) to

The CLASS Essay Contest Committee Chair, Haiyan Fu

Northside College Preparatory High School

5501 N. Kedzie Avenue, Chicago IL 60625

Haiyan830@gmail.com

Rules:

1. Each entry must be an original independent work of a current student of Chinese language whose teacher is currently a CLASS member.

2. The category and division of participating students must be clearly marked on the entry form. Categories: Beginner (B), Intermediate (I), Advanced (A), and Native Speaker (N); Divisions: K-4, 5-8 and 9-12.

3. Submissions are restricted to two entries per category, per teacher. For example, if a teacher teaches one beginning and one upper level class, (s)he can submit up to 4 entries.

4. Teachers must submit completed entry forms with their entries in addition to putting the requested information on the back of each essay.

5. Essays may be hand-written or word-processed; either traditional or simplified characters are accepted. For the K-4 division, essays written in pinyin mixed with characters will be accepted. However, entries from students in grades 9^th to 12^th must use word processing and send in both the hard copy and an electronic file of their essays. Their Chinese teachers can put all such entries on one floppy disk and mail the floppy disk to the chair of the CLASS Essay Contest Committee.

6. Each entry must have identification typed or printed legibly on the back side of the essay only. No identification marks are allowed on the face of the essay.

7. Essay length by category:

a. Beginner: 100-300 words

b. Intermediate: 300-500 words

c. Advanced: 500-1000 words

Native speakers may follow the lengths of these categories depending upon their levels of proficiency.

8. All entries upon submission become the property of CLASS.

2007 学生中文作文比赛评选委员会

评委主席：

傅海燕/谢宏伟

中学组：

卢文雅

Piling Eliza Chiu

小学组：

杨静悦

程惠珍

评委简介：

傅海燕 Fu, Haiyan