1/5: bring I-20, passport to Mona to enter info into system (ID, I=9, void check) Introduce myself to the office staff and ask Lynn to set up office desk, ask Sharon for the office key. 1/27 Superviser walk-in
May/3/2010-staff meeting agenda
1. Logistics (classroom, office, copy, Food festival -7/15, 10:30am, connected with the first culture presentation of Chinese II, Ice cream social, Tutors and volunteers, Online self-study materials -ANGEL quiz beta on POCI II, Teaching materials)
2. Syllabus/ Teaching schedules
keep attendance record everyday
grade input
office hours
quiz format& correction
homework assignment, correction and return
emergency contact number
weekly teaching team meeting time
substitution plan for each session
4. Things to do first and second days
Print out the syllabus and schedule and give to the students first day
Send emails to welcome students; remind them of having textbook and workbook ready by the first day of class; classroom change
Chinese names should be ready to give to students in day 2 when students start to learn character writing.
Getting to know each other: Ni hao, wo jiao__________, hen gaoxing renshi ni.
Syllabus (emphasis on attendency and grading scales-We don't run up grades!)- a serious start
Introduction to Mandarin Chinese
Introduction to Pinyin
Initials, Finals, Tone markers
Classroom expressions
“Is Mandarin Chinese difficult?” I have been consequently asked this question during the past couple of years. The answer is “Yes and no.”
Why it is difficult?
First, because it’s a totally new system of knowledge. All learning experience involve achieving and suffering.
Second, some of students told me when they learn Chinese, actually they are learning two languages. Do you know why? Since it’s not like English, its spoken system and writing system are two different systems. For example, at Beijing airport you will see “你好！”, do you know what that is, actually you’ve learnt it already. It’s “Ni Hao!”. As you see, if you learn how to speak you still don’t know how to read or write the characters.
But, Why did I say Chinese Mandarin is not difficult? It’s not because I’m the native speaker, rather, what I saw and learned from my previous students. Usually there are two barriers for Americans to learn Chinese, First is that Chinese is a tonal language and usually there are four tones for the same pronunciation and spelling. For example, Ma 1, Ma2, Ma3, Ma4 (Ma)—it could mean totally different things……
However, I do feel it’s very fair, think about that, when I first learned English, I totally could not tell the differences between A in apple, E in Internet and I in “Good night” I was so deaf to differentiate those nuances. So it’s very common for a normal American to be “tone deaf”, because you don’t have it in your language, but if you keep practicing, usually it will take you at most one month, and some students would only spend a couple of days to get this skill. But I’m saying you need to keep practicing!!
Second barrier is “Han zi”, the Chinese characters. A common Chinese educated person needs to have about 7000 characters in their vocabulary. It’s a lot, right? It’s very common that you have no idea about how to draw those “pictures” and even worse, you cannot remember them. But the good news you can just know 2000 words and then you can even survive in China, even better, they are made of only about 200 radicals, which are the parts and the components of Chinese characters.
Plus, the good news is that English sentence structure is similar to English, I mean, comparing to Korean or Japanese, eg. wo ai ni (I love you); Chinese doesn't change the format of the verb neither, not like what French does.
With the Right method and having commitment—you’ll will have a good foundation in this introduction Chinese class to teach yourself or further your study. Also you will gain confidence to start to speak Chinese and communicate with your friends.
中文二：
1. 电梯间陈词（自我介绍一分钟）我叫...我喜欢...我学习中文因为...
2. 课程介绍：
从开学到期末，从周一到周五的pattern，从每天学生应做的准备到主要的课堂活动
June 17
Making slides is a good way for the teacher to demonstrate knowledge to the students, and also it is helpful to collect information
June 21
观摩阿拉伯语的课
No English, pictures help. Candy!
Maps, flags, market, city, culture, charts in the hall, balls toss around (American kids don’t know a lot about other countries) 他的名字是, interactive, become family
Team Competition
We are not organized. Goals are more clear
Practice more before dictation
要和学生有比较互动的对话.指导学生怎么写字，而不是走形式
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