Archive for the ‘Chinese Language’ Category
Saturday, April 7th, 2012
Late last year I was remiss in not sharing news about a project two teachers imagined - a school dragon to use when we celebrate Chinese festivals and events.
The Mandarin teacher, Bec had the original idea and then another teacher and some parents quickly jumped on board and with the help ...
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Saturday, December 3rd, 2011
This week I was invited to meet a delegation of school leaders from the Jiangsu Province of China. After the introductions and overviews of each region or province were finished we had an opportunity to exchange views of education and ask each other questions.
The issues raised included money from governments, ...
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
Standing outside the main gate of the Forbidden City and trying to use Pano an i phone 4 app to show the size of the entrance. Its a great app which I recommend to others.
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Monday, October 3rd, 2011
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I have attached some shots of the Forbidden City that I toured as part of the Leaders Course in Beijing. Besides the fascinating history of the City which is nearly 700 years old its sheer size is amazing. It covers 178 acres so in a few hours we were only able ...
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Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Front page of the Age newspaper today were two headings that caught my eye: “PM seizes reins on China links” and “Mandarin off schools’ menu”.
The first article describes a government white paper due out early next year which seeks to made explicit links from an economic, strategic policy ...
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Sunday, August 21st, 2011
This week our school was featured on an ABC show (Newsline - Language Barrier)reporting the decline in Asian Languages taught in schools. The show pointed to the low numbers of students continuing their language studies in VCE [which is our final year of schooling].
I think its accepted that its harder ...
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Thursday, February 25th, 2010
This year we celebrated Chinese New Year.
Thanks to our new Mandarin teacher students this year had a week long celebration of Chinese New Year. Students learned Chinese cultural dances, made lanterns and the week ending with the traditional dragon dance.
I think its important as students learn a language to understand ...
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Victorian students are required to learn a language other than English up until year 8 and for many years our students learnt Italian. This year after extensive community consultation we choose to change the language to Chinese - Mandarin.
The main reasons the community selected Mandarin include:
Australia is viewed geographically as part of ...
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