去年底動筆申請聯邦“星談計劃”(StarTalk)經費辦中學生夏令營的時候,我們雄心勃勃地提出依靠當地協作學校和華人社區中文學校的支持,在俄州三個城市(克里夫蘭、哥倫布和代頓)同時爲美國中學生開辦夏令營。當時雖然盡力周全計劃,還是難以想象實際操作時碰到的諸多困難以及需要投入的大量時間。由於衆人的努力,夏令營終于圓滿結束,學生和家長的初步反饋令人滿意。(這里特別要感謝三地中文學校校長的支持,他們是:王黎明、徐登科和李慶順。)
俄亥俄州立大學中文旗艦工程中小學項目以不同的方式爲開設中文的中小學校和中文老師提供了技術支持(具體請查:http://k12chineseflagship.osu.edu)。通過三地協同開辦夏令營的經驗,爲我們今後在全州中小學進一步推廣“演練式敎學法”奠定了基礎。我們計劃把明年的中文夏令營至少擴大到辛辛納提,通過辦夏令營的方式進一步發揮華人社區中文學校的作用,爲使俄州中小學中文敎育的健康發展而共同努力。
(俄亥俄州立大學中文旗艦工程中小學項目主任史昆 供稿)
Thanks to the support from all camp staff (camp
coordinators, teachers and peer mentors), the OSU StarTalk
Chinese Immersion Summer Day Camps in three metro areas
(Cleveland, Columbus and Dayton) completed with great
success on June 27. The two-week camps were intensive,
running from 9:00am through 5:00pm daily. Language learning
was the focus and enough attention was also given to
cultural immersion. Students pledged daily to speak Chinese
and teachers were required to speak Chinese more than 85% of
the time. 70 students experienced a true immersion of
Chinese language and culture because of the hard work of 15
teachers and over 20 peer mentors at three sites. The
initial feedback from students and parents are all positive
and they hope the program can continue in the future.
We appreciate the help from numerous people and
organizations to make our summer day camps a success. It is
important to mention that two teachers from Dayton and five
from Columbus also participated in the teacher development
of the OSU StarTalk program led by Dr. Noda. Thanks go to
Mari Noda, Huanzhen Zhao and Eric Shepherd for camp
curriculum development.. We particularly want to thank the
following organizations for their support: Cleveland
Contemporary Chinese School and Beachwood City School
District for the Cleveland camp, Ohio Contemporary Chinese
School and Metro High School for the Columbus camp, and the
Great Dayton Chinese School and Beavercreek High School for
the Dayton camp. We look forward to working with them again
next year.
Mari Noda and Kun Shi (co-directors of the OSU Summer Day
Camp) |
