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俄亥俄州立大學中文旗艦中小學項目和州敎育廳再度合作,于12月15日成功地舉行了第四屆全州中小學中文敎育硏討會。來自各地(包括外州)的一百多位敎育管理人員和六十多位中文敎師參加了大會。會議協辦方有:全美東亞語言資源中心和俄州中小學中文敎師協會。
今年的硏討會主題仍然是培養二十一世紀全球化人才,重點是如何鞏固和發展現有的中文項目。全州目前有約80所學校或學區開設中文課,其中包括多所學區在轄區內初、高中乃至小學開設中文。由於俄州大多數中文項目歷史較短,持續發展與敎師培訓便成爲了首要任務。
硏討會由俄州美籍華人企業家嚴兆強先生作主旨發言,深入淺出地闡明瞭中美經貿發展與學習中文的重要性和價値。
接着由Marion學區的學監Carl Metzger介紹開發中文項目的經驗;再由都市高中的學生Zunera
Syed介紹學習者的體會。然後,俄亥俄州立大學中文旗艦的吳偉克敎授和史昆向范良琦和劉培君老師授予“優秀敎師奬”。上午的主會場以石魁思的精彩快板書表演而結束。
各分會場的發言者是:Kenyon大學的白建華敎授,愛克隆大學的張永芳博士,州敎育廳的Ryan
Wertz,俄州大中文旗艦的史昆、趙煥貞、裴贄和劉軍,俄州大外語中心的Rebecca
Bias,全美東亞語言資源中心的李敏儒,都市高中的Jane
Ensign,俄州當代中文學校的校長許琳,以及中小學中文敎師:郭偉、姜滿、黃靜鈴、張敦、游爲和楊曉莉。(欲閲各位發言人的提要,請登陸:
k12chineseflagship.osu.edu
下午,大家又聚在一起,進一步分享開設好中文課的經驗和策略。同時,主辦方介紹了俄州目前的就業機會,使部分尋找工作的老師和計劃招聘的學校看到了希望。根據初步反饋,與會者認爲獲得了有助于開辦或持續發展中文項目的信息,難怪散會之後許多人還遲遲不願離開會場。
本次硏討會的經費來自于中文旗艦中小學項目,同時得到俄亥俄州立大學和州敎育廳人力、物力的支持。硏討會的總協調人是Ryan
Wertz和史昆。如需進一步瞭解俄州中小學中文敎育的情况,請登陸: http://k12chineseflagship.osu.edu。
The fourth annual symposium on K-12 Chinese
was successfully hosted by The Ohio State
University (OSU) K-12 Chinese Flagship Program and Ohio Department
of Education’s (ODE) Office of Curriculum and Instruction on
December 15, 2009 on OSU campus. The event was co-sponsored by the
Ohio Association of Teachers of Chinese (OATC) and the OSU National
East Asian Languages Resource Center (NEALRC). The theme of the
symposium continues to be “Making the Global Connection: Linking
Students and China in the 21st Century,” with more attention given
to program sustainment and teacher development this year.
Nearly 200 people attended the symposium, mostly school/district
administrators, foreign language coordinators, school board members
and Chinese language teachers. Preliminary evaluation feedback
indicates great satisfaction with the informative sessions helpful
to Chinese programming.
The event began with a welcome from Galal Walker and plenary session
for all participants. Ellis Yan, CEO of the Ohio-based TCP, Inc.,
delivered the videotaped keynote address because of his business
trip to China. His remarks provided unique perspectives on global
business and its relationship with learning Chinese language and
culture. This year, we had an administrator (Carl Metzger of Marion
Local Schools) and a high school student (Zunera Syed of Columbus
Metro High School) sharing their experience on maintaining Chinese
program and learning Chinese. Then, Zunera Syed led her peers to
perform a chemistry class skit in Chinese. The plenary session
participants were excited by a kuaiban (fast clapper) story telling
performed by Chris Stellato, an OSU Chinese Flagship graduate. Galal
Walker and Kun Shi presented the OSU Teaching Excellence Award to
two dedicated teachers of Chinese: Jeannine Subisak (Columbus
Academy) and Peggy Liu Lovro (Indian Hills High School). Afterwards,
participants attended one of three breakout sessions below:
Track A addressed the needs of schools seeking information and
options for initiating and staffing K-12 Chinese programs.
(Speakers: Ryan Wertz and Huanzhen Zhao)
Track B addressed the needs of schools with established Chinese
programs to sustain and improve their programs. (Speakers: Jianhua
Bai, Kun Shi, Jun Liu, Jane Ensign, Mike Kralovic, and Lin Xu)
Track C provided professional development and networking
opportunities for over sixty teachers of Chinese. (Speakers: Jianhua
Bai, Yongfang Zhang, Minru Li, Jun Liu, Rebecca Bias, Pat McAloon,
Maan Broadstock, Mike Kralovic, Ching-Ling Huang, Dun Zhang, and You
Wei)
The symposium concluded with a networking session that allowed
schools and districts to share the challenges as well as
resources/solutions in starting and maintaining Chinese programs.
Connection was made between school administrators who were planning
to hire and qualified teachers of Chinese seeking jobs. The
symposium was coordinated by Ryan Wertz of ODE and Kun Shi of OSU,
assisted by the staff of OSU, ODE, OATC and NEALRC. Funding for the
event comes from the OSU K-12 Chinese Flagship Program, assisted by
the OSU and ODE staff. For more information about the symposium
agenda and presentation outlines, please visit
http://k12chineseflagship.osu.edu.
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