Chinese Language Teaching and Learning in a Global Society - A Conference for Teachers of Chinese Language - October 17, 2008

CONFUCIUS INSTITUTE at MARYLAND (CIM) in collaboration with College of Education, and College of Arts and Humanities, UM; Montgomery County Public Schools; and with support from The Embassy of the People's Republic of China

PROGRAM

9:30 - 9:35 a.m. Welcome Dr. Joe Scholten, Associate Director, Office of International Programs

9:35 - 9:40 a.m. Welcome Dr. Steve Koziol, Associate Dean, College of Education

9:40 - 9:50 a.m. Purpose of the Conference  Dr. Alan Cheung, Executive Director, Confucius Institute

9:50 - 10:00 a.m. Introduction of the Confucius Institute  Dr. Chuan-sheng Liu, Director, Confucius Institute

10:00 - 10:10 a.m. Support of Chinese language and culture programs  Mr. Jiangyi Liu, representing Dr. You Shaozhong, Minister-Counsellor, Embassy of the People's Republic of China

10:10 - 10:40 a.m. Standards-based Chinese Language Curriculum and Instruction Ms. Judith Klimpl, Supervisor of Foreign Languages, Montgomery County Public Schools

10:40 - 10:50 a.m. Break

10:50 - 11:20 a.m. Differences in Cultural Expectations for Teaching and Learning: China and the U.S.  Dr. Jing Lin and Dr. Rebecca Oxford, Confucius Institute and College of Education

11:20 - 11:30 a.m. An update on the Certification Program for Teachers  Dr. Rebecca Oxford, College of Education

11:30 a.m.  Workshop & small group discussions; (group leaders will be chosen by each 12:30 p.m. group): (1) Standards-based Curriculum;-Rebecca Oxford (2) Challenges and Concerns of Teachers of Chinese language;-Jianxin CUI (3) Integrating Language and Culture into the Chinese Language Classroom

12:30 - 1:15 p.m. Lunch

1:15 - 1:45 p.m. Workshop outcome reports, to be given by the leaders of small discussion groups

1:45 - 2:00 p.m. Presentation of Chinese Teaching Resources, by visiting Chinese Publisher. A limited number of FREE teaching materials will be available!

2:15 p.m. Evaluations and Adjournment