นี่แค่ข่าวสารเฉพาะช่วงสัปดาห์ที่ผ่านมานี่เอง เกี่ยวกับความเคลื่อนไหวของโรงเรียนในเมืองเล็กๆทั่วอเมริกาMISSOURI
Chinese language classes come to Park HillSchool district to offer Chinese to students next fall
For the first time next fall, high school students in Park Hill School District will have the opportunity to learn Mandarin Chinese.
China breaking language barriersKC-area schools join in a Beijing government initiative to get students to learn Chinese.
Every morning, students learning first-year Chinese follow a tradition as old as Confucius. When their teacher, Lily Gao, walks in the classroom, they stand and greet her. Lao shi zao! (Good morning, teacher!) Gao isn’t in China. She teaches in the Lee’s Summit School District and is one of a few teachers in Missouri and Kansas sent by Hanban, a Chinese government agency, to promote the Chinese language and culture worldwide.
As part of a Chinese government program, Lily Gao (left)
teaches Chinese to students in the Lee’s Summit School District.
Gao recently showed Lee’s Summit North High School sophomore
Stephanie Maximovich (center) and junior Kristin Thomas
how to draw Chinese characters.
For York, Mandarin Is InStarting this fall, Chinese classes will be available in high schools.
OHIO
Students at Bishop Fenwick will learn Mandarin ChineseZANESVILLE - Students at Bishop Fenwick Catholic School will be the first in the county to learn Mandarin Chinese when its offered next school year to the then sixth-grade class. For 40 minutes each school day, the roughly 40 students will learn to speak Mandarin Chinese and learn of Chinese culture in the class.
OREGON
Westmoreland fifth grader aces Chinese Govt. fluency testKatie Stern-Stillinger of Westmoreland was one of only eleven children recently to pass a Chinese government proficiency test normally administered to adults. The test (called “HSK”, for its Chinese initials) serves as a requirement to enter university in China as an undergraduate student, and is used by employers in China for positions requiring basic competence in Chinese. The HSK test is likened to the Test of English as a Foreign Language in the United States.
Katie Stern-Stillinger of Westmoreland was one of only eleven children
recently to pass a Chinese government proficiency test normally administered to adults.
The test (called “HSK”, for its Chinese initials) serves as a requirement
to enter university in China as an undergraduate student, and is used by employers
in China for positions requiring basic competence in Chinese.
The HSK test is likened to the Test of English as a Foreign Language in the United States.
Education Board OK's Chinese Language SchoolThe Massachusetts Board of Education has given the green light to the state's first charter school with classes taught mostly in Chinese. The panel voted seven to two at their meeting Tuesday in Malden to grant a charter for the Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion School. The charter school has approval to open this fall. It will serve up to 300 students, kindergarten through eighth grade, from Springfield and dozens of other cities in western Massachusetts.
FLORIDA
Chinese teacher starts at middle school Duval County is beginning to offer the language to students.Lei Yang stood in the middle of 15 sixth- and seventh-graders at Mandarin Middle School Feb. 22, trying to get their young brains around a language he has known since birth. At 26, the wiry man is Duval County's first Chinese guest teacher, working with students at Mandarin's middle and high schools on their language skills. This day, his tongxue zaijin (people who study together, or class) needed to perfect the pronunciation of the correct greeting to offer another teacher.
Chinese teacher Lei Yang works with sixth and seventh graders
at Mandarin Middle School on Thursday, Feb. 22.
He is the first member of the Chinese Guest Teacher Program
to teach in Duval County, and does language programs
at Mandarin High School as well.
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