The Confucius Institute at Arizona State University successfully held a Chinese teaching experience exchange conference (picture)

The Confucius Institute at Arizona State University successfully held a Chinese teaching experience exchange conference (picture) Sunbird News on January 15 (Reporter Feng Haiyan) Rectangular...

> The Confucius Institute at Arizona State University successfully held a Chinese teaching experience exchange conference (picture) Sunbird News on January 15 (Reporter Feng Haiyan) In the rectangular classroom, ten rectangular tables were placed side by side, filled with nearly 70 participants. This group of people have the same professional background, Chinese teachers. The 2012 American Association for the Education of Foreign Languages ​​Experiential Teaching Conference (Post-ACTFL) organized by the Confucius Institute at Arizona State University (ASU) was held on the second floor of the MU at Arizona State University starting at 9:30 am on the 15th. The conference lasted five hours and attracted Chinese educators from Arizona with different backgrounds, ranging from home teachers to American public school teachers. Professor Sima Delin, Director of the Confucius Institute at ASU University, believes that this experience will be very successful. "We have 14 lecturers today to share with you the knowledge they learned from ACTFL. I think they gave a great lecture. The response from the audience was also very good." Since 2009, this year is the third time that the ASU Confucius Institute has sponsored Chinese teachers in Arizona to go to Denver to participate in the 3-day ACTFL. "We mainly hope that through ACTFL, Chinese teachers in Arizona can update their understanding of the latest knowledge in this field in a timely manner, and we also hope that they can deepen their professional knowledge." However, the practice of the experience exchange conference was not there from the beginning. "As a sponsor, this is also a slow learning process for us," Professor Sima Delin said. In 2009, these applicants simply went there to study, and there was no such experience exchange conference after they came back. Later we discovered that this was really a waste of resources. "Alice Fan is a Chinese teacher at Rhodes Middle School in Mesa. She has more than 3 years of experience in teaching Chinese. She is one of the 14 lecturers in the experience meeting. This is her third time participating in ACTFL. "I mainly learned how to mobilize students to participate more actively in class. Since my students are mainly children in grades 7 and 8, they are relatively rebellious, so how to maintain good interactions with students is my main goal this time. "When asked whether the teaching experience learned from ACTFL can be applied to reality, Alice Fan must nod. "Of course. Times are changing, and children these days are definitely different from those a few years ago. So our teaching methods must also change. "But for Mr. Liu, the "change" in teaching that he understands may be even more layered. "I teach Chinese at a weekend Chinese school, and the children there are mainly children of overseas Chinese. Their Chinese is better than that of Americans, but worse than that of ordinary Chinese children. "Teacher Liu plans to teach in public schools in the United States in the future, and his students will mainly be American children. Different audiences prompt him to explore different teaching methods, and also prompt him to participate in such experience exchange meetings. Fortunately, the Confucius Institute may increase the number of such experience meetings." The last experience meeting was held on December 5, 2011. If possible, we plan to hold it twice in the next month,” Professor Sima Delin said.