From The Lansing State Journal RJ Wolcott, LANSING – Putting aside the remnants of their breakfasts, the students inside Room 128 of Lansing’s Post Oak Academy formed a circle around their teacher, Yu Qiu. If the group of fourth-graders was feeling the Monday blues, they weren’t showing it. Several sprang from their chairs, eager to join in on…

BY KATY BERGEN kbergen@kcstar.com OCTOBER 26, 2017 11:39 AM On a recent morning in Overland Park, Kan., at a school next to a horse pasture in the middle of the country, a kindergartener raised his hand and asked to go to the bathroom — in Mandarin Chinese. Students sang a Chinese song about family as…

STUDENT-CENTERED, PROJECT-BASED MANDARIN LEARNING Published on October 17, 2017 Jamie C.H. Gao FollowingFollowing Jamie C.H. Gao Mandarin Lead Teacher for Middle School and PBL Lead at Yuming Charter School FROM THE “BEST” CHINESE BOOKS TO STUDENT-CENTERED, PROJECT-BASED MANDARIN LEARNING IN MY CLASSROOM by Jamie Chiahui Gao “How can I encourage my children to read more…

You all know I’m a huge proponent of reading for pleasure as a way to build vocabulary, gain a better grasp of academic language and just generally become a more educated human being. And that goes for Chinese, too. Some researchers who look at reading for pleasure (and please, note the pleasure part of this.…

I don’t have personal experience with this school but it sounds like a fair number of families from immersion programs have sent their kids. They’re holding information sessions in San Francisco and Palo Alto next month, but you can also just check out their website. Or click the link below, which goes to a full…

Mandarin language immersion debuts at Mission Viejo middle school By SHANE NEWELL | snewell@scng.com | The Press-Enterprise PUBLISHED: September 26, 2017  At first glance, this sixth-grade classroom at Newhart Middle School looks normal with its clustered desks, hand-drawn posters and teacher standing at the front of the classroom. A closer look and listen, however, reveals…

Inside the UK’s first bilingual English and Chinese primary school Kensington Wade tempts tiger parents with full immersion in Mandarin OCTOBER 7, 2017 By Joshua Chaffin in London As a girl growing up in an English-speaking household in Singapore, Prema Gurunathan grudgingly studied Mandarin. Now a mother in west London, she is taking no chances…