Help!
I’m really struggling to help our elementary Chinese teachers use their IWBs to powerfully impact student learning. They’ve seen people using them to present Powerpoint presentations, and they are correctly unimpressed.
I’ve looked through the blog posts from IWB Challenge participants and I learned a bunch from them, but my teachers are needing to see and use ready made charts.
I’ve check Diigo groups. I’ve searched Promethean Planet and found a few flipcharts that helped them. But I need more. I need to innundate them with ideas, or put them in touch with an active group. Making this more challenging, is that they don’t teach writing. They are a speaking and culture class.
If you have any suggestions of where I can find the resources I’m seeking, please leave me a note in the comments.
Thank you in advance.
Have you tried asking Jeff Utecht @The Thinking Stick?
Another great resource is Larry Ferlazzo, an ELL teacher, who has a ton of great resources. You could search for “Chinese” on his site and perhaps come up with some ideas. There may be a lot on Chinese New Year, but you could use some of the great pictures and videos as writing prompts. How about using Google Earth to map out a story or journey (check out http://www.googlelittrips.org/ )? Are there museums that have virtual tours of Chinese artwork? How about a Skype conversation with another Chinese class anywhere else in the world?
Have fun!
Christina
Hi, I am so glad you asked that questions as I am also looking. I teach at an international school in Beijing. I co-teach with a Chinese teacher and we both have access to our board in our classroom. The limited number of Chinese resources has been discouraging.
I am running an Intermediate Promethean workshop at our school April 15th and a number of our Chinese teachers have signed up. They all speak English at a certain level and one of our chinese teachers will provide translation where necessary but it would be exciting to open up this world to them.
Heather
PS I just discovered your blog and I am enjoying it as it is not blocked in China.
Have you tried http://www.mandarama.com? it is a practoce playground for children learning Mandarin. It is online with a simple subscription fee. Also we are setting up a new website for teachers to share resources. Perhaps you could contact us to discuss what your needs are. Write to if you want guest access to Mandarama.
jill@bamboolearning.com
Try:
http://www.gigglepotz.com
Lots of great resources, plus IWB ideas.
Thank you all! These are a big help!