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NYU Graduates Teaching Chinese
Chris Livaccari, a graduate of New York University's Teaching Foreign Language (Chinese) program is now the Associate Director of Chinese Language Initiatives at Asia Society.
Chris is an accomplished teacher of both Chinese and Japanese, and will present on "Teaching and Learning through Improvisation, Comedy, and Drama" at our March 5 forum.
Thanks go to Lynn Lin of the Lycee Francais and Helen Huang of Village Community School for sharing wonderful activities with us at our November forum! Video here!
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DCLT Forum:
Teaching and Learning through the Immersion Method
February 5, 2010Friday at China Institute Teachers will learn how to employ immersion-style teaching in their classroom. Register now!
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"What We Can Learn from The IB Classroom"
 Many thanks to Cassandra Dragon and Zhang Yun of EF International Academy for explaining the IB system of teaching and learning at our November forum.
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Greetings!
It's hard to believe that winter is here and soon it will be 2010. DCLT's final 2009 forum and holiday party will be held next Friday, December 18. We look forward to seeing you there! For those who can't attend, we have been diligent about making videos of presentations (and handouts)available to you on our website, and hope to have you join us by video in the near future. Whether or not you can attend in person, please submit a project to share with the group.
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SONG AND DANCE: The Choral And Dance Ensemble of East China Normal University December 15, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
 NYU Frederick Loewe Theater 35 W. Fourth Street, NYU Bring your students, friends, and family to this FREE concert and dance performance by ECNU's Choral and Dance Ensemble. The program features Chinese Folk Music, Chinese Folk Dance, Choral Ensemble, Erhu Solo (Chinese Violin), and Peking Opera. The event is sponsored by NYU's Steinhardt School, China House, and the Confucius Institute at China Institute. |
| DCLT Friday Forum:
Real Projects from Real Classrooms & Holiday Party
Friday, December 18 4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
 At Project DCLT's final forum of 2009, Chinese teachers will share with us projects they have used successfully in the classroom for teaching Chinese language and culture. For the first time, we will have presentations by "remote access", as Liam O'Neill of the Orange-Ulster BOCES will share with us his tips for teaching Chinese through Distance Learning. Prizes will be awarded to all presenters! Submit your projects to us at now! |
| Extending our Reach
NYU Chinese Teachers Upstate Cohort
 Project DCLT is extending it's reach upstate and beyond. For the first time, teachers from the Orange-Ulster BOCES will join our December 18 forum by "remote access". Teachers from Rockland County, New Paltz, Long Island and even Albany already attend our forums.
We will be working in future months to offer access to all our forums and additional professional development opportunities to teachers on Long Island and in Upstate New York. Please contact Robin Harvey (Robin.Harvey@nyu.edu) if you would like to be part of this effort.
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Many thanks to everyone who has shared classroom tips, activities and projects with us. Many of these already appear on our website. Please continue to share your ideas with us, and check our website frequently as we add new resources, including videos of presentations from our forums, weekly.
We look forward to seeing you at our December forum and Holiday Party on December 18! For those we don't see, Frank Tang, Julia Fan, Xing Wang and I wish you a happy holiday season and joyous New Year.
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Sincerely,
Robin Harvey
NYU Project DCLT
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