This article is available in Chinese and English. It gives an example of differentiation in a unit of inquiry in the teaching Chinese as an additional language classroom.
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Classroom globetrotting
24 March 2015 in Approaches to teaching, Language and learning
After discovering last year that 15 different languages were spoken in her classroom, Dottie Price, Year 3 PYP teacher, created Language Fridays: a whistle-stop tour around the world in half an hour. Every Friday afternoon, 30 minutes were set aside for students to volunteer to teach their mother tongue to classmates. In the first week, […]
LinkedIn discussion: Additional language teaching and learning
8 July 2014 in Approaches to teaching, Language and learning
A PYP teacher wants to know other schools’ approaches to teaching and learning additional language in IB schools. Here are the highlights from an ongoing conversation on LinkedIn: John: “Circle time in the morning is my time whereby I will mix it with some good old fashioned EAL/ESL teaching (I believe that our children need […]