We start the 2017-2018 Monthly Highlights with the following clips:
Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) exchange teacher Heba Mokhtar shares her advice to future participants and her experiences at Garden Oaks Montessori in Houston, TX. Watch the video and learn about all her adventures! Heba won first prize in the 2016-2017 Video Contest for her entry.
 
TCLP Mentor Teacher Claudia Larotta shares the impact of TCLP in her school and community. Etowah High School in Woodstock, Georgia was able to offer Mandarin as a language option for students in 2013 by hosting a TCLP exchange teacher. Today, the school's Mandarin program serves more than sixty students in the middle and high school and continues to grow.
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Liu Xiaozhu (Battle Mountain High School, CO) shares what it is like to be an educator in China with students taking Education Exploration and their teacher.
Amira Hamed (Highland Middle School, NY) practices identifying Arabic long and short vowel sounds using movement and games with her students.
Gao Xingping (Lewis-Palmer High School, CO) teaches her students directions in Mandarin using movement and repetition.
Hassan Elghobaisy (Islands High School, GA) engages his students with a competitive drawing game to help them practice Arabic body part vocabulary.
Yu Aihua (Mingus Union High School, AZ) shows off how she used her Critical Languages Project grant to host a Chinese cultural fair for her school.
Duan Xuewen (Tenakil Middle School, NJ) uses music to excite her students about practicing numbers and speaking Mandarin.
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