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Fan Xuezhen (Jackson High School, Jackson MI) challenges students to borrow classroom objects from each other with a round of hot potato.
Abdallah El Mouden (Bearden High School, Knoxville TN) helps his students practice the imperative verb form as well as rooms of the house vocabulary by having students tell one another to go to different rooms of the house.
Wang Jian (Tonopah Valley High School, Tonopah AZ) created a video to model for his students vocabulary associated with buying and bargaining.
Ahmed Badr (Lewiston High School, Lewiston ME) uses total physical response to help his students practice verbs in Arabic.
Zhang Wenjie (North Warren Regional School District, Blairstown NJ) practices colors with her class by having students lead the activity.
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Wu Yan (Andasol Elementary School, CA) and her students send best wishes for the Chinese New Year!
Howida Hassan (Baltimore International Academy, MD) challenges her students to practice their Arabic by talking about places they go to and activities they do there.
Ji Wenhua (Bonny Eagle High School, ME) teaches her students how to tell and read time using clocks that were handmade by the students.
Niu Xiuqing (Columbia High School, NJ) and her students celebrate the Spring Festival through many traditional Chinese activities.
Anas El Nahriry (JW Reason, OH) plays the drum while the students since a number song to practice their Arabic numbers.
2017 was a momentous year for the Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) marking the end of TCLP’s celebration of its 10th group of teachers and the #TCLP10 campaign. The #TCLP10 campaign won the ECA social media award for best exchange program campaign!
In 2017, 50 TCLP teachers from Egypt, China, and Morocco taught their native language in the U.S. allowing over 7,000 U.S. K-12 students in 39 schools across 24 states to study Chinese and Arabic with a TCLP teacher.mThe teachers participated in over 2,000 hours of outreach in their communities visiting classrooms, retirement homes, cultural centers, volunteering and taking part in other activities to share their language and culture.
28 schools started new critical language programs in Chinese and Arabic and 11 schools expanded their current offerings with TCLP. TCLP looks forward to continuing to make a difference in 2018! For more information about TCLP visit www.tclprogram.org. #TCLPMakesADifference
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Lao Xiaojing (Joseph Jenks Middle School, RI) and her students play a game to review the days of the week
Passant Aly (Anne Chestnutt Middle School, NC) cooks Egyptian food with her students for lunch
Li Chunxia (Learning Community Charter School, NJ) meets with 1st graders to share the Chinese art of paper cutting
Zhu Xiaohong (Bodine High School for International Affairs, PA) converses about likes/dislikes with her students in Chinese
Mahmoud Dahroug (Irving Elementary, MT) practices sport and action words with his students
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Li Jing (Naselle-Gray River Valley School, WA) engages her students with movement to practice number 11-14.
Adel Ghattas (John Lavelle Preparatory Charter School, NY) uses storytelling to practice vocabulary and allow his students to practice conversational Arabic.
Cui Yi (Suder Montessori, IL) teaches her students numbers in Mandarin by using a competitive game to help them practice.
Ghada Shehata (Peterson Elementary School, IL) uses total physical response to teach her students body parts in Arabic.
Li Yi (Athens High School, OH) shares the legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival with her students and teaches them about this important Chinese holiday.
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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