Project Type
School Project
Award Project Round
2
Deadline Date
Collaborative Projects between Students in the U.S. and in China
Teacher
Veronique Lahey
School
Arlington High School
Language
Mandarin
English as a Foreign Language
Country
China
United States
Goals
Expand teaching of critical foreign languages in the U.S. and internationally
Form partnerships between U.S. and international schools and classrooms
Activities
Conduct joint-classroom project
Conduct speech competitions
Conduct virtual student exchange project/s

TCLP Host School Alumna Veronique Lahey was awarded funding to create a collaborative learning environment between Mandarin students at Arlington High School in Massachusetts and Exchange Teacher Alumnus Yu Bo’s home school in China. To accomplish this goal, Lahey used an interactive whiteboard, blogs, and videoconferencing software to share student-created videos, facilitate virtual discussions, and assign chat buddies for all students. Lesson plans created through the project were shared on a blog as a model for other language teachers, in the hopes that they would consider reproducing the project at their schools.