Videos

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Huang Hsin-Yi (East Voyager Academy of Charlotte, NC) leads students in a bingo game to practice writing, listening, and pronouncing the names of animals and related radicals.

Moulay Tahar Kettani (Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts, MI) students, playing a game on their smartphones, practice the numbers one through ten in Arabic.

Lin Wan-Lin (Butler Academy, SC) plays the Very Hungry Caterpillar animated picture book in Mandarin as an activity for students to show they recognize the Mandarin phrase and can locate the caterpillar.

Ola Sofi (West Sylvan Middle School, OR) has her students practice a skit at a market by partaking in role-play scenarios where they have little money to spend.

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Chang Jen-Yin (OB Gates Elementary, VA) leads students in learning the days of the week through song.

Mona Ismail (Ashford School, CT) facilitates a game of hot potato for students to practice speaking numbers in Arabic.

Chang Ying-Yi (Haven Elementary, GA) teaches first-grade students Lunar New Year vocabulary through an active activity called “Lion King.”

Abdelkrim Hayab (Twinfield Union School, VT) and his students roleplay dining in a restaurant to practice speaking Arabic in a realistic setting.

TCLP-January 2023 Highlights 

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Lin Wan-Lin (Butler Academy, SC) leads a Lunar New Year vocabulary review game during which students identify the four main Lunar New Year dishes. 

Bouslam Abaid (Seventy-First High School, NC) practices the names of colors in Arabic with students through an in-classroom basketball game. 

Cheng Hsian-Lan (Bellows Free Academy Fairfax, VT) shares a role-play activity where students practice ordering food in Mandarin. 

Ola Sofi (West Sylvan Middle School, OR) reviews with students how to tell time in Arabic.  

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Eman Farag (Brooklyn Emerging Leaders Academy Charter School, NY) leads a vocabulary review game in which students compete to identify letters and words in Arabic on the whiteboard.

Chang Ying-Yi (Haven Elementary, GA) reviews Christmas vocabulary with kindergarten students through a game of Duck, Duck, Goose.

Mona Ismail (Ashford School, CT) guides students to read aloud their daily routine in Arabic from their completed daily routine charts.

Huang Hsin-Yi (East Voyager Academy of Charlotte, NC) practices counting from one to one hundred in Mandarin with students through song.

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Moulay Tahar Kettani (Maple Street Magnet School for the Arts, MI) guides students in making and using a Q-Wheel to support students in writing and pronouncing Arabic letters. They also used the Q-Wheel to write their and their family's English names in Arabic.

Chang Jen-Yin (OB Gates Elementary, VA) celebrated Thanksgiving with her students by doing crafts, creating a Thanksgiving “Thank you” video for parents, and leading a matching game focused on themed vocabulary in Mandarin.

Ola Sofi (West Sylvan Middle School, OR) facilitates a letter learning exercise with seventh and eighth grade that challenges students to listen to a letter and make the shape of it using paper dots and then read Arabic words with two to three letters.

Lin Wan-Lin (Butler Academy, SC) leads fourth graders in a review lesson on body and face vocabulary by having students read pinyin and characters, match characters with pictures, and practice on individual worksheets.

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Chang Ying-Yi (Haven Elementary, GA) reinforces animal vocabulary with an interactive mandarin song that challenges students to sing faster each time.

Abdelkrim Hayab (Twinfield Union School, VT) reviews counting numbers in Arabic with 1st to 2nd grade in an exploratory class.

Huang Hsin-Yi (East Voyager Academy of Charlotte, NC) directs students to teach each other assigned food vocabulary to prepare for a game of Food Bingo.

Cheng Hsian-Lan (Bellows Free Academy Fairfax, VT) leads a listening activity where students identify colors in Mandarin with the help of colorful stuffed animals.

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Lin Wan-Lin (Butler Academy, SC) teaches vocabulary with an interactive activity where students practice naming different parts of the body in Mandarin.

Bouslam Abaid (Seventy-First High School, NC) leads an activity where students identify classroom commands in Arabic by pointing to the corresponding image on the board.

Lin Pin-Shiu (Edward E. Sadlowski Elementary, IL) begins class by leading students to repeat calendar information and singing a nursery rhyme in Mandarin.

Mona Ismail (Ashford School, CT) leads an activity where students practice greeting each other in Arabic.

Chang Jen-Yin (OB Gates Elementary, VA) reinforces vocabulary with an interactive activity where students practice naming different kinds of stationery and classroom supplies in Mandarin through song.

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Zhang Wenyu’s (West Park Academy) students lead each other in reviewing the months of the year in Mandarin.

Mohamed Salem Tiguit’s (Frederick Douglass High School) students perform a skit to practice placing an order at a coffee shop.

Zhang Xiaolin’s (Wiggs Middle School) students play charades to practice the names of sports in Mandarin.

Liu Lina’s (Mesita Elementary School) students introduce their favorite things in Mandarin.

Sarah Elgammal (Ashford School) leads her students in a game of Jeopardy to review Arabic prepositions.

Zeng Xiaolian’s (Beethoven Secondary) students review the names of colors and fruits in Mandarin.

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Wang Rennyu’s (EastSide Charter School) students perform a dialogue asking for and giving directions in Mandarin.

Mohamed El Ouardi’s (Plantation Middle School) students introduce themselves and their favorite colors in Arabic.

Sun Quanfang’s (Ewa Makai Middle School) students compete to identify Chinese characters the fastest.

Chen Xiaoyun’s (Tonopah Valley High School) students sing “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” in Mandarin.

Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP) exchange teacher Hu Qian shares her advice to future participants and her experiences at Western High School in Davie, FL. Watch the video and learn some great ways to prepare for the TCLP experience from Hu Qian!