Chinese Program in Livingston Public Schools

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Chinese Program in Livingston Public Schools
Liz Sanchez, Supervisor of World Languages Dept.
Barbara Kauderer, Teacher of ChineseLucy Lee,
Teacher of Chinese
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?? Welcome ??

• Information Session
• Chinese Program
• offered by
• Livingston Public Schools

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The Chinese Program

• Initiated in 1990 by Livingston Chinese Schools
• Board members
• Administrators
• Parents
• As a half-year Chinese Study course.

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High School Chinese Program Livingston High
School

• Chinese 1
• Chinese 2
• Chinese 3 Honors
• Chinese 4 Honors
• Chinese AP

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Middle School Chinese Program Heritage Middle
School

• 7th Grade Chinese
• 8th Grade Chinese

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Highlight in 1992

• A For Kids Disseminator Award
• A teaching unit on Chinese holidays and
• festivals, developed by the Chinese teacher
• Lucy Lee was selected by the A for Kids
• Teacher Network in New Jersey.

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Highlight in 1995

• A Grant awarded by DOD
• Livingston Chinese Program was awarded a
• grant from the Department of Defence
• (DOD) in 1995 through the National Foreign
• Language Center at the University of Maryland for
  it
• high quality of language instruction and
  leadership in
• the profession of K-12 Chinese language
  education.

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Highlight in 1996

• Professional Development
• for Chinese Teachers
• The DOD grant enabled Livingston High School to
  offer professional development opportunity to
  forty K-12 Chinese teachers from New York, New
  Jersey, Connecticut, and Massachusetts in April
  2006.

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Highlight in 2000

• GAINS Project
• (Gaining Achievement in the New Standards)
• Chinese classes were selected as models of
  standards-based instruction and were included in
  the GAINS in world languages video, a parent and
  community advocacy video sponsored by the New
  Jersey State Department of Education.

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Highlight in 2002

• Visitors form China
• Twenty-five secondary school principals and
  mater teachers from China listened to the
  district superintendent Mr. Robert Grady
  explaining the American educational system,
  observed classes in different subjects and got
  the chance to talk to our students directly.
• Our staff and students also exchanged questions
  with the Chinese visitors about schools in China.
  It marked a memorable experience for our students
  and staff. Students of Chinese classes were using
  the language they learn in our Chinese classes
  and tried to sustain a conversation with Chinese
  visitors in a culturally appropriate manner.

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Highlight in 2005

• http//www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story
  Id4497023
• National Public Radio (NPR)
• American Students Brush Up on Their Chinese
• All Things Considered, February 12, 2005 More
  and more young Americans are aware of China's
  rising strength in the world economy and are
  studying Chinese. We heard from several Chinese
  language students at Livingston High School in
  Livingston, N.J.
• Adam Cohen 12th grade Chinese 4 HonorsDave
   Krause 12th grade Chinese 3 HonorsKristina Hon
  11th grade Chinese 2 Justin Pak 9th
  grade Chinese 1 

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Highlight in 2006

• Chinese AP Course
• LHS was selected by the College Board
• to administrate the
• First AP Try-out Exam

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Highlight in 2006

• Expanding the existing high school
• Chinese program to offer
• 7th Grade Chinese
• 8th Grade Chinese
• At Heritage Middle School

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Highlight in 2007

• Chinese AP Exam in May
• 6 Students took the AP exam
• All 6 Students scored 5

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Highlight in 2008

• Chinese AP Exam on in May
• 5 Students took the AP exam
• 4 Students scored 5
• 1 Student scored 4

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Instruction

• Alignment with the
• New Jersey Core Curriculum
• Content Standardsfor World Languages

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NJ World Languages Standards

• 7.1 World Languages All students will be able to
  use a world language in addition to English to
  engage in meaningful conversation, to understand
  and interpret spoken and written language, and to
  present information, concepts, and ideas, while
  also gaining an understanding of the perspectives
  of other cultures. Through language study, they
  will make connections with other content areas,
  compare the language and culture studied with
  their own, and participate in home and global
  communities.

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CHINESE 1

• The sounds of Chinese language
• Greetings and Civilities
• Biographical Information
• Time and Dates
• Parts of the Body
• Family
• School
• Pets / Animals
• Daily Activities
• Sports
• Meal Taking / Food / Drink
• Weather / Seasons
• Clothing / Colors
• Major Cities and Places in China

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CHINESE 2

• Family and Relatives
• Personal Identification
• School Life
• House and Home
• Around Town
• Shopping and Currency
• Professions / At work
• Travel to China
• Chinese Written Language

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CHINESE 3 HONORS

• Family and Interpersonal Relationship
• Daily life
• Education
• Health
• Lodging
• Community and Professions
• Travel
• Pastimes
• Reading and Writing Characters

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CHINESE 4 HONORS

• Integrated performance-based instruction
• Interpretive communication- Reading and
• Listening Development
• Interpersonal communication- Speaking, Listening,
  Reading and Writing Development
• Presentational communication - Writing
• and Speaking Development
• Civilization and Social Conventions

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AP Chinese Language and Culture

• The AP Chinese Language and Culture course is
  designed to provide students with varied
  opportunities to further develop their
  proficiencies across the three communicative
  modes interpersonal (speaking, listening,
  reading and writing skills), interpretive
  (listening and reading skills), and
  presentational (speaking and writing skills) and
  the five goal areas (communication, cultures,
  connections, comparisons, and communities).

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AP Chinese Course Content

• Course content could best reflect intellectual
  interests shared by the students and the teacher
  (cultural celebrations, beliefs and attitudes,
  interests and career, teen life/self and global
  community, famous people, social issues and
  current events, art and music appreciation,
  literature and poetry, geography/climate/
  political divisions, etc.).

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AP Chinese Instructional Materials

• Instructional materials might include signs,
  advertisements, e-mails, posters, video clips,
  films, news broadcasts, announcements made in
  public places of the Chinese speaking
  communities, and written texts excerpted or
  adapted from newspapers, magazine articles,
  contemporary literature, letters, and reports.

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AP Chinese

• the equivalent of
• a second-year
• (and /or the fourth semester)
• college course
• Proficiency level
• Intermediate Range

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National Survey on the Number of Students who
are taking Chinese at K-12 Schools

• 2003 CLASS Survey
• Responded Total 163
• Elementary 4,668
• Middle Sch/Jr. HS 2394
• High School 9029
• Total 16,091

• 2007 CLASS Survey
• Responded Total 228
• Elementary 5,873
• Middle Sch/Jr. HS 3579
• High School 12,130
• Total 21,580

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Phonetic Transcription Used

• 2007 CLASS National Survey
• Responded Total 244
• Pinyin Only 223 (91)
• Bopomofo only 21 (9)

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2007 CLASS National Survey Responded Total
244 Simplified and Traditional 100
(44) Simplified Only 101 (44)
Traditional only 27 (12)
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Livingston Chinese Program

• Students learn both traditional and simplified
  characters.
• Students choose to write in either traditional or
  simplified characters.
• Students learn to recognize and read both
  traditional and simplified characters.

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Livingston Chinese Program

• Thank You for
• Your Continuing Support!

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THANK YOU!
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