Components of Chinese Characters

1. Components ofChinese Characters Staff Development Committee Presentation May 4, 2007 Dianna Bowling Catherine Li Chanh Yip Tek California State University, Sacramento Internet Masters in Education Technology

2. Today’s Agenda • Staff Development Overview – 5min • Illustrative Example of Training-25min • Attention Getter • Goals and Objectives • Interactive Website • Wrap-Up

3. Overview of Staff Development • Agenda • Goals • Objectives • Standards

4. Overview of Staff Development • Attention Getter: 5-10 minutes • Introduction: 5 minutes • Goals, Objectives, and Activities • Introduction of the website: 5 minutes • Tutorial: 40-50 minutes • Quiz: 5-10 minutes • Wrap-up: 5-10 minutes

5. Overview of Staff Development • Plans for Assessment • Pre and post assessment • Learning Environment • Arrangement of Space and Tools

6. Staff Development • Welcome to today’s professional staff development on Components of Chinese Characters • Please have a seat • Please wait for our instruction before taking the materials at each table • Please wait for our instructions before using the computers

7. Agenda • Participants’ attempt to write Chinese characters. • Goals and objectives • Introduction of website • Independent practice • Wrap-up

8. Introduction Activity Traditionally Chinese characters were written using paint and paint brushes. We would like you to try to write these characters using the paint and paint brushes at your desk. 人 [rén] person 汗 [hàn] sweat 李 [lǐ] plum

9. Goals for Training • Participants will learn how to use the Components of Chinese Characters (CCC) website effectively as a resource • Tutorial • Quiz • Teacher Resources • Participants will gain a beginner’s level concept of Chinese characters using the Component-Oriented Approach

10. Objectives • Navigate and utilize the CCC website for future use with student as a resource • Differentiate between the Chinese and English writing systems • Understand how Chinese characters are structured • Identify components of a given Chinese character • Identify which components are written first in a given character

11. Interactive Web Resource Components of Chinese Characters website

12. Hands on Exploration We will give you about 10 minutes Note: Under normal circumstances the participants would have approximately 30-40 minutes for this portion of the staff development During this time we would you like you to complete the following: Watch the lesson tutorial Take the 12 question quiz (time permitting) Note: Under normal circumstances the participants would have five things to complete for this portion of the staff development (Read the intro page, watch the lesson, take quiz, visit Resource and Methods pages.) Components of Chinese Characters website

13. Debriefing • What did you learn today? • How do you feel about writing Chinese characters?

14. Q & A • Questions and answers • Bibliography – See handout for complete list.