Setting Up Successful Mandarin Teaching Routines

1. Setting Up Successful Mandarin Teaching Routines 23rd-24th November 2018 Kay McLeod – Co-ordinator

2. Welcome to the session! What’s our aim? • Get your students speaking so they can build confidence quickly. • Get your students writing and taking characters seriously from the start. • Build classroom routines which help focus, behaviourand a sense of purpose in your lessons. • About this session: • - Gives ideas for basic, practical routines to establish good Mandarin study habits in your students. • - Not an ‘instruction booklet’! You should feel free to create your own routines as you get more confident. • - Tools you can copy and use!

3. Lesson clips You will see some clips of lessons taught byMelissa, Kim, Jane, and Newton. Please consider the following questions: 1: What is the teacher aiming to achieve in this lesson sequence? 2: What routines have already been built in to these students’ lessons? 3: What exactly would you need to do to create similar routines in your own classroom? (Resources/planning?)

4. MEP Teacher Training Videos Link here. https://fast.wistia.net/embed/playlists/jf0ac49z1l?media_0_0%5BautoPlay%5D=false&media_0_0%5BcontrolsVisibleOnLoad%5D=false&theme=bento&version=v1&videoFoam=false&videoOptions%5BautoPlay%5D=true&videoOptions%5BinlineOptionsOnly%5D=true&videoOptions%5BplayerColor%5D=54bbff&videoOptions%5Bversion%5D=v1&videoOptions%5BvideoHeight%5D=360&videoOptions%5BvideoWidth%5D=640&videoOptions%5BvolumeControl%5D=true

5. How do we achieve it?

6. Let’s go!

7. Contents Speaking routines • 1. Call-and-response • 2. Chanting • 3. Classroom language • 4. Teaching routines • Writing routines • 1. Quiet writing • 2. Homework • 3. Vocabulary tests • 4. Stroke order game

8. An example of a call-and-response routine. 同学们好！ Tóngxuémenhǎo! 老师好！ Idea: start every lesson like this, and INSIST on silence after ‘请坐’. Lǎoshīhǎo! 请坐。 Qǐngzuò. 谢谢老师。 Xièxièlǎoshī.

9. Call-and-response你呼我应 • - Students become automatic speakers • - They will still remember your chosen phrases in 2068! 小嘴巴…… 不说话！

10. An example of a call-and-response routine. 老师再见！ Lǎoshīzàijiàn! 再见! Zàijiàn!

11. Contents Speaking routines • 1. Call-and-response • 2. Chanting • 3. Classroom language • 4. Teaching routines • Writing routines • 1. Quiet writing • 2. Homework • 3. Vocabulary tests • 4. Stroke order game

12. Chanting(比如全班日常口号) • - Sounds so traditional – but has real value! • - Builds familiarity – even the weakest students “feel the shape of the words in their mouths.” • - Why not build your classroom expectations into a daily chant? Or make a rhythmic chant from each chapter’s hardest vocabulary? Here’s an idea from one of our schools, but you can invent your own based on your students’ needs:

13. An example of a daily chanting routine. Idea: you could say the English and let students chant the Chinese. They learn the chant words inside-out!

14. Respect your teacher Listen in class well Care for classmates Raise your hand to ask a question Help each other Complete your homework Get to class on time Work hard to progress Credit: L Li and K McLeod

15. Chanting • This was an idea from one of our schools. • Can you invent your own 口号 for students to chant, based on your own style and school context? • Remember: make it transferable.

17. Newton’s chanting Newton notices that his students need a little correction with their pronunciation near the end. How does he intervene? What basic routine has he already established? What is the purpose of this routine? Is it difficult to prepare? Tip: Newton’s ‘Minus One’ technique is really simple. Try it! You can also do it in a silly voice, or quiet and loud, or speed it up. Make them laugh!

18. Contents Speaking routines • 1. Call-and-response • 2. Chanting • 3. Classroom language • 4. Teaching routines • Writing routines • 1. Quiet writing • 2. Homework • 3. Vocabulary tests • 4. Stroke order game

19. Classroom language课堂语言 In the Mandarin Excellence Programme, English is really just for emergencies. Do you need to say all of this in English? Quietly, please. Sit down, please. Open your books. Put down your pens. Stop. Stand up. Put away your phone. Take out your phone! Pack up your things. Look at the board. Listen to the teacher. Sit here, please.

20. Here are some more key phrases you could build into your lessons: 什么意思？ Shénmeyìsi?

21. 什么意思？ Shénmeyìsi? 念 niàn

22. 请…… qǐng… 看白板 kànbáibǎn

23. 写汉字 xiěhànzì 说汉语 shuōhànyǔ

24. 把书打开 bǎshūdǎkāi 到第__页 dàodì (…) yè

25. 对 duì 不对 búduì

26. Pair work: can you fill in the table? Characters Pinyin English 什么意思？ shénmeyìsi? _______________ 念 niàn_______________ 请qǐng_______________ 看白板kànbáibǎn _______________ 写汉字xiěhànzì_______________ 说汉语shuōhànyǔ _______________ 把书打开bǎshūdǎkāi _______________ 到第__页dàodì (…) yè _______________ 对duì_______________ 不对búduì _______________

27. Classroom language课堂语言 And what about your students? What could they say in Chinese? Why not ask them? ???

28. Classroom language课堂语言 Here’s a sample list you could copy to start with. Credit to Newton Leng.

29. Contents Speaking routines • 1. Call-and-response • 2. Chanting • 3. Classroom language • 4. Teaching routines • Writing routines • 1. Quiet writing • 2. Homework • 3. Vocabulary tests • 4. Stroke order game

30. Teaching routines教学模式 • Try to build up basic, simple Mandarin teaching routines so that you can often avoid using English at all. • Remember to keep language simple, consistent and use transferable structures if you can. • Let’s test one really useful technique:

31. Der Hund

32. Der Vogel

33. Die Schlange

34. Die Katze

35. Das Pferd

48. Melissa’s 3-stage questioning Melissa uses a technique called ‘3- stage questioning.’ It works really well and is actually simple to set up. Let’s break it down into the three stages: STAGE 1: This is a dog, right or wrong? STAGE 2: Is this a dog or a cat? STAGE 3: What is this?

49. Technique: 3-stage questioning STAGE 1: This is a dog, right or wrong? Note: You don’t have to make tons of PowerPoint slides to use this technique. You can use one big board full of vocabulary or pictures, and teach the whole list of vocab without speaking a word of English. STAGE 2: Is this a dog or a cat? STAGE 3: What is this?

50. 1. 这是体育馆，对不对？ 2. 这是体育馆还是公园？ 3. 这是什么？