Teachers Training at ACS

      To train Thai native Chinese teachers and know the Chinese teaching situations in Thai primary and secondary schools better, Confucius Institute at Assumption University (hereafter CIAU) changed the previous mode of Thai native Chinese teachers training by going deep into classrooms to observe the Chinese classes in Thai primary and secondary schools. Through observation in the classes and discussion with teachers, CIAU found some existing problems in teaching and explored the new mode of training Thai native Chinese teachers.

      On July 10 and 19, six CIAU members including Ms. Siriluk Chaiprompasit, Thai director of CIAU, Ms. Yang Hairong, Chinese director of CIAU, Ms. Cao Le, Hanban sponsored Chinese teacher, and Mr. Warut Chaichan, Thai Chinese teacher and other CIAU teachers went to observe the Chinese classes at Assumption College Sriracha, Chonburi, and listened carefully to the teachers’ suggestions on Thai native Chinese teachers training and the problems they met in Chinese teaching.

      At the invitation of Assumption College Sriracha, CIAU trained the teachers by informal discussion and symposium. Ms. Yang Hairong affirmed the teaching advantages in Assumption College Sriracha and the teaching characteristics of each teacher firstly. And then she gave a lecture on “How to Teach Chinese Well” according to the teaching practice and teaching needs in this school. The lecture started with introducing basic Chinese teaching steps as lead-in, vocabulary teaching, language points teaching, texts teaching, summarizing and drills. By analyzing the practical teaching situation and teaching cases, Ms. Yang Hairong introduced the teaching techniques and methods of each teaching step comprehensively. In the question-and-answer session, Ms. Siriluk Chaiprompasit stressed the importance of learning Chinese characters. Ms. Siriluk Chaiprompasit pointed out that students dislike to write Chinese characters because of the use of mobile phones. Teachers should arouse students’ enthusiasm to write Chinese characters in class and convey the wonder of Chinese characters to students subtly.

 

 

      “Observation + Lecture” is a new mode for training Thai Chinese teachers explored by CIAU.  Observe classes - find problems -solve problems - design the relative training content pertinently will help to improve the quality of local Chinese teacher training. CIAU expects to cultivate high-quality Chinese talents for Thailand by training excellent native Chinese teachers.

 

 

Edited by Ms. Cao Le

Revised by Ms. Yang Hairong

Translated by Ms. Wang Jiao