Teachers of Critical Languages Program

Program News

• Natick students learning Mandarin, broadening world perspective 04/19/13
  Ali Rabideau and her classmates watched intently as their teacher drew a series of characters on an overhead projector, their eyes darting between the calligraphy pens in their hands and the projector display. At times the students asked teacher Wenjuan Sheng to slow down so they could accurately capture the intricate details of Mandarin characters and write the sentence "I practice calligraphy."
• High School Welcomes New Foreign Exchange Teachers from Egypt and China 01/24/13
  “A lot of other school districts do not have this opportunity,” Mrs. Christine Siegfried, Southern Lehigh High School Superintendent, said. “It’s a great opportunity for us to learn about their cultures, their religions, their educations, and they get to learn about ours. It is beneficial for our students to learn from the exchange teachers about their countries.”
• Online Live Chat with TCLP Alumni 11/15/12
  Are you interested in increasing the global competency of your students by hosting a guest Chinese or Egyptian teacher at your school?
• Teacher from China visits Brighton School students 11/15/12
  Zhang Yong, a elementary school teacher from China, visited with fifth through eighth grade students at Brighton School Friday morning.
• Skype Closes Distances For Middle School Arabic Language Students 11/14/12
  There may be almost 5,700 miles and a six-hour time difference between Center Valley and Cairo, Egypt, but middle school students enjoy many of the same interests despite those gaps, a group of Southern Lehigh students learned this month thanks to a face-to-face video meeting with their peers.
• Students at Roosevelt Elementary School Learning Chinese Language, Culture 10/09/12
  Zhang, who is known by his English name “Michael” to Roosevelt staff and parents, is himself an English teacher to fourth graders at the largest primary school in his home country. There, he taught three sections with 40 students in each class. At the No. 2 Subsidiary Primary School of the Northeast Normal University, where he came from, more 4,000 students ages 6 to 12 attend. It is a private school, he adds.
• Arabic Instructor Sharing Language - and Culture - with Missoula High-schoolers 10/01/12
  Missoula may not be an international hub that crackles with cultural diversity and the exotic lilt of a global community. Nevertheless, the classrooms of Hellgate High School are alive with the sounds of foreign languages and the study of faraway lands.
• Berkeley High's unique Mandarin Chinese class draws high interest from students 09/21/12
  TCLP Chinese teacher Liu Xin helped Berkeley High School in South Carolina build a growing Mandarin program that will continue even after his year in the United States draws to a close. Berkeley High School is recognized by the local ABC News station and you can watch the news clip by clicking on the link below.
• One Year in A Foreign Country, What Would You Do? 09/21/12
  A year has wrapped up for TCLP teacher Wang Xiaona in Hopkinton High Schoo, Massachusetts, and she reflects on her experience and memories.
• Online Live Chat with TCLP Alumni 09/21/12
  Are you interested in increasing the global competency of your students by hosting a guest Chinese or Egyptian teacher at your school?