Teachers of Critical Languages Program

Program News

• Kung fu - and a life lesson for High School's Chinese students 01/18/12
  Translated literally from Chinese to English, kung fu means skill acquired through hard work. That's a fitting description for presentations that Chinese martial arts teacher Lucas Geller recently gave to Niskayuna High School Chinese classes earlier this month.
• Building Cultural Bridges: Arabic Teacher Kamel Gadallah 01/18/12
  “A-Salamu ali-kum,” says Kamel Gadallah to each student entering his classroom at the Upper School. The traditional greeting of “Peace unto you,” this disarming, generous offer will be the first of many Gadallah extends to his students during the Arabic 2 class.
• Teenage Life and Culture in China at the Library 01/18/12
  On Wednesday, January 11, 2012, at 7pm Chinese Language Teacher Wang Xiaona will speak about teenage life and culture in China at the Hopkinton Public Library. Included in her presentation will be descriptions of what school is like in China, as well as the life of parents and teachers. Wang Xiaona comes to Hopkinton through the Teachers of Critical Languages Program (TCLP), a program which brings teachers from China and Egypt to teach Chinese and Arabic at elementary and secondary schools in the United States for an academic year.
• TCLP Chinese Teacher Wang Xiaona Interviewed on Hopkinton, MA TV Station HCAM 11/15/11
  TCLP Chinese Teacher, Xiaona Wang, is interviewed by Hopkinton High School freshman Amanda Madany during an episode of All About Hopkinton, broadcast on local television. In the interview, Xiaona discusses her first impressions of the Hopkinton community, how she plans her classes, and cultural differences between Chinese and American students.
• English Teacher from China Impressed by Her Willmar, MN, Students 11/14/11
  Tang Beiyi has found students at Willmar Senior High to be active and eager to participate in class activities. The English teacher from Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province in China, said this week that she has enjoyed meeting the students and the people in Willmar this fall. Tang will be spending the school year in Willmar, co-teaching with local Chinese teacher Todd Lynum. Tang is the second teacher from China that Willmar Senior High has hosted in the past three years. Tang’s year in America is supported by the Teachers of Critical Languages Program, which is funded by the U.S. State Department and implemented by American Councils for International Education.
• Southern Lehigh Students Learn an Ancient Tongue 11/07/11
  When students enter Alshimaa Nofal's class at Southern Lehigh High School, they offer the usual greetings and pleasantries — but in Arabic. Nofal, from Alexandria, Egypt, is one of 10 Arabic speakers selected to teach the language in the United States under the Teachers of Critical Languages Program, an initiative sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and implemented by American Councils for International Education.
• Learning Chinese Offers Murfreesboro Students Window on the World 10/14/11
  For the second year in a row, Murfreesboro City Schools’ Discovery School at Reeves-Rogers is hosting a teacher from China. Ye Cheng’s visit, which will last the entire school year, was funded by the Teachers of Critical Languages Program funded by the U.S. Department of State and implemented by American Councils for International Education. The program is open to American schools looking to develop or establish a program in Chinese or Arabic.
• New instructors arrive to teach Arabic culture, language to Missoula students 10/06/11
  This year, MCPS is gifted with another Egyptian teacher, a man who proudly helped promote the revolution and is glad to see former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak gone. Mohamed Abdelsamad, 38, has a lot to teach high schoolers about his language and his culture - most particularly, the manifestation of the Arab Spring back home.
• Learning Chinese offers Murfreesboro students window on the world 10/05/11
  For the second year in a row, Murfreesboro City Schools’ Discovery School at Reeves-Rogers is hosting a teacher from China. Ye Cheng’s visit, which will last the entire school year, was funded by the Teachers of Critical Languages Program run by the U.S. Department of State. The program is open to American schools looking to develop or establish a program in Chinese or Arabic.
• Mandarin Chinese Taught by Exchange Teacher 09/30/11
  Dozens of high school students are studying Mandarin Chinese with an exchange teacher. Having left her picturesque coastal city of Dalian in the Liaoning Province of China, Xiaona Wang has arrived in Hopkinton as an exchange teacher to teach Mandarin Chinese to high school students and run enrichment programs at the middle school.