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TEACHING MANDARIN IN A UK PRIMARY SCHOOL. Rhoda Pennington Mandarin at Highgate Primary School • Part of the Key Stage 2 curriculum (Years 3 to 6) (ages 7 to 11 years) • Also taught in Years 1 and 2 (ages 5-7 years) at our school (but not the Reception children) • 2014/15 is the second year of Mandarin at Highgate Primary. • Mandarin is the only foreign language taught at our school. Languages programmes of study at Key Stage 2 in the National Curriculum • a very loose framework • no mandatory formal testing or assessment • four skills (speaking, listening, reading, writing) • practical communication What will your teaching aims be? My teaching aims 1) A love of language learning • Nurture children to become confident language learners in preparation for MFL at secondary school. • Give children skills they can use in the future to learn any language. • Establish the link between learning a language and engaging with another culture. • Celebrate other languages spoken by the children. My teaching aims (2): Promoting Mandarin and Chinese culture • Mandarin is a fascinating language for a UK school child to learn. It is not hard to convince them of this. • Open up Chinese culture and history to the children. • Wherever possible have a creative cultural task linked to each topic. Priorities when teaching in UK Schools. • The needs of every child in the class should be catered for (differentiation). • Every child should be challenged. • Children should be making progress in every lesson. • Lessons should be engaging. • The teacher should continually assess to check pupils’ understanding. Formative Assessment • Targeted questioning • Walking around the classroom • Pair/group demonstration • Games with inbuilt assessment In what ways might you be able to assess children’s progress during the lesson? Differentiation • Scaffolding (support for all learners – but this helps the weakest children). Gestures are a brilliant form of scaffolding. • Extra challenge (available for all children to access so that they can access it when they are ready). • Plan for children with special educational needs. Our children learn best when.. • The task is engaging. • They are active learners. • The language they are using has a real purpose. • There is a creative element. Creative tasks we have used at Highgate Primary • Making terracotta warriors from clay • Making Ming Vases • Making Chinese Opera Masks (colours) • Designing visual prompt cards for characters like Chineasy. • Making and decorating boxes for Moon Cakes • A class assembly about Marco Polo’s visit to China Creativity in songs / games / character recognition • Songs and rhymes make language memorable. • Games encourage active learning – whole class games, flashcard games in pairs. • Children are being creative when they make up ways to recognise characters. Target language Target Language Target Language • Aim to use Mandarin as much as you can. • Use the same set phrases each time you give an instruction in Mandarin. • Think carefully about the Mandarin you are using. Target language for routines in lessons • Teacher and class greet each other and say goodbye at the end of the lesson. • Target language for instructions and classroom • • • • • • management : 请坐下/ 站起来 安静! 请看我 / 听 / 注意! 再说一遍 跟我说。。 Use the same phrases/words each time you instruct Other routine instructions in target language.. Positive Behaviour Management • Do it in Mandarin! • Avoid telling a child NOT to do something. Choose a child who is doing the RIGHT thing and praise them. • Use the same phrases over and over for familiarity。 • Use visual prompts. (看, 听, 安静。。。) • Use the school positive behaviour management strategy. • Use stickers etc. to reward good effort (be a bit sparing!) Simple phrases for positive behaviour management. Families lesson sequence • Plan a series of lessons (lesson sequence). • Build from words to sentences. • Build from children giving answers to children asking questions and giving answers. • Create opportunities to extend the high attaining students. • Provide support (scaffolding) for all students. The four skills • Speaking and listening move faster than reading and writing. • Pick key characters for a given topic for children to learn to read/recognise and write. • In literacy lessons children are learning how to form the English alphabet correctly, so they will happily work on writing characters correctly. Celebrating Mandarin and Chinese culture around the school. • Display work in public areas • Mandarin display board for every classroom you teach in. • Celebrate Chinese festivals in school assembly. • Chinese theme for class assembly. • Does the school website mention Mandarin?