New online hub for Chinese teachers

This week our Learning and Teaching Scotland Chief Executive and the Education Minister launched the Confucius Classrooms online hub for teachers of Chinese, in China. For the past two months I've been leading the development of content for the new site, bringing together expertise and material in Chinese teaching and learning from our colleagues around the country.

The site is designed for use by teachers of Chinese in Scotland who may be seeking out resources, but also as a mechanism for Chinese teachers in China to think about their pedagogy and linking with schools in Scotland through a new lens. We're hoping it meets with the same success as its partner site, the Modern Foreign Languages Environment.

The Confucius Classrooms are also an actual set of physical spaces around Scotland, in schools, where children can learn the Chinese language and culture. They are jointly funded by the school, Local Authorities and the Chinese Hanban, after an agreement was reached by Learning and Teaching Scotland and the Chinese authorities.

The site is an excellent achievement in a very short period of time, and I am indebted to my colleague Annelie Carmichael for getting this out and ready, on the same day she left us for pastures new. As always, feedback is welcome.

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Great to see that at the bottom of the left hand navigation is a link to the dedicated Glow Group for Confucius classrooms, giving additional functionality to the website, through chat, web conferencing and shared whiteboard facilities - good times! :-D