Professional development series highlighting the collision between learner-centered and communicative teaching methods and the Chinese university context. This presentation was developed as apart of the requirements for the M.Ed. degree program in Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum at the University of Missouri. A

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3. What
happens
when
cultures
collide?

4. THE question:
How does a
teacher
effectively use
learner-centered
and
communicative
methods while
respecting
native culture?

5. What would you like
to learn through our
time together?
What could you learn
here that would be
most helpful for your
current work?

6. Session 1:
Confucius to
College Entrance
Exams

7. Session 2:
Communica-
WHAT?

8. Session 3: : Cultural
Collision

9. Session 4: Case Studies And Carry it
Home

10. Filial piety
(孝)

11. Ritual Consciousness
(礼）

12. Altruism
(仁)

13. Wisdom
(知)

14. How do we see
these Confucian
values played out in
the current Chinese
educational
system?
What are the
plusses and
minuses of these
values?

15. 60 million
English
majors
300 million
English
language
learners
100 million students currently
studying English in school

16. Homework:
- What are the effects of
Confucianism among
your current students?
- Review tenets of
learner-centered and
communicative
methods. How are you
using these in your
classroom ?
Be prepared to share next
week

17. End of
Day 1

18. Last session’s homework:
- What are the effects of
Confucianism among
your current students?
- Review tenets of
learner-centered and
communicative
methods. How are you
using these in your
classroom ?
Be prepared to share next
week (i.e. TODAY)

19. American classroom

20. Chinese Classroom

21. How do you use
learner-centered or
communicative
methods in your
classroom?

22. Homework:
Apply at least one
thing you’ve
learned about
communicative
methods to your
current setting.
Be prepared to
share next week

23. End of
Day 2

24. Last Session’s
Homework:
Apply at least one
thing you’ve learned
about communicative
methods to your
current setting.
Be prepared to
share next week
(i.e. TODAY!)

25. 1. The most helpful thing I’ve
learned so far is…
2. When I think about
Confucius and his impact on
China’s current learning
environment, I think about…
3. In my mind, using
communicative and learner
centered methods in China
means…

26. Four kinds of obstacles:
From students
From administrators
From the environment
In the teacher’s
misunderstanding of the
Chinese context

27. Homework:
What are the
obstacles you face
in applying
communicative and
learner-centered
methods?
Be prepared to
share next week

28. End of
Day 3

29. Homework:
What are the
obstacles you face in
applying
communicative and
learner-centered
methods?
Be prepared to
share next week
(i.e. TODAY!)

30. 1. What has surprised you
so far in this professional
development series?
2. What’s confirmed what
you already thought?
3. If asked, “What was the
professional development
about?” how would you
reply?

31. 4. What have you done
with what you’ve learned
so far?
5. What do you hope to
learn the rest of today?

32. How did these teachers use
communicative and learner-
centered methods while
respecting the culture they
were in?
What can we learn from
what they did?
What would you have done
differently if you were in
their shoes?

33. “This is not a way
Chinese teacher do a
class, so this is not a
good teacher. … We
think the foreign
teacher is an idiot.”

34. End of
Day 4