1 “Team cooperation and ideas sharing ”
CINB collected the teaching logs of CI teachers from September to October and put them into the CI working group for exchange and learning. Meanwhile, six teaching teams took shape including: Chen Junfeng and Chen Zhisheng in Fredericton district, Li Yanmei in Oromocto district, Liu Xiaowei and Xu Mengke in Riverview district, Sun Xiaojiao and Li Shanshan in Moncton district, Li Nannan and Liu Shujie in Saint John district, Wang Jingli and Liang Jiayi in Rexton district.

2 “Supplement of teaching and cultural materials to all school districts”
CINB distributed the teaching and cultural materials donated by Qufu Normal University according to the actual needs of each teaching spot. Wushu teaching is featured in the northern school district. Opera teaching is added to the trilingual school, while Moncton district has corresponding teaching of Chinese clothes and tea art. In line with the principle of circulating and recycling, we should give full play to the maximum value of these materials. The teaching aids supplied will play an important role in the Chinese teaching and cultural promotion in NB. In particular, lion dancing, dragon dancing, Chinese drums, Taiji sword and other cultural supplies increase the diversity of cultural courses and enable the students of CI to better appreciate the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

3 “China and the West are contrasted through different shades of ink and wash paintings.”
CINB invited Liang Lixia, a local Chinese painting enthusiast, to teach Chinese traditional painting at various teaching spots. In primary schools, Ms. Liang introduced the differences between Chinese ink painting and Western oil painting to children, and showed some of her works, which aroused students’ gasps in admiration. Then she demonstrated how to draw a crab with a brush in an easy-to-understand way. The crab’s belly, whisker and legs are very lifelike with a few strokes. Under the guidance of the teacher, the students carefully tested the color on the edge of Xuan Paper, adjusted the shades and drew the pictures under the teacher’s instruction. The students who comprehended faster had already drawn a crab family excitedly. In high school, Ms. Liang taught students to draw bamboos and Chinese calligraphy. The students wrote “中国”and“加拿大”on real Xuan Paper for the first time. After drawing bamboos-the food for pandas, they were full of accomplishment.

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