It has been a year and a half since I became a member of the Confucius Institute in New Brunswick in 2016. Throughout the day, I, a little volunteer who knew nothing had been trained as a young and active teacher. When I look back, I would say I am so lucky. The Chinese teaching in our province has completely entered the local teaching system and realized the full coverage of the entire teaching chain from kindergarten to university. Multi-level Chinese teaching provides a broad space for teaching practice. This is an ideal "test field" for Chinese teaching. At the same time, however, pressure and opportunity are always coexisting. To hold on to this world and promote Chinese language teaching requires every volunteer to carry out efficient, innovative, and sustainable teaching practices.
In my initial teaching work, I kept using a consistent teaching method from former volunteers. For elementary and middle school students, the teaching content is mainly cultural experience, supplemented by Chinese language teaching. For high school students, mainly we focus on conversational Chinese teaching. This kind of targeted teaching plan has enabled me to begin teaching Chinese for the first time, and I have gradually entered my students' world. A variety of interesting cultural experience activities have improved students' interest in learning. Vivid and flexible oral teaching has provided possibilities for children to speak up. Over time, this way of teaching in different ways has made my classroom have more children.

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