--CINB held the Chinese Teaching Seminar On the January 9, 2017, at the beginning of the new year, Confucius Institute in New Brunswick held a teaching and research seminar in Fredericton. The meeting was chaired by CINB foreign director Ms. Teng Jing, inviting the Deputy Minister of Education of New Brunswick, President of AEI, Director of CINB, Mr. John· McLaughlin, Assistant of Deputy Minister, Chris Treadwell, Vice president of AEI, Executive Director of Confucius Institute in New Brunswick, Mrs. Dawn Weatherbie, Western and Northern Education Bureau Officials and all the Chinese teachers and Chinese teacher Volunteers attended this meeting. All the teachers and volunteer teachers shared their valuable teaching experience from the past semester, discussed and made plans for teaching and culture activities for next semester.

At the beginning of the meeting, on behalf of AEI, Mrs. Dawn Weatherbie welcomed all the teachers from CINB and remarked on their hard work and joint effort in promoting Chinese language and culture all around New Brunswick. She expressed her gratitude and her New Year blessings to Mrs. Jing Teng and all the Chinese teachers.

During the meeting, every teacher made a PowerPoint presentation based on their own experience and life, working at different schools and with students from different levels. They came up with an individualized teaching method and advice. The Chinese teachers, Mrs. Xiaoyu Zhang, Tian tian and Yanmei Li shared their work experience, family life and camp up with the beneficial suggestion for Chinese teaching of CINB. As a Kung fu teacher, Mr. Yuqi Guan put forward his own suggestion about how to let Kung fu come into Chinese class. Combing with local conditions, the music teacher, Miss. Xiaochan Zheng shared a great plan about writing out a teaching syllabus of Chinese music that is suitable for local students.

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