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ACAMIS 2011 update, received Nov 23, 2011

It was a productive meeting and completed all the items on Nov. 5th. Then the next half day, we did site preview. Qingdao school principal and the Chinese Program Director joined the meeting.

Here is the summary: 1. Conference time: July 1 - July 3, 2011 2. Location: Qingdao MTI International School 3. Keynote speakers and experts for workshops Three Keynotes for each morning. Each keynote will give: 6-8 sessions including the repetition (Keynote speech with 45 min counts as one session).

4. Teacher presentations 5. Themes: Bring Chinese Language and Culture to the World (We had long discussion and finally I suggested this and all committee members agreed) Topics: 5.1. Effective teaching and learning in Chinese classrooms (classroom management. differentiation, curriculum, language rich classrooms) 5.2. Enhancing interaction with the local community 5.3. Teaching future leaders 5.4. Effective assessment methods

So far all Keynote speakers are accepted the invitation: 1. Dr. Xiaoping Wang, from Hong Kong ESF foundation 2. Ms. Lisa Chuang, the Chinese Program Director of HKIS 3. Me. My topic is: Raise Global Citizen for Future Leader--Cast Study and Effective Strategies for Classroom Management

Since the 1st ACAMIS Chinese Teacher Conference in 2003, I attended all 8 years and presented 2-3 sessions each year. In recent three years, I almost represented three full day with 10-12 sessions (4 sessions each day).

I will continue attending the conference at least till 10th annerversity. It will be hold in Beijing by Dulwitch School. I will make recommendation to invite Kerry to be the Keynote Speaker since SAS had hosted the conference for first 4 years.

We also have invited all the experts we need. Only one more on UbD. The canididate is Dr. Zhang from US.

It is interesting that International schools are all using UbD for curriculumn design. When I mentioned it to the Chinese teachers in US, not many of them know it.

Talk to you soon. Wendy