Confucius Institute Journey to China Fall 2013, Issue 20 | Page 18

CI News, Fall 2013 CI News, Fall 2013 back 2013 SECLA Conference in NC State University’s Park Shops. The 3rd annual SECLA Conference was hosted by our CI on September 14, 2013. Over 100 Chinese teachers and scholars from seven other CIs attended the conference. We were happy to have members from North Carolina State University, University of South Carolina, University of South Florida, Emory University, Troy University, Middle Tennessee State University and Presbyterian College attend the conference. The conference opened with remarks by Dr. Ding Jianning, Chinese Director of NC State CI, and Dr. Li Bailian Li, the Vice Provost of International Affairs. CI Hosted Events This fall, CI hosted two major conferences top? 2013 SOUTHEAST CHINESE LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE [page 19] 18??? confucius institute newsletter top? “CHINA AND THE WORLD” INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE [page 22] Institute at Troy University shared about their collaboration with their host institute. Both speakers received many questions on how to incorporate what they learned at their CI. In the afternoon, we had a Directors Panel and a Teachers Panel. The Director’s Panel focused on “Maintaining Sustainability of Chinese Language Programs”. The Director’s panelists include Helga Fasciano, Special Assistant for Global Education from North Carolina Department of Public Instruction; Ann Marie Gunter, World Language Consultant from North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Tang Xiaozhong, Yang Yang from NCSU CI to talk about their experience in elementary, high school, college, online and HSK programs. Through these two panels, Directors had new ideas for developing new programs and teachers were able to collaborate and share lessons plans and new ideas. There is also discussion for two new Confucius Classrooms to be opened in NC and three more schools want to open the Chinese Proficiency Test, HSK. This conference was made possible by the support of Hanban and the Confucius Institute Headquarters. The SECLA is an important conference 2013 Southeast Chinese Language Association Conference The theme of this conference was “Developing Chinese Language Programs in Your Community”. There were two key-note addressed in the morning. In the first session, John Matthews, Dean of Curriculum Administration at Central Carolina Community College talked about how CCCC develops their Chinese language programs. In the second session, Dr. Iris Hong Xu, Director of Confucius and Shi Kun, Director of Confucius Institute from University of South Florida. The Teacher’s Panel shared experience and best practices for K-20 Chinese Language Programs and online programs. 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