全美中小学中文教师协会通讯.docVIP

??全美中小學中文教師協會通訊?? CLASS NEWS UPDATE Chinese Language Association of Secondary-Elementary Schools P.O. Box 2348, Livingston, New Jersey 07039 Spring 2005 2005 US Educators’ Delegation to China 美国初高中教育行政主管访华圆满告成 Under the invitation of the National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (NOCFL) in China, CLASS and the Hope Education Foundation collaboratively organized an US educators’ trip to China. The group consisted of 33 superintendents, principals, vice-principals, foreign language program directors and supervisors from nine states. They visited Beijing, Shanghai and Suzhou from February 19 to February 25. Please see page 30 through page 34 for a detailed report and the reflections from some of the participating educators. 应国家汉办的邀请，经本协会和美国希望基金会的共同策划，来自美国九个州的初高中教育主管访华团一行46人于2月19日至25日访华, 进行了为期一周的参观访问。协会会长亲自带团赴北京、上海两地分别访问了教育部、国家汉办、北师大附中、北京语言大学、华东师范大学、华东师范大学第二附属中学等。有关报导， 请参阅本刊第。 Message from the President Greetings from balmy San Francisco! From the snowy severe winter to the fresh spring air从雪霁天晴朗，腊梅处处香到春城无处不飞花，daffodils are showing their glorious color and multi-color blooming trees fill the city streets. ir energy and driving power bursting up gradually. Similarly, the seeds of the Chinese language learning in U.S sowed by many dedicated veteran Chinese educators in the past twenty years are bearing fruit. The growing interest in learning Chinese language and culture around the country is overwhelming. Many news media outlets have published articles and interviews on the development of Chinese programs around the nation. Is CLASS ready to accept the challenges of providing the information and service to the Chinese language field and served as a role of mediator between teachers and other resources? By looking at the following activities planned out or have already executed, we, the CLASS Board believe our promotion of the teaching and learning Chinese at K-12 schools will be ever more rigorous. However, we cannot do this work alone. I wou