We teach Chinese!

Concordia Language Villages has language immersion preschool programs in the Twin Cities area. We are currently looking for teachers for some of our fall classes.

SPANISH: In Minnetonka, we have both Lead Teacher and Assistant Teacher positions available for Thursday afternoons, Friday mornings, and/or Saturday mornings. In Woodbury, we have an Assistant Teacher position available for Tuesday and Thursday afternoons.

CHINESE: In Minnetonka, we have a Lead Teacher and Assistant Teacher position for a class that meets Wednesday afternoons.

Becky "Annika" Hegstad

Pre-K Programs Coordinator

Barnehage Program Leader

Concordia Language Villages

Phone: 651-647-4357

email: hegstad@cord.edu

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Immersion Education:
Pathways to Bilingualism & Beyond
2008 International Conference on Immersion Education

October 16–18, 2008Crowne Plaza Riverfront Hotel Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

Language immersion education has emerged as a uniquely constituted, highly effective program model for launching students on the road to bilingualism, multilingualism and intercultural competence. School-based immersion programs follow a variety of paths, including one-way foreign language immersion, two-way bilingual immersion, and indigenous immersion for language and culture revitalization. While each pathway targets distinct socio-cultural contexts and educational needs, all are grounded in a set of core characteristics with a strong focus on subject matter learning as well as language development.

Under the leadership of two national centers in the U.S., CARLA (Center for Advanced Research on Language Acquisition, University of Minnesota) and CAL (Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, D.C.), this third international conference on immersion education brings these pathways together to engage in meaningful dialogue and professional exchange across languages, levels, learner audiences, program models and sociopolitical contexts.

Featured Plenary Presentations & Speakers

Keynote Address
Immersion Education: Intercultural Competence
for Tomorrow’s Global Citizens
Myriam Met
Senior Research Associate
National Foreign Language Center
University of Maryland

Plenary Speakers

Learning to Read in a Second Language
Fred Genesee
Professor of Psychology
McGill University; Montreal, Quebec

Immersion in Hong Kong and Mainland China
Philip Hoare
Associate Professor
Hong Kong Institute of Education

Integrating Identity and Culture in Hawaiian Immersion
Kauanoe Kamana
Associate Professor, Hawaiian Medium Curriculum
William H. “Pila� Wilson
Professor and Chair, Hawaiian Studies Division
University of Hawai‘i at Hilo

Counterbalancing Form-Focused and
Content-Based Instruction in Immersion Pedagogy
Roy Lyster
Associate Professor of Second Language Education McGill University; Montreal, Quebec

This unique event offers over 90 paper sessions, discussion sessions and symposia that address the four main conference themes: Immersion Pedagogy, Culture and Identity, Policy and Advocacy and Program Design and Evaluation. See the online conference schedule at: http://www.carla.umn.edu/conferences/immersion2008/schedule.html

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The Mounds View School District, located just 10 miles north of St. Paul, is looking for after school Chinese instructors to teach Chinese language and culture to K - 5 elementary students. Details of the job are listed below. A teaching license is not required. Please apply on-line at . For additional information, please contact Mounds View Community Education at 651-621-7400.

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St. Paul Preparatory School in downtown St. Paul has an immediate opening for a part time Chinese Language teacher. Licensure is not necessary but fluency in Mandarin Chinese is required and experience teaching is desired. The position is Monday – Friday, 1:50-3:05 p.m. and consists of two classes, Chinese Language Levels I and II.

Interested parties should email their information to grobertson@stpaulprep.org.

Gina Robertson

Assistant Principal

St. Paul Preparatory School,

Nacel International School System

380 Jackson St. Suite 100

St. Paul, MN 55101

651-288-4606 Phone

651-288-4616 Fax

grobertson@StPaulPrep.org

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Northfield's First Community Chinese School To Offer Courses This Fall

Northfield, Minn.— Did you see the Olympics this summer? Do you want to travel to China? Do you want to learn how to speak Chinese? Now, you will have the opportunity to learn Chinese right here in Northfield!

The Northfield Community Chinese School (NCCS) is an educational organization founded in 2008 under the auspices of IFTPA, a 501(c) 3 non-profit organization. In addition to providing high-quality Chinese language instruction, NCCS's mission is to promote Chinese culture and intercultural understanding and cooperation. At the current time, NCCS will offer two levels of Chinese language instruction in classes for children that also include the playing of Chinese games and the singing of Chinese songs, and two classes for adults.

The Northfield Community Chinese School will begin offering Mandarin Chinese this fall beginning Saturday, September 13. The students will meet once a week throughout the school year. We plan to use the textbooks Standard Chinese I for students with no Chinese background (K-5) and New Practical Chinese Reader II for students with Chinese language background (6-12). Parents will also have the opportunity to study alongside their children. NCCS is also offering Chinese cooking classes once a month and weekly Chinese class for business. For more information on classes, please contact NCCS at: NFLDCCS@gmail.com

Northfield Community Chinese School is committed to admitting students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin and providing them all rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, tuition assistance programs, or extracurricular and other school-administered programs.

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Dear Chinese Language Teachers,

Greetings from the newly established Confucius Institute at the University of Minnesota! The University of Minnesota will open the state's first Confucius Institute on September 19. President Bruininks, state and University officials, Chinese representatives, and invited guests will be on hand for a ribbon cutting ceremony. Once opened, the Confucius Institute will work on programming and initiatives to support you in several ways.

In the next year, the Confucius Institute will:
· Work with University and community experts to create professional development opportunities for teachers.
· Provide a Chinese Language Resource Library with more than 2000 titles of language, culture and reference books, DVDs, CDs, other materials
· Collaborate with the Minnesota Department of Education and the Hanban to bring Chinese language teachers to Minnesota.
· Work with the school districts and school administrators to create Chinese language programs and school exchanges with K-12 schools in China.
· Bring Chinese language and cultural programming to greater Minnesota through the University's coordinated campus system.
· Provide Chinese language and cultural programming for the greater Minnesota community.

There is much more to comeÅ  so keep your eyes open!

I am sure that all of you are busy preparing for the start of the school year, but I would like to share a wonderful cultural program with you and your students. Following the opening, the Confucius Institute will present a spectacular Chinese music and cultural performance, Jiangsu Silk and Bamboo Performing Arts Troupe on Sunday, September 21, 2008 at the Ted Mann Concert Hall at 7:00 p.m.

This 25-member troupe from the Jiangsu Performing Arts Company will feature 13 instrumentalists, two vocalists, two dancers, two acrobats, three Beijing Opera actors and actress, and 1 puppet show actress. The Jiangsu Performing Arts Company is one of the largest performing companies of China. The troupe's lead performer is renowned Erhu player and composer Changyao Zhu. Zhu is an Erhu maestro, composer, and national first-class artist. Zhu has been hailed as "national treasure of the world" and "one of the world's most excellent players of stringed instruments" and has visited many countries to give performances.

This will be rare opportunity for your students to see a great variety of Chinese performance arts in one program; they will present programs featuring traditional Chinese instrumental and vocal music, folk dance, magic, puppet show, acrobatics and excerpts from the most famous Beijing Opera classics. It is packed full of stunning and beautiful performances that will delight audiences of all ages.

Please find a concert announcement at http://tinyurl.com/confuciusconcert. Please contact us if you would like additional flyers or postcards sent to you. The concert will be held at Ted Mann Concert Hall at 2128 Fourth Street South, Minneapolis, Sunday, September 21, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are $28, with discounts available for groups larger than eight. Call the Confucius Institute at (612) 625-5080 for more information.

The Confucius Institute is located at the University International Center at 331-17th Ave SE in Minneapolis.

Joan A. Brzezinski
Acting Director, Confucius Institute
Assistant Director, China Center
University of Minnesota
160 University International Center
331 17th Ave S.E.Minneapolis, MN 55414
Phone: 612-625-5080
Fax: 612-625-5185

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