Dual Immersion Chinese with Piper Riddle Transformative Principal 090
Sunday, September 20, 2015 by jethrojones
Piper is the principal of Draper Elementary in Draper, UT. She has been a long-time friend and mentor to me, personally, and has helped me learn so much over the last few years.
- Dual immersion schools - what is the process, and what challenges are unique to you?
- 200 dual immersion schools in the state, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, French
- What barriers are there to having native speakers come teach in America?
- A/B schedule at elementary level.
- Teachers come from mainland China and local areas.
- Immersion teacher and non-immersion teachers and culture issues.
- Personalizing issues with culture.
- Specials to integrate the two cultures.
- Dragon Training
- Seeking input to learn what was important to the students, faculty, and parents.
- Blanket monkey.
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