Chinese Teacher's Blog

A Place for Chinese Teachers to Share, Learn, Create and Grow!

Chinese teachers all too often lead isolated lives, remote and removed from stimulating dialogues with their colleagues. How many meaningful professional exchanges about Chinese teaching and learning have you had with Chinese language colleagues in the past week, month, year? For too many of us, the answer will be nil, zero, zip.

At our school, The Gap State High School, located in Brisbaneâ??s western suburbs (in the state of Queensland, Australia for those unfamiliar with the place) we have a great team of three specialist Chinese teachers who love what we do and enjoy the challenge of doing what we do even better. We have each other to bounce ideas off and that keeps us excited and motivated. Weâ??re Caitlin, Ian and Beth and you can read a bit more about us here. Everyday we talk about what we do, share new discoveries, discuss what we think might work, and suggest better ways to do things. With the Chinese Teachers Blog we want to expand our staffroom discussions to include all Chinese teachers everywhere and draw on a wider range of insights and experiences, and in the process hopefully open up a line of communication for those teachers who donâ??t have colleagues to call on as we do.