Writing is a combination of various abilities of the body, mind, eyes, and brain. Here are some of my favorite pre-writing exercises to get your child started with learning Chinese characters. These pre-writing activities are designed to engage your young Chinese learners and enhance core muscle strength, hand-eye coordination, and fine motor skills, setting a strong foundation for future writing success.

If I put a penny in a jar every time I told my students to add more details to their writing, I would be a millionaire in no time!

However, if we put ourselves into our students’ shoes, adding more details is such a vague and abstract direction. What is a detail? How can I add more details?

Teaching Compare and Contrast is challenging because this reading comprehension skill requires higher-order thinking from students, and finding good mentor texts is not easy for teachers.

Researchers from Stanford University have found that your audience tends to lose focus after about 6 minutes during an online video presentation. In other words, your students can learn better when your live instruction is shorter!

When you go through all your beautiful charts, checklist, graphic organizers and other wonderful self-created materials, imagine a moving box for the materials you will put in the tenure portfolio. You cannot choose everything because the box is only this big.

Would you like to make your Zoom class more interesting? Apply these tricks to every Zoom lesson to keep students engaged, promote active participation, and excite students (and yourself) for virtual education.