To extend our admiration and support to the K-12 Chinese teachers, Asia Society is starting a special edition—TEQ Online, which intends to highlight the tremendous efforts and innovations in online teaching made by Chinese language teachers as we continue to face the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. 

For guidance on how to use these materials, please see How to Use the TEQ Series: Instructional Videos for Chinese Language Teachers.

Are you interested in joining the TEQ Online program and being featured in the TEQ series? Please check out more details and requirements here. 

Virtual Classroom Video

This online speaking activity was taken from Fangzhou Zhang’s Chinese class at Montclair Kimberley Academy in New Jersey. The online class has six 7th graders in a hybrid learning setting with students both in the classroom and remote at home.  

In this TEQ Online video, you will see how Miss Zhang used Google Meet and Google Jamboard to organize the hybrid learning for a speaking task, and how the students communicated, socialized, and collaborated with each other in the virtual learning setting. Miss Zhang has successfully demonstrated how to use technology and learning activities to connect the students in the classroom with the ones at home and enable them to work together similar to the way they do in a regular classroom.

Your comments and feedback are always highly appreciated. Please tell us your thoughts after you watch these videos.