Teaching requires both innovation and adaptation, meaning educators must continually curate their collection of implements, honing familiar devices and adding new ones.

Meet Sun Burford's Grades 7 & 8 Novice Chinese Class at Tyee Middle School, WA.

Meet Shwu-fen Lin's Grades 9 & 10 Intermediate Chinese Class at Princeton High School, New Jersey.

Meet Lin Young's Grade 9–12 Novice Chinese Class at Greenwich High School, CT, and Jessie Maeer's Grade 10 Novice Chinese Class at Heritage Hall High School, OK.

Meet Shiffon Theodorou's Grade 9 Novice-mid Chinese Class at Simsbury High School in Connecticut.

Meet Mei Dong's Grade 8 Novice-High Chinese Class at Collegiate School in Richmond, Virginia.

Zhang Zeduan’s masterpiece handscroll transforms viewers into participants, engaging them in a historic, and excellent, adventure.

Flipped learning, using online sessions to build and drill basic knowledge and skills, frees up time in class. Teachers can leverage this and create opportunities for students to apply language as they practice higher-order thinking.

Meet Yan Wang's Grade 2 Novice-Mid Chinese Class at Dixie Magnet Elementary School in Lexington, Kentucky.

Students compare different communication methods in this short lesson on efficiency in communication.

Students create their own language in this lesson as a way to understand how languages are constructed.

Deconstruct a global science lesson plan in 12 steps, then construct your own plan to co-create real-world interdisciplinary activities.

What does it mean to be literate in Chinese, and what are the strategies to get there?

Inspiring examples of how to make language learning come alive through the study of culture.

Videos on learning--and teaching--beginning Chinese.

A few tips on how to get students to think about the world--and take action--in their target language.

Start planning and implementing a Chinese language program with these tools and helpful links.