Date & Time: Saturday,  June 4th | 9 – 12 pm Pacific Time

Events: AGM & Workshop “Showcase Student Cultural Products”

AGM Presenters: current CLTA-WA Board members of year 2022 – 2023

Workshop Presenters: Zhousu He, Yu-Chin Huang, Zoe Jiang, and Xiaoling Mo and Sun Burford

Please Sign Up Here: http://bit.ly/cltawa6

*After you sign up, you’ll get a “CLTA-WA 2022 Online AGM & Workshop Confirmation” email from Zoom. At the time of the event, please use the link included in that email to join the Zoom meeting.

Cost: FREE to all participants

Workshop Description: Our excellent Special Guest Speakers will show pictures and videos of their premier student work in cultural products, such as Chinese painting, calligraphy, song, dance, martial arts, and arts & craft projects that celebrate Chinese and American festivals. The workshop will give teachers ideas and directions for cultural projects they may do in the coming year, and initiate idea exchange among teachers during the summer.

各位老师您好，2022年6月4日太平洋时间上午9点到12点华州中文教师学会（CLTA-WA）将举办CLTA-WA Annual General Meeting 网络年会。本次年会将回顾一年来CLTA-WA取得的成就，宣布新一年的工作计划，致谢任期已满的董事，介绍新任董事，并欢迎大家续费继续加入学会。

本次年会特别推出Showcase Student Cultural Products在线工作坊。Presenters嘉宾为何舟苏老师、黄育琴老师、江凌欧老师、莫晓灵老师和孙荣芬老师（以中文姓字母顺序排序）。我们的嘉宾老师有CLTA-WA终身会员、资深会员和新董事代表。Presenters嘉宾将为我们带来精彩纷呈的各阶段学生文化作品展示，给我们带来丰富多彩实践性强的教学点子。

本次活动免费，欢迎老师们点击Zoom pre-registration link报名：bit.ly/cltawa6。报名后您会收到Zoom发出的确认邮件。请保存好此邮件并用邮件内链接登录会议。

Dear CLTA-WA members, We are pleased to announce that the 2022 CLTA-WA New Board Member and Vice President Election is open now, and will stay open until April 23, 2022. The Board of CLTA-WA would like to thank the candidates for stepping up and for their willingness to serve. We are seeking to fill four positions to serve a 3-year term on the next board. You will also be electing a new Vice President who will serve as President in the subsequent year.  The new board members will be announced on May 1, 202.

Please go to https://forms.gle/BdspifU7LHQ9SiY8A

to cast your votes. The bios and statements of intent of all the candidates are included in this link so please take a moment to read them.

Voting for the Directors of the Board and the Vice President is a very important right as well as a responsibility that members exercise to affect the directions taken and work done at CLTA-WA.  We encourage you to take this right and responsibility thoughtfully by participating in the voting and making your voice heard in this election.

Thank you for your time and support!

CLTA-WA President and the Nomination Committee

http://www.clta-wa.org/

Dear members,

There is an upcoming workshop that helps teacher applicants review and passes a high need endorsement area: Math. Please see the details below:

Attention Teacher Candidate Applicants and Teachers!

Need a math refresher? Or coaching for adding a high need Math endorsement, especially NES 203 Middle Math or NES 304 High School Math? What’s the difference anyway?

Here’s a workshop to answer your questions!

Who: Pre-service and In-service teachers

What: A math endorsement workshop to help you prepare for adding NES 203 and NES 304 to your qualifications

Where: Chong Wa Hall, 522 7^th Avenue S, Seattle Chinatown, 98104

When: Saturday, April 9, 2022; 1:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m.

Co-sponsors: CIWA, Chong Wa Education Society, WAFLT

Other: Refreshments, free parking, clock hours–3

Registration Link: https://forms.gle/bXhmGXAH89TtShr19

For more information, contact Betty Lau: laubetty@cityu.edu

Best Regards,

Xi Sun

President, CLTA-WA 2021-2022

Dear members,

CityU is pleased to announce that CityU of Seattle Startalk will be recruiting for Startalk 16 this year of 2022 and holding the certification classes in Summer 2023. There are 16 spaces available so it will be important for applicants to prepare for the state tests. They have planned a series of workshops to help with that.

This Saturday is the postponed WEST B Reading and Writing, April 9 is the Math Endorsement and May 14 is the Designated World Language Test Overview.

Should you have any question, please contact Betty Lau, the CityU of Seattle Startalk Director: laubetty@cityu.edu

Best Regards,

Xi Sun

President, CLTA-WA 2021-2022

CLTA-WA invites qualified individuals to apply for consideration to serve on the Board of Directors. Four board seats are open for nomination this year. The Nomination period begins on March 8th, 2022 and closes on March 23rd, 2022.

Please note that CLTA-WA board members need to:

• be a CLTA-WA member in good standing of 2021-2022 membership
• possess necessary qualities and skills and be willing to perform the duties as (described in the attached document Board-position-and-duties)
• serve a three-year term commencing on June 1, 2022
• All nominations should be received by March 23th, 2022. Once nominations have closed, the nomination committee will contact candidates to submit the following by April 4th, 2022:

1. A statement of intent
2. A 200–300-word bio

Review of applications will be completed by April 11th, 2022.  A list of best qualified candidates will be put forth for the whole membership to vote on and the voting will run from April 12th, 2022 until April 24th, 2022. New board members will be announced on May 1st, 2022.

Nomination is one of the most important responsibilities and privileges that we have as members of CLTA-WA. This is each members’ chance to select board members who will devote themselves to supporting this organization’s mission. We would like to strongly encourage you to nominate qualified candidates or self-nominate for director of board positions of CLTA-WA.

Thank you for your time and ongoing support.

Sincerely,

CLTA-WA president and the Election Committee

Xi Sun
Meitsu Chuang
Pollyanna Wang

president@clta-wa.org
http://www.clta-wa.org/

2019年11月ACTFL会议总结  ( 作者： 万静然)

2019年11月23日-24日，我参加了在Washington DC举办的ACTFL年会。在本次年会，我和Skyline High School的Zoe Jiang老师一起做了Bring Magic to WL Classrooms workshop。Zoe Jiang老师做的部分是the rules of magic. Rules of Magic 包括：

1. Covering and Reveal
2. What you see is not what you think you see
3. Imagination is very important to magic, as well as to WL learning.
4. Add critical thinking to lessons.
5. Use high tech to make your classroom magical.

其中，江老师介绍的新学期活动受到与会老师的欢迎。这是一个联系数学，社区的interpersonal activity。很适合没有任何语言基础的学生参与。

我部分的重点是：

1. Magic via Effective Classroom Management
2. Magic via Engaging Classroom Activities

我的部分以中秋节为例，介绍了结合天文和STEM的活动 （见附件Jingran Wan_Magic Presentation_Sending）

同一天，有一位老师也做了一场关于Magic Classroom 的活动。这位老师的内容和教学策略和我们的讲座内容不谋而合。她的总结给我们提供了很好的理论框架这位老师总结的M.A.G.I.C的框架是：

M: movement, music, hand-on. e.g. running dictation/question
A: Authentic texts
G: Game
I: Interaction
C: Challenge

在其他的参会时间，我参加了一系列讲座。感兴趣的内容包括：沉浸式小学教学经验、课堂管理和分层次教学，technologies to Amplify Student Voice. 另外，在中文老师的分享会，每位老师有五分钟分享一个教学活动，尽量不用PPT，快速高效，现场气氛十分热烈。CLTA-WA workshop 和 WAFLT Chinese Idea Share 也可以借鉴这一形式，提高分享效率。

2019年10月11日至12日，2019 WAFLT秋季会议 在Spokane召开。 WAFLT (Washington Association for Language Teaching)是华盛顿州K-16外语教师的最大组织，包括西班牙语、法语、德语、中文、日语等各个语种的外语教师和外语研究人员。每年的秋季会议是华州外语界最重要的交流机会。本次WAFLT会议共有七位中文老师在会议中做了精彩的演讲和活动分享。