In June, an eight-member delegation from the Nationwide Council of State Supervisors for Languages (NCSSFL), together with its president Melissa Monroe, vice chairman Stacy Lyon, and president elect Cathleen Skinner, went on an official go to to Taiwan, organized by the Ministry of Schooling and FICHET—the Basis for Worldwide Cooperation in Larger Schooling of Taiwan.
Throughout their go to, they have been accompanied by Sophie Chou, Director of the Schooling Division of the Taipei Financial and Cultural Consultant Workplace within the U.S. and so they met with training authorities and mentioned potential methods to strengthen worldwide cooperation and supply sensible assist for Mandarin language training. On the Ministry of Schooling, the delegation met with Dr. Lin Po-Chiao 林伯樵, Chief Secretary of the Ministry of Schooling and mentioned matters together with Mandarin instructor coaching, curriculum growth, and elementary and secondary sister college partnerships. Additionally they had discussions with Dr. Wu Li-Sen 吳立森, Director-Basic of the Kaohsiung Metropolis Authorities Schooling Bureau.
Different highlights included conferences with the Steering Committee for the Check of Proficiency-Huayu (SC-TOP), the Mandarin Coaching Middle at Nationwide Taiwan Regular College, the American Institute in Taiwan, Chung Yuan Christian College in Taoyuan, and Nationwide Solar Yat-sen College in Kaohsiung, the place they mentioned many facets of language training supply.
They have been capable of observe Taiwan’s language training coverage implementation, some bilingual curriculum practices, and the vibrancy of Taiwan’s elementary and secondary training at a variety of colleges: Changan Elementary College in Taipei, which has a bilingual curriculum, Tian-Mu Junior Excessive College in Taipei, Jhangshu Worldwide Artistic Technical Excessive College in New Taipei which mixes an experimental technical senior highschool and a junior highschool, and Kaohsiung Senior Excessive College in Kaohsiung.
To spherical out the journey, the delegates loved some Taiwanese cultural experiences, together with making an attempt out Hakka tea, a standard floor tea beverage; visits to Ningxia Night time Market, Taipei 101, Taipei Confucius Temple, and The Dragon and Tiger Pagodas, a temple in Zuoying District, Kaohsiung.
