Chinese K-5 FLES

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Planning Meeting 1: Center for Applied Linguistics, February 7-10, 2007

A planning meeting for the Chinese K-5 FLES project took place at the Center for Applied Linguistics in Washington DC on February 7-10, 2007. At this meeting the project staff defined the enduring understandings and essential questions that guide the project and developed the project conceptual framework. They began work on the project curriculum defining essential questions and themes by level for grade levels K-5. They developed the project learner profile using nationally recognized assessments and reviewed the project research plan.


		The Chinese K-5 FLES planning group defines the project conceptual framework; (from left) Nancy Rhodes, Shuhan Wang, Eileen Lorenz, and Wei-ling Wu. Not pictured are Lynn Thompson and Marcia Rosenbusch.
		Lynn Thompson prepares to take notes on the project enduring understandings and essential questions.
		Wei-ling Wu clarifies a point about the essential questions.
		Marcia Rosenbusch (left), Wei-ling Wu, and ShuhanWang type and review the notes on the learner profile.
		Wei-ling Wu (left) and Eileen Lorenz discuss the design of the curriculum for the Chinese K-5 FLES project.
		Nancy Rhodes (on left) and Shuhan Wang discuss the choice of themes to be developed in the kindergarten curriculum