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 assessment activity was taken from Catherine Zhong’s Chinese class at Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School in New York. The class has six 12th graders in a remote learning setting.

In this TEQ Online video, you will see how Miss Zhong used a teacher interview on Zoom to replace student-student role play when she assessed the speaking component of a unit. You will also see how enthusiastically the students responded to the interview task. The teacher interview is an excellent way to assess students’ speaking performance if the class size is not big. The teacher also gave written feedback and chatted with the students after the interview as follow-ups to improve students' learning and enhance the teacher-student relationship. 

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