This is from Sean:
I currently teach at one of three high schools managed by a large charter school district called UNO Charter School Network in Chicago. (I know. Charter schools can be awful. But rest assured, our teachers are unionized! That’s right, we are unionizing charter schools in Chicago!) Every student in all three high schools, that is, freshmen through seniors, has to take Chinese. This is something that the founders of the charter school wanted for their mostly Hispanic, Spanish-speaking population of students, which does make a lot of sense. I’ve been trying to get friendly with the two Chinese teachers at my school. One, Mr. Shen, is very open for new ideas. The other, I’m not so sure yet. But I sense that they both are feeling beaten down by teaching form and not meaning. I told Mr. Shen that I would send him a video or two over Winter Break for him to chew on, and then slowly send him more resources. Can anyone recommend a couple of good videos of Chinese teachers for my colleague, Mr. Shen, as a way to introduce CI?