Develop your teaching skills with the Cheng & Tsui Professional Development Award. This award is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of teachers of Chinese and Japanese, especially those teachers who are new to the field. The award is given annually to support the attendance of pre-collegiate (including heritage school) and collegiate teachers at training workshops, seminars, conferences, and other in-service learning experiences at local, national, or international levels; and/or to collaborate with a mentor teacher. Teacher training workshops and seminars attended by the applicant should be focused on Chinese or Japanese pedagogy and issues of teaching and learning these languages; those winners of the award will be asked to provide a brief synopsis of their conference experience. The fund has designated an annual amount of $1,000 to be divided between at least two teachers each year. Teachers are urged to leverage additional funding from their schools or other sources to enable them to participate in professional development activities. We hope that these grants will be helpful in increasing the pool of excellent teachers for the Chinese and Japanese language fields.
Winners will be announced at the ACTFL Annual Conference. Read more about the awards and download application forms by clicking on the links below.
- Awards for teachers of Japanese: http://www.colorado.edu/ealld/atj/ATJ/prodevapp.html
- Awards for teachers of Chinese: http://clta.osu.edu/awards/chengtsui-awards.htm