Cindy Kendall, institute co-leader, leads a discussion on the issues related to copyright and the Web in teaching.

Institute participants create their own blogs, for most of them, for the first time.

Participants participate in varied partner and small group activities that illustrate effective teaching standards.

Cindy Kendall tells a simple story in Spanish using visuals, dramatization, and active participation that participants, who do not know Spanish, are able to retell to each other within 30 minutes.

Janna Chiang (KY) begins an activity teaching colors, here using colored water made from brightly colored jello powder in water.

Janna involves the participants in this content-rich activity in which they create new colors by mixing the primary colors.

Elena Tao (NC) uses a cow puppet in her demonstration class to teach the names of animals.

PeiYu Shih (TX) teaches food names and directionality in an activity that simulates shopping in a supermarket.

Cherice Montgomery, co-leader of the institute, makes a point in leading a discussion on literacy in character-based languages.

From left, Yanhong LI (MA) and Mei Lian Lu (FL) dramatically act out the roles of animals in a story their small group presented to illustrate circling of vocabulary and expressions.

From left, Aaron Bray (WI), Monica Shang (FL), Mei-Ju Hwang (MA), Josephine Auyeung (MN) tell a story to practice circling of vocabulary and expressions.

Cherice Montgomery leads a discussion on the questions that institute participants developed to guide the conversation when they mentor a novice teacher. These questions address 1) support, 2) challenge, and 3) vision.

Weiqing Wang, teacher of the Chinese class for high school students, a demonstration class that participants in the institute observed daily for one week, reviews terms for foods without showing the Chinese characters or Pinyin.

Students in the Chinese demonstration class display decorations typically used in the Spring Festival celebration and ask each other to identify the terms for the decorations.

Weiqing Wang demonstrates the use of chopsticks.

Students practice picking up regular marshmallows, then miniature marshmallows, with chopsticks, counting them as they go.

Students in the high school demonstration class sample the Chinese foods they have been learning about during the week.

Cherice Montgomery leads a discussion of high school students and participants about language teaching and learning.

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