http://www.eastonsd.org/China/Two_Highly_Qualified_Teachers_Teaching_in_China/Two_Highly_Qualified_Teachers_Teaching_in_China.html Janet Matthews and Joan Baldwin, employees of the Easton Area School District, visited China this summer... check out their Keynote presentation to find out all about it! iWeb 2.0.1 http://www.eastonsd.org/China/Two_Highly_Qualified_Teachers_Teaching_in_China/Two_Highly_Qualified_Teachers_Teaching_in_China_files/Picture%201.png http://www.eastonsd.org/China/Two_Highly_Qualified_Teachers_Teaching_in_China/Two_Highly_Qualified_Teachers_Teaching_in_China.html 60 no Janet Matthews and Joan Baldwin, employees of the Easton Area School District, visited China this summer... check out their Keynote presentation to find out all about it! Janet Matthews and Joan Baldwin, employees of the Easton Area School District, visited China this summer... check out their Keynote presentation to find out all about it! en http://www.eastonsd.org/China/Two_Highly_Qualified_Teachers_Teaching_in_China/Entries/2007/9/11_.html 54825fa7-55c0-418a-af9d-38dee08c6d95 Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:31:34 -0400 <a href="http://www.eastonsd.org/China/Media/Two%20Highly%20Qualified%20Teachers.mov"><img src="http://www.eastonsd.org/China/Two_Highly_Qualified_Teachers_Teaching_in_China/Media/Two%20Highly%20Qualified%20Teachers_1.png" style="float:left; padding-right:10px; padding-bottom:10px; width:168px; height:126px;"/></a>Writing in Chinese...<br/><br/>Every Chinese character is made up of a number of strokes, or single movements of the pen or writing brush. The order and direction in which the strokes are made are very important in producing uniform characters, and learning the basic rules of stroke order can also ease the process of learning to write. <br/><br/>In general -- and there are exceptions -- characters are written from left to right and top to bottom,and horizontal strokes before vertical ones. The outsides of enclosed characters are written beforethe insides, and dots, strokes that cut through a character, minor strokes and bottom enclosing strokes are written last.<br/><br/>Their kindergarten children learn 200 characters..... and we teach 44 words.<br/><br/> no 00:11:42 Writing in Chinese... Every Chinese character is made up of a number of strokes, or single movements of the pen or writing brush. The order and direction in which the strokes are made are very important in producing uniform characters, and learni Writing in Chinese... Every Chinese character is made up of a number of strokes, or single movements of the pen or writing brush. The order and direction in which the strokes are made are very important in producing uniform characters, and learning the basic rules of stroke order can also ease the process of learning to write. In general -- and there are exceptions -- characters are written from left to right and top to bottom,and horizontal strokes before vertical ones. The outsides of enclosed characters are written beforethe insides, and dots, strokes that cut through a character, minor strokes and bottom enclosing strokes are written last. Their kindergarten children learn 200 characters..... and we teach 44 words.