Center for East Asian Studies
Kansas Asia Scholars
Kansas Committee for International Education in the Schools
Kansas Consortium for Teaching About Asia
East Asian Languages and Cultures
East Asian Library
Kansas Enrichment Network
KU Edwards Campus
The Confucius Institute works with school districts across the region to start, build, and expand programs in Chinese language. CIKU assists schools in finding highly qualified Chinese teachers, offers professional development and networking opportunities for K-16 Chinese instructors, and maintains a reference library of teaching materials. The Institute also provides support and advising to individuals interested in becoming certified teachers of Mandarin Chinese.
Chinese Jump! is a new summer language program for high school students offered by the Confucius Institute at the University of Kansas.The program includes a series of two-week sessions designed to give high school students an opportunity to jump into the study of Chinese language. The classes will be offered at selected high school via Interactive Distance Learning (IDL) technology. Students living nearby also may attend class at the Institute. This program is a part of the National Security Language Initiative--STARTALK-- funded by the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Defense to promote the teaching of lesser taught languages including Chinese. For more information, see Startalk: Chinese Jump!
To meet the rising demand from parents and students for Chinese language training, the Confucius Institute provides classes to high schools all over Kansas and in selected locations in Missouri and Arkansas using advanced distance-learning technology(IDL), in partnership with the Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service Center.
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