SSAT Chinese Teaching Awards 2010

Eight Confucius Institute Excellence Awards were presented at the SSAT's seventh annual China Conference, which took place at The Royal Society and The British Museum in London from 2-3 July 2010.

The nominated persons can come from any part of the subject area, including schools, advisory services, further and higher education, curriculum development, business and industry. To be given this award a person will need to have given service over a sustained period of time and made an outstanding contribution, showing commitment and system leadership.

Winner: Joan Deslandes, Headteacher, Kingsford Community School

The Subject Leadership Award seeks to award those who have made a significant contribution over a period of time in leading Chinese teaching and learning in their school and have established high standards of pupil performance.

Winner: Elspeth Wiltshire, Language Director, Devonport High School and Director of the Peninsula Group Confucius Classroom (which includes Devonport High School for Girls, Hele's School, Callington Community College and Ivybridge Community College).

Winner: Anne Martin, Head of Chinese, Trinity School

Winner: Annabel Parker, Head of Chinese, New Line Learning Academy

The Outstanding Teacher Award is presented to teachers who have displayed outstanding capability in teaching Chinese and/or China across the curriculum over a period of time.

Winner: Quimei Chen, Chinese teacher, Lincoln Christ's Hospital School

Winner: Alex Ferraby, Chinese teacher, Kingsford Community School

The Exceptional Support in Teaching and Learning Chinese Award is for a classroom or language teaching assistant, whose support for the subject has been exceptional.

Winner: Yu Bin, Coordinator, Peking University

 

For more details about the recent SSAT Conference including downloadable workshop presentations please visit the SSAT Chinese Network’s website