Cheng Han-Wu

Cheng Han-Wu

Cheng-Han Wu is an advanced skills teacher and head of Chinese at Downe House School. Since 2006 he has strategically established Mandarin Chinese in the curriculum from Key Stage 3 to Key Stage 5. Cheng-Han holds a Masters degree in teaching (MTeach), and in 2013 he won a UCL IOE Confucius Institute Excellence Award. He is an outstanding mentor to teacher trainees and he regularly organises TeachMeets for MFL teachers.

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Wednesday, 18 November 2015 11:00

Introducing… Tiger Teachers!

I have been meaning to write this article about my thoughts after watching the BBC programme Chinese School in the summer. The documentary is about having four Chinese teachers in Bohunt School (oversubscribed mixed comprehensive school rated as ‘Outstanding’ by Ofsted) teach pupils the Chinese way. I feel that the Chinese teachers always had really high expectations of all the pupils they taught, and had sheer determination to see this through.

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