Chenkai Chi

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For students who are learning to speak English, art can empower a shift of focus away from rote memorization to creative and meaningful inquiry. (Shutterstock)

Bringing art into classrooms can benefit students who are learning to speak English

Chenkai Chi, University of Windsor; Mehdia Hassan, University of Toronto, and Pauline Sameshima, Lakehead University

Making and analyzing art helps students learn English on a more personal and emotional level than traditional approaches do.
Coming to parts of a solution around climate change needs to involve the intersection of many disciplines. (Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency/EDUimages)

How classroom learning can help students shape new stories about climate change

Chenkai Chi, University of Windsor and Susan Drake, Brock University

The big, interconnected problem of climate change means teachers need to build lessons beginning with big questions. Five steps for designing classes that draw on interdisciplinary approaches.
Working to understand and appreciate differences between western and Chinese approaches to education could contribute to the cross-cultural understanding we need to address global crises. (Shutterstock)

How Canadian and Chinese teachers’ reciprocal learning can benefit students

Chenkai Chi, University of Windsor and Shijing Xu, University of Windsor

Teachers in Ontario elementary schools can learn from how teachers in China approach collaboration as subject area specialists, while Chinese teachers can learn about developing the whole child.

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