Rethinking Teacher Education Partnerships: Preparing Culturally Relevant Teachers for Chinese Immigrant Families, Tuesday, 10/30, 7:30-9pm

In this CITED conversation, a Chinese immigrant teacher and a Chinese immigrant teacher educator will invite attendees to rethink teacher education partnerships in ways that prioritize Chinese immigrant families. Through examples, they will share how they partnered with low-income Chinese immigrant families to envision and co-construct culturally relevant classrooms. In doing so, they offer implications for how teacher education might rethink partnerships and reposition families.

Ting Yuan is an Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Instruction at the City University of New York (CUNY), College of Staten Island. Prior to CUNY, Dr. Yuan pursued her doctoral degree (Doctor of Education) in Curriculum and Teaching at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research examines culturally responsive and multimodal (digital) curricular practices in urban school settings. She further studies how teachers and underrepresented students of color co-construct equitable literacy spaces within these settings. Her work has appeared in Childhood Education, English Journal, and Young Exceptional Children. Dr. Yuan is the recipient of the 2017 American Educational Research Association Division K Early Career Travel Grant Award and the 2015 National Council of Teachers of English Geneva Smitherman Cultural Diversity Grant Award.

Hui S. Jiang is a bilingual special education teacher for pre-school aged children in New York City. She also works as a student teacher supervisor in the Early Childhood Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University, and an adjunct professor in the School of Education at St John’s University. Hui holds two master’s degrees from Columbia University. Her teaching and research interests include bilingualism and disabilities, understanding unique behaviors presented by children from culturally diverse families, and ways to connect children's home and school experiences.

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Innovation in Teacher Education and Development, a collaboration between Teachers College, Columbia University and Kings College, London.

Where: 306 Russell