Border Town, In-depth Reading (Teacher’s Book)

Chunman Gissing, master of comparative literature in the University of Washington, chief examiner of IB, one of the founders and former president of the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Washington State. She taught at the University of Washington and served as vice president of Beijing International School and summer teacher training officer of the Star Talk Program at the University of Hawaii. She is currently an advisor to the Chinese Language Teachers Association of Huazhou and an education consultant of the Confucius Institute of Huazhou. She specializes in task-based pedagogical training, curriculum design, high-quality book composing of appropriate age and class for Chinese children. Jing Wu taught at IUP Chinese Center of Tsinghua University and Yale University and once served as the teaching director and training director. She currently works in Beijing International School and serves as an IB examiner and training officer. She has been engaged in curriculum design and first-line teaching of Chinese as a second language for many years. She has rich experience on curriculum planning and result evaluation for Chinese course of international diploma, especially on language and literature. Xiaolin Gong, a former teacher at Beijing Yaozhong International School, currently teaches at Beijing International School and serves as an IB Chinese examiner. She has rich teaching experience of junior and senior high school and on international diploma course of IB literature language in senior high school. She specializes in curriculum design, evaluation and textbook compilation.