On June 26th, the Confucius Institute in Edmonton was invited by the Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation to provide one day of activities at Churchill Square to celebrate Canadian Multiculturalism Day.
Confucius Institute provided the workshops of Chinese dough art, Chinese… [more]
On June 16, the CIE hosted the 2016 YCT/HSK Scholarship Award Ceremony at McCauley Chambers in the Center for Education to celebrate and recognize the successes that the students have achieved in the 2015 YCT or HSK Test. This was… [more]
On June 23, the Confucius Institute hosted a group of 75 students and 4 teachers from Kildare School. The purpose of their trip was to experience Chinese Culture by playing some Chinese traditional games, including shuttlecock, rubber band skipping, ping… [more]
During May and June every year, Confucius Classroom schools host Chinese graduation events for the students who are completing Chinese programs such as the Chinese bilingual program or Chinese language and culture program.
A number of the Confucius Classrooms invited… [more]
On May 25th, Mr. Lan Shuigao, the deputy director of the Quzhou Municipal Education Bureau of China visited the CIE.
Mr. Lan came to Canada on an education trip organized by Alberta Education to learn about Alberta’s education system. Although… [more]
The Confucius Institute was working with Professor Wen Xiaodong from Beijing Normal University to provide our Chinese teachers professional training in a thinking skills strategy named VETEA. Professor Wen is currently a visiting scholar at University of Alberta.
This is… [more]