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དགེ་རྒན་འོས་སྦྱོང་། སྐད་ཡིག་གཉིས་པ་སློབ་ཐབས།
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Course Overview
This lesson centers on applying modern second-language acquisition methods to Tibetan language instruction, specifically for the third grade. The pedagogical framework integrates well-known techniques such as the reversal teaching method (flipped classroom), the Four Skills (རྩལ་བཞི་) (typically listening, speaking, reading, and writing), and the Four Basic Elements (སྐྱ་མ་བཞི་). A key focus is the detailed structure of the classroom sessions, emphasizing the Teaching Approaches using the Six Sessions (ཐུན་དྲུག་གི་སྒོ་ནས་ཁྲིད་སྟངས།). The methodology also incorporates specific strategies like Time-Limit Methods (དུས་བཀག་ཐབས་ལམ།), structuring the learning process around the Three Stages of Learning (སློབ་པའི་གནས་སྐབས་གསུམ།), and tailored Teaching Methods for the Preliminary Stage (སྔོན་འགྲོའི་སྐབས་ཁྲིད་སྟངས།). The curriculum provides explicit guidance on the mandatory and recommended activities for each of the six sessions. Beyond content and structure, the teaching philosophy stresses non-verbal communication, introducing an approach where teaching is guided by facial expressions/attitudes (རྣམ་འགྱུར་གྱི་ལམ་ནས་སློབ་ཁྲིད།) during activities. Crucially, the approach mandates not providing explicit explanations for the activities (བྱེད་སྒོ་འགྲེལ་བཤད་རྒྱག་རྒྱུ་མེད་པ་), encouraging discovery-based learning, and strictly requires providing equal time to all students (སློབ་ཕྲུག་ལ་དུས་ཚོད་གཅིག་མཚུངས་སྤྲད་དགོས་པ།) to ensure balanced participation.
Instructors
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Rinchen Dolma is from Shillong and holds a B.A. in Tibetan Studies from the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah. She possesses over five years of dedicated experience teaching Tibetan as a second language to students at the foundational levels (A0 – A2+). Her teaching focuses on building a strong command across all four language skills—reading, listening, writing, and speaking—through a practical application approach that is carefully tailored to each student’s specific needs. Her primary goal is to foster confidence in using Tibetan.
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Kunga Choeyang holds a Bachelor’s degree in Tibetan Studies from the College for Higher Tibetan Studies, Sarah. A native Tibetan speaker fluent in English, she has extensive experience teaching students at the A0 – A2+ level through the Sarah Online School. She is passionate about guiding learners to discover the richness of Tibetan language and culture and believes that “behind every great student is a special teacher.