Faculty at the College are encouraged to transform their teaching and learning by engaging their students in active learning spaces. We are pleased to share faculty stories that illustrate the impact of their teaching. 

Ran Zhao is a Lecturer and Director of the Chinese Language Program in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures & Cultures at the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in Second Language Acquisition from Carnegie Mellon University in 2000. In her 12 years of teaching at UVA, Ran Zhao has focused on creating an engaging and meaningful learning experience for her students. Ran Zhao received the Hybrid Challenge Award in 2013 to flip her courses. She also received the Learning Technology Incubator grants from Learning Design & Technology in 2014-2016. With this support Ran Zhao has developed various resources and tools to engage students in and out of the classroom. Here she explains how "Speak Good Chinese" helps her students improve their Mandarin pronunciation.