YI-LING PAN

Bilingual educator

Helping learners bring language into everyday life.

Portrait of Yi Ling Pan seated outdoors.

  1. Teaching Reflections

    Classroom observations, teaching experiences, and questions that shape my practice.

  2. Theory & Practice

    Connecting ideas about pedagogy, language, and learning with classroom experience.

  3. Teaching Resources

    Materials, activities, and teaching ideas created, adapted, or used in the classroom.

Latest Writing

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Yi Ling Pan leads a classroom activity while elementary students raise their arms.

  1. Why Is Everyone Talking About SEL in Taiwan?

    What changes when SEL moves from policy into the classroom?

  2. Teaching Mandarin to Students Who Didn't Choose to Learn It

    A reflection on teaching Mandarin to students who had not chosen the class, and learning to notice smaller signs of participation and progress.

  3. When Students Made Me Question Myself

    A reflection on a difficult classroom experience in Japan and how it changed the way I view myself as a teacher.

A glimpse into the classroom.

Yi Ling Pan reads to a classroom while students raise their hands.
Yi Ling Pan points to food photographs during a classroom lesson.
Yi Ling Pan speaks with a student holding a food photograph.
Yi Ling Pan reads an illustrated book in front of a chalkboard.
Yi Ling Pan leads a lesson while students watch from their desks.
A classroom group holds up colorful student artwork for a photograph.
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