ePals

ePal is like a huge school community including students and teachers from all over the world. They can communicate and collaborate with each other which benefits both sides.

People could search the projects according to region and language, it really helps teachers to improve their pedagogy by learning from other teachers, at the same time, and they could share resources on line as a reference. Not only teachers, but also students could communicate with their peers, meanwhile, their parents could be involved to their children's work. It makes interaction among teachers, students, and parents much easier, therefore, they could understand each other better to do a better job.

In my opinion, the best way to make an improvement is imitating others first and then to innovate on the basis of imitating. So since I want to teach Chinese in the future, learning and communicating with teachers who teach Chinese in the States is a good way in my future teaching. However, learning from the teachers who teach a foreign language to English-speakers is a good way as well. Since most of them are English native speakers, they understood the psychology much better then a non-native speaker speaks English as their first language. Teachers who see things from the angle of students could work in an effective way and get a better result.