Students may need to complete an interview before being accepted into a teacher education program. Because elementary school teachers typically teach all subjects to children, they may be required to take pre-major courses in a range of topics such as children's literature, language arts and elementary mathematics. Programs may also require students to take supplemental classes in art and music.
Pinyin input method. Screenshot of SCIM's Smart Pinyin. The pinyin method (simplified Chinese: æ¼é³è¾å¥æ³; traditional Chinese: æ¼é³è¼¸å¥æ³; pinyin: pÄ«nyÄ«n shÅ«rÃ¹ fÇ) refers to a family of input methods based on the pinyin method of romanization.
While Pinyin uses the Latin alphabet, it should be kept in mind that it represents the sounds of Mandarin, not of English or any other language. Other than to express tonality, the only letter with diacritics that is used is âÃ¼â. It uses four different diacritics on vowels to represent tones: Ä, Ã¡, Ç, Ã . Some have used numbers to represent the tones, but this is no longer as necessary as it used to be, because many software tools have become available for typing Pinyin with diacritical tone marks, as preferred by the Pinyin standard.