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.
As you can see, there are two Chinese characters for English (the language), which are ying1 yu3 in Pinyin. Pinyin is the international standard romanization scheme for Chinese characters, which is useful for learning the phonetics of Mandarin. There are four tones in Pinyin and we use the numbers here, i.e., 1, 2, 3, and 4, to depict the four tones. If you want to learn Mandarin (or Pu3 Tong1 Hua4), you have to master the four tones of the language. However, one pinyin usually represents many Chinese characters.