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This is an important question, because digging down to discover our deepest motivations can help us keep sight of why we are doing this despite the frustration and challenges and sustain us for the long haul. I think it would also be interesting for all of us in the RCEF community to answer this question [...]

Vivian Chow participated in the Volunteer Program 2007 and went to teach in Dongbaoquan Village (Hebei Province). Recently, she wrote the following fascinating and insightful article about the joys and frustrations of her summer teaching for the Beijing magazine tbjkids.com. What are your thoughts about it? By my third day of teaching in Dongbaoquan village, [...]

A post from Mark, teacher at Fuxin School. (Copied from the Fuxin bbs: http://www.fuxin.org/bbs/a/a.asp?B=3&ID=21) [原创]两个哈佛的女研究生给马克老师拎行李 昨天马克老师和张勇老老师离开复新，一起离开学校的还有乡村教育促进会（RCEF)的Sara ， Diane和江鹏,我们一同坐车从高公去涡阳，在店集镇修桥的地方要倒车，我的行李比较多，结果我们贤惠的Sara 和 Diane 也帮忙拎我的行李。结果就上演了一幕两个哈佛的女研究生给马克老师拎行李的2008新年贺岁片。导演是马克老师，女主演是 Sara Lam ，Diane Geng, 男主演是Peng Jiang(From China), Yong Zhang (from Shanghai). 想起了美国大萧条时期哈佛的毕业生当电梯值班员了。还有老秘ST（原天安房地产公司老总）也帮马克老师收拾过房间，真是感触很多，耳边又响起了那熟悉的旋律：复新啊，复新啊，你把我和世界啊紧紧相连。。。。。。。。。希望在学校的老师们加油！关心学校的人们也要更加对学校有信心。新年快乐。

Winter in rural China is beautiful but very, very cold. Nevertheless, in a recent trip Sara, Jiang Peng, and I took to the Fuxin Middle School, one of RCEF’s partner schools, we found warmth and heated discussion in the company of some pretty amazing teachers. Education idealists from around China are drawn to this one-of-a-kind [...]

Teach For America (TFA) is an NGO that places American college graduates in schools in low-income communities in the US to teach for two years. Their teachers go through an intensive five-week training, in which they learn about lesson planning, classroom management, and effective teaching methods. TFA has been around for 17 years now and [...]

Fifth-graders at Guan Ai school in Shanxi, one of the Teaching Fellows sites, correspond in English with pen pals at a school in California, also fifth-graders. Here is a letter one of the students recently wrote. December 4, 2007 Dear Gabby, How are you? This is my first time writing to you! Ever since our [...]

The Community School started up projects again in the middle of December. Wang Weisong, Steven Liu and others at the school have been redesigning the computer class curriculum according to the responses of the students, and have also been visiting potential new students. They will kick off the new and improved computer class during the [...]

After the 2007 Summer Volunteer Program ended, volunteer Jikky Lam stayed in China to conduct a half-year research internship with RCEF. Her job was to evaluate the Summer Volunteer Program by returning to village schools and interviewing the students, teachers, and villagers about their experience with RCEF. Below are her reflections on her trip to [...]

The annual Yuan Dan performance at Guan Ai School is one of the biggest village events of the year. It took place on December 30th, a cold but clear day. All of the students had the chance to perform on the school field with most of their parents standing around watching them. Teachers and students [...]

目的： 锻炼孩子们的团队合作能力，沟通能力，参考资料能力，开拓思维，熟悉工作的流程。各个版块的内容如：采访、作文、日记、调查报告等都可以提高孩子们在这些方面的积极性。其余知识性、趣味性版块可提高孩子阅读的兴趣。 制作报纸流程： 第一步，按照版块，分成头版、二版、三版、四版四个小组，6人一组，选出组长与副组长。孩子们一般都会直接指向比较有威信的同学来当他们的组长。 第二步，甄选稿件。当然基础工作是要让各个年级交稿，关爱学校第一期校报的这项工作已由老师做好。但从这之后要由学生自主递交稿件，老师予以辅助、指导与推荐等等。甄选稿件过程为全班四个小组分批次审阅所有稿件，并给出入围名单。四个组都选择的作品铁定放入本期报纸，下来三个组选择的稿件，再两个组选择的。无法抉择时，过程可重复。