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离开关爱学校的那天上午，Diane和江鹏应旁边一所公立小学的邀请率领胡老师和我去参观交流。前两天美国的小学和关爱小学联谊活动在十里八乡马上传开，社会效应这就实打实的如预期而来。这个学校的学生看见我们眼生，都显的有点紧张。低年级的孩子有的忽然跑开，有的突然围住。高年级的学生估计我们是领导来考察，看见我们都忽然端坐行注目礼，这样就把紧张这个皮球又踢向了我们。我尝试用几个问题打开一下尴尬局面，作为经验推广我可以在这里分享一下。最幽默最能出彩的问题是“你们班男生多还是女生多。”一般全班都能马上不假思索而且相当响亮的回答接着还能哈哈大笑。我掌握这个要领之后屡试不爽，走哪都问你们班男生多还是女生多，深受学生爱戴。校长安排了几个年轻老师跟我们座谈，主要内容就是学校的老师坐，校长和我们谈。不过这所小学与关爱小学合作的意向初步达成，当天晚上就有几位老师去关爱小学交流学习。散会了，我就在学校里转。忽然碰到两个同学拿着个本子在各个教室里检查。一个是五年级的女生，大队长。一个是六年级的男生，学生会会长。我说你可以叫主席，他笑了笑说不行要坚持叫会长。他们检查的项目是习字课老师和学生的表现情况。老师表现的评比相对简单，黑板上写字就加两分不写就减1分。学生检查是依照“三个一”标准，这俩孩子异口同声脱口而出：眼离书、本一尺，手握笔、离笔尖一寸，胸离课桌一拳。（我坚决的BAIDU了一下，才能复制到这里。）我摸着会长的头说，你要是检查自己班是不是永远合格。他说不是。我说我才不信。他马上转身携大队长钻进自己教室，然后往自己的小本子上写着“老师认真+2，学生三个一 -1”。我看见了大笑，说“你以后还想不想在你们班里混了？”他和大队长也都笑了。

Hu Laoshi, a rural middle school English teacher of over six years, is at Guan Ai School this week. (Guan Ai is one of RCEF’s long term sites). He is a great, lively English teacher and has won awards for his teaching. I asked him why he thinks it’s important for rural Chinese kids to [...]

中文翻译翻译文后面
Update: Xiaoqi herself has added a comment to the previous post. You can read it here.
My post about Yu Xiaoqi’s presentation elicited a record number of responses, including some very elaborate ones. Here is a summary:

3 people thought the first group of answers came from rural students, the second from urban (Lan Xuezhao: “I am [...]

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At the CIES conference in New York, I attended a very interesting talk by Xiaoqi Yu from Kent State University. She asked students in China what they thought were the characteristics of a good teacher. Below are two groups of responses as described by Xiaoqi. One group of responses came from urban students, the other [...]

Yesterday, while I was sitting at home in Amsterdam, working on our RCEF online Photo Gallery, I received an email from Lihua. She lives in China and was one of my fellow team mates of the Summer Volunteering Program 2007; we both were in the Zhonggu Village (Shandong province) team. We still contact each other [...]

I’ve just returned from a visit to Guozhuang village, where a brand new RCEF-sponsored library was just opened. The village had held a “book giving ceremony” as part of the Chinese New Year festivities. Afterwards, the village committee invited booklovers in the village to come together and decide how to encourage reading in [...]

“We’ve made a good friend and are even more motivated toward our work in education and international development.” Here is the rest of the report by Jessica Shyu, RCEF volunteer and Teach For America Program Director, about her meeting with Shum Sai Tak. Comments are very welcome. (Picture: Shum Sai Tak (r) and his son [...]