Archive for July, 2008

SVP Evaluation Meeting Day 1

Today was the first day of a two day SVP evaluation meeting. In the morning, each team gave a report of their experience and the main lessons learned. They also prepared a Powerpoint meant to share the experience and raise awareness about rural China amongst friends and family back home. In the afternoon, we split [...]

Last day at the SVP sites

中文翻译在英文后面。这是在山西永济进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program. 中文翻译在英文后面。
The last day of SVP teaching included student performances at all of the sites. The Nanzheng Elementary School students acted out skits, sang songs, and organized other programs. The volunteers strung up student works around the school and [...]

How to help rural China from far away?

中文翻译在英文后面。For most of our three year history, RCEF has been entirely run by volunteers outside of rural China. However, over the past year, a few long-time volunteers decided to become full-time staff in China. As the focus of our work moves to long-term, full-time programs on the ground, the following question becomes ever more relevant: [...]

Paper Cutting Lesson

中文翻译在英文后面。这是在山西永济进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program.
One of the classrooms at Zhaizi Village Elementary School doubled as an art gallery this morning. The occasion was a visit from a venerable local artist—an elderly woman whom the volunteers had invited to display her mastery [...]

Field Trip to the Handicrafts Workshop

中文翻译在英文后面。这是在山西永济进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program. 中文翻译在英文后面。
Today, 38 sixth graders from the SVP at Zhaizi Village took a field trip to a place that is only five minutes away from their school. Despite its proximity, almost none of the students had even heard [...]

SVP Midterm Evaluation Meeting

中文翻译在英文后面。这是在陕西省永吉进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program in Yongji, Shanxi Province.
The three SVP teams came “home” to Guan Ai School this morning. For the first year in SVP, the teaching sites are close enough together that staff can visit regularly and teams can gather together [...]

Nan Zheng Students Investigate their Village

中文翻译在英文后面。这是在山西永济进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program.
Sun Pengpeng and Jiang Peng have been leading the Community Research module at Nan Zheng Primary School. Both the older and the younger classes get two class periods in a row everyday for doing their research projects. [...]

A Rural Teacher’s Reflections on SVP Training

下面这封信是一位农村教师参与今年支教培训后写的感想。他去年全程参与了RCEF的暑期支教项目,今年参加了支教项目培训以及培训后的图书阅读交流会。他任教教的学校是2007年暑期支教项目和图书室与阅读项目的项目点。
A rural teacher wrote us this letter sharing what hehad learned and his suggestions for RCEF after participating in the 2008 Summer Volunteer Program training and the Libraries and Reading project seminar. He participated in the 2007 Summer Volunteer program, and the school where he teaches is an RCEF partner for our Libraries and Reading [...]

Libraries & Reading Meeting

中文翻译在英文后面。RCEF has donated books for libraries in six rural schools and communities. On July 18, teachers from two of those sites, Henan Dayang and Shandong Guozhuang Elementary Schools, gathered at Guan Ai Elementary School for a sharing meeting. Another participant, Huang Yaxiong, used his own money to start a small lending collection for his middle [...]

Third day of teaching at Wang Zhuang School

中文翻译在英文后面。这是在山西永济进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program. 中文翻译在英文后面。
Sun Laoshi, the principal of Guan Ai, took me to Wang Zhuang Primary School on her motorcycle. We each sat in on two lessons, and then listened to the volunteers talk about their day’s teaching over [...]