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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 juicy watermelon. Here are some glimpses of the lessons volunteers taught:

• Marco talked about role models with the students. At first, the students in both classes only named “national heroes” like Mao Zedong, Lei Feng and Zhou Enlai. Marco encouraged them to also think of the people in their everyday lives. Many students then thought about their parents, teachers, classmates and other community members and pointed out their qualities that they admire.
• Jenny had the students in the older class act out the story of the Qin emperor’s assassination by Jing Ke. The students were very engaged and said that acting the story out helped them form a deeper impression.
• Steve taught the younger class basic greetings in English. Towards the end of the lesson, he asked the students to practice the dialogue in small groups. I was surprised to see that almost all of the students actually practiced it loudly with each other instead of chatting about other things.

A lot of the volunteers are finding that the younger class is much more active and willing to speak up in class than the older class. This has been the case in different modules and the volunteers brought it up for discussion during their daily evaluation meeting. One possible explanation that was brought up is that by middle school, the students are very well-trained in the mode of behavior and thinking expected in regular schooling. This makes it more difficult for them to think and speak freely. Another possibility is that the middle school students are at a stage where they are more self-conscious or more concerned about what their peers think about them. Do you have any insight or experience about this situation? Please share!

Student Feedback

Now that the students have experienced three days of RCEF classes, they were asked to write some feedback. The students in the younger class (primary grades) wrote about which classes they like or dislike and why. Below are some examples (after the Chinese translation of this post).

中文翻译：Subra Huang

关爱的副校长孙老师用她的摩托车把我带到王庄小学。我们在那里旁听了两堂课，接着倾听了志愿者讨论教学经验（同时享受着美味的西瓜哦）。以下是讲课内容的摘要。

• 马可和学生讲的是心中的榜样。一开始，两个班的学生都只想起一些伟人的名字，例如毛泽东、雷锋、周恩来。Marco则鼓励学生想想他们日常生活中的普通人。于是许多学生开始想到他们的父母、老师、同学以及其他乡亲，还指出了这些人令他们崇拜的地方。
• 沈依宁在大班组织学生排演了荆轲刺秦王。学生演得相当投入，他们说重演历史加深了其对历史的印象。
• 廖元铂在小班教了简单的英文问候语。最后他还让学生分成几人一小组进行对话练习。居然所有的学生都是真的在大声练习，而不是在开小差！

许多志愿者都发现，小班学生在课堂上比大班学生爱发言。这一点曾经在不同的模式中都得以证实。志愿者在每天都进行的评估会议上对此进行讨论。他们提出一种解释，中学按照刻板教育方式对学生进行约束，令其行为及思维方式固化，这使他们很难自由思考和发表言论。此外还有一种可能性，即中学生本身处于这样一个阶段，他们的自我意识更强，更关心同龄人对自己的看法。如果你有任何相关的观点或经验，欢迎和我们分享！

学生的反馈

到现在，学生已经完成了3天RCEF的课程，我们请他们书写了一些反馈。小班（小学水平）学生列了他们喜欢或不喜欢的课程以及喜欢和不喜欢的原因。下面举几例：

Student Feedback/学生的反馈

“我喜欢魏老师的健康课，因为他让我们懂得了健康的知识，可以让我们强身健体。”

“我最喜欢英语，因为我本来就喜欢英语可以和一些美国人对话，可以可我的笔友对笔，而且是杨班主任的课。”

“我喜欢历史课（沈老师），因为我平时在学校看的书大部分都是关于历史的。希望让老师多上历史课。”

The older students gave their feedback about the history module taught by Jenny and also shared their interests. 大班学生就沈依宁主持的历史剧阐述了他们的心得。

“我喜欢这节课的话剧。我觉得这节课让我十分开心，希望在以后还有。利用话剧，我觉得我对这节课的那个故事有了深的了解。”
“我没有不喜欢的地方，我喜欢上历史课。我觉得你们十分的热情开朗，而且还十分的幽默。我十分的想了解古代的中国历史。”
“我十分喜欢古代历史故事：《三国演义》、杨家将、亮剑、百团大战。我一个月有时看一两本书，有时不看。”

1) “喜欢表演历史故事那方面，因为它特别精彩、有趣，一瞬间就可以让我们记住西多东西。”
2) “老师都长得特别漂亮，还和蔼可亲。我希望老师多讲一些有趣的历史故事。”
3) “我想学习有关服装变化的历史。”
4) “我看过的书：《放羊的星星》，《一千零一夜》”

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