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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 even after training is over. Each site is within 15-40 minutes walk from Guan Ai, RCEF’s main program site. Some volunteers joked that coming back to Guan Ai (where we had the training) was like returning to the “mother village!” After five days of teaching, this was the half-way point so we wanted participants to be able to reflect on their experiences and share strategies with each other.

After breakfast, each team gave a summary of what classes they taught and what challenges they had encountered. Then participants who were teaching similar subjects had an hour and a half to discuss in small groups and share experiences from different sites. The subject groups were: Science/Health, Foreign Languages, Social Sciences, and Special Classes. Then RCEF’s Material Designs Director Marco Flagg explained the policy of how to organize and submit pictures to RCEF. You’ll be able to see pictures from the program on RCEF’s Photo Gallery in August!

Each team brainstormed a few main issues they wanted to discuss with others. Sara wrote 12 of these topics on the board and people voted during lunch for the topic they were most interested in. Among the six chosen were: 1) How to control your relationship with students: Friends vs. authority figures; 2) How to hold more effective team meetings; 3) How the community can get involved in education; 4) How to adjust your classes based on students’ reactions; 5) Cooperation between volunteers and local teachers, lead teachers and teaching assistants； 6） How to handle classes where students have varying academic levels and backgrounds. Each discussion group took notes and these will add to RCEF’s documentation of the SVP process and challenges.

翻译：Mustang

三个支教队伍今天早晨来到关爱学校。今年，暑期支教教学点之间比较近，在培训之后，人们经常定期互访，甚至于队员们会聚集在一起。每个培训点离RCEF的主要培训点关爱小学走路需要大约15－40分钟路程。一些志愿者开玩笑的说，回到关爱的路就好像回到娘家。经过五天的培训，整个培训活动已经过半，我们想让参与者能够对他们的体验进行思索，互相之间分享好的方法。

早饭之后，每个队员对他们所传授的课程以及所面临的困难进行了一个小结。然后，那些教学课程相近的志愿者形成一个小组进行了1.5小时的讨论，分享他们在不同的教学点的体验。这些小组包括：科学/健康，外语、社会科学 和人物类以及其他的特殊课程。然后RCEF的材料设计主管马可说明了如何向RCEF组织递交图片的基本原则。在八月你就可以在RCEF的图片集锦中看到这些照片。

每个队员集体讨论了大家关心的几个主要的事情。林治美在黑板上写了这些议题中的12个，中午吃饭时队员对这些议题进行投票选择大家最关心的议题。大家选择的6个如下：1)如何掌握你与学生之间的关系：朋友或者权威的形象 2)如何更有效的进行队员会议；3)公社如何参与到教育中来；4)如何根据学生的反映来调整你的课程；5)志愿者与当地老师之间的合作，主要的老师和教学助手的角色定位；6)如和对待不程度的学生。。每个讨论小组都进行了记录，这些都将作为暑期支教项目的进程和面临的困难的文字资料。