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Teachers and RCEF teaching fellows at Dadong Primary School worked to develop two new courses for 5th and 6th graders. The course on thunderstorm safety was suggested after a villager was killed by lightening last month. Teaching fellows Yu Zhihua and Xia Jing have taught lessons about thunderstorm and lightening safety and have also organized [...]

中文翻译在英文后面。Yishin Khoo is the director of Research and Evaluation Committee in RCEF. In this post she shares her observations and thoughts after her visit to Guan Ai School in June. After returning home from Guan Ai, I decided to revisit what REC can do to support the Integrated Rural Education Program (IREP) and refine its [...]

This semester, students in grades three through six began tending their own vegetable garden plots behind Guan AI School. They made records of plant growth and took responsibility for weeding and watering during recesses. Their hard work paid off in the last week of school when they harvested their tomatoes, pumpkins, peppers, and lettuce. With [...]

中文翻译在英文后面 School systems in the poorer areas of the United States face challenges that are reminiscent of those in rural China; high drop out rates, weak academic performances, a dearth of teaching talent and leadership expertise, insufficient material resources and problems within families and communities that adversely affect students’ well-being and achievements. In the US., [...]

（中文翻译在英文后面）Guan Ai received a steady stream of RCEF volunteers and friends as visitors in June. Since the RCEF community is wide spread around the world, this was the first time many of the visitors had been to a RCEF program site in rural China. Translation Committee Director Hua Zhenyu arrived with an armful of science [...]

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 SVP teams began their first full day of teaching today! They follow the same general schedule: two periods in the morning from 7-9 AM and then two periods in the afternoon from around 4-6 PM. The [...]

Today was supposed to be the day that the teams got an early start to their teaching sites. However, a steady downpour of rain got in the way and everyone ended up sticking around Guan Ai longer than expected. The roads to Nanzheng Elementary School and Wang Zhuang Elementary School were washed out and dirt [...]

(中文翻译在英文后面）A number of energetic volunteers stayed up late last night playing Sardines (a form of hide-and-seek) around the Guan Ai School campus. However, any traces of sleepiness were wiped away in the morning icebreaker of “大风吹“ (a RCEF favorite) led by Zhang Jing. After a few rounds of bench snatching, everyone headed into the cafeteria, [...]

（中文翻译在英文后面） Even though it’s only the second full day of training, it feels like we’ve all been together for longer. The volunteers and local teachers are participating well and interacting more and more. The first session each day is from 8-9 AM followed by breakfast. For warm-up this morning, Ms. Sun and the teachers at [...]

（中文翻译在英文后面）Today Sara kicked off the training with an overview of the training and schedule. Steve also led a game about respect where everyone role played as teachers or students making up new class rules together. After breakfast, Jiang Peng launched into an overview of RCEF, its motivation, philosophy, and programs. President Wei Ji Ma sent [...]