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 [...]
New Courses at Dadong Primary School
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 [...]
Thoughts on visit to Guan Ai
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 [...]
Fruits of their Labor
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. [...]
Interviews with other Non-profit NGOs
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., [...]
Guan Ai Visitations
(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 books [...]
First day of Teaching
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 times [...]