Professional Development Training Day 1: Progressive Teachers
中文翻译在此处 The next morning we took a bus to the Desheng Common Peoples School (德胜平民学校）, the site of the training. I’ll write a blog post later specifically about the Common Peoples School to give more information about this very interesting model. After a delicious lunch prepared by the school’s cooks, the training officially began. During [...]
On the Road to Training
On August 6, we embarked on an overnight train from Xi’an. Almost taking over an entire train car, we played cards, navigated many rounds of Mafia (a new Guan Ai teacher favorite game started during SVP), and sang and listened to the beautiful erhu (二胡）tunes played by Mr. Liu, the Guan Ai music teacher. Arriving [...]
Rural Teacher Professional Development Training
The first RCEF teacher professional development training has just concluded! It was part of RCEF’s Integrative Rural Education Program which works year round to support rural teachers in experimenting with new curriculum and teaching methods. 19 rural teachers from Guan Ai Elementary School (RCEF’s main program site) and 5 RCEF staff and volunteers traveled from [...]
