Archive for February, 2009

Teaching Coach Profile: Ron Sung

Ron Sung is a full-time Teaching Coach at Guan Ai School. He is from the United States and earned a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin. After graduation he held a position as a middle school math teacher in Oakland before deciding to join RCEF. He now works with the Science and [...]

Teaching Coach Profile: Kiel Harell

Kiel Harell became a RCEF Teaching Coach at Guan Ai Primary School in September 2008. He is from the United States and graduated from the University of Minnesota, Morris with degrees in political science and anthropology. For two years, Kiel worked as a special education teacher in the Rio Grande Valley as part of [...]

Reflections on the Winter Teacher Training

We invited some teachers from Dulangkou School to come and give some training to our teachers. We really appreciated them giving up their precious holidays to come, and we benefited greatly from their instruction. Firstly, we witnessed the admirable cultivation of a famous school’s teachers: their bearing was unified, graceful and cultured; it mixed modesty, [...]

Spring Semester Starts

The students returned to school today, running around in their colorful new clothes from Spring Festival. The textbooks, however, were tardy. Every semester, the textbooks don’t arrive on time and the teachers have to fill up the days. In the past, this usually meant a lot of babysitting, videos, and recess. But this semester, Principal [...]

Interview: “Hands-on Education Reform in Rural China”

Sara Lam and I were recently interviewed by Fred Dintenfass of eChinacities. He had some very good questions like:
“What can Americans bring to education in China?”
“What kind of cooperation do you get from the government?”
“Have you had problems with teachers who were resistant to your programs?”
Below are a few excerpts from the interview, the entirety [...]