Art in Village Schools: A Trip to Hunan
RCEF provides opportunities for rural teachers to broaden their horizons by visiting innovative education programs in other parts of rural China. Last week, I traveled to mountainous western Hunan Province with Ms. Xie, a teacher from Guan Ai School. We visited sites of a rural art education program called 蒲公英行动 (here translated as “Dandelion Action”). [...]
Guan Ai Teacher Wins Teaching Competition
Guan Ai teacher Yang Li Na won the annual PuZhou township English teaching competition. The competition was held last week and included eight English teachers from other schools in the township. Teachers were required to prepare a lesson from the 4th grade Oxford English textbook and present it to a classroom of students in PuZhou. [...]
Travails on the Bus
I often take the bus between Xi’an and Yongji, the city closest to Guan Ai School. It’s a two and a half hour ride. The scenery can be pretty but more often than not, I find myself distracted, disturbed, or downright traumatized by what is going on inside the bus…on the TV. My ears and [...]
