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RCEF differs from lots of education-focused NGOs in that we primarily offer not material support such as desks, blackboards and the like, but instead provide long-term teacher training. As part of this ongoing effort just before the new semester began we conducted a training at Guan Ai Primary School for the existing and newly incoming [...]

Students at Guan Ai take exams twice a semester, a mock at half-term and a real one at the end of term. While these exams do a decent job of tracking progress of students, they do have their inadequacies. Much of the content on the exams can be mastered by repeating similar questions ad nauseum [...]

A little while ago I had the privilege of taking part in one of Intel’s global education initiatives, Intel Learn. It’s a non-profit program by the computer processor maker that is run in cooperation with governments around the world. Its aim is to enable students in developing communities to develop not only information technology skills, [...]

Classes at Guozhuang have actually finished now and I’m now back in the safe confines of Guan Ai School in Shanxi. I do miss the students at Guozhuang though, as they really were a great bunch. Throughout the course and, I dare say, wherever and whenever I teach I try to teach students how to [...]

I’m coming to the end of my time teaching here in Guozhuang village and have taught the students many different things, including net browsing, word processing and email. But more than these specific skills I would like to think that I have also taught them how to learn for themselves, which is surely the skill [...]

Computer classes have been going on for a few days here at Guozhuang and things are going quite smoothly. We have ten students of varying ability, though none of which are very experienced. The plan is that this first class will go on to teach other villagers how to use computers, thereby increasing uptake (purchases) [...]

I’m currently in former Summer Volunteer Program 2007 site Guozhuang in Shandong delivering computer literacy training to the villagers here. The weather now is most definitely not Summery, but the eagerness of the students to learn warms my heart. A lot of the groundwork has been laid by new RCEF intern Guibin Fan (a former [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, Today marks a great change. A change that we have been waiting for for a long, long time. A change that will alter the very way we perceive things. Today is a day for inclusiveness. Today is a day to bring people together so that they may reading off the same page. [...]

Recently many of you on our mailing lists will have got invitations seemingly from RCEF personnel inviting you to join social networking site Goodreads. Whilst the site does offer a legitimate service, their methods of finding new users can only be classified as spam. Allow me to explain. One of our core members within RCEF [...]

As you’ve seen from the previous post, last Wednesday was Teacher’s Day here in China. Each member of RCEF’s staff was responsible for helping a grade prepare ways to thank their teachers for their hard work. I was responsible for fourth grade, and together we decided to act out dramas to show situations in which [...]