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8月24日，关爱学校开学了。因为课本没有到，所以在第一周我们做了关于卫生教育社会调查课。总共分四天完成：第一天，到村子里观察都存在哪些垃圾污染问题。第二天，通过计算和讨论了解垃圾给人们带来的危害；第三天，让学生把不文明的行为用小品、故事的形式表演出来。当学生从思想上意识到垃圾的危害之后，第四天进行实际行动。由于星期六下了雨，因此在星期二中午学校组织了进村子捡垃圾的活动。而且这个活动被确定为每周一次。
今年关爱学校完全进入了一个新的状态。在乡村教育促进会的协助下，开始深入的进行改革。林治美精心设计，制定了时间表和课程表。尤为突出的是课堂结构改革：今年的语文课、数学课每个班都有专人授课。尤其是科学课、英语课、社会课增加了课时。
长期以来，由于农村师资力量薄弱、实验器材短缺，科学课和其他一些课被视为副课，一直没有正规上过，今年学校把科学、社会及体育等一些科目安排在正规课程里。并且RCEF有专人协助，在一起讨论教学方法，分析当前面临的问题和解决问题的方法。另外，在每天下午，学校安排了兴趣小组：有足球、粘贴美术、扯玲、厨艺、讲故事、戏剧表演等。9月5日下午开班，让学生根据自己的爱好选择学习，这对培养学生的兴趣有极大的帮助。关爱学校全体老师在与RCEF面对面的的交流中学习中，相信能很快成长起来，担负起改革的重大任务，做好改革先行者。

School resumes and Guan Ai has a brand-new look

On August 24th, a new school term started at Guan Ai Elementary School. The textbooks didn’t arrive in time, so we spent the first week doing a public survey for our health education. The study was carried out over four days: on the [...]

RCEF’s rural teacher training was held at the Desheng Common Peoples School (德胜平民学校), a rural elementary school in Xiuning County, Anhui Province. When picking the location for the training, we looked for an innovative school that could be a source of inspiration and new ideas. Desheng is quite well known for its interesting model and [...]

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 [...]

The air in the classroom was heavy with humidity and emotion as Guan Ai Elementary School’s third class of sixth-graders graduated on July 2. Teachers cut watermelon and passed out candy as the 23 students giggled and chatted, their desks arranged in a horseshoe shape around the room. They had just finished their middle school [...]

(中文在英文后面)
Merrybelle Guo, a student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, received a grant to travel to China and create storybooks with students and teachers at RCEF’s Guan Ai Elementary School. This is the third in a series of posts about her experience. Previous posts can be found through the following links: part 1, part [...]

Merrybelle Guo, a student at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, received a grant to travel to China and create storybooks with students and teachers at RCEF’s Guan Ai Elementary School. This is the second in a series of posts about her experience. The first part can be found here.

I suppose I should begin this [...]

A week ago I arrived back in Beijing after a too-short trip to the Guan Ai school. It was my first chance to visit one of the schools that RCEF is partnered with. The warmheartedness of the teachers and volunteers that I meet there stays with me just as the sound of dozens of small [...]

Merrybelle Guo just finished her junior year at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She received a grant to travel to China and create storybooks with students and teachers at RCEF’s Guan Ai Elementary School. This is the first of a series of posts about her experience. The children love her and she’s [...]