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中文翻译在英文后面。这是在山西永济进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program. One of the classrooms at Zhaizi Village Elementary School doubled as an art gallery this morning. The occasion was a visit from a venerable local artist—an elderly woman whom the volunteers had invited to display her mastery of [...]

中文翻译在英文后面。这是在山西永济进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program. 中文翻译在英文后面。 Today, 38 sixth graders from the SVP at Zhaizi Village took a field trip to a place that is only five minutes away from their school. Despite its proximity, almost none of the students had even heard [...]

中文翻译在英文后面。这是在陕西省永吉进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program in Yongji, Shanxi Province. The three SVP teams came “home” to Guan Ai School this morning. For the first year in SVP, the teaching sites are close enough together that staff can visit regularly and teams can gather [...]

中文翻译在英文后面。这是在山西永济进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program. Sun Pengpeng and Jiang Peng have been leading the Community Research module at Nan Zheng Primary School. Both the older and the younger classes get two class periods in a row everyday for doing their research projects. Students [...]

中文翻译在英文后面。这是在山西永济进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program. 中文翻译在英文后面。 Sun Laoshi, the principal of Guan Ai, took me to Wang Zhuang Primary School on her motorcycle. We each sat in on two lessons, and then listened to the volunteers talk about their day’s teaching over juicy [...]

这是在山西永济进行的RCEF 2008 暑期支教项目一系列活动之一。This is one of a series of posts chronicling the RCEF 2008 Summer Volunteer Program. 中文翻译在英文后面 The SVP teams began their first full day of teaching today! They follow the same general schedule: two periods in the morning from 7-9 AM and then two periods in the afternoon from around 4-6 PM. The [...]

（中文翻译在英文后面） Even though it’s only the second full day of training, it feels like we’ve all been together for longer. The volunteers and local teachers are participating well and interacting more and more. The first session each day is from 8-9 AM followed by breakfast. For warm-up this morning, Ms. Sun and the teachers at [...]

（中文翻译在英文后面）Today Sara kicked off the training with an overview of the training and schedule. Steve also led a game about respect where everyone role played as teachers or students making up new class rules together. After breakfast, Jiang Peng launched into an overview of RCEF, its motivation, philosophy, and programs. President Wei Ji Ma sent [...]

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 [...]

Sara recommended the following article. It reminded her of the 三下乡 activities that some universities arrange for their students to experience rural China. It also raises questions about our Volunteer Program. We try to prevent such exploitation by examining the motivation of volunteers during selection, but can more be done from the side of the [...]