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Third grade social studies teacher, Sun Huiguo, recently taught a great lesson on map-making and directions, with little help from the curriculum or textbook.  In a unit on “My Family”, one lesson is devoted to the geographic location of students’ homes and directions for getting there.  The textbook asks students to draw and describe the [...]

The government launched curriculum reforms several years ago. The curriculum reform promotes more student-centered teaching in which students are supposed to play a more active role in learning. Publishers have changed the way textbooks are written to facilitate this. There is less text that directly spells out the knowledge students are supposed to learn, and [...]

One of the biggest challenges I face teaching in China (also my biggest pet peeve) is what I call “school talk”. It seems that students enter a completely different state of mind when they cross the threshold of the classroom. They cease to use common sense or basic logical thinking, and instead devote their brain [...]

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Update: Xiaoqi herself has added a comment to the previous post. You can read it here.
My post about Yu Xiaoqi’s presentation elicited a record number of responses, including some very elaborate ones. Here is a summary:

3 people thought the first group of answers came from rural students, the second from urban (Lan Xuezhao: “I am [...]

Vivian Chow participated in the Volunteer Program 2007 and went to teach in Dongbaoquan Village (Hebei Province). Recently, she wrote the following fascinating and insightful article about the joys and frustrations of her summer teaching for the Beijing magazine tbjkids.com. What are your thoughts about it?
By my third day of teaching in Dongbaoquan village, my [...]