Improve Quality of Teaching in Rural China
Teachers are key to quality education
Sun Huimiao has been a rural teacher for over a decade. She has a strong sense of justice and care for all students--not just those with the best grades. With RCEF’s help, she leads other teachers in her school to experiment with new curriculum and teaching methods. She said, “Before, whenever I had ideas, I would just stay quiet because I felt nobody would understand. After RCEF came to our school, I felt happier and more confident to try new things in my teaching. It feels really good. "
Mini Field Trips
Creative rural teachers see even rainy days as teaching moments. This third grade class took a field trip to a gully outside the school to make mud sculptures. They then formed small groups and wove each students' creation together into stories that they shared with the other groups. This exercised their creativity imagination, team work, and speaking skills. RCEF teachers find new and innovative ways to teach and stimulate learning - sometimes they are done better outside the classroom.
Fourth Graders put on mock wedding
Fostering pride in rural culture and lifestyles is a goal of RCEF. These fourth graders prepared the props and roles for their own rural mock wedding to share a local custom with their American pen pals. They went around the school to acquire the materials and make their props, including a huge "Double Happiness" character they cut themselves out of red paper.
Science is Fun
RCEF works to spark children's curiosity and natural interest in learning so that they will do better in school and be able to apply knowledge to real life. We strive to find ways for students to learn about scientific concepts not from simply reading about them in textbooks but rather through experiencing them in hands-on experiments.
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