By OCEF | Project Leader
Dear Donors,
We briefly introduced our Teacher Aid Program to you back in 2014. Many schools in rural China have difficulty hiring professionally trained teachers due to lack of funding and inconvenient geographic location. Fortunately, there are people who are willing to work as teachers for these schools despite that they can only earn 1/10 of the regular teacher salary. OCEF’s Teacher Aid Program, established in 2006, aims to help these teachers to obtain financial assistance and additional professional training. For more than ten years, we helped hundreds of teachers who dedicated their lives to teaching children in rural areas of China.
Last month, we organized a weeklong educational trip in Beijing for eight teachers from Jiangxi, Shanxi, and Henan. We took the teachers to Tian’anmen Square, Great Hall of the People, National Museum of China, Museum of Natural History, National Center for Performing Arts, National Stadium, Beijing Planetarium, National Library of China, The Summer Palace, and China Academy of Space Technology. All of the teachers wrote a reflection at the end of the trip. Most of the teachers lived in their hometowns for almost their entire lives and never visited the capital city. They reported that the experience was truly eye opening and gave them many insights to teaching and learning. We asked them for any suggestions to improve the trip. The teachers all thought the trip was great but in general wished that there were more opportunities to visit universities and attend technology workshops.
This is the second time we did an educational trip in Beijing for teachers that participated in our Teacher Aid Program. We are still in the process of perfecting this project. In the meantime, we have established local teacher workshops that help the teachers progress. We sincerely hope that one day the teachers working in rural areas will have access to all the educational resources that they need. Thank you for all your generosity and kindness for supporting our mission!
Sincerely,
Overseas China Education Foundation
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