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Sweet Potato Project

孙会苗 — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:13:06 +0000

Over the course of this school year, fourth and fifth graders at Guan Ai learned all about sweet potatoes. Past lessons in this year-long unit included explorations into the history and culture of the sweet potato and how it is eaten and used in the village: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3]. Principal Sun of [...]

The Little Boy on the Phone

胡拉贤 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:21:00 +0000

Teachers should provide students with opportunities to complete tasks independently so that they build self confidence. Students will be more active and take the initiative more frequently when they receive attention and appropriate encouragement from the teacher. Their confidence accumulates gradually. Around noon on May 20t, we observed an Integrated Practice Class at Xiaochao Primary [...]

Egg Selling Experience

孙会苗 — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 09:45:45 +0000

Selling eggs may just be an ordinary thing in the eyes of villagers but it can be an exciting learning experience for the students from Guan Ai Primary School. Five of our students, Sara Lam and I (Principal Sun) went to the marketplace as an out-of-school educational experience to sell the eggs from the chickens [...]

Reflections on Exchange with American Librarian

胡拉贤 — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:48:38 +0000

On April 7th, RCEF was fortunate to invite 26 teachers, students, and parents from Trinity School in Menlo Park, California to the city of Yongji to visit Guan Ai School and Xiaochao School. The experience that made the deepest impression on me was my discussion with Librarian Becky Zeren. From that conversation I gathered some [...]

Guan Ai Teachers Start a Blog

Diane Geng — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:11:38 +0000

Recently, the principal of Guan Ai School, Sun Huimiao, started a blog for Guan Ai! It’s a great idea and the teachers have taken to it with enthusiasm. The account is shared by all the teachers and each teacher posts on it at least once a week about any topic related to the school. Some [...]

Reflections on a reading conference in Hangzhou

Diane Geng — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:19:00 +0000

This post was written by Xiaochun Li, a first grade teacher at Guan Ai Primary School. She is part of a team of teachers and RCEF staff who work on the library and reading program at the school. 以下的博客是关爱小学的李晓春老师写的。她是学校图书和阅读项目的一名负责人。 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [...]

Beekeeping Journals

Diane Geng — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:48:01 +0000

Guan Ai has a group of very inquisitive and energetic fifth grade boys. Last semester, they took an interest in the bees which buzzed around the school yard and crawled around water droplets on the faucets. For several days in a row, one or more of these boys would rush into the RCEF office, exuberant, [...]

Guest Speakers at Guan Ai

Sara Lam — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:39:19 +0000

Seven teachers from the Yuncheng Preschool Normal School came to visit Guan Ai School on September 27th. (A “Normal School” means a school that trains teachers, in this case to teach in preschools.) They included several artists, a calligrapher, a singer and a professional emcee. The guests went to different classes to teach students about [...]

Bookmaking Class Reflection

Marco Flagg — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 02:32:42 +0000

Developing and teaching a bookmaking class at Guan Ai School this past summer was an incredibly rewarding experience for me. I love teaching and took advantage of the summer vacation to develop a ten day activity class at the school. Though I developed the curriculum, most important to the class was my partnership with two [...]

Nature Camp for Children of Rural Migrant Workers

Diane Geng — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:28:05 +0000

In the mountains of Miyun County outside of Beijing, there is a nature retreat which serves as the base of operations for the Peasant’s Children Cultural Development Center, a NGO that pioneers nature education in China. Every summer a group of children from the dusty, crowded migrant neighborhoods in Beijing get to go to this [...]