First Time Teaching Class Our first class began the day after our arrival, and I still remember the slight nervousness I had towards how the students would react to us. This included thoughts of: would they be judging our...
Making Friends We had our first meal at the school separated from the students, but we got to join them in the main cafeteria for breakfast the next day. Over this period of time, we received many curious glances,...
First Impressions I remember the first day when we arrived, the first thing I noticed was the electric red letters printed in front of the school, and they read: “热烈欢迎美国北卡高中生来我校支教”. After reading this sign, I thought Oh this is...
We finished teaching on June 26th. Now, we are writing reflective essays and are working on a video to promote this initiative.
Today (6/16/18) is the 4th day of teaching. The first day of teaching was a bit rough but the teams were able to improve their teaching plans and bring better results in following days. Some teaching problems we encountered...
Today is the last team meeting we held before we leave for China; we will start teaching on the 13th. Additionally, everyone received their t-shirts. Just like last time, each team presented for 20 minutes and were given advice. Now the...
Today is May 26, 2018, and it’s been over a month since we had our last meeting. During this time, the teams have been making detailed teaching materials. We had originally planned for each team to teach 5 topics,...
This meeting was held on April 6th, 2018. During this meeting, our four teams presented their unfinalized teaching plan. The teaching plans will soon be sent to the school in China for review. Now, we work on designing t-shirts...
On March 3rd, 2018, we had our first team meeting. During this meeting we Had an overview of the Shennongjia teaching program (by Kun Yang) Introduced the A Thousand Miles Initiative (by Emily Xu) Came up with what topics we...
