Quality education for rural China
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Summary
Support rural teachers to develop new curriculum and teaching approaches that foster students' well-rounded development and ability to contribute to their rural communities.
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More Information About this Project
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
About 80% of rural Chinese students drop out during or after middle school, often due to rigid teaching methods that fail to prepare them for life. Rural schools suffer from shortages of motivated, qualified teachers. We recruit and support promising teachers to work in village schools. We give them year-round support and training to experiment with student-centered curriculum and teaching approaches that connect schooling to life and the real world needs of rural students.
Activities
We support educational improvements in rural elementary schools in Shanxi, Anhui and Guizhou Provinces, offer year-round professional development support for teachers, and circulate publications that share their best practices with other teachers.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $8,645
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $32,355
Total Funding Goal: $41,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).
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Why this Project is Important
Potential Long Term Impact
The fate of rural children is critical to China’s future. Providing quality education could mean the difference between millions growing up in a cycle of poverty and exploitation and a new generation of capable citizens who help solve these problems.
Project Message
I want my students to learn how to take the riches of our land and turn it into something valuable. I want them to develop the talents they have into something that is useful to them.
- Rural middle school teacher, Guizhou Province
When this Project was Updated
Last Updated
This project was last updated on August 04, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on April 23, 2008.
Latest Update from the Field
Update from rural China & Result of the 2008 GES-GlobalGiving Competition!
By Diane Geng - Co-Executive Director, June 03, 2008 05:58 PM
I am pleased to announce that RCEF was one of the two winners of the 2008 GES-GlobalGiving competition! We raised US$8,275 from 116 donors. Additionally, as one of the two winners, we will also receive US$3,500 of prize money.
Our original goal was to raise US$4,000 through 100 donors. After we achieved that target, we continued to set a higher goal for ourselves, eventually finishing the campaign at more than double our original fundraising goal. This would not have been possible without your efforts and support! Thank you!
An update from the field...
RCEF's Co-Executive Director Sara Lam and Professional Development Specialist Li Guangdui are in Guizhou now starting three new RCEF sites.
Dadong Primary School:
This school runs classes from first to sixth grade and serves students from three villages. Li Guangdui taught there for one year and the principle is very eager to collaborate with him again. The principle hopes that we can support him in implementing Tao Xingzhi’s educational
approach in his school. This is an approach that combines teaching, learning and doing, and connect school with society.
Longtu Primary School:
Liang Weian, A local Dong ethnic artist would like to start up a primary school in his village. Since the old school was shut down, small children have had to walk a long distance to get the school. He wants to run the school as a Dong cultural school by integrating aspects of ethnic culture into the curriculum as well as having Dong music and dance lessons each day.
Laohuo Primary School:
This school is a single-teacher school run by Shi Chunmei, a “daike” teacher who has been teaching for eight years. When Chunmei came, she started the school in an abandoned building, which villagers had already taken over to use as a pigsty in the lower level. Over 70 students came
the first year. Probably more than half of them were overaged.Many parents, including the village head and party
secretary, kept their daughters at home to work and wouldn’t send them to school. So she went and did their farm work
for them in exchange for their daughters’ enrollment. Chunmei is also a very effective teacher. She puts a lot of thought into methods for teaching
ethnic minority children and her students have entered the central school with a very solid foundation.
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