Adventure In Learning
Peer to Peer Summer English Teaching Program in China, July 6–August 3, 2009
An interactive workshop on teaching and culture
For Western and Chinese classroom teachers K-12
WHAT: Spend three weeks this summer in a in a small (under ˝ million!) Chinese city near Nanjing or Beijing with a team of native English speakers and three dozen Chinese English teachers from nearby primary, middle, or high schools, with orientation in Nanjing and debriefing in Shanghai or Beijing.
Discover how teachers in different cultures deal with opportunities and obstacles to teaching: responding to diverse demands, using and modifying curriculum, relating with students, administrators, parents, and colleagues, and managing a career while also having a life.
• Bring your best teaching skills to colleagues that welcome you and what you have
• Give Chinese teachers confidence-building practice communicating in English, transforming their teaching.
• Expand your own capacities in cross cultural communication through intensive practice
•Learn how similar human needs can be met differently in another culture--gain perspectives and resources to use in your own classrooms.
• Make friends across the ocean that may grow to become life-long companions.
• Become better equipped to shape attitudes at home about the importance of sharing power in the world.
WHO: Teachers going to China will be chosen from applicants with a demonstrated desire to learn from those in a different culture. They will be formed into teams of four and will begin working together and with Chinese teachers before going to China, planning for this summer experience by e-mail and phone. Cost. Teachers from the west will cover their own costs, $1200 for all expenses for the month in China that includes orientation, debriefing and a subsidy for the program, plus airfare to and from Shanghai.
Teachers from China will be selected among volunteers by their school systems for their readiness to explore how to modernize the Chinese teaching techniques and for their determination to improve their English communication.
SPONSOR: The Amity Foundation, a Chinese secular non-profit agency committed for more than 20 years to developing the capacities of Chinese people, founded by leaders of the Protestant Church in China. Amity has a long-standing program placing volunteers to teach oral English in the more out of the way teachers’ colleges in China, and has conducted summer English programs using native English speaking volunteers to improve oral English of Chinese English teachers working in rural areas. Responding to requests of Chinese teachers, Amity is creating this new program for mutual learning about English teaching methods. Non-teachers are welcome to take part in the regular Summer English Program. See details under “Summer English Program” at www.amityfoundation.org.cn
To learn more contact one of those below who have participated in prior Amity education programs.
Hugh Wire, Berkeley CA, 510-845-8958 hughwire@yahoo.com
Karen Ferguson, Olympia WA, 360-866-1303, ladyferg1@yahoo.com
Don and Karen Barnes, Washington D.C., chinakaren@yahoo.com
David Phillips, Toronto, Canada 866-642-2830, 416-642-1987, dphillips@presbyterian.ca
Jane Coates, Leeds, United Kingdom, jmcoates41@hotmail.com
To apply contact Ms Liu Ruhong Director of Amity’s Education Division (Nanjing) 011-86-25-8326-0836, liuruhong@amityfoundation.org.cn
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