Projects

Goals: 

1. To help students to achieve reading, writing, and math standards for their grade-level.
2. To improve students' collaboration and communication skills.
3. To raise students' awareness of issues in their surrounding environment.

The program is delivered through two subjects which are part of the government-mandated curriculum: Integrated Practice class and Reading class. Both are non-tested subjects and as relatively new introductions to the elementary school curriculum in China, they do not have set textbooks or teaching methods. Thus, they afford the opportunity for educational innovators to develop a curriculum design framework that teachers can use to tailor the content of these subjects to their local situations.

Program staff train and supports teachers in two rural elementary schools in Yongji, Shanxi Province to design, implement, and document teaching for these two subjects. We hope to create replicable frameworks that can be used to train and support more rural educators in China to successfully deliver this kind of curriculum in the future.