My First Day at a Rural School in Guangxi, China

One of the mandate of TECA - Toronto Education Communications Associates is to provide  training to students, teachers and school administrators.

To this end, I joined a charitable organization from Canada to provide training for oral English to high school students in China this summer.


Our first Day at the Secondary School's English  Summer Program

It was pretty exciting today as it was the first day of the summer program. We had breakfast at our hotel with our team and then walked to school together.

The school displayed a sign at the front entrance in both English & Chinese to welcome us on the first day

The school is much better than we have expected. However, we should not be surprised considering that there are only two secondary schools in this town. The one we are teaching at is the bigger one of the two.

Canadian teachers at the Opening Ceremony 

There are over four thousand secondary school students in this school with many of the student body coming from various villages and small towns in the region.

The opening ceremony was held in the school auditorium attended by all the students in the program, English teachers of the school, the school principal and our entire team of volunteer teachers from Canada.

A good icebreaker game for the class

My class is class number 3 with 19 students on the list, but only 17 showed up.

The students have been assigned according to their academic achievements so we are getting one of the top classes.

The students were a little shy to start with but warmed up to us after we played some icebreaker games.

We also did an introduction about ourselves.

The students were very interested in looking at my family pictures and were awed at the fact that one of my sons went to Yale University.

Students were interested in the story books I brought from Canada

I brought a pile of high interest English story books with me from Canada and did a book display in the classroom encouraging the students to read as much as possible in English in the next two weeks.

The students were very interested in these story books.

Students from another class came to visit us.




















We taught our class the first lesson and we did the introduction activity together.

It was a lot of fun when students could practice what they had just learned a few minutes ago with students from another class.

At the end of our first day, the shy Chinese students started to converse in English and were fully participating in all the learning activities.

It was a great first day. I am really looking forward to the next two weeks of teaching in China.


R.T.
Director
TECA - Toronto Education and Communications Associates
Volunteering my service in
Guangxi, China