The Sixth Guizhou Rural Teachers Training at Wuhan

Huazhong Agriculture University

David Hao

Huaqiao Foundation

April 18, 2011

Guizhou Dafang County Rural Teachers

Dafang County locates at the west of Guizhou Province and it is a famous poor mountainous area. The majority of local primary school teachers graduated from senior high school even junior high school couple of years ago. Although teachers worked hard to improve local education level, they have never get any professional training nor education on how to teach. Huazhong Agriculture University Red Cuckoo (红杜鹃 ) Charity Society invited Guizhou rural teachers to Wuhan and organized some communication as well as other training at Wuhan famous primary schools since 2004. The training is held once a year and 20 to 30 teachers participate in the project per year. More than 100 Guizhou rural teachers benefit from the training by now.

Map of Dafang and Guiyang

HongAn rural primary teachers

As rrual teachers training has been held for 6 years, HZAU Red Cuckoo improve the training on the content and teachers team. HongAn rural teachers were Invitied into the training for the first time.

HongAn is known as General County ( 将军县 ) because more than 200 generals of China after 1930 came from HongAn. Although HongAn contributed a lot to China during war times, its economy did not develop successful. It is just 80 km between Wuhan and HongAn and 15 teachers from HongAn participated in the training at HZAU from April 11 to April 17.

Map of HongAn and Wuhan

Agenda of the training

As teachers will be busy with some agricultural production in summer holiday, the training is held in April or May. The duration of the project is a whole week.

April 9 Guizhou rural teachers left Dafang for GuiyangApril 10 Guizhou rural teachers left Guiyang for WuhanApril 11 Open ceremony in the morning and HZAU campus visiting in the afternoonApril 12 Shuiguo Lake No. 2 premary school training and communication. Teachers interview in the evening.April 13 Shuiguo Lake No. 2 premary school training and communication Party in the eveningApril 14 HZAU Affiliated Premary School training and communication Volunteers and teachers communication in the eveningApril 15 HZAU Affiliated Premary School training and communication in the morning Visit Wuhan History Museum in the afternoonApril 16 Visit Wuhan Huanghelou and botanical garden Guizhou Rural teachers left Wuhan for Guizhou in the evening.

April 11 Morning Open Ceremony

April 11 Morning Open Ceremony

April 11 Morning Open Ceremony

Tang Jun, HZAU’s communist party secretary

Visiting HZAU campus in the afternoon

Ceremony

Ceremony

Visiting HZAU campus in the afternoon

Ceremony

Visiting HZAU campus in the afternoon

Ceremony

Visiting HZAU campus in the afternoon

Ceremony

April 12 Shuiguo Lake No. 2 Primary School visiting

Ceremony

Ceremony

April 12 Shuiguo Lake No. 2 primary school visiting

April 12 Evening Teachers interview

Ceremony

April 12 Evening Teachers interview

Morning Open Ceremony

Ceremony

April 13 Morning Conversation on GO WEST between Michael and HZAU teacher

April 13 Morning Visit Grandma Liu TongchouLiu Tongchou, 80 years old, HZAU retaired teacher. Grandma Liu lives alone for almost 15 years. She gets some diseases on eyes and legs. David took care of her from 2006 December to 2010 June.

April 13 Evening Party

Ceremony

Morning Open Ceremony

Ceremony

Morning Open Ceremony

Ceremony

April 14 and April 15HZAU affiliated school training

Morning Open Ceremony

Ceremony

Morning Open Ceremony

Ceremony

Morning Open Ceremony

Ceremony

April 14 Evening Communication between volunteers and teachers

April 15 Wuhan History Museum

Morning Open Ceremony

Ceremony

Morning Open Ceremony

Ceremony

April 16 Visit Huanghelou and Wuhan Botanic Garden

Ceremony

HuangHeLou

Morning Open Ceremony

Ceremony

The end. Thank you