Teachers Teaching Teachers

This past Monday we (the two of us and Lauren, a new English teacher at our school) gave a presentation to the Chinese teachers about American Early Childhood Education best practices that we want to incorporate into our school here. The school's goal is to be as "American" as possible in both its curriculum and teaching methods. We really felt as though, and had been told by other Chinese teachers who left the school, the school was in an awkward limbo of a Chinese preschool with a touch of American ideas. The three of us worked together and came up with an hour-long presentation on how we will incorporate these American ideas into the school. The two main things that we wanted to get across was the importance of play in learning and communication between the Chinese and American teachers. The principal of the school translated into Chinese for the teachers. It seemed to go over really well with everyone and we have already seen so much progress in the past few days. We'll keep you posted! 

Matching and Presenting to the Chinese Teachers 

Our Principal, Liang, translating for the Chinese teachers.

The Chinese teachers really got into the creativity -
they made handmade pretend dumplings.. genius!