About Rural Education

After walking around in the great northwest. I wanted to stop by my hometown and to see for myself the current state of primary education in the townships. I wanted to see for myself the current situation of primary school education in the township.

Qunli Primary School, Buhe Town, Gongan County, Jingzhou City, Hubei Province. It is a one-hour drive from the city centre. It takes about an hour to drive from the city centre, and a lot of twists and turns through the countryside. Back to the original starting point --The place where I went to pre-school & where my dad taught his first class in his 30 years of teaching (and where I now teach my first class). The loquat trees I remember are still there. My dad's staff dormitory is still there too. Only now the rooms under the trees have been converted into chicken and pig farms. Not far from them, a modern primary school building has been rebuilt with a donation from China Power Grid.

Mr Liang Qichao's "Young China Speaks was the text I chose to teach. I was in a hurry and did not prepare the lesson systematically. It was almost an impromptu speech. The local teacher suggested that I use a PowerPoint presentation and copied the text to me. The local teacher suggested a PPT presentation and copied the lesson to me, and told me about a model 'over-lesson' method that they had developed over the years. Read the text aloud, understand the author's thoughts and feelings, take the students to write the vocabulary, complete the exercises in the supporting materials, recite the key texts and then move on to the next one. After communicating that I had finally stuck to the most traditional form of chalk-boarding, the I took advantage of the morning reading session to copy the text onto the blank black and white at the back. I felt that it was important to pass on the lesson orally and that the medium was not that important, so I was content to do what I could to impress them with the Chinese language.

In the evening I reflected on the three factors that influence education.

Source of students, teaching staff and hardware facilities

The source of students: the nature of human beings is good. The nature is similar, the habits are far apart.

Teaching staff: The three categories are as follows. Firstly, private teachers, who were selected by the various towns and villages in the early years and who had the knowledge and culture to come forward. Secondly, the secondary and tertiary teachers, most of whom were the first few teacher-training students. Thirdly, the younger generation who have now graduated from the various teacher training colleges or have obtained their teaching qualifications. From urban to rural areas, the proportion of these relatively young teachers is decreasing step by step, and in the primary school where I went to teach, there is now no teacher under 30. Hardware: It varies, with the countryside slowly moving closer to urban standards. But I think some students can enjoy the science and technology museums, museums, libraries, etc., while others can experience the vineyards, ecological gardens and fresh air.