University training program creating better rural teachers

By:China Daily
update:July 31,2018

Experts provided case studies to program participants to explore optimal ways to care for students who are left-behind children - those who remain in rural regions while their parents leave to work in China's cities.

In addition, the rural teachers attended training to enhance group effectiveness and boost their productivity.

"Talent is key to revitalizing China's rural areas, and teacher quality affects the quality of education in rural areas," Wang said. "We welcome more teachers to join the program."

The rural teacher-training program was launched in 2005.

In the past 12 years, Shanghai Jiaotong University has trained 909 rural teachers from more than 10 provinces and cities, including Gansu and Hunan provinces and Chongqing, through the program.

"I am grateful that I learned basic first aid knowledge during the training so that I could save a 3-year-old child in my kindergarten when she was choking during lunch," said Ren Ying, a teacher from Linquan, Anhui province, who participated in the program in 2017.

Zhang Qiongfang, from a school in Eryuan, Yunnan province, said she applied what she learned from the program on how to attract and hold children's attention during class, whether through games or telling jokes, especially when students were sleepy.

The university said a second group of 108 rural teachers will begin their training next week.

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