More China KWL
W: What we want to know
Here are some questions about China that I have received from U.S. and Australian teachers. Feel free to add your own in comments, whether you are a teacher or a student:
- What would they [the Chinese] like us to teach about them? What resources can they offer both on line and hard copy?
- How can we better create strong educational bonds between us?
- Are there any universities there that accept foreign post grads, like us, and yet do so in English and on line?
- What sites do Chinese teachers use to 1) provide resources to students? 2) to connect globally and interculturally on projects? and 3) for Web 2.0 learning?
- Are teachers paid on par with other professionals?
- I would want to know what resources they are using, what they are teaching, and how. I’d like to see us move beyond knowing the “Big C” of culture into the “little c” in order to change our misconceptions and create a more accurate perception.
- I teach early childhood….I would like to see what happens in a China Classroom, what they eat, read, and study.
- I would be interested in knowing more about what the school day is like..do they switch classes, have special area teachers, do they have learning centers or are the more structured? I am really thinking about the primary level.
- What do kids want to know? What’s it like at school? What are you into? How are you the same as me? How
are you different? We are human beings. Whether kid, teacher, adult..in roles as parent, teacher, student, athlete, artist, administrator, teacher, specialist, counselor, what do you do? what do you like? what do you use? what works? what challenges do you face? what do you in the face of adversity (financial, administrative, etc etc) to meet the challenges? what would you never want to do without in your class?
In short, most of us want to know,
“What is it like to be YOU?”
“How are you the same as me? How are you different?”
I will try to share the experience of finding out. Stay tuned.
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