Short-Term Students And Teachers

Each year, FOC organises numerous short-term programmes. As well as the assistance these provide to Chinese educational institutions, they also provide a means by which some participants are able to assess for themselves whether they could successfully adapt to life in China in the future. In 2008, the short-term programmes ranged from training teachers to combining English lessons with football. In addition, following the earthquake that occurred on 12th May, FOC also facilitated some English teaching activities for those in affected area.

In 2008, FOC successfully organised and ran the following short-term programmes:

Henan Province

A student (associated with Cornerstone3) provided voluntary teaching at kids’ clubs and English corners.

A three week teachers’ training programme for English teachers at Tongxin Middle School in Ning Xia, which was attended by 100 teachers.

A one week Sports English programme in Zhengzhou and Zhou Kou, which combined football with English sessions.

Qinghai Province

An English teaching team in Xining consisting of 6 Canadians.

An English teachers training programme consisting of 12 British participants.

A Summer English programme in Jianzha.

Shaanxi Province

A three week cultural exchange and English teaching programme for 24 students and teachers at Shaanxi Normal University.

A three week English training programme at Northwest Agriculture University in Yangling, which provided training for over 200 students and university teachers in oral English and British culture.

A four week cultural exchange programme in Xi’an for 10 young people from Australia.

Two short-term Chinese language programmes for 20 young people from the USA, Great Britain, Canada and Germany at Shaanxi Normal University and at Xian Yang Normal University.

A two week cultural exchange and English teaching programme for 120 high school and university students at Xian Yang Normal University. This university was very pleased with the teachers and students recruited by FOC in the past and is now requesting for more foreign students and teachers.

Sichuan Province

A summer English camp at Shizhu Junior High School which was attended by over 70 students.

An English teaching programme at Longmenshan Temporary School, which was in a village that was badly damaged by the May earthquake.

Yunan Province

An English teachers training programme in Yuan Yang.

English games organised by a short-term team