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__**Summer 2014 **__ The **staff** consisted of:
 * **__Judy Manton__ ** taught English to adult immigrants in New York City for 32 years. She also taught English to professors at the South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, 1980-82. She taught in various other parts of China prior to becoming the director of the Zigen program. She has been a professor of cross-cultural studies at a university in New Jersey for 23 years. Ms. Manton first visited China in 1972 and had the great honor of meeting Premier Zhou En-lai. Her late husband was active in helping China obtain a seat in the United Nations. As his American mother had been born in Fujian and later became a teacher there, he had grown up hearing about her love for China. He founded the China-America Relations Society and initiated some of the first exchanges between China and the United States. Judy Manton has visited China 27 times for a total of over 5 years living in China. She speaks some Chinese.
 * **__Dr. Cynthia S. Wiseman__ ** is a tenured professor at City University of New York. She has been teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language for 40 years in various programs, including higher education, adult education, public and private elementary, middle, and high schools, and in Intensive English Programs both in the United States and abroad, including China, Senegal, Brazil, Mexico, and France. Dr. Wiseman is also a teacher trainer. Besides four summers training EFL teachers in Shanxi and Guizhou -- Shiloh, LinXian, & Huang Ping County-- she has taught in TESOL graduate programs in the US, including the New York University MA TESOL program and the New School for Research, with particular concentration on evaluation and assessment. She also teaches courses in Linguistics, and methods and priniciples of ESL/EFL. Dr. Wiseman earned an EdD in the Applied Linguistics program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Her research focused on the assessment of second language writing. This summer will be her 5th summer working in the ETTP program.
 * __ **Yikai Xu ( Duke ** __ __**)**__ graduated from Shanghai International Studies University with a bachelor degree of Arts, majored in Korean language and Literature. Enrolled in Vanderbilt University to study International Education Policy and Management as a graduate student from 2014-2016. Duke  has run an international student organization called Global China Connection as a president of SH Committee and representative of China, which is a student-run NGO dedicated to establishing a platform for Chinese college students and international ones to form positive relationship and assist them to success. Duke  is interested in entrepreneurship as well as field of Education. He started up an education company in 2012, delivering oversea training program for college students and joined in an education start-up in 2014 as a partner which acquire first round of investment by China accelerator. He is interested in education reform, education policy and early childhood education. Looking forward to making a difference to the world through education.
 * SQ Wang, Australian National University
 * Shuai Pan, Wuhan University
 * Cameron Hu, La Jolla High School, La Jolla, California
 * Zara Horlacher, Singapore United World College (high school)
 * Bianca Banks, HK Chinese International School

The professors were to be assisted by Chinese-speaking college students and teachers from the U.S. and China who were either studying to become English teachers or who were actively teaching English. Huang Ping County Educational Bureau was supposed to arrange with Kali Teachers College for a bilingual teacher on our staff. Tentative **Calendar Summer 2014**
 * July 13 – Arrive in Guiyang
 * July 14 –Leave on a 12:30 bus for Huang Ping. Moves into hotel. Meet Li Yongyang, Zigen Fund Director for Guizhou & Li Xiaoping, Ass’t Director of HP Education Bureau.
 * July 15 – Set up office in high school and arrange classrooms
 * July 16 - Participate in a day-long Miao festival in a village in Kali County. Cynthia arrives and will be taken to the festival. Over 1,000 Miao will be in attendance as well as guides for us who speak English.
 * July 17 – Mr. Ni has a surprise for us!
 * July 18 – Meet the teachers for the first time. Give them the placement test and form classes. Have the opening ceremony which introduces the program to them.
 * July 19-28 – Teach the classes. Have a closing ceremony and party.
 * July 19+ - Cynthia leaves Guiyang 31 st, Judy Aug. 4 th , volunteers on different dates. Judy would like to visit some other part of Guizhou with some of the staff or teachers.

**Summer 2013**
** Previous sites: ** This program has been held previously in Leishan (Guizhou) Lin Xian (Shanxi), Shilou (Shanxi) and Qinglong (Hebei <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif;">** ). **

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<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">**Dates//://** The program for 2013 began on July 15th. Orientation for the staff to the new site and to the program, to set up the office and to coordinate our plans and expectations with those of the local Education Bureau started on July 12th. =====

(Judy Manton and Emily He were to arrive on July 11th. Dr. Cynthia Wiseman could not arrive until July 15th.)
** Zigen English Teachers Program Schedule for July, 2014 **

9:00 Opening Ceremon Welcome
 * Educational Bureau Officials
 * Manton, Director ZTTP
 * Staff

10:15 Overview of Program
 * PPT
 * Pass out the schedule for the first week

10:30 Closing: group sing
 * o “Do You Speak English?”
 * o “We Are Teaching in HP”

10:45 Sign-up and Registration forms
 * Sign-up for oral interview
 * Registration/interview forms pass out

11:00-1pm Oral Interviews
 * Oral interviews

1-2:15 Working LUNCH
 * Before lunch, Interviewers review results and tentatively assign participants to Group 1 or 2.
 * During lunch, discussion re: placement and final decisions.
 * SQ types up the class lists and tapes them on the doors of our classrooms.

2:30 Afternoon Session
 * Teach “Concentric Circles” & “Who is Like Me?”
 * Set up student-to-student interviews in the classrooms. Ts brainstorm the questions.

Ice breakers, games, song || Asking questions: Student-to-student interviews ||
 * Day 1 || Introductions: Presentation: diagnostic interview
 * Day 2 || Teaching pronunciation || Teaching Vocabulary ||
 * Day 3 || Using English in the Classroom || Listening Activities ||
 * Day 4 || Communicative Activities || Preparation for Presentations ||
 * Day 5 || Presentations || Feedback/Reflection ||

=**Tentative Academic Schedule for Summer 2014 (subject to change)**= Day 1 || 7/15 || AM || * Introductions Songs for learning English || Day 1 || 7/22 || AM || Teaching Grammar Teaching grammar in context || My Role as a Teacher Trainer: Future Goals ||
 * Week 1
 * Program overview
 * Expectations & Goal Setting
 * What makes a successful language learner?
 * What makes a good teacher?
 * Diagnostic test: placement of teachers based on English proficiency and school placement ||
 * ||  || PM || * Getting acquainted activities using English
 * o Games
 * o Songs ||
 * Day 2 || 7/16 || AM || Communicative teaching
 * Using pair and group work (ch. 12)
 * Using visual aids (ch. 7)
 * Using blackboard ||
 * ||  || PM || Teacher Talk
 * Asking questions (ch. 2)
 * Eliciting (ch. 14)
 * Using English in the Classroom (ch. 19) ||
 * Day 3 || 7/17 || AM || Teaching pronunciation (ch.10)
 * Diagnostic test
 * How sounds are formed
 * Games and activities ||
 * ||  || PM || Teaching speaking
 * Error correction (ch. 16)
 * Role plays (ch. 20)
 * Information gap activities
 * Storytelling: oral narratives
 * Asking for and giving directions/instructions ||
 * Day 4 || 7/18 || AM || Teaching Listening (ch. 17)
 * Oral dictations
 * Using films
 * Cloze activities w/ music ||
 * ||  || PM || Teaching vocabulary (ch. 1) ||
 * Day 5 || 7/19 || AM || Communicative activities (ch. 18) ||
 * ||  || PM || Games for learning English
 * Week 2
 * Presenting structures (ch. 3)
 * Practicing structures (ch 6) ||
 * ||  || PM || Communicative activities for teaching grammar
 * Day 2 || 7/23 || AM || Teaching reading
 * Teaching basic reading (ch. 9)
 * Reading activities (ch. 15) ||
 * ||  || PM || Reading activities ||
 * Day 3 || 7/24 || AM || Planning a lesson (ch. 8)
 * Scope & sequence of textbooks
 * Using teacher guides w/ textbooks ||
 * ||  || PM || Using ppts & realia & other materials ||
 * Day 4 || 7/25 || AM || Teaching writing (ch. 13) & error correction ||
 * ||  || PM || Model Lessons
 * Self-evaluation ||
 * Day 5 || 7/25 || AM || Model Lessons
 * Self-evaluation ||
 * ||  || PM || Model Lessons
 * Self-evaluation ||
 * Day 6 || 7/26 || AM || My Experience in this training session: reflective practice

=**Academic Schedule for Summer 2013**=

Day 1 || 7/15 || AM || * Introductions Songs for learning English || Day 1 || 7/22 || AM || Teaching Grammar Teaching grammar in context || My Role as a Teacher Trainer: Future Goals ||
 * Week 1
 * Program overview
 * Expectations & Goal Setting
 * What makes a successful language learner?
 * What makes a good teacher?
 * Diagnostic test: placement of teachers based on English proficiency and school placement ||
 * ||  || PM || * Getting acquainted activities using English
 * o Games
 * o Songs ||
 * Day 2 || 7/16 || AM || Communicative teaching
 * Using pair and group work (ch. 12)
 * Using visual aids (ch. 7)
 * Using blackboard ||
 * ||  || PM || Teacher Talk
 * Asking questions (ch. 2)
 * Eliciting (ch. 14)
 * Using English in the Classroom (ch. 19) ||
 * Day 3 || 7/17 || AM || Teaching pronunciation (ch.10)
 * Diagnostic test
 * How sounds are formed
 * Games and activities ||
 * ||  || PM || Teaching speaking
 * Error correction (ch. 16)
 * Role plays (ch. 20)
 * Information gap activities
 * Storytelling: oral narratives
 * Asking for and giving directions/instructions ||
 * Day 4 || 7/18 || AM || Teaching Listening (ch. 17)
 * Oral dictations
 * Using films
 * Cloze activities w/ music ||
 * ||  || PM || Teaching vocabulary (ch. 1) ||
 * Day 5 || 7/19 || AM || Communicative activities (ch. 18) ||
 * ||  || PM || Games for learning English
 * Week 2
 * Presenting structures (ch. 3)
 * Practicing structures (ch 6) ||
 * ||  || PM || Communicative activities for teaching grammar
 * Day 2 || 7/23 || AM || Teaching reading
 * Teaching basic reading (ch. 9)
 * Reading activities (ch. 15) ||
 * ||  || PM || Reading activities ||
 * Day 3 || 7/24 || AM || Planning a lesson (ch. 8)
 * Scope & sequence of textbooks
 * Using teacher guides w/ textbooks ||
 * ||  || PM || Using ppts & realia & other materials ||
 * Day 4 || 7/25 || AM || Teaching writing (ch. 13) & error correction ||
 * ||  || PM || Model Lessons
 * Self-evaluation ||
 * Day 5 || 7/25 || AM || Model Lessons
 * Self-evaluation ||
 * ||  || PM || Model Lessons
 * Self-evaluation ||
 * Day 6 || 7/26 || AM || My Experience in this training session: reflective practice

=**Schedule of topics for Summer 2012**=
 * 16/7 || Teaching vocabulary || 17/7 || Asking questions ||
 * 18/7 || Presenting /practicing structure || 19/7 || reading skills/basic reading ||
 * 20/7 || Teaching pronunciation || 23/7 || Using pair and group work ||
 * 24/7 || Writing activities || 25/7 || Reading activities ||
 * 26/7 || Listening activities || 27/7 || Communicative teaching ||
 * 30/7 || Using English in the Classroom || 31/7 || Games & Songs ||
 * 1/8 || Games & Songs || 2-3/8 || Preparation for final skit ||

Scheduled Topics for Summer 2012

 * 16/7 || 20/7 || 30/7 || || Vocabulary || Pronunciation ||
 * 17/7 || 21/7 || 31/7 || || Listening || Games ||
 * 18/7 || 22/7 || 1/8 || || Songs || Reading ||
 * 19/7 || 23/7 || 2/8 || || Speaking || Writing ||
 * 2/8 |||| Preparation for final presentations ||
 * 3/8 |||| Final Presentations ||
 * 3/8 |||| Final Presentations ||

__ Proposed Daily Schedule for Summer 2012 __

 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">8:30-9:30 Presentation of teaching methods
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">9:30-10:15 Pairwork: Using methods for textbook
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">10:15-10:30 Break
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">10:30-11:30 Teacher presentations of lessons
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">11:30-3:30 Lunch break
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">3:30-4:20 1 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: super;">st <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline;"> class
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">4:20-4:35 Break
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline;">4:35-5:30 2 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: super;">nd <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 15.6px; vertical-align: baseline;"> class

__ **Academic Calendar for Summer 2011** __

**July 18**

 * **Arrival of teachers**
 * ==== **Opening ceremony** ====
 * ==== **Ice-breaker activities** ====
 * ==== **Interviews & placement testing** ====

**Aug 13 Program evaluation, pack up materials**
__ **Academic Calendar for Summer 2010** __ 12 July Train or plane to Taiyuan, Shanxi Province All volunteers arrive at Taiyuan Liu Li and the van pick us up at Taiyuan 13 July Orientation to Lishi, the hotel and school 14 July Training of the volunteers and set up the office 15 July Training of the volunteers 16 July Training of the volunteers and of Lishi teacher volunteers 17 July (Sunday) visit some teachers in a village participants (teachers) arrive from villages 18 July Placement test and welcome 19 July Classes begin 12 Aug Classes end, party! 13 Aug (Friday) Teaching staff packs up the teaching materials and everyone is taken to Taiyuan

**__<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Tentative program __** · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Introductions · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Orientation · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Icebreakers || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 20 · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Games and activities · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Icebreakers || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 21 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 22 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 23 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 24 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 25 || · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Last Day · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Party || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 13 · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Clean up · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Wrap-up · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">feedback ||  ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 19
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 26 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 27 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 28 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 29 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 30 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 31 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 1 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 2 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 3 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 5 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 6 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 7 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 8 ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 9 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 10 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 11 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">August 12

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 14 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">AM: Meeting of all staff · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Orientation · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Program · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Zigen · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Education <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">PM: Set up office · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Materials (files & library) · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Procedures (photocopying, procedures, internet access, transportation, etc.) · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Assignment of classes (elementary & middle/high school) · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Get local textbooks · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Council of students – feedback

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">July 15 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Training of Volunteers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Introduction to field of EFL/ESL · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">SLA · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Methods · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Materials · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Activities · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Curriculum · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Approaches · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Whole Language · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Pronunciation · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Lesson Planning according to the textbook · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">English corner · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Visualizer (multimedia machine) · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">CDs, overhead, internet <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Planning the Program: · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Reality check: What can the teachers use in class? How can they learn English by using it? · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Evenings: movies w/ activities · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Daily schedule: 8:30-11:30; 2:30-5:30 (?) · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Assignment of responsibilities o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Liaison with education – Luilei o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Materials – Judy o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Photocopying – o <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Liaison w/ restaurant and hotel <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Day 1 – Training <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Introduction to ESL/EFL · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">SLA – Language learning · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Methods/Approaches · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Skills/grammar/vocab · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Language teaching · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Materials for different levels & different textbooks & supplementary materials & development of supplementary activities · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Cultures represented in textbooks? · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Development of lessons? · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">ESL websites? · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Assignments · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Materials on internet <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Day 2 – Training Volunteers <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">AM: in pairs – plan a lesson (timing, activities, textbook, etc.) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">PM: presentation of lesson and feedback <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Day 3 – Training <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Focus on different skills and components of language learning/teaching · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Listening/speaking <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">reading/writing · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Vocabulary · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;">Grammar