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交流活动与项目 U.S.- China
Principal Shadowing Project 中美教育管理者互学项目
The U.S.-China
Principal Shadowing Project (PSP) provides a unique opportunity for school
administrators--superintendents and principals--to learn about and observe
one another's educational systems from close up. Each October
principals from China visit schools in the United States. After
attending lectures on American education at universities, schools, and
departments of education, they shadow partner principals or superintendents
on the job, live in host families, visit classes, and participate in a
variety of school and community events. One of the visitors described the
experience as "a treasure." American administrators reunite
with their counterparts in China in April for comparable parallel
experiences. To date, CEI has sponsored PSPs in Connecticut, Indiana,
Massachusetts and Oklahoma. The U.S.-China Principal Shadowing Project is
co-sponsored by the China Exchange Initiative (CEI) and the China Education
Association for International Exchanges (CEAIE) of China's Ministry of
Education. 中美教育管理者互学项目为学监和校长提供独一无二的近距离相互观摩和学习的机会。每年十月中国的校长们来美国访问学习。访问期间他们参观大学和政府教育部门、听讲座了解美国的教育概况。之后，他们会住接待家庭，白天跟随美国学监或校长同伴去他们的工作岗位观摩工作，参观学校、进教室听课，或参加学校和社区的各种活动。一位校长把这段经历视为“非常宝贵”。美国学监、校长在次年四月访问中国，获得相同的经历。迄今为止，美中校际交流组织已在麻州、康州、印第安那州和俄克拉荷玛州建立了教育管理者互学项目。中美教育管理者互学项目由美国美中校际交流组织和中国教育部下属的中国教育国际交流协会共同组办。
“The world is changing rapidly. If, when they are adults, our children and our nation are to be viable players and partners in our global community, then we need to revise our educational program to reflect the world they will encounter. Now is the time for us to expand our curricula to include the study of Asian, African, and Latino cultures. We owe it to our students to help them understand these important cultures and appreciate the strength found within the diversity they represent. As part of this effort, it is imperative that we offer a variety of world languages to younger students and do so across the spectrum of U.S. schools.” Massachusetts PSP 2006 “This was a wonderful opportunity for our school and for me personally…I truly believe I have a newfound friend. We agreed that regardless of culture or country, we both focus on the well-being of children.” Indiana PSP 2007 Mr. Steven Cao of Xinmin International, Inc. filmed PSP participants in Boston in October 2005 and in China in April 2006: U.S.-China School
Exchange Programs 中美校际交流项目
The China Exchange Initiative initiates and provides consultation for U.S.-China school partnerships working with other organizations throughout the United States and China. In the U.S. we work with state departments of education, university centers, and non-profit collaborations. In China we work with CEAIE of the Ministry of Education, provincial and municipal bureaus of education, and bureaus of foreign affairs. Massachusetts 马萨诸塞州
U.S.-China school partners throughout Massachusetts exchange students and teachers. Participating schools: Braintree, Belmont, Boston, Brookline, Burlington, Concord, Danvers, Dover-Sherborn, Lexington, Lincoln-Sudbury, Longmeadow, Melrose, Needham, Newton, Pembroke, South Hadley, Sharon, Winchester. Other schools are sending teachers and administrators on study tours to strengthen connections through organizations such as Primary Source and Pathways to China. Please click on the
following links for more information regarding some examples of Massachusetts
exchanges:
Connecticut 康那提卡州
Dan Gregg, at the Connecticut State Department of Education, has introduced over 100 Connecticut-Shandong partner schools as part of a state-province agreement to encourage business and cultural exchange. Such cross-fertilization results in a variety of on-going projects: exchange of teachers and students, distance curriculum projects, school-college collaborations for pedagogy and technology, school-business collaboration; and summer "camp" for Chinese language.
New Hampshire 新罕布什州
Pinkerton Academy has a thriving partnership with a school in Tianjin under the leadership of John Barry, who is creating new partnerships between schools in New Hampshire and schools in Tianjin. Oklahoma 俄克拉荷玛州
Twenty Oklahoma schools are sending and receiving delegations between Oklahoma and Beijing, Chengdu, and Chongqing, working with Dr. Jessica Stowell of OKITEA (Oklahoma Institute for Teaching East Asia) at the University of Oklahoma. Some school partners are in their second, third, or fourth round of exchanging teachers and students. School partnerships help to anchor the Oklahoma-Sichuan state-province partnership, which developed from a pilot training project.
Indiana 印第安那州
Global Indiana, founded by Phil Boley, superintendent of Clinton Central Schools and Chris McGrew of Purdue University, is an education consortium formed to promote international education and to connect Indiana schools with schools in other parts of the world. For connection to China, twenty-two Indiana schools are partnered with schools in Dalian and Anshan in Liaoning Province. The Indiana Association of School Principals (IASP) has undertaken a shadowing project with Anshan.
Kansas 勘萨斯州
Kansas has initiated exchanges with schools in Kaifeng and Xian under the leadership of the Kansas Consortium for Teaching about Asia (KCTA), led by Bill Tsutsui and Nancy Hope at the University of Kansas. KCTA is also leading the effort to promote Chinese language studies in Kansas schools.
North Carolina 北卡罗来那州
The Center for International Understanding at University of North Carolina, in conjunction with a state effort to link North Carolina schools with schools in other countries, has connected fifteen North Carolina schools with schools in Jiangsu and Hangzhou.
Other Projects 其他项目 Pathways to China中国之窗 Pathways to China: Five Massachusetts schools and school systems, under the direction of Rachel Zucker of Burlington (MA) Public Schools, collaborated in the design of a course to offer Massachusetts students in grades 8-12 an opportunity to study about Chinese culture, history, and society through twenty-four online learning modules in combination with classroom instruction and travel. The interdisciplinary learning modules are available to other school systems. The students from many districts who opt to participate in the course qualify for a study tour that will include school and home stays. School-Museum Collaboration 学校－展览馆合作项目
The Peabody Essex Museum's Yin Yu Tang project connects Newton students with a county school in Anhui Province to collect oral history information for the Museum, which is located in Salem, Massachusetts. Several delegations of administrators from Xiuning County Middle School have visited Newton; delegations of students and teachers from Newton have visited Xiuning in alternating years. The Brick Project “砖头”项目
The Brick Project connects
schools in different countries, including one in China, for shared classroom projects
involving some aspect of international concern. Students, 11-14 years
old, and their teachers communicate in writing over the Internet on a common
topic twice a month during the school year. In the process they learn
about one another's lives and schools and improve their expressive English
language skills. CCAT 网络合作项目 The CATALYST-China™ Program, designed by Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, has as its primary focus the exchange of information using a set of inquiry-based enrichment and intercultural collaboration activities aligned to both U.S. and China curriculum standards, in a sixteen-week after school program. Seventh and eighth grade students from Horace W. Porter School in Columbia, Connecticut and their Chinese sister school, Jinan Foreign Language School in Shandong Province, spent the 2006-2007 academic year taking part in CATALYST-China™ program.
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The Gao Xin School Exchange Group at Brookline (MA) HS (2004)
New Year's Celebration at Brookline (MA) HS (2004)
Chengdu #7 HSl welcomes students from Jenks (OK) HS (2004)
Reception for Jenks (OK) HS students at Chengdu #7 HS (2004)
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