Recently, Peng Hao, a teacher from school of foreign languages, led 5 international students from summer social practice team to participate in the “Volunteer activities，Class with warm heart ” activity at the invitation of Jinyin Lake Street college community committee. They took a variety of English courses for 24 left-behind children of teen hosting classes in party members’ activity center.
In the preparatory stage of this class, international student volunteers prepared teaching materials carefully, designed and made teaching plans, and explored diversified teaching methods. In the teaching process, in order to relieve the tension caused by the lack of teaching experience, Peng Hao partnered with each international student to carry out bilingual teaching, mobilize classroom atmosphere and optimize teaching procedures.
The international student volunteers were gracious and calm and spared no effort to teach children’s spoken English, carry out interactive games, teach English songs, and to complete vocabulary challenges. The English communication and classroom teaching through edutainment let the children feel the deep care of the volunteers of WHPU, and were also praised by the parents of the left-behind children. The two days of volunteer activities were wonderful and unforgettable. The volunteers and the children talked happily and established a profound friendship. They made an appointment to meet in the classroom of the college community in the next vacation, making the childlike laughter spread over the Jinyin Lake Street, and making the international voice of WHPU resound through Jinyin Lake.
Our school has always attached great importance to the education of Chinese traditional culture for foreign students, and established a social practice team for international students in winter and summer vacation. The practice team aims to attract more young volunteers of our school to join in the voluntary service of caring for left-behind children, which helps more left-behind children grow up healthily and makes them feel that “college volunteers are around you”.
