Our university nominated Don for an award from the Shandong Government. He was one of 24 foreign teachers who received a teaching excellence award during this symposium. There are over 1,600 of us (foreign teachers) in this province.
We traveled to Liaocheng with Sam, who also won an award for his academic paper. The symposium and awards ceremony were held at the Liaocheng University and we stayed at the hotel right on campus.
On the first day, there was the awards ceremony and then an afternoon of presentations from some of the prize winners who had submitted papers on various elements of teaching a foreign language here in China.
The next morning Don and Sam attended a discussion group where they exchanged ideas with fellow teachers. These groups gave foreign teachers and Chinese foreign language teachers a chance to talk about ways to improve the program in this province. After the sessions, they presented their findings to the whole symposium and representatives from the education department of the government.
In the afternoon, we were treated to a tour of the university and the city of Liaocheng.
For more pics, check out the album on Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=47660&l=7d092&id=571108357
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