How I became a teacher in a Chinese village school with only eight kids
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- čas přidán 21. 06. 2020
- At its prime, Xuechuan School had around 600 students. Now, the school located in the arid desolated mountains close to Dingxi City, in Gansu Province, is the window to the world of only eight students. Their teachers live in the school during the week, and in such proximity, they become a safe harbor for these children, who mostly come from low-income families and broken homes. How is the life of a country-side teacher? What struggles do these children go through? Come and meet the curious third-grade class in Xuechuan School with CGTN #JobChallenge #teacher #China
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She not only a Teacher,, she teaches beyond teaching and that's called humility,, The World is watching and listening,, She has done beyond her duties as a teacher and I salute her 💯
I agree ♥
Asian female student brutalized
By Canadian police.
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@@crystalclockworks9163 There is a thing called "the right time & the right place". If you ever go to China, pay attention.
I’m South African and I’m currently teaching English in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China. This video is touching. It also opened my eyes to the realities that other teachers and students face in other parts of China. It reminded me that my role goes beyond just teaching but also showing humility. I’ll definitely be showing this video to my students and I hope it reminds them to be grateful for all the fortunes they have in their life.
You are good ZA. lol
@@Show_what_I_Love I wonder why you would post such a non germane comment .
Bless you Kay. Beautiful person you
beautiful heart
Vishal Jain covid-19 now confirmed in Spain on March, 2019, you missed the headline?
I am from a poor village in China and I was in the same situation as Xuanxuan in this video. My mom left my family when I was 2 years old because of poverty. And after that, she never called me (actually, there was no phone in my village in the 1990s) not to mentioning visiting me. I even don't know how she looks like although now I am 30 years old. Thanks to the love from my grandparents and some teachers during my growing up, I didn't feel that I lack love when I was a child. The CZcamsr said a teacher can be a rock for those students remaining in villages, I truly understood the feeling. Thanks to my father, grandparents, and teachers, I received a good education. Also thanks Chinese government, I could study overseas with a scholarship from the government. Now I am in the last year of my Ph.D. career in the UK and will be a Dr. soon. Of course, I will return back China after graduating and contribute to the country. Really touched by the video. I love China, my motherland.
Your story should reach many children who are or were in same situations. That's the only way out. Congradulations
@@ca2ca Thank you very much!
Hi. Mengdi I am a Tibetan from India I really appreciate your gratitude and your inner strength has paved you to a graceful educational opportunities and I really hope you wil inspire such kids and transform their life as you did to yourself. Good luck
Congratulations and inspiring to hear your story. President Xi’s equal opportunity and not leaving anyone behind is a compassionate policy towards its fellow countrymen. ❤
Xuanxuan has such nice handwriting! Compared to my students in Shenzhen, he is a very careful student. His grandparents should be very proud. Hope he has more educational opportunities in the future. He deserves plenty of support and encouragement
Lol. Not in a bad way tho
am in Foshan
The boy's handwriting is so beautiful!
I notice that too 👍
@@haojiang2928 Me too.
yea, seriously neat handwriting considering he felt he was struggling
Yeah, me too
It was the first I've noticed when I saw him writing
Many Asian children have beautiful handwriting in English. Maybe thanks to Chinese characters?
CGTN tried very hard to let the world know the real life in China. Good job!
CGTN is a propoganda arm of the CCP lol
M H Believe it or not, this is the real life in China. Remote areas have little to no resources to develop the economy so most of the people left their home and work in big cities as workers, leaving their children to the grandparents. The education for these children is becoming an issue because they are widely spaced in those remote areas. Without the government’s help to build schools like these to put them together, they have no chance of getting any education in their life and therefore no chance to get out. I remember reading a news report about 20-30 years ago that a reporter went to those remote areas and saw a kid about 8 years old helping his family to raise a herd of sheep. The reporter asked him what he would like to do when he grows up, he said to raise more sheep. The reporter then asked what’s next and he said to get married and then have kids. The reporter asked what he would like his children to do. He said he wants them to help him to raise the sheep. That was 20-30 years ago. They have no other choice but to stay in the circle because that’s what their families have been doing for generations.
@M H While in my country, the US of A. Our media are doing their best to not show you the sad side of the country. Do a youtube search “US slums”
Asian female student brutalized
By Canadian police.
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@@rebeccacrz1062 Try to visit Xinjiang yourself and talk to the local Uighurs regarding the impending ' genocide '. On the other hand , should you choose to rely on propaganda, then stay with Epoch Times, Nikkei Asia Reviews, Wion news, NYT, Guardian, BBC etc. I was there recently.
That song they sang at the end... I'm a Chinese Malaysian and in my Chinese primary school we would sing that when a teacher leaves the school too...I feel so touched knowing how we are related, with this custom, no matter how far away I am from my homeland.
Such a wonderful dedicated teacher ever !
Asian female student brutalized
By Canadian police.
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Ok but no one's gonna talk about how good this lady's Chinese is?
I am sure that's the minimum requirement for her to become a visiting English teacher there.
If you study the basics of Mandarin and the sentence structures of the language, it becomes easier over time. The characters, are a another thing to learn.
Yes. I'm impressed. And I am more impressed with her big heart.
@@dls64 her Chinese is good for a laowai
dalaoshuable She has the ability to communicate with public and likely able to survive.
....I've been teaching the English language in Taiwan for 19 years now, I want to go teach in China, the rural areas, fresh air and blue skies and sweet Chinese children as like in this video above.
Not an easy job in rural areas though. But surely you’ll be treated and paid really well in one of the big cities. I personally wanted to go to one of those small villages to teach, but the reality is children there have more complicated problems to worry about apart from schooling. It takes tremendous courage and strength to be their “rock”.
@@VinciJ415 ....yes, you're right, it's a hard life in rural villages, the inhabitants mostly are thinking in survival mode and find it hard to concentrate on schooling. Some even are thinking where the next meal will come from!
@@nickfriend3629 Of course it needs the faith in God, being humanitarian, merciful, compassionate, tolerance, resilient AND sacrifice most of all.
As a black and indigenous American I think it would be incredible to teach, act or work in china.
I spent a month there. Its an amazing place. But oftentimes the people have certain stereotypes. Im not even black, Im a tan dude from Pakistan. And a light tan at it. Often times people were intrigued by my goatee. They would literally touch it to see if its real! I know girls who had their breasts poked by other girls as they couldnt believe that it could get that big naturally! Once when I was in Chengdu, I went to an electronics store and they had a stage set up with dancers, etc for some promotion. They called me up on stage and thew me a basketball! I started dribbling the best I could. I grew up in NJ and spent a lot of time on the courts. Point is....they see a darker skinned person and assumed I must play basketball! They were right, but it was still a very stereotypical thing to do, althogh I never experienced any malignant behavior as I often do in the USA. I can almost understand it better if they thought I was a cricket player, but.....
Anyway, if those kinds of innocent ignorances dont bother you, then you would love it in China. I definitely did.
Best of luck.
@@Ali-7676 that is a hilarious story brother. Yeah I'm definitely going.
@@Ali-7676 if I can ever afford it I wanna make a film about traveling to china while being black if I can get funding.
@@Ali-7676 it's just local perception of foreigners. Take it easy
Why not. My son's teacher in kindergarten is a black American.
Divorce is a curse for children. Parents need to cooperate atleast for their children. Even if spouses are seperated they should keep in regular touch with their children and comfort them.
In this case, the parents goes to work in far away cities, not divorce. It’s not an easy choice, sometime.
Tani am deeply touched by the teacher's caring. Growing up, we need love and guidance to build self confidence and empathy for others. I am in my late 70's still feel inadequate but want to give love to feel complete.
Asian female student brutalized
By Canadian police.
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Their parents don't divorce. One or both of them go to work in the cities, leaving them behind with grandparents or other relatives. In some households there are just siblings living together and the older siblings are the sole carers of their younger brothers/sisters. In Chinese there is now a word to call these children 留守儿童 (literally means "left-behind children"). Their wellbeing has been a long-time issue in Chinese society.
From personal experience I do not agree
As a Chinese, I really appreciate this foreign Portugal teacher to come a long way to spend three days with these children from western China's poorest rural village though this cannot solve the fundamental problem basically. I think the only way to solve this problem is to accelerate the urbanization of these rural areas, and the government should transform money and industries to these areas to affiliate this process, but it seems it might take a quite long time to accomplish it and a generation's sacrifice is inevitable, but as socialism country, we should do much better during this transition.
At the same time though, you need rural regions for farming etc. Maybe a transportation system for rural areas so families can travel home easier and kids can go to better schools
只來三天太少了，至少要一個學期吧！玩票性質的老師不如不要來，孩子都有感情了，又一次分離，太傷心了
I came from a broken home the little boy in the video, so I can relate because I use to believe that its only happening to me, we need more people like the teacher and the school principle, who stayed behind for those amazing kids. Thank you CGTN
Dr Terema Kayaar 😢😢
@Lara Aubee Thank you, my hardships have helped define the man I am today and with hardwork I am now able to help other young men and women. Thank you.
Sometimes, I got confused by a question: who are more open-minded, the Chinese live in the republic China, or the westerners who live in democratic countries? Poor and rural place where those kids live, they are learning English, they are inspired by the teachers to understand the other side of the world. The latter, despite all the advantage they have, they do not take the least effort to understand the people they tend to criticize without real thinking. Ironic, right?
By saying "westerners", I mean to refer to a small group of people who tend to claim things that are different from their understanding as propaganda. There are so many videos/documentaries showing different aspects of China in CZcams. Do a little research and make your own judgment.
@John Shen Agreed. I used to think that the citizens of China are conservative until I went abroad to study there last year, people I've met are very accepting towards other people of different kinds, regardless of race, sexuality, religion, and other personal preferences and matters. I totally agree with your point that states about China being a closed society with an open mind. :)
@Marmar’s World oh calm down. I’m white and not offended. I’m assuming “white people” didn’t refer to each individual but instead referred to Western culture, i.e. Europe and N America. In which case, JL is being accurate, not racist. Those things are generally true of the West as *I* know it, anyway.
For example: when I go into a shop in China, the shopkeeper humbly apologizes, "I'm sorry, my English is not good," but when a Chinese person goes into a shop in America, the shopkeeper rudely demands, "this is America! Speak English!"
@John Shen nope we are very open minded in the west, we dont discriminate and for the people who do people organise large protests, we have legalised gay marriage which just shows how open minded we are, we also allow a lot of refugees :)
open minded in the west eh??? as an European I know you're full of it.
also. gay marriage/partnership is legal in China. and even transsexual people have decent protection from discrimination at work.
a great teacher...
Jonathan Lim She’s a great teacher because she cares about her students. That’s important to young people that people are there to care about them.
Education made me out of the mountain .I come from a rural place in Southeast China .Thanks to all the teachers who have loved me ,cared me and cultivated me.
I'm so happy that not just this wonderful teacher from Portugal, but their homeroom Chinese teacher seem to be absolutely wonderful people. These kids warm my heart. They remind me of my students from Japan.
Xue Xuan made me cry a river... Hats off to the teachers! Ms. Li is a fantastic teacher, touching the hearts and minds of the students in just three days. Thank you CGTN for these stories, can't have enough of them
I wish I had the courage to make the sort of difference this woman is making in this world.. she speaks the native language, teaches and provides emotional support to these children. Incredible!!
She is such a beautiful soul, there are so many kids in the world that need teachers like her.
GOD BLESS THIS BEAUTIFUL TEACHER !!!
VERY TOUCHING !
Great " Thank you " this WARM HEARTED teacher travelling from so far away to take care of these lovely but unfortunate children .
With her dedication, these children will get a very special experience which could lead them to where they could never be. Meanwhile, we have to show respect to local Chinese teachers for their long term effort.
Thanks to the teacher
When he says this mom is different my tears fall. 😢
Cookie Xiao me
Too,make me feel so bad
I don't think xuanxuan cry because his mother doesn't love him anymore.
He is more likely blaming himself make his parents divorced, and he is a bad boy that make his mother doesn't like him anymore.
Instead of convincing his mother love him, it is much better convincing him that he is a good boy and he is not the reason why his parents divorced.
Agreed, unfortunately it's not true that all mothers love their kids, and he knows it's not true she loves him if she left and doesn't even call. I agree, much better to tell him it's not his fault.
@@plousia yes it also true some mother don't like their kids anymore because of some circumstances like they feel their live under poverty or being poor.
He also don't know how to express his feelings, and maybe the teacher also facing this problem for the first time.
Fortunately i am not from broken family, but when I saw my parents quarrel in front of me (just saw it two or three times in my life) during my kids time, make me feel that i am also part of reason why they quarrel.
Parents or family ou there must avoid quarrel or arguing in front of kids, not good for their emotions.
This teacher is truly blessed. May the countryside constantly be supplied with such language teacher.
These teachers are doing the education work for the last generation of poor people, which is very ordinary and great.
Why did I cried after watching this video...so emotional
Sonika Gera me too ,that kids make me cry
I hope she'll keep in touch with the boys. She's already became a part of their lives 😢😢❤️❤️
I feel guilty... When I'm lucky to have holidays, to buy what I like. I should also try to help the ones that are less fortunate... They don't need much, it won't take us much to help.
Heart breaking, those children are so good, but the odds are all against, however hard the last from Portugal tries, and she really loved those kids, China, I know you try hard but when a child is hurting that bad, something positive should be done.such lovely children, thank you for showing us here in the west, again, it just shows me that China WILL be the best country to live in now, your beautiful way of trying to improve everything is wonderful to see.China you are one of the few positive things on this planet.
Wow this brings tears to my eyes.. I'm currently persuing teaching and wish to work in Asia.. What an amazing story
Maybe this teacher can teach (or just talk) to her children on video-Skype every week. It would make the boys so happy and motivate them to do well in English. Please keep in contact with your children Miss ❤
This is not her responsibility, and we cannot ask for it. The children felt her love, that was enough.
thankyou！Do you want teacher our kids in the Skype at this weekend. For a Chinese village school.
We need more people like this woman. The world would be a much better place
校長太偉大了。“只要還有一個學生我都不會退休”
Respect!
11:35
"Every mother loves their children"
*This mother is different*
Like a hot knife running through butter...the butter being your heart of course.
💔💔💔
I felt really bad for these kids left behind by their parents for whatever reason. That's just utterly painful and devastating for them.
a lot of people in some rural area go to big cities for work beacuse they can earn more money than farming, so they left their child at home and only come home 1 or 2 times per year. it's not easy for those kids.
Heartbreaking to watch the boy crying, feeling his mom' doesn't love him...
What a wonderful human being the Portuguese teacher is!
Heart breaking
My hat off for the teacher, she has a golden heart. Also, these are very poor kids, however, they are so nice, kind and pure, studying so hard.
So touching
她呆三天就走了，真正敬佩的是为了孩子留在那里的人
真的，鄉下小孩已經父母離開，三天的老師又是離別，小孩需要長期關係，這種短暫的相處離別真是干擾。
他本来就是为了拍个宣传片, 又不是真的要教书, 所有人一开始就知道了
小孩子们见见世面也好呀
@linoox lee 这个话说的有点那个
你这帮人，你们是为了别人付出过一天时间吗？
My heart goes out to all the teachers who make the sacrifices to go to all the rural areas to give these kids a chance in life. Be blessed.
Broke my heart seeing these kids.
Great smile on the kids faces when you introduced yourself..
Helping these "left behind kids" is much more important then Hong Kong or the political spat with foreign countries.
And I’m sure China knows its priority (We can’t see through the government but I really hope it does).
Well sadly, Hong Kong’s economy contributes more to GDP, so it will still be priority for government
I have been teaching English to Chinese children online for the past 3 1/2 years, and I have fallen in love with the Chinese people! I watch everything I can to understand more about the country and it’s inhabitants. I am saddened that there is such a drastic difference between life in the cities and rural life. My company had a rural education project at one time, but it did not go well; I truly hope more and more can be done for these children and their families. ❤️
Thank you very much for what you have done for the children in the poor areas of China!👍👍👍💪💪💪
Heart warming ❤❤ China takes care of their people. That is all that matters. I hope rest of the country will learn to do the same.
Knowing one another through languages is one way to break the barriers & misconceptions between different people from different countries.
Admire her courage & dedication for a Westerner to teach in such remote village in China. Keep up the good work .
so touched by this video, it reminds me of myself who come from the poor village in China as well. to study hard to get into a college is the only way to change our fate and that is true. GAO KAO ,as we said ,is the most fair examination for students in CHINA which is also changed my own life. i got into college through GAO KAO and then got into another college through the master entrance examination and now i studying abroad to enrich my life experience. maybe we put too much emphasis on GAOKAO and when people heard that an examination will determine your future, you might think that is crazy and horrible.however, when one is poor and doesn't have a good family background but you still have a chance to let yourself walk out your poor village and your future may totally different from your parent, you will regard it as the hope of your life and put all your effort to fight for it. that is why education is so important in CHINA. in order to making children get educated and live a better life, many hard decisions parents will make, which leads to left behind children appeared. because of the poverty, mothers left their children. no excuses for those mothers but life sometimes just goes in this way, since life won't wave a magic wand to bring you everything you desired and what left behind chilren can do is though hard-studying to change everything.
Such a touching video! I cried so many times. Those kids are so sweet and so adorable, and their situation seems to be similar to a lot of kids in rural places in China. Those teachers who stay in (or go to) these rural areas for the kids, and the grandparents who take care of their grandchildren are amazing people! Thank you for sharing their story with us.
Make me tears ❤️
Can we get an update on the children after a few months, maybe she can surprise them since she has made such an impression on them.
Yea I really wish this will happen
A glimpse into the tough life in many of China's remote villages and the children who live there. All the talk about democracy and freedom is irrelevant. What they most need is freedom from poverty, hunger, ignorance, hardship and hopelessness. Feudalism failed them. The "democracy" promised by the KMT failed them. Now the poverty alleviation programme is slowly lifting them and offering some hope. But it may be necessary to take them all out of such remote locations if they are to be helped. No one likes to do it or have it done to them. But it may be the best thing.
@Soul Traveller so what are you suggesting should be the solution?
bwyyc OP didn’t suggest a solution. He or she merely stated something.
Well said, my friend. That’s exactly the case in China. Sadly many people from the rich countries resent China trying to lift itself from poverty while Chinese people are still struggling with their impoverished history or reality. That’s why I feel proud of China for each step they’ve made.
But the people in the rural villages seem to miss out on the development. Soon everyone will live in a city
Teaching out of love has indeed touched the hearts of these lovely kids. What a wonderful world we could create together! A job well done, Ms. Li and may God bless you!
A friend of mine from rural area of China once told me this: "You can do okay maybe in other country but this is not going to happen China, a total population of 1.4 billion, education is the only way out of poverty, there is no other way or shortcut to change your generation."
I believe it and I agree. Blacks suffer from the same plight in america
Totally agreed education 👍
@@nicoleraheem1195Black people in the United States can get useless education, and some people prevent them from getting useful education.
CGTN we need more videos like this. Great going China😇😍
I am astonished by how good xuanxuan's English handwriting is, dang
This video gave me a very different view of people living in this world 🌎 one of the student who cried because he wants to learn English shows so much dedication. He is so cute 😍 thanks for showing this video . Praying for all the kids living in this world a healthy future
they all miss parental love....
Thank you sincerely.
Here in my country just like China and some neighboring SEA countries grandparents takes care of their grandchildren so the parents can go to the cities or they go abroad (western or asian countries) for work. Unfortunately this one of the causes of what we called broken homes(we don't have divorce so husband and wife just separate without legal papers).
these are common stories in developing countries.
The greatest teacher ever......just being with them for that short time.......they cry so hard when she leaves.
人之初性本善，孩子的心灵是最纯真的！仅仅三天，孩子们就真心喜欢上了老师
Oh my gosh. This was an incredibly emotional and impactful video. Not only because of how we got to experience the struggles of the people of the village, but impactful to these children you've visited. Changed their lives forever. Thank you.
Respect to all teachers.
可憐的小孩。他只渴望有個媽媽疼。他媽媽太狠心了。就算離婚也可以關心下個仔仔。李老師太有愛心了。感謝她為小肥肥帶來一些溫暖
This made me cry so hard. Saying goodbye to your students is always very hard.
This is what being a teacher is supposed to be. Inspiring and supporting their student.
They were just devastated when she left. She seems like an incredible teacher, this was really beautiful.
China places a great deal of emphasis on education even in far flung sparsely populated rural areas, and I think it is one of the reasons the country is prospering tremendously. Kudos to the students and teachers in this expository video.
Thank the beautiful foreign teacher！感谢💛
Oh that chubby boy with a chubby face is so cute....like a panda
God is blessing China so much!!! I prayed to God so many times about all animals, peaceful people, and many others. I can see the peace, the joy, the godliness, and the beyond goodness in this video!!!!!!! So honest! Good job China!!!
thank u so much for going to share the vastness of the world in the village... visiting of dedicated foreign teachers in ethnic places may have been one factor that helped in their iq when compared to their counterparts in the city... visit to share nd appreciate them where they are... discourage city life... thank you...
Very touching piece of documentary!! About ten years ago, through the church I sponsored several students who lived in rural China by sending them money on a semi-annual basis. I wanted to repay society because I grew up very poor in Hong Kong and the church-school helped me. In the past few years, I was told that students receive free education till junior high school even in the rural areas.
When I was a teen I was struggling to learn English it was hard and intimidated it took about six months to six months or a year to achieve your goals.
How can you not cry while watching that. The statistics of urban movement is astounding and I hope the school remains open to help these kids pursue their dreams.
Beautiful children!
Thanks for doing so!
Thanks for your love!
This woman is precious~
Thank you !
Teachers are really the engineers of spirit of human-beings. Thanks you, Mrs Li!
This is where and how to change China, those who whine about China as their moral crusade rarely put their time or money where their mouths are. The teacher is truly a good human being
He struggling to follow and learn but noticed his writing is Neat & PERFECT. Surprising!!!
I pray especially with those kids whose parents are away from them to have the strength to continue with their lives, that they won’t stop studying and pursue their dreams of a better future someday .
thank you，teachers
To create an ambition, like what do you wish to become when you grow-up, a doctor, a lawyer, a banker, or an engineer, or even as motorcycle/vehicle mechanic, etc. would be good.
As motivation at that tender age will also encourage children to study harder.
This was such a moving video. Good and caring teachers can have such a positive influence on the intellectual and emotional well-being of these children. The sadness of one of the boys really touched me and I wish I could give him a hug and reassure him. ❤️ from Belgium to all the children.
Deeply moving. Fantastic teacher.
This teacher is amazing and would hope this school sees many more as dedicated as she is to her students.
Every time I watch this series video, my eyes are always full of tears.
I'm literally sobbing :")) their hearts are still so pure, they deserve more for their happiness omg
😢very touching and I’m sure the kids will remember the loving care and every moment they had with Teacher Li.
God bless you Ms Li..... My prayers and best wishes to all the lovely children there in China( From India, North East)
Thank you for everything you've done for China. Take care of yourself. Love from China
A school with only couple students seems so much better. Less chaotic and a lot calmer...
Thanks to an angel teacher from the bottom of my heart. God Bless You.
Thank you, great teachers.
Thank you for teaching them. Sending hugs and love.