This November, Connecticut will be visited by a delegation of 22 teachers from the Shandong Province. They will be in the United States for 21 days and will spend about 12 of those days hosted locally by school districts. This delegation will arrive in November but exact dates are not known at this time due to the Chinese visa process and visa interview schedule with the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
Bolton has been invited to host the leaders of the group. They are here as part of a training program to learn about American schools and classroom teaching methods.
The visitors who will spend time in Bolton are all from the Shandong Provincial Education Department offices:
Wu Jianhua (M), Division Chief, Finance Division
Song Quanzheng (M), Main Office
Wang Fuhai (M), Section Chief, Foreign Affairs
We will need to find host families for them. Their days will be spent at our school. We can put them all together or separately, though Wang Fuhai is the English interpreter for the group.
This is a very exciting opportunity for our school, our students, and our community as we prepare for our visit to China in April 2010!
(This picture is from Baotu Spring Park in Jinan, Shandong Province.)
