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STORY: CHINA/REMOTE EDUCATION
TRT:3:33
SOURCE: UNICEF
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH/MANDARIN/NATS
DATELINE: 15 May 2014, YUNNAN PROVINCE IN SOUTH WEST CHINA
1. Pan right, of children playing game in classroom
2. Close up, children playing boardgame
3. Close up, board game
4. Med shot, UNICEF Executive Director, Gillian Mellsop, UNICEF China Representative, in classroom
5. Pan right, children playing outside
6. Pan right, writing on chalkboard
7. Various shots, children learning in classroom
8. Med shot, Lake in classroom
9. Wide shot, Lake, Tim Sutton, UNICEF Deputy Representative, and other colleagues walking by school
10. Med shot, Lake greeting students
11. Med shot, Lake speaking with headmaster of Mixin Primary school
12. Pan right, girls in classroom
13. Med shot, girls in class
14. Wide shot, exterior, school
15. Wide shot, mountain
16. Wide shot, exterior, girl at gate of school
17. Various shots, girls in dormitory
18. Various shots, girls cleaning clothes
19. Pan right, children playing outside
20. SOUNDBITE (English) Gao Xiaoping, Education Specialist, UNICEF China:
“Social emotion learning we hope every child can be confident with themselves and have good skills in communication and negotiation with others and also realize with relationship with group.”
21. Various shots, children singing and dancing
22. Med shot, Lake with grandmother
23. Tilt down, grandmother with children
24. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Gao Xiaoping, Education Specialist, UNICEF China:
“Social emotion learning we hope every child can be confident with themselves and have good skills in communication and negotiation with others and also realize with relationship with group.
Back to our pilot schools, because a lot of our children are from rural areas – they are the ethnic minority children, they tend to be shy and they have some difficulties, so with this emotional learning they know how to express themselves and to seek help which is very important for vulnerable children.”
25. Various shots, headmaster teaching children to sing and play music
26. Wide shot, children dancing in circles outside
27. SOUNDBITE (English) Anthony Lake, Executive Director, UNICEF:
“Just from here in Yunnan Province which has been very welcoming, for this kind of approach whether it is early childhood development, child friendly schools or barefoot social workers, who do a great job in the community, and there are many others, all get taken to scale across China which has had a huge impact in a country of 1.3 billion people.”
28. Various shots, kids performing a traditional dance with Lake
This is not a traditional maths class.
Instead a simple board game has unlocked students interest in what otherwise could be a boring lesson.
Anthony Lake, UNICEF’s Executive Director was visiting Mixin Primary school in a remote part of Yunnan Province in South West China. He was there to see how a new model of social and emotional learning is changing the way teachers engage their students.
Being tested by the Ministry of Education, with support from UNICEF in 250 pilot schools in 5 of the poorest and remotest parts of the country, the model is providing lessons on how to help improve the quality of education for China’s poorest children.
His five-day mission to China was an opportunity to understand the enormous progress the country has made in lifting millions out of poverty but also to see what remains to be done to improve the quality of services for children in the remotest parts of the country, especially for rural and minority children.
Due to its location, this is both a primary and boarding school, where the children sleep over during the week. Covering the 12 surrounding villages, students have to walk two to three hours to reach their homes in the mountains.
SOUNDBITE (English) Gao Xiaoping, Education Specialist, UNICEF China:
“Social emotion learning we hope every child can be confident with themselves and have good skills in communication and negotiation with others and also realize with relationship with group.
Even in these remote areas, education is important and valued. So much so that Yang Jianjia, a 64 year old grandma, comes every week from a mountain village with the youngest children, to make sure they benefit from a community supported kindergarten.
LI ZHENLIN, HEADMASTER, MIXIN PRIMARY SCHOOL
The school has changed a lot, especially since we have become a child friendly school and with the introduction of social emotional learning. The changes have been very big in this school. For the students it has made a big difference.
The difference is also being felt well beyond this community too. Already the Government has adopted National Child Friendly School Standards. And social emotional learning, as a key component of this model, and with its focus on play and interactive teaching, is now also expected to be scaled up to other schools in China by 2015.
ANTHONY LAKE, UNICEF Executive Director
“Just from here in Yunnan Province which has been very welcoming, for this kind of approach whether it is early childhood development, child friendly schools or barefoot social workers, who do a great job in the community, and there are many others, all get taken to scale across China which has had a huge impact in a country of 1.3 billion people.”
