Today was the first day back for a new semester at schools in Beijing, China. They just had a four week break for the Chinese New Year. We visited a campus which had both an international school for 1st-12th grades and a local Chinese junior-senior high school. The international school was very similar to our school, however the class sizes were much smaller. The 3rd grade class only had 8 students and the teacher even had a teaching assistant. We peeked in on a lesson in a 2nd grade classroom and the teacher was using a Smart Board. They spoke English in the classrooms, however most of the students were Chinese. It is considered a private school and the students must pay tuition to attend. In the public school on the same campus, the students wore uniforms which looked like sweatpants. The halls were pretty dark and the class sizes were much larger, 30-40 students. In this school the students stay in the same classroom all day and the teachers are the ones who switch from room to room. The air polution here is pretty bad and today the level is so high that they keep the children inside for recess. The kids seemed excited to see us. We are touring with our group from UNI which is mostly teachers from Iowa and then we had 7 high school students from Camilla, Georgia with us as well.
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