Amazing impact!

The teacher training and English camp in Zhuhai is doing amazing things on both sides of the Pacific. Along with the summer program in China, Huntington University launched a new institute. The Institute for Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) Studies and related academic courses are an outgrowth of relationships between Huntington University faculty and educators in China. Pending state approval, the Institute for TESOL Studies will offer English as a New Language (ENL) certification for HU education students and area teachers. Huntington University also will offer a TESOL minor to HU students pursuing a degree in any discipline.

Another connection that is growing because of the summer activities in Zhuhai is happening in Huntington elementary schools. This year a class at Lancaster Elementary School and a second at Salamonie School celebrated the Chinese New Year. This is the beginning of a project that will have the Huntington County children communicating with students in Zhuhai, China, over the Web. The project has its roots with the Zhuhai, China project. The Lincoln and Salamonie classes will become "sister classes" with their counterparts in Zhuhai. The local classes will send a "Flat Stanley" - a cardboard figure named after the main character in a popular children's book - to the class in China, complete with a book journaling his adventures here. The children in Zhuhai, in turn, will return the figure as well as a chronicle of his adventures in China.