Training

download the Volunteer Trainning Camp Agenda [pdf] (pages 3-4)

Volunteer Training Camp, May 29-31, Beijing

Sunday, May 29

12:00-6:00 pm: Field survival and teamwork training

Monday, May 30

9:00-9:30 am: Welcome remarks, Dream Corps Management Team

9:30-10:45 am: Chinese Rural Society Review, Agriculture Issues & Rural Reconstruction Theories and Practices, Professor Wen, Tiejun, Dean, Rural Development Institute, China’s People University

11:00 am-12:15 pm: Education Issues in Rural China

12:30-1:15 pm: Lunch-brown bag

1:15 –2:30 pm: The politics of Chinese Rural Society and Grassroots Election

2:50-4:10 pm: Field Work: Archeologist Approaches, Professor Luo, Hongguang, Director, Volunteerism Studies Program, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

4:20-5:30 pm: Rural Research Practices, Liu Laoshi, Liangshuming New Rural Reconstruction Center

5:30-6:30 pm: Team Work: Program Design and Team Responsibility Division

7:30pm (Voluntary): Dinner and Hang-out with local university volunteers

Tuesday, May 31

9:00-10:00 am: Providing Practical English Training to Local English Teachers

10:15 -11:15 am: Library Management Basics

11:30-12:30 pm: Mass Culture and Entertainment Activity Organization and Practical Skills, Sun Heng, Singer, Founder of Band of Migrant Workers

12:30 –1:30 pm: Lunch-brown bag

1:45-3:15 pm: Workshop: Teamwork and Leadership Development

3:30-4:30 pm: Meeting: Precautions, Logistics and Q & A, Dream Corps Team

Dream Corps will organize 35 volunteers from the United States and China to work in rural communities in 7provinces in China in summer 2005.

The total program lasts 26 days, including two and a half days’ training camp, 21 days’ fieldwork, two days’ peer review workshops and one day’s Dream Corps Annual Forum.

Except for fieldwork, all the events take place in Beijing.