The school is highly ranked nationally and is the number one school in the province of Hubei. It operated originally as a school to train and develop foreign language speakers for the Chinese foreign service and has as it's operating principles the goal of modernization in accordance with the ideals set forth by Chou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping.
As I have stated in other posts, it is a boarding school. Students typically go home on the weekends. Boarding starts at a young age.
Out of 8,000 applications, only 300 students were accepted into the school.
They teach German, Japanese, Spanish and French in addition to English.
Basketball is very popular here and NBA stars Kobe Bryant and others have visited the school.
I will be primarily teaching a club rather than a standard class, although I will also be teaching regular english classes. The club is voluntary participation and is geared towards teaching english by teaching about American culture and history.
I think I will start out by teaching about the native americans. A brief history of the Wampanoag peoples, Cahokia in Illinois and generally about pre-columbian america.
I want to be challenging rather than simplistic, so I will try and introduce the historiographical theories of guns, germs and steel to explain how the europeans conquered the natives so readily. The main thing I must do is avoid getting into sticky political discussions.
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