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ORTV recently began administering teacher's training seminars for aboriginal teachers in the Hualien area of Taiwan. The seminars are for teachers and workers who serve at special "afternoon care" centers for Hualien-area aboriginal children. The centers, which are a community service project of the Hualien-area Presbyterian Church, are open after school to help these aboriginal students with their homework and care for them until their parents pick them up in the evening. The care centers also provide shuttle bus services to take the children back to the various mountain villages where they live. The centers also offer various recreational activities for the elementary school children since many of these children come from disadvantaged single-parent households that cannot afford to send these children to local cram schools.

The Presbyterian care centers are looking for improved English lessons, and ORTV is cooperating with the HT Foundation to help train teachers and provide English curriculum for the students. ORTV teachers Phil and Liz Archer will travel down to the mountains of Hualien once a month to offer Saturday workshops for the English teachers.

The Archers' first workshop included an opening ceremony to 200 aboriginal students, a presentation on teaching tips for the teachers, a teaching demo on how to use the teaching material from ORTV, and a brief observation session in which the local teachers themselves used the ORTV materials sample lesson to a group of aboriginal students. Overall, the Archers feel that the experience was positive, and they are looking forward to helping the English teachers in the Hualien area. Liz Archer says, "It's such an honor and privilege for us to be able to assist these teachers in making a difference for these children."




   
 
 
 
 
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