GUIDING: Yanjiao teaching point is a “micro primary school” located in a flat area among mountains in southwest China’s Guizhou. Lu Chengwen is the only teacher here with 28 preschool and 6 grade one students. In 2012, Lu, who had just graduated from the university, chose to teach at the remote Yanjiao teaching point. Preschool students, grown up in the mountainous village of the Miao ethnic group, could hardly speak Mandarin Chinese. In order to help his students learn Chinese characters and Mandarin Chinese, Lu taught them bilingually in Mandarin Chinese and his self-taught Miao language. For his students, Lu is their teacher and caretaker. Besides literacy course, Lu has been teaching PE, art, and music all by himself, and also assisted in purchasing nutritious meals and ensuring students’ safety.
