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Teacher Shally's Graduation Party

28/8/2014

The BEA staff is like one big family. We share in each other's joys and sorrows. Today, we got to share in the joy of Teacher Shally's university graduation. After his commencement ceremony and a celebratory lunch, the staff held a small party for him in the BEA library this afternoon. His party, not surprisingly, had plenty plenty of laughter, smiles and goofiness.

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides English language education, leadership, and job skills programs to underprivileged youth from well-trained teachers in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Teacher Shally's Graduation Ceremony

28/8/2014

All the BEA staff was out in full force today to cheer on Teacher Shally, BEA's managing director, at his graduation ceremony at the University of Southeast Asia this morning. Congratulations Teacher Shally! You're such an inspiration to all of the staff and the BEA kids!!!

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides English language education, leadership, and job skills programs to underprivileged youth from well-trained teachers in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Happy Graduation Teacher Shally!

28/8/2014

All the BEA staff and students would like to wish Teacher Shally congratulations on his graduation from university. He completed his undergraduate degree in Business Administration at the University of Southeast Asia (USEA) in September 2011, and USEA finally held his commencement ceremony this morning. Teacher Shally is now an official university graduate! He’s definitely put his degree to good use as BEA’s managing director and head teacher during the past four years. We’re so proud of all of your accomplishments, and how you achieved your success through hard work and never compromising your integrity. We appreciate all the sacrifices you have made to help all of us each and every single day at BEA. You’re our hero Teacher Shally! Congratulations!!!

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides English language education, leadership, and job skills programs to underprivileged youth from well-trained teachers in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Available Places in BEA's Advanced English Language Course!

27/8/2014

For our 2014-15 school year, we still have 6 places left in our Advanced English Language Course. If you think you have a good level of English and would like to improve it, please come to BEA for an interview on August 27, 28 or 29 from 3:00 – 5:00pm. To study at BEA, you need to be Cambodian and come from a poor family (e.g. your parents makes less than $80/month).

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides English language education, leadership, and job skills programs to underprivileged youth from well-trained teachers in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Registration for BEA's 2014-15 School Year

26/8/2014

We did it! All the BEA directors and staff made it through our two-day registration for the 2014-15 school year, which will be year number five for us!!! As we've done in the past, we open our registration to all underprivileged youth living in the villages outside the Siem Reap city center. This year, we had over 200 youth lined up along the main entrance of BEA waiting for an interview appointment time card. Registration didn't start until 8am, but the line started from 6:30am. Once we give out the appointment cards, applicants returned at their designated time to complete an application form and two interviews, one in Khmer and the other in English. Those that passed the two interviews were then registered as a new student. By the end of our registration, we had 83 new students who will join our 70 returning students from last year, with almost 60 percent of our students as girls. We'll be starting classes on Monday, September 1, but before then, we'll be buzzing around with last minute preparations for the first day of school!

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides English language education, leadership, and job skills programs to underprivileged youth from well-trained teachers in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Getting Ready for Registration 2014

24/8/2014

Just one more day, and it's the start of our registration for the 2014-15 school year. The BEA directors and staff have been buzzing around this weekend with last-minute preparations for one of our most hectic times of the year. We were kept busy with organizing paperwork, updating databases, preparing files, finalizing inventory, attending staff meetings, and of course, making sure the school is spotlessly clean. This year, we have 84 places available at BEA for our one-year program that includes English language instruction, job-hunting seminars and self-development workshops. As usual, we welcome all youth between the ages of 12 to 19 from backgrounds of extreme or moderate poverty -- meaning that their families make less than US$80/month. We never know what to expect from year to year, but we do expect another line up of about 200 children waiting outside our front doors by the time we arrive tomorrow morning at 7:00am. We hope there won't be too many tears this year once we run out of places for our program.

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides English language education, leadership, and job skills programs to underprivileged youth from well-trained teachers in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Highlights from 2013-14: Farewell to BEA

23/8/2014

One of the most difficult poster presentations is the "Farewell to BEA" theme for the Advanced EFL course students. This is especially tough since students will have to say goodbye to BEA once they have finished the Advanced course. Nevertheless, this presentations allows them to chance reflect on their time at BEA, and then present on how their lives changed during their time with us. For this year's topics, students explained how BEA played a role in helping them improve their English language skills, make friends, set goals, and become culturally aware. Despite the smiles, there are always a few tears by the end of the last presentation. However, our students leave us knowing that they have the confidence and language skills to help themselves and make it on their own.

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides English language education, leadership, and job skills programs to underprivileged youth from well-trained teachers in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Highlights from 2013-14: Self-Development Workshops

23/8/2014

In addition to our English language program, we run "self-development workshops" each month at BEA. They're quite different from our language program since these are actually run in the students' first language, Khmer, and address common obstacles that face all of our students. We decided to introduce these workshops since students often discussed or wrote about causes of stress in their daily lives in their language classes. These workshops provide students with a larger forum to discuss these problems and learn how to address such personal challenges. For our last self-deveopment workshop, students reflected on all of the themes they had discussed throughout the year, and discussed which ones helped them the most in their daily lives. For our upcoming self-development workshops during the first semester of the 2014-15 school year, we'll be taking a look at children's rights, self-esteem and family alcoholism.

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides English language education, leadership, and job skills programs to underprivileged youth from well-trained teachers in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Highlights from 2013-14: Heading to the Olympics

22/8/2014

One of the most popular presentation themes that the BEA kids enjoy from year to year is on Olympic sports. Unfortunately, there is no official Olympic team that represents any of the Cambodia's most popular sports during the international event since there isn't enough government funding for sports. However, this doesn't stop the BEA kids from coming up with their own ideas about how Cambodian athletes could prepare for Olympic training and how they could win their event. For this year's presentations, the Intermediate EFL course students chose sports that included running, swimming and kickboxing. In addition to designing a poster, students had to prepare an interview between "sportscasters" and "athletes" for the presentation part of the project. Once again, the BEA kids got "gold medals" for all their great effort!

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides English language education, leadership, and job skills programs to underprivileged youth from well-trained teachers in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Highlights from 2013-14: Debate Lessons

22/8/2014

As one way to help our BEA kids improve their confidence in themselves and their public speaking abilities, Teacher Shally added debate lessons to our Advanced and Intermediate EFL courses throughout the 2013-14 school year. With our debates, students argued their positions in teams while two moderators supervised their performance. The BEA kids have to defend their positions with reasons and examples, which helps them to develop their critical thinking skills in both Khmer and English. There were a wide range of topics that were debated in our Friday lessons, but one of the most memorable was the debate on city verses countryside life -- with life in the countryside being the winning position.

The Bayon English Academy (BEA) is an accredited NGO school that provides English language education, leadership, and job skills programs to underprivileged youth from well-trained teachers in a safe, clean and professional environment in Siem Reap, Cambodia.