4月18日,为助力学生和家长合理规划教育路径、解决升学择校难题,由新浪教育、微博教育、博辞教育联合主办的“新浪&微博2021国际学校春季择校巡展”在苏州希尔顿酒店成功举办。
活动当天,苏州及周边众多优质国际化学校集体亮相,招生官现场介绍学校特色,解答家长问题;13位教育大咖、知名学校校长全天不间断分享择校干货、普及国际教育知识,助力学生和家长一站式解决择校难题、规划国际教育之路。
(常州威雅公学中学执行校长 Tim Pattison)主持人:各位新浪的网友大家好,这里是新浪微博2021国际学校春季择校巡展苏州站的活动现场,今天我们非常荣幸邀请到了常州威雅公学中学执行校长Tim Pattison。欢迎您!首先请您跟网友打个招呼。
Tim: Hello
主持人:首先第一个问题,孩子进入国际化教育的环境后会遇到怎样的挑战?应该如何应对?
Tim: Before they come, they‘ve got to have seen our school。 They’ve got to be happy that we‘ve got a big beautiful campus and lots of facilities and they’ve got to be ready to come to a full boarding school。 Because our school the students lived there and 7 days a week, and they always have activities and they’re always busy。 So have they talked about through with their parents? Are they comfortable with their decision? Are they ready to adapt? Then, Once they are there, yes, it will take a couple of weeks to get used to it, but they‘ll be happy with their decision and ready to go。
Tim: 在学生入学以前,他们就已经参观过我们学校,对我们宽敞美丽的校园和先进的配套设施而感到雀跃不已,并已经做好进入一所全寄宿学校的准备。因为我们的学生一周七天都是住在学校的。他们有丰富多彩的活动要参加,所以校园生活总是很忙碌。所以我们关心的是:对于要进入一家寄宿学校,他们有没有和父母沟通过?一家人意见是否达成了一致?他们是否已经做好了心理准备来适应寄宿生活?当孩子们进入学校,通常需要几周的时间来适应,但很快他们就会感谢自己当初做了寄宿的决定,并开始享受寄宿校园生活。
主持人:贵校都设置了哪些特色课程?国际学校的课程究竟培养的是学生怎样的能力?
Tim: We have over 50 different clubs in ECAs, and we have over 30 different music teachers with 20 music instruments。 We have the biggest school sports dome in China。 And we have lots of activities happening all the time。 That‘s really important because that means that pupils get to choose the things that they are really interested in。 When they do that, they can really excel and be happy with their choice of school。 So what we do is we use our boarding time in the evenings and the weekends to make sure that people can do a special curriculum which fulfills their needs and our tutors and our house masters encourage pupils to do that。 They work really hard to spend time with the pupils and encourage them to go out and try lots of thing that we offer as part of our special curriculum。
Tim: 我们学校有50余种社团来进行课外课程的研学,超30位音乐专职老师以及20种乐器的教学课程设置。我们有中国最大的运动气膜馆。我们有无时无刻不在进行着的校园活动。学生们能够选择他们真正感兴趣的事物,这是很重要的。当他们选择自己感兴趣的领域进行学习或参加自己感兴趣的活动,他们就能真的做到快乐学习,力求卓越。我们利用每晚与周末的寄宿时间去满足学生的个性化发展需求,导师和学院院长们都下了很大的苦功去全面了解孩子们,鼓励他们选择自己真正感兴趣的事物,鼓励他们勇于尝试,比如参加我们的特色课程。
主持人:家庭教育与学校教育如何相得益彰?
Tim: Yeah, it‘s really important that the pupils and parents and the school communicate, each boarding house in our school has a dedicated officer to make sure parental communication happens well。 And we encourage it for having parents visit our campus on the weekends, having parents and student activities and making sure that we communicate all our pupil’s successes and sometimes their failures, which they can learn from to the parents all the time。
Tim: 学生、家长和学校三方的沟通尤为重要,我们学校每个寄宿学院都配有一位专职的联络官来确保家校联系顺畅无碍。我们也鼓励家长们在周末来到学校探望孩子。我们经常举办各种亲子活动来确保即使是在寄宿的情况下,家长们也能够见证孩子们点点滴滴的成功,哪怕是偶尔的失败。孩子们也能在与家长的相处中学习到很多。
主持人:谢谢,今天的访谈到这里就结束了,非常感谢您的精彩分享。也感谢各位网友的观看谢谢。