Not long ago, I saw a post on the Internet: ".Is there a future in attending an international school?This question reflects the concerns of the questioner or parent about international schooling. Unsurprisingly, someone proclaimed under the post how good international schools were, and a closer look revealed that most of these people were institution-oriented. There are also some people who have been complaining about international schools. One of the parents of an 8-year-old child gave a very pertinent answer and sharing.
Any school has a future
In fact, any school has a future, and the key lies in how children and parents treat it. Public schools and international schools have different paths, but they take the same amount of time and effort. International school children are not easy, they have to Xi learn various courses in English, and they also have to do activities and competitions to apply to the world university, which is also a difficult road. Let's understand that international schools are not the opposite of public schools. In fact, the purpose of all schools is the same: to cultivate talents. It's just that they are cultivated in different ways and the focus of education is different.
Public vs International.
Two different kinds of education.
Public schools and traditional private schools pay more attention to scores, because this is the requirement of the high school entrance examination and the college entrance examination, which is the need for domestic talent selection, and there is no right or wrong.
International schools have very strict requirements for personal quality training, and it has really wide requirements for students' knowledge, which is really to cultivate the all-round development of "morality, intelligence, physical fitness, art and labor", rather than just shouting slogans.
We have been advocating quality education for many years, but the reality is that the implementation of quality education in first-tier cities is often better, such as Beijing, Shanghai, big cities have more physical education classes for children, and various arts, ** and other quality classes are quite rich.
On the other hand, in schools in small cities and towns, most children are still immersed in exam-oriented education, and in the absence of professional teachers, equipment, and facilities, quality education is not easy to talk about, and this is the reality.
In international schools, quality education is well implemented.
When my child was less than 7 years old, he was very shy and did not have good language skills.
After transferring to an international school, the teacher constantly encouraged and nurtured him to make presentations in front of the whole school, and later, I found that the child has changed a lot.
Now that he is 8 years old, the school has asked him and his classmates to find materials to do projects, and I have seen that the content is not general, but really to do research in this area and have an independent point of view. Opinions can not be absolutely correct, but let him think about other possibilities and criticisms.
For example, the school asks students to think: What is environmental protection?Is it a good thing or a bad thing?What are the options to promote environmental protection?What are the disadvantages of these schemes?
Another example is Qin Shi Huang, a historical figure?He is a tyrant or a great man, and he has achieved and destroyed.
I think the international school has done a good job in cultivating this kind of criticism and thinking ability. At the very least, it can make children become assertive and independent thinkers.
And this is exactly what many schools ignore, they often only let children memorize and memorize textbook knowledge, and then go to the answer sheet to test the scores, while ignoring the child's thinking about the problem and losing the ability to criticize.
International schools have high requirements for reading level, the child has read 30 books in a year and has been cultivated to really like the Xi of reading, go to the library to borrow two books every week, and read at least 30 minutes every day when he gets home, reading books has become a thing he likes, so he is very conscious every day.
In addition, the school also has high requirements for children's sports, and pays special attention to team sports swimming, which I sigh every time I see public children being pulled to skip rope like crazy.
Finally, I would like to emphasize that in fact, it is not the school or even knowledge that determines the future, but the Xi habits cultivated by parents, the Xi habits of lifelong learning Xi, the Xi habits of reading, and the Xi habits of thinking.
Otherwise, you are just cultivating a test-taking robot, not having a "future".
The above is a parent's sharing based on their child's school experience, from which we can see that he recognizes the teaching and training methods of the international school that his child is studying.
But in reality, not all families will be as "happy" as the parent.
On the one hand, children's growth characteristics and school characteristics are different, and the degree of adaptation to international education is different. Every year, it is not uncommon for students to return to the system after entering an international school because they are not suitable for teaching. On the other hand, not all teachers in international schools have a deep understanding of the "guided, heuristic, and exploratory" international teaching method. There is still a phenomenon of "cramming and indoctrination" to teach, and in the end, international education has become a Western-style version of "test-oriented education". Therefore, parents should keep their eyes open when choosing an international school for their childrenBe sure to have a comprehensive understanding of the school's running information, and combine the characteristics of the child to choose the most suitable campus for him.