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【Editor's Note】 In June 2020, the Ministry of Education and eight other departments issued the Opinions on Accelerating and Expanding the Opening Up of Education in the New Era, proposing to accelerate the cultivation of high-level international talents with a global vision. The national initiative on the "Belt and Road" and the concept of "building a community with a shared future for mankind" are even more calls for international talents again and again. As an important international education hub and talent hub, China has the foundation and great potential to cultivate international talents. However, affected by the normalization of the epidemic and the complexity of international relations in the past two years, the fever of studying abroad has temporarily cooled down; the impact of double reduction and job-to-job ratio changes has allowed more people to choose international education, and the localization of international education has ushered in new opportunities.
Fortunately, in China, more and more Chinese children can receive an international education at their doorstep. At present, this demand and trend are more prominent. In the east of Guangzhou, there is such an international well-known school, emphasizing the Chinese culture and Chinese spirit as the foundation, integrating the excellent cultures of various countries, and cultivating the pursuers and builders of the community of human destiny, it is the Chinese school outside the Guangzhou Development Zone (hereinafter referred to as "Guangkai Foreign Language"). Not long ago, Guangkai Foreign Language became one of the first batch of Guangzhou Education Internationalization Window School Cultivation and Creation Units, and the school's international education has reached a new level.
Under the great changes in the world, what kind of international talents are needed by the country, society and the times? In a rapidly changing world, how to define the cultivation of international talents? These are related to education, about the educational choices of each student, and also about people's response to future life challenges and self-exploration, which has become the most important thing to crack at present, and it is also a new proposition for how education can face the future and adapt to the future. Taking the cultivation and creation of units in the window of education internationalization as an opportunity for development, and looking at what kind of thinking, exploration and prospects of Guangkai Foreign Languages on international education.
In June 2021, Guangzhou launched the first batch of education internationalization window school declaration work, and strictly inspected and defended the declared schools in accordance with the "Guangzhou Education Internationalization Window School Creation Index System". In the end, the Chinese school outside the Guangzhou Development Zone (referred to as "Guangkai Foreign Language") was honored to be on the list, becoming one of the first 20 education internationalization window schools to cultivate and create units. After the expiration of the 2-year establishment period, it will be evaluated and accepted by the expert group, and will be recognized as an education internationalization window school after being reviewed and confirmed by the Municipal Education Bureau to reach the excellent level.
The construction of education internationalization window school is an important measure for Guangzhou to implement the "Opinions of the Ministry of Education and Other Eight Departments on Accelerating and Expanding the Opening Up of Education in the New Era", standardize and lead the city's primary and secondary schools to accelerate the opening up of education, further improve the level and quality of international development of school education, and cultivate young people in the new era with comprehensive development of morality, intellectual, physical and aesthetic work and international vision, and is also an important measure for the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Development of Education in Guangzhou" and the "14th Five-Year Plan for the Opening Up of Education in Guangzhou" One of the key projects. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Guangzhou selected primary and secondary schools with outstanding international elements in campus environment construction and cultural construction, rich experience in international exchanges and cooperation between teachers and students, good education and teaching foundation and high quality, and cultivated and created them into window schools for education internationalization. Every year, 15 to 20 ordinary primary and secondary schools (including public and private schools) are identified as the construction units of education internationalization window schools.
Becoming the first batch of education internationalization window school cultivation and creation units is not only a high recognition of the education administrative departments and all sectors of society for Guangkai foreign languages to adhere to the internationalization of schools, but also a comprehensive display of the internationalization achievements of Guangkai foreign language basic education, and it is also a new opportunity and new requirement for schools to enrich the international connotation of education and improve the quality of schools.
Overall planning: Liu Hao
Featured by: New Express reporter Deng Shanwen
Featured image: Courtesy of respondents
Cultivate international talents based on China's roots
Guangzhou Development Zone is located in an important position in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, with obvious location advantages, since the foundation 40 years, as an important carrier of high-level scientific and technological innovation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and one of the ten core international innovation platforms of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao Science and Technology Innovation Corridor, it is positioned as a national knowledge center with global influence, focusing on building a new highland for knowledge creation, an international talent free port, a source of innovation in the Bay Area, an open and cooperative demonstration zone, and becoming an important engine for the high-quality development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The school and its leaders keenly seized this good development opportunity and renamed Guangzhou No. 87 Middle School, founded in 1958, as "Guangzhou Development Zone Chinese School", actively integrated into the development trend of Guangzhou Development Zone, and established its own international education school in Guangzhou Development Zone.
Since the establishment Chinese of the school outside the Guangzhou Development Zone, the school has practiced the concept of "responsible education cultivates responsible people", actively explored new models of international exchanges and cooperation in education, cultivated a reserve army of high-end talents with global competitiveness, and gradually formed a unique international education atmosphere.
In December 2018, the education group led by The Wide Open Foreign Language, including 8 public and private schools, was officially established. In line with the reform and opening up in the new era, the development of the eastern region of Guangzhou and the development needs of students and parents, Guangkai Foreign Languages has taken on the responsibility of "transforming and upgrading to create an international brand of high-quality education", down-to-earth, and unswerving, and has become a brand school for foreign Chinese education grouping in one fell swoop.
Under the guidance of the Strategic Decision of the Education Bureau of "Integration, Expansion and Promotion", the school formulated the "Development Plan for Schools Outside Chinese the Guangzhou Development Zone", and made every effort to create "the path of education internationalization, the external Chinese teaching brand", and a new development goal and path were established.
In 2021, the school also formulated the "14th Five-Year Plan" development plan, determined the overall development direction of "following the development concept of 'Chinese roots, international vision, Silk Road feelings, and national responsibility', and striving to build the school into an international window school for education in Guangzhou with elegant campus environment, scientific management mechanism, optimization of the teaching staff, steady improvement of education quality, and initial formation of educational characteristics, and cultivating modern citizens with a sense of social responsibility who have both Chinese hearts and national souls, as well as world eyes and international standards". Promote the high-quality development of international education in schools by strengthening campus culture construction, creating an international teaching team, creating international understanding education and multilingual teaching, developing international education characteristic courses, and carrying out foreign exchanges and cooperation.
Under the guidance of the concept of responsibility education, Guangkai Foreign Language takes the cultivation of moral virtue as the fundamental task, advocates ecological moral education, follows the law of students' moral generation, takes the "campus festival" as an effective carrier, emphasizes the life of moral education, and takes the cultivation of national spirit and the establishment of cultural self-confidence as an important content of cultivating students' correct outlook on life, values and world outlook, forming a moral education ecosystem with vitality.
Diversified curriculum system Full coverage of the group area
With the development of the times, the education of international understanding has become a new topic in the development of education in the contemporary world. In October 2018, Guangkai Foreign Language officially launched the implementation of the special course of international understanding education, covering language teaching, experimental operation, multi-national cultural understanding, world culture classroom, and teacher ability improvement. As soon as the course was launched, it was warmly welcomed by students, and 39% of the students participated in the course through compulsory and elective forms.
Education for international understanding carries the important mission of promoting people-to-people exchanges and displaying the image of a peaceful great power, which aims to eliminate international problems and global problems, with the purpose of enhancing mutual understanding and mutual tolerance among people of different cultural backgrounds and different countries (regions), and then promoting everyone to be able to understand themselves and others through further understanding of the world, and cultivate the consciousness of "world citizenship". The school outside the Guangzhou Development Zone Chinese oriented to the cultivation of values, cultivates students to respect others, understand the diversity of the world, enhance the understanding of interpersonal, international, human and natural, learn to coexist, learn to cooperate; with the goal of making students have an international sense of responsibility and global awareness, promote the cultivation of students' language ability for international communication and exchange, strengthen students' understanding of different countries and national cultures, and their ability to think and solve hot issues in the world. as well as international adaptability and viability in the context of globalization and the rapid development of science and technology.
The school has built the "Belt and Road International Understanding Education Multilingual Center", and the diversified curriculum system based on multilingual teaching provides students with a wealth of choices for course selection. At present, the school has opened a small language college entrance examination class and a multilingual elective class, and a Japanese and German interest class has been opened in junior high schools to explore the "through train" model for small language advancement, and continue to provide small language students for high schools.
In 2019, the school officially launched the "21st Century English Teaching Method Training", "STEAM Interdisciplinary Primary School Bilingual Experimental Course", "Guangkai Foreign Language Education Group Affiliated Primary School English Special Course" and other "three major teaching improvement and improvement programs" covering all sections within the education group. Hire foreign professors, introduce Cambridge children's English courses, set up Cambridge escort courses, cover the international understanding course to the education group, focus on the improvement of teachers' ability and students' language ability, help the development of the education group, promote the coverage and influence of the curriculum in the group area, and form a 12-year international understanding education curriculum system of primary school- junior high school - high school.
Localization of international courses Internationalization of local courses
Generally speaking, the 1.0 version of the international school is the introduction and use of the international curriculum, the 2.0 version is the integration of the international curriculum and the local curriculum, and the 3.0 version is the localization of the international curriculum. Outside the Guangzhou Development Zone Chinese school has embarked on a path of international curriculum education suitable for its own development: localization of international curriculum and internationalization of local curriculum. As the demand for international education from domestic parents and students is heating up, the combination of Chinese and Western education models is becoming more and more widely favored. In The Wide Range of Foreign Languages, the curriculum is not only internationalized, but also integrated into local practice.
As early as 2014, the original eighty-seven special course "Silk Road Sail" was rated as a key project of the special curriculum of ordinary high schools in Guangzhou. In October 2018, relying on the school's "Belt and Road" multilingual teaching center, the "Silk Road Sail" International Understanding Education Characteristic Course based on the "Belt and Road" National Strategy was launched, which introduced AE Academic English, Cambridge English, Japanese, "Belt and Road" Multinational Cultural Understanding, STEAM Natural Discipline and Innovative Practice, Public Speech and Creative Writing and other international courses, and combined with the school's "Silk Road Sail" special course, explored the localization practice of international courses. Cultivate students' international literacy.
The "Silk Road Sail" special course is born from the navigation civilization of Huangpu Ancient Port, based on the construction of school characteristics, focusing on the lifelong development of students, which is the inheritance and innovation of the traditional culture born in Sri Lanka and grew up in Sri Lanka, and is a concrete embodiment of the school's school-running ideology and school-running concept. The characteristic curriculum system includes three series of "Ming Li", "Yale" and "Shanghe", which are set up and implemented in accordance with the two aspects of "Humanities Curriculum" and "Practical Curriculum", which is the general course content of all students in the school, including the national curriculum with the goal of cultivating the core literacy of the discipline and the basic course and humanities course to learn the "Maritime Silk Road Culture".
Specifically, the school has developed a series of school-based courses on the South China Sea Temple and the Maritime Silk Road, introducing historical figures such as the South Sea Temple, The Birth of Polo, Su Dongpo, Lin Zexu, etc., so that students can draw spiritual nourishment from the ancient sages and benevolent people from the traditional curriculum. Through the general study of the "Silk Road Sail" special course, students cultivate spiritual culture, tell Chinese stories well, lay a solid "Chinese foundation", and establish "national responsibility".
At the same time, the school has developed a special course on international understanding education, a general education + specialization, and after three years of practice, it has completed the research and development of school-based teaching materials including international understanding courses in Japan, South Korea, Italy, Portugal and other countries along the "Belt and Road". The study of general education + specialization fully develops the personality of students and improves the core literacy of students.
In addition, the school adheres to the use of Western learning, promotes the construction of efficient classrooms with the concept of international curriculum focusing on problem-oriented, group mutual learning, and attaching importance to inquiry-based learning, and at the same time creates a modern "smart classroom" to provide stable support and open services for the internationalization of education with comprehensive digitalization. Cambridge English starts flights and leads flights to teach English using the thinking mode of academic English to achieve full English teaching. The school adheres to the hierarchical teaching of AP courses in all grades, comprehensively promotes the formative evaluation of foreign language courses, and strives to build the curriculum structure of AP classes under the new college entrance examination and new academic examination plan, and basically forms a new academic examination preparation plan and strategy suitable for AP class students... The innovation of curriculum reform has effectively promoted the improvement of the effectiveness of educating people.
Introduce to show the charm of China, go out to promote exchanges and learning
The school has set up an international people-to-people exchange center, responsible for the school's foreign academic exchange activities, under the basic strategy of combining open schooling and cooperative schooling, on the one hand, "bring in" and "go out". On the one hand, we should tap potential opportunities for international cooperation and strengthen the "big" character of the development of the school's characteristics; on the other hand, combined with the inherent teacher advantages of the school, we introduced international teaching experience and created a "fine" signboard for the development of the school. The school has received foreign education delegations from Warsaw Education Delegation in Poland, Yonsei University in South Korea, etc., and showed the charm of China to the guests with traditional cultural projects such as lion awakening, paper-cutting art, Chinese orchestra, martial arts, etc.; in addition, it also carried out exchange student learning activities with the University of Technology Sydney in Australia and the Nakamura Mathematics Museum in Kyushu, Japan, and sent 74 teachers and students to exchange and study abroad.
Every year, the school holds a foreign language style plot and opens a foreign language reading corner. Organizing students to participate in the 2020 World Youth Model United Nations Conference, 18 Guangkai foreign language students gathered in the cloud with more than 600 young people from all over the world to discuss the problems facing the world, and Chen Chang and 7 other students won the Excellence Award. In the first Japanese Singing Competition and the National Japanese Speech Contest for High School Students, the success of the wide open foreign language was passed on, and he won the "Best Performance Award" and the "Silver Award" of the group.
Elite teaching team to enhance the effectiveness of educating people
The teaching of small languages in Chinese schools outside the Guangzhou Development Zone has gone through 10 years. At the school headquarters, in 2016, Wang Jiani and Chen Jie first opened Japanese courses in the school, and in 2020, Luo Jie Fanghui also joined the Japanese teaching team, kicking off the prelude to the school's small language teaching. In 2017, another German course was opened, and Liu Qilin and Liang Shuang took on the teaching task. In 2018, another French course was opened, with Xiong Bianru and Xie Liming as the teaching task, and since then the school has formed a small language teaching pattern of Japanese, German and French "troika".
The rise of small language characteristics is inseparable from the school's positive and dedicated Team of Japanese-German French teachers. In 2017, the school specially set up a multilingual discipline teaching and research center, weekly cross-grade collective lesson preparation, open class display, so that teachers in the exchange of brainstorming, resource sharing; in the process of listening to and evaluating lessons to help each other, common promotion; regular teaching seminars, encourage teachers to write excellent teaching papers, subject research; use the holiday, organize small language teachers to write students' practical college entrance examination review materials, form a school-based textbook with school characteristics; attach importance to the training and training of teachers in small languages, Vigorously carry out the teacher business improvement project, and send teachers to famous schools for further study and seminars every year, so as to build a broader platform for teachers' personal development.
Today, our school has 3 Japanese teachers, 2 German teachers, and 2 French teachers, all of whom are undergraduate or master's degree students majoring in Japanese, German and French.
The school adheres to the multi-level and diversified strategy of opening up, vigorously promotes international exchanges and cooperation, and forms teaching and mutual assistance partners with some famous schools at home and abroad. The China Office of the Japan International Cooperation Agency has identified Chinese schools outside the Guangzhou Development Zone as cooperative assistance units, supported the Japanese language teaching of our school for a long time, and regularly sent Japanese teachers to teach at the school, broadening the thinking of running the school.
Guangkai Foreign Language attaches great importance to the construction of the teaching team, actively carries out learning exchanges with first-class foreign Chinese schools, and strives to enhance the scientific research competitiveness of foreign language teachers; strives to enhance the characteristics of foreign language teaching, strengthens the quality construction of foreign language compulsory and elective courses; carries out hierarchical teaching practice in the small class teaching mode to promote the development of foreign languages in all aspects of all aspects of all students. The school has a deep foreign language atmosphere, a strong teaching force, and the advantages of small languages are prominent. In recent years, through the newly opened Japanese class, the school has given full play to the "1+1>2" teaching mode of Japanese teachers and foreign teachers with external professionals, strengthened the characteristics of Japanese language teaching, and has now become a school with the largest Japanese language scale and the best Score in the Japanese college entrance examination in Guangdong Province.
In addition, the school implements a growth mentor system, gathers international education teachers and further education guidance forces, and guides students to do a good job in the three major sections of "self-awareness", "growth planning" and "university application". Further optimize the teaching team, form a foreign language teaching team with the International Education Guidance Center, foreign language subject teachers, foreign teachers, and The Chinese, British and American AP Curriculum Center as the core, introduce young and middle-aged foreign teachers, carry out full training, special lectures, practical seminars and other forms of all-discipline infiltration of international understanding education, and integrate the dimensions of principal evaluation, teacher observation evaluation, student feedback, and management team observation to improve the international literacy of all teachers. At the same time, we will explore the teaching forms of Chinese and foreign teachers who are heterogeneous, homogeneous in the same class, and teach in the same class, and build a harmonious, harmonious and happy international education team.
New Starting Point Exhibition New Future International education opens a new chapter
In the view of Guangkai Foreign Languages, the ultimate purpose of the internationalization of education is to cultivate talents with international awareness, international communication ability and international competitiveness, so that such people can base themselves on their own locality, look at the world, and actively participate in international competition. The cultural campus is the destination of school development, the internationalization of education in the new era should be the sublimation from "bringing in" to "going out", Chinese culture should go to the world through education, establish the self-confidence of Chinese culture through education internationalization, reflect the responsibility and responsibility of a big country, and provide Chinese solutions for building a community with a shared future for mankind.
In addition, the campus culture also reflects the tradition of a school, once formed, will be long-term standardization, cultivation and infection of every member of the school. How to adhere to the "Chinese foundation" in the style of campus architecture, display cultural self-confidence on the basis of carrying forward tradition, and at the same time have an "international vision", reflect a broad mind on the basis of embracing the world, and organically integrate Eastern and Western cultures is another important topic for the construction of campus culture in the future.
Standing at the new starting point of "the creation of education international window schools", Guangkai Foreign Language will seize the opportunity of the country to build an international education demonstration zone in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, lengthen its eyes, focus on long-term planning, continuously expand and enrich the connotation and form of education opening to the outside world, and combine the research on the construction and practice of the characteristic curriculum of the localization of international characteristics of basic education under the "Belt and Road" strategy with the practice of education internationalization, and aspire to form a more systematic and more Guangzhou-style experience in the internationalization of education. In order to build an international brand of high-quality education and achieve the goal of "cultivating modern citizens with a sense of social responsibility, who have both Chinese hearts and national souls, as well as the world's eyes and international standards", we will continue to move forward, and strive to provide more high-quality international education resources for the society.
Quotes from the Principal
Education "Internationalization" Do not forget the "Chinese heart", international competitiveness and patriotic education are the foundation of future talents.
Education is cultivating future talents. Driven by economic globalization and trade liberalization, the internationalization of education has become a global trend. Through the introduction of high-quality educational resources, the study, digestion and absorption of international advanced educational concepts and teaching methods, and the absorption of the strengths of all, we will promote the improvement of the quality and level of education on the mainland, which is not only in line with the general direction of the mainland's education reform, but also conducive to cultivating talents with international competitiveness and a patriotic heart. This is the feeling and responsibility that an excellent international school should have, and it is also an issue that parents should pay attention to when choosing an international school.
Message from the Principal
At the top of the mountain, you can see the rushing of the river; above the peaks, you feel the long wind. Based on China, shining in the world, and having cultural self-confidence, you and I may pursue this. Education and culture are important connotations of people-to-people exchanges. Success does not have to be in me, success must have me. Under the guidance of the "opening up of education to the outside world" in the new era and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative by the education sector, our school will adhere to the foundation of the nation and continue to improve the international vision and professional quality of teachers and students. With lofty dreams, down-to-earth, thick and thin, and strive to build an international brand of education with Chinese characteristics, world level and high-quality development.