"One flower pot per person, one flower bush per class, and one garden in the school. With daily companionship, students can feel the form and spirit of flower pets and understand the truth, goodness and beauty of life." This is the Jiangmen Foreign Language School attached to Guangdong University of Foreign Studies ( Referred to as Guangwai Jiangmen Foreign School), it reflects the details of the characteristics of aesthetic education inquiry education.
"Knowing the book, being reasonable, and being dignified." I believe this is another important "wealth" that most parents hope that their children can obtain in addition to good grades and a good university. "Details determine success or failure. Under the influence of aesthetic education, Chinese culture, and overseas Chinese culture day after day, boys are becoming more refined and girls are becoming more elegant. This is one of the core goals of our school." Vice President of Guangwai Jiangmen University Tao Jun pointed out that in the future, the school will inherit the advantages of GDUFS, based on the local characteristics of Jiangmen, and create five major sectors: international quality, foreign language characteristics, student-based education, human-based management, activity enrichment, aesthetic education, Chinese learning heritage, overseas Chinese Hometown feelings, technology empowerment, maker practice, and let the five major sectors support the backbone of the school-running of Guangwai Jiangmen Foreign School.
A Establish strategic partnerships with more than 300 universities in 47 countries
"Foreign Languages" is undoubtedly the core advantage of the GDUFS Education brand in the academic world for many years. “Therefore, the core carrier of the international quality and foreign language characteristics that constitute the first section is foreign language.” said Tao Jun, vice president of Guangwai Jiangmen Foreign School.
According to reports, next year Guangwai Jiangmen Wai School will officially open Cambridge classes, covering the elementary and junior high school stages. By 2021, the school's high school will be officially opened, including international and domestic high schools. By then, international high schools will introduce the "original" Western education system, employ a large number of foreign teachers, and at the same time dabble in many small language courses. "International high school students will not need to take the domestic college entrance examination. They will directly apply for the OFFER of their favorite foreign university based on the credits they have taken within three years. It is a veritable "international high school"." Tao Jun said.
For children’s future international education, it is believed that many parents are concerned. It is reported that Guangwai Education Group has established strategic partnerships with more than 300 universities in 47 countries. Build a broad passage abroad for students. Taking last year as an example, 90 international high school students from the GDUFS headquarters received a total of 359 admission letters from foreign universities, including Duke University, University of Toronto, Durham University, etc., further highlighting the school’s “student training” "Become a modern Chinese going to the world".
B Advocate the educational concept of "being born and born" and let children grow up happily
Since the announcement of its presence in Jiangmen, the new teacher-student relationship established by Guangwai Jiangmen Foreign School has been unanimously recognized by all sectors of society. The school vigorously advocates the educational concept of "student-based and generation", and positions teachers as the "shepherds" of life, rather than "trackers" that pull students.
Strategically promote "learning before teaching", "I want to learn", and "soldiers to teach soldiers", centering on high-quality small classes and the guidance of famous teachers, activating each child's natural dreams, and composing a progressive and happy growth movement.
Tao Jun emphasized that the school will also implement the management concept of "people-oriented · optimization", highlight the human-oriented spirit in school design, team building, logistics support and other details, and strive to create a beautiful and safe campus environment and superior cutting-edge teaching facilities , Excellent dedicated teaching team, elegant and clean dormitory life, high-quality healthy meals and two teas.
C Offer special courses to make "beauty" everywhere
"Each person has a flowerpot, each class has a flower bush, and a school garden. During the breaks, students' activities are no longer frolicking, but squatting down to take care of their respective flower pets and exchange experience in growing flowers." It is the scene of students studying and living in Guangwai Jiangmen Foreign School in the future.
"In the growth process of every child, partners are inseparable. In addition to the partnership between humans, humans and creatures can also form delicate partnerships. We hope that students will feel the daily companionship with flowers. The shape and meaning of the flower pet grows and understands the truth, goodness and beauty of the nature of life. This is the main line of our school’s aesthetic education exploration characteristics." Tao Jun said: "At the same time as the aesthetic education exploration is carried out, special courses such as art design, vocal performance, dance and martial arts will be presented. , Aims to make'beauty' everywhere."
In terms of the characteristics of activities, the activity project is the foothold, the theme course is the advancement line, the experience and perception is the structure surface, and the temperament is the formation. In the future, GDUFS Jiangmen Foreign School will create "English Festival", "Sports Festival", "Art Festival", "Cultural Festival", and "Reading Festival" for students. At the same time, there will be hundreds of wonderful and diverse club activities, Study tours and practical activities are for students to choose freely.
D Learn tea ceremony skills and inherit Chinese traditional culture
"Training students to become modern Chinese who go to the world" is not an empty phrase. Tao Jun said: "We will do our best to train students with the true power of Chinese civilization."
As the carrier feature of this concept, the section of traditional Chinese culture inheritance will clearly use "The Analects of Confucius" as its advancing line. "The Doctrine of the Mean" and "University" are the carriers, and the high school uses "The Dao De Jing", "Mencius" and "Xunzi" as the carriers. At the same time, special courses such as reading sharing and poetry reading are presented.
The Overseas Chinese Hometown Feelings section takes "tea cultivation and self-cultivation" as the line of advancement, with Jiangmen mandarin tea, Guangdong Kungfu tea, Chinese tea culture, and world tea civilization as the direction of study. At the same time, it presents special courses such as farming, study tours and charity.
"Cultivating flowers can nourish sex, and cultivating tea can also help self-cultivation. In the five thousand years of Chinese culture, the influence of tea culture is huge, and Xinhui where our school is located is also the home of citrus tea. Our school is very determined to integrate into each child’s study and life.” Tao Jun said: “Every student in our school can be proficient in tea ceremony skills such as learning tea, tasting tea, and making tea after graduation, and reach the elementary level. The skill level of a tea artist."
Activate each child's desire for knowledge, and use teamwork to achieve everyone's participation and growth. This is the core educational philosophy of Guangwai Jiangmen Wai School and an important manifestation of the school's holistic education strategy. Tao Jun said: "In terms of farming and study tours, we will regularly let the children experience the fun of growing vegetables in the fields. Let each group undertake the planting tasks of a piece of land, from sowing, fertilizing, picking, and finally planting to the table. Eating will guide the children to work together to complete the work. It also allows them to experience the cultural essence of "who knows Chinese food is hard."
“学生在美育、国学、侨乡文化氛围日复一日的熏陶下，男生渐显儒雅、女生越发优雅，正是我校办学的核心目标之一。”陶俊说道。
E Invest 1.2 million yuan to introduce advanced maker education equipment
It is reported that the technology empowerment sector will take "success and aspiration" as the line of advancement, supported by domestic first-class teaching equipment, and "intelligent robots" as the potential tipping point, challenging the diverse thinking of the information age, while presenting software programming, remote control of aircraft Special courses such as astronomical observation.
Tao Jun said that in terms of maker education, many parents believe that "smart robots" are maker education, and maker education is "smart robots". In fact, it is not the case. The maker practice section of Guangwai Jiangmen Foreign School will use "creative innovation". "In order to advance the line, try to break the limitations of disciplines, implement general education and STEAM courses, practice and create inventions by hands, and present special courses such as cutting-edge observation, mind mapping, speech and debate.
It is understood that in addition to the introduction of advanced maker education equipment such as programmable robots, laser cutting machines, artificial intelligence interactive robots, and astronomical observers, GDUFS Jiangmen Foreign School has also established a special maker laboratory. The total investment in maker education hardware Up to 1.2 million yuan.
In the future, the school’s maker education coverage rate will be as high as 100%. In addition, the school has specially hired experienced full-time maker education teachers and maker education technology directors, and will set up different maker courses according to the level of awareness of different grades.
Jiangmen Daily News/Lu Zhongyan, June 13, 2018
