为国际教育做准备较重要的部分是接受新思想,愿意接受挑战,有时愿意在这些挑战中失败,但也要继续前进,迎接挑战,迎接未来的成功,开启这一理念和目标,这是在国际学校和课程中取得成功的关键。——摘自3月21日媒体采访
媒体采访时间:2021年3月21日
媒体采访地点:IEIC国际教育创新大会 · 春季峰会 · 深圳站新闻媒体中心
媒体采访嘉宾:广州市斐特思学校·总校长
▲现场媒体采访
媒体记者:
Can you introduce yourself?
请您介绍一下自己。
Mr.Longmore:
My name is Marco Longmore and Ihave the privilege of being the founding head of college at fete's college inGuangzhou. I have had 30 years of leadership and school experience across leadu K's leading independent schools and also finding a brand school in the MiddleEast.
我的名字叫Marco Longmore,我有幸成为广州市斐特思学校的创办校长。我有30年的领导经验和学校管理的经验,领导英国的独立学校,也在中东地区创建了一个品牌学校。
媒体记者:
First of all, please share withus your feelings at today's IEIC scene?
先请你与我们做一个分享,您在今天的IEIC现场有怎样的感受?
Mr.Longmore:
The wonderful thing aboutthe international education innovation conference today is the enthusiasm thatyou can see from parents and from some of their children towards theireducation. It's a real commitment and something that we as educators need tolive up to.
今天国际教育创新大会的精彩之处在于,你可以从家长和一些孩子身上看到他们对教育的热情。这是一个真正的,也是我们作为教育工作者需要履行的。
媒体记者:
What abilities do you thinkstudents who want to enter elite international schools should have?
您觉得想进牛校的学生,应该具备哪些能力?
Mr.Longmore:
The key ability that they have is a willingness and a desire to learn. I'vejust spoken at conference talking about the need to love learning. At ourschool, we love learning and we want our people to take that forward throughouttheir lives so that as adults and as children, we all continue to grow in ourknowledge and in our experiences.
他们拥有的关键能力是学习的意愿和欲望。我刚刚在会议上谈到了热爱学习的必要性。在我们的学校,我们热爱学习,我们希望我们的孩子在他们的一生中不断向前迈进,这样作为成年人和儿童,我们都能在知识和经验上不断成长。
媒体记者:
When parents plan for theirchildren's international education, what kind of school age stage do you thinkis the most suitable?
家长们对于孩子做国际教育方面规划的时候,您觉得什么样的学龄阶段较为合适?
Mr.Longmore:
The most important part ofpreparing for an international education is to be open to new ideas, to bewilling to take on challenges, and sometimes to be willing to fail in thosechallenges, but also then move on, pick up and return to those challenges forsuccess in the future that open this of mind that purpose that is the key tosuccess within an international school and curriculum.
为国际教育做准备较重要的部分是接受新思想,愿意接受挑战,有时愿意在这些挑战中失败,但也要继续前进,迎接挑战,迎接未来的成功,开启这一理念和目标,这是在国际学校和课程中取得成功的关键。
媒体记者:
What's the biggest difference between Chinese schools and westernschools?
中国本土的学校和海外的学校有什么区别?
Mr.Longmore:
There are many common features in school life and i've seen that across the world.The key part is a commitment in an international school, the exposure to verycorrect column and to inquiry based learning is one of the key features wherewe see growth for our pupils. Inquiry based learning gives the explorationthrough topics and the ability to bring knowledge across from differentsubjects and use projects to develop that. I think that's one of the keyfeatures and some might say advantages of that type of curricular approach.Thank you very well.
学校生活有许多共同的特点,我在世界各地都看到过。关键是在国际学校的,接触非常正确的专栏和探究式学习是我们看到学生成长的关键特征之一。探究式学习使学生能够通过主题进行探索,并能够将不同学科的知识带到不同的领域,并利用项目进行开发。我认为这是一个关键的特点,有些人可能会说这种课程方法的优势,非常感谢。
作为拥有多元丰富教育背景和经验的从业者,Mr.Longmore校长结合多年的学校管理经验,为大家讲述了自己对于教育的理解,相信这能够给在教育路上充满困惑的家长带来更多的思考和新的启发。
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