上师大附第二外国语学校国际部A-level课堂全了解——记初中部家长课堂
A-level是什么?
A-Level(General Certificate of Education Advanced Level )，是英国普通中等教育证书考试高级水平课程，也是英国学生的大学入学考试课程。全球超过160个国家和地区11000多所学校的学生在学习A-Level国际课程，学生凭3门及以上A-Level课程的成绩即可申报世界上绝大多数名牌大学，被誉为全球“金牌教育课程体系”。
What are A-Levels?
A-Level (General Certificate of Education Advanced Level) is a high school qualification – advanced level- and it is also the university entrance examination course for British students. Students from more than 11,000 schools in more than 160 countries and regions around the world are presently studying A-level courses. Students can apply for most of the world’s top universities based on their scores of three or more A-level subjects. It is known as one of the best education systems in the world.
A-level的优势有哪些?
What are the advantages of A-level courses?
在我校读A-level的优势有哪些?
What are the advantages of studying A-level courses at our school?
1. 我校是三大国际考试委员会授权学校——Edexcel(英国爱德思国家职业学历与学术考试机构)、AQA(英国资格评估与认证联合会)和CAIE(剑桥大学国际考试委员会)。学生可以多次参加这三种考试，取较高成绩。
Our school has been authorized by three examination committees- Edexcel (Elders National Vocational Education and Academic Examinations), AQA (UK Qualification Assessment and Certification Federation) and CAIE (Cambridge Assessment International Education). Students are allowed to take these examinations multiple times in order to obtain the highest possible scores.
2. 我校拥有课程组合优势，更符合学生个性化学习的特点，更有利于学生申请大学。
Our school has the advantage of combining curricula, which is more in line with the characteristics of individualized learning and is more conducive to students who are applying for university entrance.
各位家长通过我们先前的介绍，想必对A-level心驰神往。我作为剑桥高中部的负责人，非常诚意的邀请各位家长选择我校A-level。
这样，我们的学生的学习习惯可以得到延续，师生之间互相知根知底，能够帮助学生有针对性的学习，我个人在帮助学生申请世界较好大学颇有经验。
比如，我曾经带领一位来自浙江省的黄同学进入剑桥大学。他的雅思只有6.5分，是当年唯一一个雅思6.5分竟然还能拿到剑桥大学offer的同学。当时，我帮助他发挥他的思维优势。他在面试之后，很勇敢的向教授表明：“教授，我这次没有发挥好，是因为您没有讲好。理由有一、二、三.......。”剑桥教授收到他的信件后，很诧异，就跟学生回信，这样一来二去，他善于思考、独具视角的优点被剑桥看中了。
这个故事说明，仅仅培养学业成绩良好的学生是不够的，因为剑桥并不缺分数高的学生，有自己独特魅力或者一技之长的学生是任何一所较好大学都期待寻找的人。而把您的孩子培养成这样的人才，正是我校教育从业者较擅长做的事。所以，欢迎大家来到我们高中部。
What is Vice Principal Liu Peng of the Cambridge High School’s view?
“Parents, through this introduction of our A-Level courses, I believe you will be impressed by A-levels. As the head of the High School in Cambridge, I would like to invite all parents to choose our A-level courses.
In this way, our students develop good learning habits. Teachers and students get to know each other well and teachers can help students to learn in a targeted way. I personally have had the experience of helping students to apply to world-class universities.
For example, I once helped a student from Zhejiang Province, Huang, to gain admission to Cambridge University. His IELTS score was only 6.5, and he was the only student that year who received an offer from Cambridge with a score of 6.5. I had helped him to develop his ability of independent thinking. It turned out that he was very diligent and careful. He was bold enough to send an email to the professor at the university to discuss a problem. His thoughtfulness and eagerness to study impressed Cambridge during the application process. His deep thinking and unique perspective was the main reason for his admission to Cambridge University.
The story shows that it is not enough to merely educate students to achieve a good academic performance, because Cambridge does not lack students with high scores. It is students with their own unique abilities or skills who are the kind of people that top university would be looking for. To help your child to be such a person, is exactly what our school’s educators are good at doing. So we welcome you to our high school….
作为一名教育者，比起分数或者等级，我更看重对学生能力的培养。所以，我们在3月的科学月活动中让学生体验多元文化，鼓励学生独立思考，塑造学生积极主动的品格，培养时间管理的能力，在4月的游学活动中，我们让学生脱离熟悉感，摆脱依赖感，在新环境中锻炼自主生活的能力、口语交际能力、自我保护能力。这些能力是孩子幸福一生的基础，而这种教育理念将会在我校高中部得到良好的延续。
What is Principal Liu Wang’s view?
“As an educator, I value the development of students’ abilities more than grades or scores. So in the Science Month in March, we allowed students to experience multiculturalism and encouraged them to think independently. In the study tours (field trips) in April, we let the students break away from the familiar, get rid of dependence, exercise the abilities of an independent life, oral communication and to take care of oneself in a new environment. Also allowing students the freedom to develop their own character and strengthen their time management skills- these abilities are the foundation of a child’s happy life, and this educational concept will be continued into our high school department.
在这次家长课堂上，来自八年级的李同学家长发来留言：听了本次课堂，发现A-level有助于全方面的培养孩子。听了两位领导的演讲，突然明白了教育必须一脉相承，一点一点的知识汇聚成文化;一点一点的文化凝聚成教育，反过来教育又贯穿学生学习和生活的点点滴滴。总之，家长课堂开设的很赞，期待更多讲座，家校合作，让更多孩子变得越来越优秀，让我们家长也优秀起来。
In this information lecture for parents, Li, a student from grade eight, had his parents send a message to school: “After listening to this class, found that A-level helps to cultivate all aspects of a child. After listening to the speeches of the two school leaders, I suddenly realized that education must follow a continuous pathway; knowledge must gradually converge into culture; little by little, culture condenses into education, which in turn permeates the student’s education and life. In a word, parent information sessions are very good. We anticipate more lectures, home-school cooperation, so that our students will improve more and more and our parents too!
