Migao and international schools? How should parents choose? When choosing a MG or an international school, it is actually a balance between risk and reward. In the end, you have to choose based on your actual situation. So what factors should you look at when choosing a suitable international high school? The following 51 International Education Network teacher will give you a detailed analysis, come and learn about it!
combined with competition
In recent years, China has started the trend of going to the United States to study in high schools, and the demand for young people to study abroad and international education is increasing day by day. Parents pay more attention to domestic international schools, and the difference between American high school is hesitant!
Since 2010, international schools have blossomed everywhere, and more families have chosen to attend international schools in elementary or junior high schools, and then switched to American high schools. The implication is that international schools have become the springboard for Meigao. This is the combination of international schools and Meigao.
Of course, there are quite a few parents who are still wondering: What are the differences between international high schools and American high schools, and how should they choose? This is the competition between international schools and MGH.
Some parents believe that studying in Meigao is immersed in American students, speaking English 24 hours a day, and improving language skills faster than international schools. Some parents also believe that MGH is more mature in keeping with American universities, so they give priority to MGH.
The above views make sense, but these thoughts are too superficial. Although immersing in the American classmates circle is quite helpful for improving spoken language, it has no substantial advantages in improving reading and writing. The M&H is more mature in the university, but it is essentially because students are familiar with American life in advance and cannot be attributed to the school system.
Getting to know yourself, start by understanding others
The difference between American high school and international schools
Joseph Conrad, a Polish writer, whose native language is not English, but the English novels he created make British and American writers bow down and therefore are recognized as one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. He once said: Only when you learn another language can you begin to truly understand your native language.
Same thing is, when you start living in another country, you truly begin to understand your mother country. For a 15-year-old teenager, when he leaves his parents and leaves his familiar environment to live in a new environment, his greatest gain will be to truly begin to know his original self.
The strangeness in a foreign country is a resource that cannot be replicated, and pressure and freshness coexist. In daily life, this strangeness will make you uncomfortable everywhere.
In terms of living habits, Chinese people like to drink hot water, but living in the United States, you have to start to adapt to days without hot water; in terms of communication between people, Americans communicate directly, and the way that Chinese culture advocates to make big things small and tolerate them when they can be tolerated is no longer appropriate, and Chinese students have to learn to express their emotions and ideas directly. To a deeper level, that is the collision of values.
As we all know, people always grow stronger when they are against the trend. If you can't defeat you, you will become stronger. Learning a new way of life, new thinking mode, and new language does not mean replacing the original, but making up for and strengthening it. When we face the same problem, there will be another solution.
Be an American + Chinese
The only Chinese president in the history of the University of California, Berkeley, Tian Changlin , once encouraged Chinese to be Americans in the United States and Chinese in China - What a high level is it to be an amph ! International schools can fully cultivate talents with bilingual skills, but it is almost impossible to cultivate dual-cultural talents, because culture requires experience and understanding.
Compared with international schools, American high schools provide an opportunity to know themselves and surpass themselves in great contrast and severe collisions. This opportunity is the most fundamental difference between the two types of education.
As the saying goes, the greater the risk, the greater the return, but the greater the loss. Although counter-trend promotes growth, it is also a major risk. The phenomenon of Chinese students gathering is nothing more than a force formed in the face of strangeness and all kinds of discomforts, and in order to protect themselves.
The loss, loneliness, loss, depression and other emotions experienced by young international students are nothing more than discomfort symptoms manifested in the face of strangeness. After successfully overcoming, the experience of Meigao can transform a person; if it fails, the experience of Meigao will knock down an unprepared teenager.
After all, choosing MGH and international schools is nothing more than finding a balance between risk and reward. Therefore, the old saying is still the best: the one that suits you is the best.
How to choose a suitable international school? What are the main factors?
course
The most mainstream international curriculum system in China mainly includes IB International Bachelor's degree course, A-Level British high school course, AP university preparatory course, Canadian high school course and Australian high school course, etc. Because going to international schools is mainly to prepare for studying abroad, it is very necessary to understand the recognition of each course in different countries in the world, both parents and students.
For example, IB courses, due to the high requirements for students' balance in subjects (both liberal arts and sciences) and their research ability, writing ability and ability to participate in social activities, all universities, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other major educational countries, agree that IB students' performance is relatively better than those who enter universities through other courses. At present, more and more universities around the world accept IB students, and many universities implement a credit reward system for IB students;
In addition to applying to universities in native English-speaking countries such as the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia, students can also apply to most schools in EU , and are equivalent to those in local schools such as France and Germany;
AP course is mainly aimed at American universities. In other countries, such as the United Kingdom, Canada, etc., the recognition is not as good as IB and A Level courses.
School time
The international school I just opened may lack experience in management. A good international school needs to be tested and settled by time before it can bring out its characteristics and expertise.
teacher
1. Two ratios
The ratio of the number of teachers and students. The more teachers account for, the more attention they pay to students.
Chinese and foreign teachers. In some international schools, if you find a few foreigners, you will say that you have a foreign teacher, and parents should pay attention.
2. Teacher qualifications
Whether the teacher qualification certificate held by foreign teachers is recognized; education; experience in the education industry
Student source
The close-to-the-red person is red and close to the ink is black is just a saying. Students and parents who care about this point can investigate. Most of the people who will become your classmates or your children's classmates in the future come from and what are their grades.
International Elements
If students have been studying in an international school for several years and have not had the opportunity to go abroad to see it, how can they improve their international horizons and cultivate international thinking? Therefore, parents can check whether international schools have international programs from various channels, such as exchange students, summer camps, winter camps and summer schools, etc.
The following 51 International Education Network editor takes Chengdu as an example and lists several well-known Chengdu International High Schools