Before you prepare to attend the next international school exhibition or visit schools overseas, I suggest that you mobilize the whole family to do their homework first. The following is about the characteristics of students in international schools. I hope you will read it carefully!

After completing the first step, the second step is to understand the school. Observing a school, I tend to pay attention to four aspects, but I also ignore the other five aspects in an understatement.

Let me say a few things first, which I want to sweep away. These are often noises that easily lead parents to lose sight of the essence.

1) Mission: Slogans and ideals are absolutely the most beautiful, without any cost, and they are similar.

2) The image project of the school: If the school takes any tall stars or politicians as the image project, skip it quickly. A school with full connotation and self-confidence will try its best to show its own characteristics, instead of relying on celebrities to come out of the platform, take pictures and package advertisements.

3) Exam first: Whether it is a domestic exam or overseas A-Level, IB, AP, the high score of case nature can only explain the ability of a student, not the overall level of the school, so skip it quickly.

4) Built on a tall building: I actually like the facilities on a tall building, but I am more concerned about how the school can use these facilities to bring the greatest gains to students.

5) Teacher-student ratio: Many people seem to care about this, but from my own teaching experience in the United States, the teacher-student ratio of one school is 1: 9, which is not substantially different from that of another school 1: 12. Unless your child has special needs in learning, for most families, there is no need to dwell on this figure.

Let me say a few aspects that I will pay attention to:

1) Teachers: Teachers are always the core of a school.

A school, like a service company, has special significance. Although its customers are diverse, its employees must be efficient, professional and caring. Then the most direct way to judge the teachers of an international school, especially foreign teachers, is to look at their treatment, except general teaching experience and educational background (such as the proportion of teachers with master's degree or above in the whole school).

Man struggles upwards, so do teachers who work in international schools. Treatment is an easy factor to compare. Imagine that if a school is well paid, at least they will have more teachers to choose from. If you need to know more, you can compare the teacher recruitment requirements of the two schools, and these job standards are public information, which can be searched on the school official website.

2) Students: Besides teachers, the quality of students is the most important.

Any school has students with excellent ability and average ability, but neither extreme student can represent the overall quality of students. Parents should look at the middle group.

The more direct inspection methods are admission rate and admission threshold. The low admission rate means that there are many students to choose from, but it is too low. You should also be careful, because you should consider whether your children can survive and get ahead in this highly competitive school. When I instruct students to apply for American high schools, there is a principle that students must never be at the bottom of any school.

3) Parents: Why does the interview for admission to private middle schools in the United States also include an inspection of parents? One of the main reasons is that schools should look for families with matching ideas.

Birds of a feather flock together, that's why. Then when you know the school, you might as well know more about the characteristics and sexual orientation of the school parents from the side. Are they the group you agree with?

4) Curriculum: Curriculum is the last of all factors.

A mature curriculum system has its own perfect ideas and requirements. In China, both A-Level and IB really reach the highest level of the course, and the original ones are rare. The main reason why most schools can't do this is the problem of teachers and students. Of course, there are differences between courses. Now IB course is sought after by people, but we must clearly realize that IB has the highest difficulty coefficient, especially IB's high school diploma, which is not suitable for everyone. I suggest that parents should know the average score of A-Level or IB, not the highest score.

I believe there will be more schools springing up in the vast land of China in the future. After all, this is a good thing for families, and it has also injected a force that cannot be ignored into the progress of education in China. What we can and should do is to learn to look at the essence and ask questions.

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