On February 20th, Ms Zeng Lihong, the president and Head of the School of Guangzhou Tiyudong Education Group visited ISA Liwan campus with principals of schools and supervisors. This visit is to build up mutual understanding for further cooperation and the improvement of quality teaching, which can enhance future development together.

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2023年2月20日，廣州體育東教育集團理事長、總校長曾麗紅與旗下各小學校長、主任一行蒞臨愛莎荔灣，對學校進行了現場參觀與調研學習。本次交流學習以教研、課程共建，互相了解為目的，促進友校的共同成長。

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曾麗紅校長一行參觀了愛莎荔灣粵劇亭、800人國際演藝廳、黑匣子劇院等世界級標準的設施設備，深入了解了學校的設施是如何輔助支持荔灣全人教育的理念和教學實踐的。當踏入黑匣子，各位校長和老師不禁發出疑問：這里環境特別，有何作用？——愛莎荔灣筑以為學，黑匣子劇場作為戲劇課程、小組排練和小型表演的主要場所，除了配有舞臺專用燈光，音響以及智能化控制系統外，室內材料使用環保吸音材料塑造藝術空間，嚴格控制其它因素從而達成最佳聲學及視覺效果，有效提升孩子們的舒適感和空間品質。

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The Cantonese Opera Performance Pavilion, the Auditorium, the Black Box and other world-class facilities deeply impressed our guests, which gave them a full picture of how the environment and all these facilities can be a strong support to assist the practice of holistic education and teaching activities. When entering Black Box, the special design has made them keep thinking ‘Why’. The Black Box equipped with professional stage lighting, sound effect and smart control system is serving as the main place for drama class, rehearsal, and performance. All the indoor materials are environmentally friendly and sound insulated, enabling it to become the best place for growing artwork.

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課堂、表演開始，當專業光束燈打到孩子身上時，周圍的環境仍舊是暗的。此時我們能夠近距離感受孩子的表情、肢體語言、人物之間的情感沖突。通過這種沉浸式教學，孩子們可以感受到所飾演角色身上最真實的情緒，角色背后反映的歷史、經濟和文化元素等，加深了孩子們對文化背景和英文語言的理解。

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The lighting is specially designed for a drama performance. When the light spotted the children, the audience can better see the sign language, the facial expression and the emotional conflict of the play. With such an immersive learning experience, the emotion, history, the culture of the characters will be greatly shown on stage, which can enhance students’ understanding of the play and the characters.

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座談會上，愛莎荔灣文華學校小學部校長Patricia Pope以工作坊的模式為兩校帶來一場別開生面的IB PYP概念驅動式教學的培訓，解析了如何通過IB的理念和框架在日常課程中實現超學科教學。曾麗紅校長對這種工作坊的互動模式贊不絕口，表示當下教育理應與時俱進，通過超學科的教學方式，引領孩子們為將來的各種挑戰做好準備。在隨后愛莎荔灣小學部中文李老師分享中，曾麗紅校長也表示了對以方案模式介紹PYP特色的贊賞，并深感雙方在課程建設上有很多地方可以互相借鑒。

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At the seminar, Patricia Pope, Principal of the Primary School of Liwan Wenhua, gave us a unique training on IB PYP concept-driven teaching in a workshop format, explaining how to implement supra-curricular teaching in the daily curriculum through the IB concept and framework. Ms. Zeng was very impressed with the interactive workshop and said that education should keep up with the times and lead children to be prepared for future challenges through a supra-disciplinary approach. In the subsequent sharing by Ms Li, the Chinese teacher of Liwan Wenhua School, Ms. Zeng also expressed her appreciation for the programme model to introduce the features of PYP, and felt that there were great opportunities for the development of integrated curriculum.

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在圍繞《創建教育現代化學校共同體，助力學校高質量發展》為題的發言中，曾麗紅校長表示了對愛莎的肯定，愛莎的雙軌制有效糅合了中國義務教育與IB課程，其中IB PYP框架之下的超學科教學方式將讓孩子的學習更更自主、更有趣。曾校長提到：體育東教育集團致力于讓每個人做最好的自己的辦學理想，傾力為學生的健康成長、自我超越創造更多更好的支持，為廣大學子提供扎實全面、優質均衡的素質教育，打造了真誠、善良、進取、專業的優秀師群，集團學校在國家課程校本化實施方面積累豐富的經驗，取得了卓越的教育成果。針對體育東教育集團與愛莎教育集團的合作方向，曾校長提出，兩個集團可以優勢互補，發揮體育東教育集團高效實施國家義務教育課程與愛莎先進的IB課程建設的優勢，通過兩個集團的“同課異構，同主題課程異構”等方式，合作互動，融合創新，使兩個教育集團的課程更中國、更世界，讓兩個集團在教育之路錦上添花。

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In the speech, "Creating an educational modernization school community, helping schools to develop with high quality", Ms Zeng Lihong expressed her affirmation of ISA, the dual-track system of ISA effectively blends Chinese compulsory education and IB curriculum, in which the supra-disciplinary teaching method under the framework of IB PYP will make children"s learning more efficient, and for children, the path of learning is interesting, the path of further education is diversified, and the road to future is bright. Ms Zeng mentioned: Tiyudong Education Group is to drive the development of education by information technology, to provide solid and comprehensive, high-quality and balanced quality education for the majority of students, and to create a sincere, kind, enterprising and professional group of excellent teachers. Regarding the direction of cooperation between Tiyudong Education Group and ISA Education Group, Ms Zeng suggested that with the professional and high quality support from ISA, through the "different structure of the same lesson and different structure of the same theme", the two schools will be much more powerful to the road of education.

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愛莎國際教育集團高級戰略顧問朱奇校長表示，愛莎的IB課程實踐和公立學校新課程改革下的課程實踐有許多相似之處，公辦學校在實踐的過程當中更多的是從方法論出發，愛莎則是以理論的認知的基礎上從概念入手指導實踐。國家倡導公、民同建，據此，可以通過雙方集團推動聯盟合作，做到資源共享，讓更多老師了解對方教育中的課程實踐、共同備課，提升雙方老師的水平，真正讓國際教育先進理念融入到體育東教育中去，讓中國新課程理念融入愛莎教育中去，提高愛莎教育集團與體育東教育集團對社會的貢獻。

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Principal Zhu Qi, senior strategic advisor of ISA International Education Group, said that there are many similarities between ISA"s IB curriculum practice and that of the public schools under the new curriculum reform, while the public schools are more methodological in the process of practice, ISA guides the practice from the concept based on theoretical knowledge. The country advocates the building of citizens together, according to which, the alliance cooperation can be promoted through both groups, so that teachers, teachers and students, parents and other resources can be shared, so that more teachers can understand each other"s curriculum practices in education, prepare lessons together, improve the level of teachers on both sides, and really let ISA integrate into Tiyudong’s education, let Tiyudong integrate into ISA’s education, and improve ISA Education Group and Tiyudong Education Group"s contribution to society contribution to the society.

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愛莎國際教育集團董事王君文女士對體育東教育集團近年來在教學育人方面取得的巨大進步和成就表示敬佩和祝賀。她提到，體育東教育集團學校素質教育、智慧生態校園和名師品牌備受推崇，學生綜合素質各個方面的評價數據全面優秀且在全市領先，是愛莎需要向之靠攏的榜樣。作為最有挑戰性的IB課程，愛莎以IB課程為框架，融合中國、英國、新加坡等優秀課程體系，在廣州已經擁有IB全流程國際文憑課程的K-12外籍人員子女學校，我們將繼續扎根教育行業，將一直探索最適合愛莎的教育道路。愛莎將充分發揮在國際教育方面的優勢，與體育東教育集團進行課程聯動、師資交流、師徒結對等，期待在不久的將來能夠達成全面戰略的合作方式，打造一個真正的國際理解融合教育平臺。

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Ms. Wang Junwen, Director of ISA International Education Group, expressed her admiration and congratulations to Tiyudong Education Group for the great progress and achievements in teaching and education in recent years. She mentioned that the Group"s quality education, smart eco-campus and famous teacher brand are highly respected, and the evaluation data of students" comprehensive quality in six aspects are excellent and leading in the city, which is the role model that ISA needs to get close to. As the most challenging IB program, ISA takes the IB curriculum as the framework and integrates the excellent curriculum systems of China, UK and Singapore, and already has the IB full process International Baccalaureate K-12 school for children of expatriates in Guangzhou, we will continue to be rooted in the education industry and will always explore the most suitable education path for ISA. ISA will give full play to its strengths in international education and conduct curriculum linkage, teacher exchange and teacher-apprentice pairing with Tiyudong Education Group, etc. We look forward to reaching a comprehensive strategic approach to cooperation in the near future to create a truly integrated education platform for international understanding.