The curriculum mainly includes: reasonable curriculum structure and curriculum content. Reasonable curriculum structure refers to the reasonable structure between courses, including reasonable curriculum, reasonable curriculum order and orderly connection between courses, so that students can acquire the knowledge and ability of a certain major through curriculum study and training. The following is the curriculum of international schools that I have compiled. I hope everyone will look carefully!
Let's take a look at IB International Primary School, or PYP for short.
The CIPP textbook commonly used in IB international primary schools is the Cambridge international examination primary school curriculum project. British publications provide primary school students (5- 1 1 year-old) all over the world with learning and testing in mathematics, English and science. The teaching materials of these courses are recommended by Cambridge Examination Center, and the teaching materials and teaching language are English.
I feel that the teaching depth of this textbook is far less than that of China, and there is no special knowledge of words, which is particularly shallow, but it covers a wide range.
My deep impression of PYP Primary School is that it pays attention to inquiry, that is, it emphasizes skills and attitudes after putting forward a concept. I remember that children have one or two research topics every month, such as the formation of rain, field measurement, the role of stress, hometown specialties, and the source of holidays. In short, it's just tossing and turning, looking up information, doing experiments and writing reports. This makes our parents very worried about whether they have time to study textbooks.
Research class
The result of this kind of education is later reflected in that children really like to ponder what they are interested in, and they can also ponder their own reverse thinking. For example, his father always blinks when taking pictures, asking his father to close his eyes first, 32 1 open! This is also the result of strict requirements and inspections by IBO organizations. Otherwise, the school should not spend so much cost and time on non-written projects, because many inquiry courses are completed outside the school, and children have to stay in hotels for two days as soon as they go out. The children visited many factories and research institutions and wrote more than a dozen inquiry reports every year. This foundation was later reflected in the fact that it was relatively easy for him to cope with his homework when he went to Gaomei.
IB primary school has been * * * for five years, and began to enter MYP international junior high school in the sixth grade.
IB junior high school adopts CP textbook, which corresponds to the domestic level of 678, and takes the checkpoint examination launched by the International Examination Center of Cambridge University. As can be seen from the name, IB is actually a diagnostic assessment examination system. It is named checkpoint in CIE examination for selection and orientation, and it is a comprehensive test of students' skills related to a certain course in a certain period of time. Mainly English, mathematics and science (including biology, physics and chemistry).
After studying the subjects of CP course for three years, the vocabulary of English listening, speaking, reading and writing will be higher than that of domestic public students, and the vocabulary will reach about 2500-3500, which is equivalent to the vocabulary level of domestic high school graduates. (The vocabulary of junior high school graduates is about 1500, and that of senior high school graduates is about 2500-3000. The vocabulary requirement of Band 4 is 4200-4500, and Band 6 is about 5500. )
As the CHECKPOINT course in Cambridge is specially designed for students from countries where English is their first mother tongue, and the evaluation system and scoring standard of CHECKPOINT are unified all over the world, you will use the same test paper whether you are a British native student or a China student, so the difficulty for those students from countries where English is their second language can be imagined.
It is a preparatory course for the IGCSE high school project in Cambridge, which has a general evaluation function for students' previous learning stages and gives corresponding scores. Just as some students in China will go to senior high school, some to vocational high school and some to technical secondary school after the senior high school entrance examination, the function and purpose of CHECKPOINT are the same as those in the domestic senior high school entrance examination. The difference is that the domestic senior high school entrance examination only has the total score and scores in all subjects, and the course evaluation feedback of CEHCKPOINT course is more scientific in this respect. It not only feeds back the total score and scores in all subjects, but also provides students with a very detailed analysis report on students' academic strengths and weaknesses, which is very valuable information. This kind of examination will also directly provide students with a clear evaluation of the progress and achievements of the subject, that is, the analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of students' professional courses. Within one month after the end of the exam, the results will be fed back to the school in time to make substantive evaluation and reference for the next round of students' placement choice.
For example, the evaluation of my son's science exam will clearly show that the understanding of cells in biology is not accurate enough, and it is necessary to re-learn the reaction with certain substances in chemistry. Its teaching difficulty is far less than that of domestic textbooks, so my son can only choose the second-level course when he goes to American high school in the ninth grade, but international students who go to the same public school can study advanced courses and calculus directly. He said that he had never learned anything in many textbooks in China, and his characteristics continued the breadth of primary school knowledge.
Next is IB High School.
IGCSE textbook is adopted, corresponding to domestic grade 9, 10, which is a course item of Cambridge International Examination Center. Provide two-year courses for students aged 14- 16 worldwide. Because the IB junior high school graduation exam was earlier, the school began to take high school courses after the exam, and the children were exposed for several months.
It has five groups of courses, of which two groups must be selected for Chinese, one for science, one for mathematics, one for humanities and social sciences, and one for science and art. It can be seen that it has taken care of students' personality development and all-round training, but it is impossible for domestic teachers to offer 64 courses for students to choose from, so most of them also offer regular courses to meet the requirements of course selection.
There are two exams in summer and winter every year, in May and June and 1 1 and 65438+February respectively. The exams are divided into relatively simple core exams and more difficult extended exams. Every international student needs at least five qualified grades to graduate. However, if you want to apply to universities all over the world with the IGCSE exam, you must take seven courses. It is said that children in English-speaking countries have to take more than ten courses. Economics, accounting, business and statistics are usually added.
After finishing high school, the number of words should be above 5000, which is equivalent to Band 6. It should be noted that many domestic schools like to finish IGCSE courses for two years in one year, so they are doomed to learn fewer courses and are not perfect. Because the school still needs a lot of time to train TOEFL or IELTS courses for students, it can only be compressed in all aspects, and the main time is reserved for A-level.