OCAmerica HS, the Top Drive Thinking of Personalized Learning
Once in my chatting with some old friends, we talked about which industry was the most complex one:one person said that going up to the sky was the most difficult and changeablething, that was why the infinite space had attracted the heroic figures justlike American iron man to rein the Falcon rocket and carry out the immigrantsplan to the Mars ; another person said that dark liquid flowing in the deepstratum, beneath the mysterious and unpredictable depth of the earth was knownas the longest industrial chain of the world, which supported the greatmajority of the world's energy resources, so the most difficult thing should besubmerging and drilling to take something out from the earth; I said, thehardest thing to do was to stand upright on one's two legs between heavenand earth, to be a hero of indomitable spirit; you need not only to release thedreams and desires of human beings, but also to do it steadily, educatingpeople, integrating academy with human nature, teaching the students inaccordance of their aptitudes.
Once in my chattingwith some old friends, we talked about which industry was the most complex one:one person said that going up to the sky was the most difficult and changeablething, that was why the infinite space had attracted the heroic figures justlike American iron man to rein the Falcon rocket and carry out the immigrantsplan to the Mars ; another person said that dark liquid flowing in the deepstratum, beneath the mysterious and unpredictable depth of the earth was knownas the longest industrial chain of the world, which supported the greatmajority of the world's energy resources, so the most difficult thing should besubmerging and drilling to take something out from the earth; I said, thehardest thing to do was to stand upright on one's two legs between heavenand earth, to be a hero of indomitable spirit; you need not only to release thedreams and desires of human beings, but also to do it steadily, educatingpeople, integrating academy with human nature, teaching the students inaccordance of their aptitudes.
Starting from the philosophies of Taoism and Buddhism saying of "Takethe potential trend, the wise way, and the best technique", for thousandsof years, going through the imperial examination system in agrarian age, and thestandardization system of education in the industrial revolutions, and now we areexpecting the blueprint of people-oriented personalized learning in the nearfuture, we have realized the personalized education should depend on the topdrive; namely, under the horizon of digital life, the future school should helpthe naturally talented children to learn and stimulate their inner drive fromthe view of humanistic design, optimize their thinking abilities andmethods of study, and train them to be internationalized talents with innovation,comprehensive qualities, sound personalities, and problem solving skills.
Asa first representative of international high school featured with eliteeducation domestically, for the idea of the game, OCAmerica HS believes thatthe ultimate goal of education should not be to send the students to the topuniversities, but to have them acquire the ability to learn and to developindependently, to be able to adapt to the society quickly, to build aprofessional competitiveness, or to have the ability to start a business andfight for it. If the first choice is the right idea, then the way to go shouldbe creative thinking. OCAmerica HS has always been thinking about how to keepthe ideal, and how to create more wonderful values!
In this era, disputes between value and values are everywhere, the individualized learning is not the one day view of the fresh clothes, but a new mode reconstruction and innovation centered on the continuous improvement of learning experiences, which requires more attention to the training and exercise of the students' soft strengths, so as to solve the problems of talent growth through personalized learning, and meet the demands of the society to the new generation. It is a scientific, innovative, and time-sensitive effort that is being passed on to the society by OCAAmerica HS. It is a self-learning revitalization of the basic education, which stimulates the students' new revitalizing engine, so that they can retain smiles when they are confronted with difficulties. It is difficult to completely solve the pain point of education with technology only. If giving power to the machine is the social philosophy of block chain and artificial intelligence, then giving the growing rights to the students should also be a philosophy of personalized learning. The connotation of individualized learning is far more than the current label recognition of one to one teaching method, nor a technique to do exercises for instant success and quick profits. In other developed countries, particularly in the United States, it has been a long time for the country to practice and make improvements, and now the country has its own relatively complete objectives, strategies, and processing and evaluation framework. That is, with the help of the teachers, the students can produce their own toolkit for independent development, so as to realize a fully parallel growth in knowledge storage, skill practice and talents growing.
The P21 organization, led by the Federal Education Department of the United States, has joined Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, SAP, American Education Association and other science & technology and education tycoons to publish the Framework for 21st Century Learning focusing on the ability of critical thinking and problem-solving, the ability to communicate and collaborate, and creative and innovative ability, to build the core competence combination of the students in 21st century. And so, in 2013, the great enterprise, Altschool, founded in silicon valley, was the one that took the core of this spirit in the real world; with the idea of holistic education, combined with the education revolution, the big data and the advance education technologies, the new experimental schools have gained a great deal of successful experimental and explorative experience.
Along with the coordinate system of innovation and development formed in education informationization and internationalization, the personalized education modeled with students as the center has formally come to the front, which is being carried out in two channels: one is to carry out thinking optimization and upgrading combined with the integration of interdisciplinary innovation represented by STEAM education, to make the qualities of innovative talents more comprehensive; the other is to carry out multidimensional analysis and evaluations on the students' learning process and behaviors, by using the advanced technology, mining more education data, combining adaptive feedback with the philosophy educating them according to their aptitude, to gradually achieve a personalized learning model to promote their learning abilities. On the basis of the international forefront of education theory and practice, OCAmerica HS will blend the two channels at the level of teaching strategy and implementation process, with personalized learning system as a value proposition to support the pursuit of quality, to highlight the school characteristics of STEAM idea and PBL teaching.
he parents arepaying more attention to the personalized development of their children thesedays. In the spirit of personalized education, based on the standards ofAmerican high end education system such as WASC or AdvanceED, etc., we arecreating the personalized learning system of STEAM featured education fromdifferent aspects such as the school, the curriculum, the teaching management,the faculty, the qualifications of faculty members, the teaching assessment,etc. People's ultimate social behaviors are dominated by their cognitions, andthe perceptions are associated with their upbringing environment and educationexperience. The origin of education starts from the personal experience. Thesignificance of growth in the new era lies in the experiences and feelings ofvarious learning experiences.
, and the growth of the mind is thesuperposition of countless experiences. The modern education has long been anexistence of a pan-see-through scenario, in which the students have toparticipate in all physical and mental training activities, giving constantfeedback and experiencing deeply the process of interaction and self-initiatedactivities are the way of king. Adopting the essence of P21 Skills System,combining the students' career with needs of professional development, throughthe systematic design of learning motivation and learning process and nodes,give scientific intervention and guidance, we can strengthen their key nodes oflearning effects. Let's work from some key sections such as teaching system,teaching methods, learning path, and high quality education resources supply,supplemented by the school, students and family, which will truly help thechildren achieve the unity of knowledge and actions, and finally improve theirautonomous learning and problem-solving abilities.
In terms ofteaching system, the first step is to design the curriculum from theconstruction of knowledge system and international synchronization, with anemphasis on the balance of knowledge structure and the cultivation of academic capabilities.In the form of academic + non-academic, compulsory + optional, course +activity, core knowledge map including international general academic courses +mainstream intensive English course (including college entrance exam tutoring)+ moral and physical growth course + international college admission planning +comprehensive quality training system of other courses, we've creativelydesigned the three-dimensional scheme of extracurricular expansion learningcontent and related participation of communities organized by the School ofArts, Academy of Sciences and Business School, and with information flow andstream of consciousness as the main body, we've also established multi-dimensionalexperience of the detailed process , which will truly bring the training ideaof “basic skills + comprehensive skills + growth potential” into reality.
From theperspective of teaching methods, OCAmerica HS adopts the methods that emphasizePBL teaching and inquiry learning. We not only adopt the advanced PBL teachingmode as the main curriculum, but also emphasize "learning fromdoing", cultivating positive learning attitude and improving creativity.Also in groups after class, the students will participate in various projects,design particular topics or problem solving plan in the fields they'reinterested. On the basis of active learning, they can deepen theirunderstanding of the knowledge and apply it properly, so as to develop their keenawareness of the world, and experience the full process of transforming theknowledge into skills. At the same time, gradually change the relationship ofexamination community between teachers and students, into a cooperativecommunity in learning process, and finally realize the new partnership ofcreative community.
From theperspective of evaluation, OCAmerica HS is not a delivery service of "CollegeApplication Only" for studying abroad. Instead, it adopts the integrationof basic education and higher education academic system, pays attention to theacquisition and mastery of knowledge and skills, correctly uses the scientificand effective learning methods, with the multi-dimensional capability frameworkas the main body, taking into account the opening, quantitative and multipleevaluation system of knowledge, and prepares the students fully for the futurecollege admission and career development.
In terms of the optimizationof learning path of the students, through the self-development of dozens ofassessment tools and dimensions such as subject potential, learning style,learning strategy, learning burnout, mental toughness, self-control, etc., and hundredsof evaluation indexes, we've carried out a comprehensive data collection andanalysis. By using the known models and methods, we can interpret thepsychological and behavioral characteristics of the learners, provide adaptivefeedback, and conduct timely and targeted counseling and interventionsaccording to their specific learning modes, so as to find out the key points tostimulate their intrinsic learning motivation and efficiency, and gradually accumulatethe comparative advantages of their abilities while adjusting their growthtargets accordingly from time to time.
High-quality education resource supply is a combination of breadth and depth, leading to our design of a number of high-quality international research projects and teaching products, such as Harvard University innovation leadership program, Stanford university research innovation project, micro overseas study program of California Golden Medal Blue-belt High Schools, American Britannica STEAM Education online resources, etc., which has truly helped the students to learn from the knowledge, to gain insight from real situations, to accelerate the process of thinking and cognition, and to acquire the deep experience to connect with the world, after all, the vision and pattern are the important words to truly survive in the future.
Through the teaching system with thinking and ability as the core, the sense of belonging and feeling of competence that the experiential learning represented by PBL learning can produce, strong sense of breakthrough and feeling of surprise and sense of ritual from the actual teaching situation with an emphasis on the optimization of personalized learning path, with all kinds of deep experiences mixed together and the capabilities continuously updating, we can realize the strong 1 + 1 > 2 crossover synergistic effect between the experiences, and can really help the students enrich and systematize the learning experience, to enable them to learn more useful knowledge and skills. This shows fully the distinct value in the design of logic and diversified ideas of OCAmerica HS, which means to gradually get out of the knowledge standardization and the simple subject teaching mode, to deepen the evolution of the core competence framework focusing on personalized learning, and to make the students success eventually and realize their dreams and inner desires.










