For art students abroad, EA and ED of overseas art schools were basically started in September, so summer vacation has also become the "key" for art students abroad. Then, how to effectively use the summer vacation to achieve the real, effective or learning, or promotion purposes, has become the key. The market demand shows that for students and parents, the inspection points of "summer products" tend to focus on the three major directions of "empowerment", "academic value", and "experience accumulation"... At the peak of the outbreak of many "summer products", how to balance the selection of art study abroad counseling summer courses?
In recent years, the planning and demands of art students and their parents for "summer vacation" have become more sophisticated and demanding. Before the summer class this year, we conducted a survey covering the whole campus, including 230 students and parents in six major departments and 50+majors. In the part of course type selection, we have set up: overseas study tours to broaden our horizons; Academic summer courses in overseas art colleges; Short term summer vacation project in China; Divergent experience classroom; Basic skills courses; Online interactive teaching and other options.
In general, the first choice for students and parents in the art study abroad counseling summer class is to directly produce truth in a relatively short period of time Portfolio training The "domestic summer vacation short-term project" of the project is followed by the "overseas art college academic project" with academic advantages in art study application and future study. In this survey, what is most worth thinking about is that the study tour project to broaden our horizons has received a modest response, especially in the graduate stage.
In fact, it is not difficult to understand that the concept of children's education emphasizes comprehensive development. Since kindergarten, parents have begun to screen various "teaching service products" for children in the context of large-scale education and training, and have basically experienced many battles. Although strictly speaking, the focus of choice is still "child oriented", most parents have a steelyard in their mind whether the "overseas study tour project" has moisture and value for money in the face of such a high cost event as studying abroad. As users of real "products", students have their own comparison and evaluation criteria for the evaluation experience of products.
Therefore, both students and parents are becoming more and more calm about "overseas study tours", and will not sign up immediately when they hear about "overseas". On the contrary, there are more "thinking" and detailed "inquiry". From the survey, it can be clearly felt that the academic projects of art schools are much more popular because they are also overseas options.
Secondly, this is also determined by the degree application stage. At the undergraduate stage, overseas study tours are still popular. For students applying for undergraduate courses (high school students), this is probably the first time they have completely left their families to study abroad. Therefore, whether they can adapt to overseas life, study atmosphere, and whether they like their future art schools will become the "experience" focus of the summer. In addition, the application and investigation of undergraduate students also focus on creative thinking and expression ability, and students have a high demand for "experience accumulation" and "broad vision" at this time.
For graduate students, the focus of their own application and investigation has changed from that of undergraduate students - more professional, deeper and more perfect. Secondly, some of the students who apply for postgraduate education have already had overseas background, professional background, and even work experience, and have a perfect personal awareness, and have a high ability to adapt to overseas life and teaching. So for them, the simple overseas study tour experience project can no longer fully meet their needs.
To sum up the student groups at all stages, once parents or children decide to make full use of their summer time to study, the investigation points for summer courses are mainly focused on "empowerment", "academic value", and "experience accumulation".
How to balance the selection of art study abroad tutoring summer courses?
How to remove the "marketing icing" and recognize the product value of "empowerment", "academic" and "experience accumulation" in the face of the dazzling summer products?
First of all, both students and parents should be clear about what is the most important, or what needs to be addressed, at this time. If it is zero based, summer vacation may be a good time for you to improve your basic ability; If you still do not have a complete project in your current portfolio, an efficient and high-intensity academic project in a short period of time may help you find the direction. Only when their needs are clear can we talk about the subsequent judgment of summer products.
Based on the above premise, let's talk about "empowerment" first. The so-called "empowerment" in the field of education is mainly reflected in the construction of students' personal abilities. Correspondingly, in the actual case of art study abroad, it refers to whether students can really grasp and possess certain abilities. Note that what is said here is not just simple skills or theoretical knowledge, but extended to the concept of "ability".
It has both concrete skills and more abstract thinking ability or artistic ability. For example, "creative thinking ability", "software operation", "painting creation", "spatial relationship", "speculative awareness"; Another example is specific to disciplines: "graphic design and typesetting", "font design", "color matching", "the use of various elements in typesetting", etc.
In general, the most direct empowerment value of the several art overseas study tutoring summer courses we talked about today is the basic skills courses. Basically, the biggest goal and direction of such courses is "empowerment". The main target group of students is zero foundation and major transfer. Students will learn 1v1 courses in the studio environment to improve.
Statistics of feedback from students of natural light summer course
In addition to the skill foundation, the extended class, similar to lectures, seminars, speculative classes, and Design Thinking, gives students the "empowerment" of the direction of thinking awareness. Overseas art colleges, both undergraduate and graduate students, pay attention to examining students' Design Thinking, but for domestic art students, this part of the ability is relatively lacking. Therefore, interactive lectures, seminars, and speculative classes combined with rapid practice/experiment can make up for students' shortcomings in this area.
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Secondly, short-term projects, mainly based on the project positioning, are relatively comprehensive thematic courses, so that students can obtain comprehensive ability by completing projects or learning professional knowledge in a short time; On the other hand, targeted short-term courses, such as plane layout, book binding and other courses, endow students with certain abilities in specific majors.
Natural light UCP interdisciplinary summer course schedule
Student empowerment also requires teachers to be able to carry out the teaching mode of guidance and companionship, which can not only provide opportunities and platforms for students, but also have the ability to stimulate students' potential. During the learning process, collect students' ideas and feedback at any time to ensure that students can respond in the first time.
In Studio class, teachers need to have the teaching ability to integrate the needs of all students, and also need to have professionalism that takes into account the personality development of each student. Only in this way can students be guaranteed the maximum "empowerment" gain.
Student's 1-day achievements of natural light summer course
Next, "academic value". We all know that overseas art schools attach great importance to "academic", which is almost unimaginable. I believe many students have heard of the serious consequences of academic fraud, which will not only affect students themselves, but also other international students.
Therefore, in the immediate view, academic projects at home and abroad have the largest academic value. Whether at home or abroad, such projects basically eliminate the content of "play". Under the team learning environment of Studio, Center and Lab, students can obtain higher improvement in a short time, and at the same time gain real academic projects with higher degree of completion.
The 8-day construction project of Xiannv Mountain in natural light summer, and the trainees' scheme discussion site
The academic value of summer programs mainly lies in whether they can actually produce projects that can be applied for, or whether students can participate in academic projects that have competitive advantages and can be directly applied for and used for background improvement.
At this time, most of the teachers that students face are overseas teachers Art study abroad Mentor, admissions officer, or professor of background. They are the most clear about overseas teaching methods, teaching concepts, and application review requirements, so their academic help to students can be said to be "targeted", fast and accurate.
Statistics of feedback from students of natural light summer course
86 students participated in summer courses, of which 73 projects can be included in the portfolio
In the long run, the accumulated academic ability in the early stage has a very high academic significance when students enter art schools, which is a teaching advantage to help students connect with overseas learning smoothly.
That is to say, the demand group for such courses is mainly students who "need to quickly improve the collection of works or application quality in a short time". In a relatively short time, they can acquire the ability and complete the projects required for application through intensive training.
Secondly, the value of these academic projects is not only reflected in the application process. Through these projects, students can accumulate contacts, capabilities, or platforms and opportunities, so as to have greater possibility and security, link to the study of overseas art schools, and even in the future employment development.
Finally, "experience accumulation", which is mainly for students who want to make plans in advance at the undergraduate and middle school levels. In fact, its product orientation is relatively clear, that is, "overseas projects". But as I said at the beginning of today, it is also the most "calm choice" for parents and students. Compared with other types of products, the value of these products is difficult to measure, and they are mainly "experience" and "harvest".
I believe that no parents or students who are responsible for themselves are willing to participate in summer study tour projects with only "play" nature or "play experience>learning experience", even if they want to broaden their horizons.
After all, the ultimate goal of "study tours" is to enable children to "experience" overseas learning and teaching concepts as soon as possible. Therefore, even if it is an experiential study tour project, when selecting it, we should try to evaluate its "proportion of teaching elements".
Overseas students who apply for art majors often consider many times and in many dimensions when choosing the art study abroad tutoring summer courses. After 2-3 semesters of investigation, they finally determine their target colleges.
For example, from high school to college, everyone will experience three summers. Overseas students will make full use of these three summer vacations to "investigate colleges", "learn professional knowledge beyond books", and "develop application plans for target colleges". Each time is a deepening and superposition of the previous stage, but also a comprehensive planning for undergraduate application and future learning.
Compared with domestic art overseas students, even international schools rarely have strong academic resources to provide students with such rich and in-depth academic experience. However, many of the study tours we have seen at present actually focus more on "traveling", which makes students' perception of art schools become zero.
Therefore, for students and parents, even if it is a study tour experience project, they should keep their eyes open and distinguish carefully, so as to avoid the situation that "they have experienced a lot, but their perception of art colleges and learning is still zero".
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Summary of today
The "summer vacation" is a very critical time node for art overseas students. After the summer vacation, some colleges and universities will open the application channel in more than a month. The first offer in 2019 received by Natural Light last year was on October 8. For students who are preparing their portfolio this year, they will begin to prepare EA and ED applications in two months. How to balance the selection of art study abroad tutoring summer courses? Keep in mind that, as I provided you with the idea today, when judging the real value of summer course products, you should first clarify your own needs. Do you need a project that can improve the overall quality of your portfolio? Or do you need to improve your weaknesses quickly in a short time? Or is it necessary to upgrade academic programs with the background of application advantages? Or, at present, it is still in the investigation stage, and you need to go to art colleges for in-depth experience to decide whether you want to study art? No matter what you need at present, "empowerment value", "academic value" and "experience accumulation" are dimensions that can be referred to and judged.
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