For a long time, when we receive advice from students and parents in our work, we always hear similar voices about the choice of school districts and professional teachers: "I hope that teachers in the main campus can take the place of teachers, but I still feel a little worried about the different campuses", "We must arrange teachers in the main campus for our children. It's OK to pay more for them, as long as they are teachers in the main campus". We can see that in fact, many people have a psychological default when choosing art study abroad institutions, that is, the teachers in the main campus/main campus are absolutely better than those in the branch campus and the new campus. Is that really the case?
Do you have to choose the main campus for art study abroad institutions?
Today, as the core department of natural light leading teaching, the Teaching and Research Center will analyze one by one from the perspectives of recruitment, training, review and other aspects of teachers. Is the campus of art overseas study institutions worth being treated differently?
First of all, we do not deny that there are differences between the campuses of each institution. This difference may have some relationship with the region, source of students, and scale. However, the existence of this difference is not necessarily the difference between good and bad. Instead, the institution will make some focused arrangements based on the local specific conditions when making overall planning.
Taking natural light as an example, every year we have a large activity to build an entity project in the Tibetan area in Chengdu campus. Although this project is open to students all over the country, all students can participate in it, but it was finally settled in Chengdu because Chengdu has some natural advantages in its special location.
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From the perspective of teaching, each campus will have its own strengths and characteristics because of its location. Therefore, it is not credible that sub campuses fail to produce results, which is true of any organization.
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Compared with their unique advantages, there must be some weaknesses. This is undeniable, but from the perspective of the whole organization, we need to reduce this weakness through orderly training and planned improvement of teachers, so that teachers' comprehensive ability can reach the national unified standard.
So, how does the natural light, as a teaching and research center connecting teaching, application and educational administration functions, do?
Existing threshold for teachers
At present, 12 campuses including New York and London are under the unified development and assessment of new teachers' process standards by the teaching and research center. Usually, a new teacher will go through at least four levels of assessment from recruitment to teaching students.
The first part is the resume screening before the interview. Our personnel will make a preliminary consideration of the candidate's learning background, work experience, teaching level, communication ability, etc. through communication. In this part, we may eliminate about 70% of the candidates.
After successfully entering the interview process through resume screening, the second round of review will be conducted jointly by our teaching and research center and personnel. The interview process will be about 2-3 rounds. In this link, the teaching and research center will place the assessment point on the professional dimension and overall evaluation:
Through the academic background of the teacher, the professionalism, uniqueness and personal style of personal works; Including the mastery of basic skills such as software, hand drawing and language; And the familiarity with overseas art schools; Views and experience on education; As well as basic expression and communication skills, personal interests and hobbies for a comprehensive review.
After rigorous consideration, it can basically ensure that the new teacher's personal ability in the professional field can bring substantive help to students. After that, the Teaching Research Center and the Teaching Department will carry out unified and regular training to ensure the systematic absorption and mastery of teaching methods and teaching experience based on the guidance of the portfolio project, and finally can be put into teaching work after passing all reviews.
So after layers of screening, what kind of teachers do we finally recruit?
For the professional teachers of portfolio training, the learning background of graduates from overseas famous schools is just a very basic stepping stone. In the view of the Teaching and Research Center, a teacher who is competent for the task of natural light teaching, industry experience and resource advantages also need to be double certified by the commercial market and education.
This has also been well proved by our existing teaching team, such as window designers of Hermes, well-known designers of Microsoft China, designers of Coach New York Headquarters, members of CFA China Fashion Design Association, etc These professional backgrounds with industry advantages are to become natural light professionals Collection Training Organization Prerequisites for mentors.
The teaching and research center formulates the high requirements and high threshold entry standards for all campuses without discrimination. Its purpose is to ensure that every professional teacher has the professional degree that determines the advantages in the industry, to raise the level of the teaching team to directly drive the starting point of teaching and training, and to provide all-round support for students from the professional dimension, career planning, and college resources.
Establish a tutor elimination mechanism, and teachers at all levels have rating criteria
Whether it is a basic course teacher, or a junior, intermediate or senior work collection teacher, there will be a rating standard in natural light; The requirements for teachers at different levels will be different, but they all have audit focus.
For junior teachers, their professional ability has been fully recognized after strict review, so the Teaching and Research Center will pay more attention to the training of junior teachers' planning awareness, use of teaching methods, output of teaching materials and communication ability when conducting teaching training.
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For example, when teaching students, what kind of time planning is more beneficial to students 2020 Art Study Application Of? How to arrange courses and time nodes to ensure that students apply for EA and ED? Different courses with different teaching forms can help students better understand and so on, and more details can be specific to do standard training and overall improvement.
For senior teachers, since all senior teachers of Natural Light have at least three years of art teaching experience abroad, they have sufficient teaching ability and student experience, so their training will be more different.
Compared with the regular and unified training courses for junior teachers, senior teachers pay more attention to the form of one-on-one coaching and group discussion, focus on the existing problems, focus on the improvement of class experience, research on teaching methods, and overcome the difficulties and doubts of student projects one by one to ensure high-quality teaching results.
Secondly, during the teaching process, the Teaching and Research Center will also supervise and review at any time. It has a very strict internal screening system for teachers, provides teaching assistance to students on a selective basis, and sets an elimination mechanism to promote the healthy competition of the teacher team and maintain a high level of teaching services.
In order to avoid a formal review system, the teaching and research center's criteria for teachers' teaching evaluation are not written proofs such as examinations, but closely around students as the service subject, with students' work projects and phased learning achievements as the only review criteria. The teaching and research center conducts a unified evaluation from multiple dimensions.
For the failed project, the teaching and research center will reply "No", and indicate the reason and improvement plan, and carry out offline 1V1 communication with the teacher to help the teacher further improve the project. If there are more than two times of substandard phenomenon, the teacher will be eliminated, and the teaching and research center will take over the students again to further help the students complete their learning tasks, Until the expected standard is reached.
Through the teaching system of "teaching", "research" and "review", the Natural Light Teaching and Research Center fundamentally maintains the advanced, active and sustainable progress ability of the teaching team, and the final learning achievements are also the best proof of the teaching ability of every professional teacher.
Shaping teachers' constantly updated professional ability
In the view of the Natural Light Teaching and Research Center, it is not only students who need to supplement knowledge, but also teachers who need to constantly update themselves. During many years of teaching research and development in the Teaching and Research Center, it was found that some teachers stopped learning after graduation. The teaching process is to "rely on experience".
However, in recent years, overseas art schools have continuously broadened the dimension of art, and constantly updated the criteria for assessing freshmen and the requirements for works collection. If teachers blindly teach according to the old standards, what teachers teach students is actually "old knowledge", and what students learn is not enough to cope with the latest application for art study abroad from overseas schools.
It can be seen that it is particularly important for teachers to update themselves and absorb new professional knowledge in real time, which is also the focus of the teaching and research center in teacher training.
Based on the resource advantages of natural light in overseas campuses in the United States and Britain, and the strong participation of overseas alliances composed of admissions officers, quality professors and top designers from overseas famous schools, overseas teams will also undertake the training of some teachers.
Regular online course training for professional teachers
First, in the process of basic curriculum development, the teaching research center will extensively absorb the teaching system of overseas famous schools, and develop curriculum content and promotion methods that directly connect with the overseas education model based on the learning habits of domestic students. To accurately convey the teaching content to the students, the training of teachers is the first step.
Overseas quality professors will directly participate in the course guidance and professional improvement courses for teachers, and regularly upgrade their ability; Secondly, the Teaching and Research Center will also act as the coordinator to collect the phased teaching contents of overseas teams and the latest consultation of colleges and universities, and distribute them to every teacher in all campuses for sharing after unified integration and research.
The Natural Light Teaching and Research Center is a comprehensive overall framework, that is, to review and improve each student externally and internally. We insist that only when teachers keep updated and keep learning, can we continue to improve, so as to deliver more high-quality and professional teaching content to students.
To sum up, as far as natural light is concerned, what the National Teaching and Research Center undertakes is far from just teaching research and development and curriculum product support, nor just teaching form, teaching content and teaching philosophy, but as a coordinator, it promotes the teaching team to maintain a stable and high level of teaching standards with high standards and strict requirements of audit and training methods.
Do you have to choose the main campus for art study abroad institutions? It is also because under the strong leadership of the Teaching and Research Center, we have strong confidence and confidence in the 12 campuses and even more possibilities in the future. We tell you that there will never be obvious gaps and weaknesses in the teaching team of Natural Light! In the face of the turbulent overseas study market, we also guarantee once again that the Natural Light Teaching and Research Center will continue to help the Natural Light teaching team keep pace with the times and self renew through efficient response measures, high-energy curriculum reserves, and reliable back-end services, so that every student and parent can obtain considerable gains in this difficult application season!
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