Due to the particularity of the art discipline, different students have different goals, conditions, abilities and time periods. Teachers also need to adopt different teaching contents and methods for each student. The teaching and research center plays a key role in it. How to balance the uniqueness and standardization of teaching content, how to control the stability of the teaching level of the teaching team, and how to ensure the systematization and accuracy of the later application service are the important efforts of the National Teaching and Research Center of Natural Light. Today, we will focus on two aspects: early teaching and late application services. How does Natural Light study abroad counseling institutions do teaching and research? And through specific practical cases for everyone to analyze one by one!
How does the natural light do teaching and research in the study abroad counseling institutions?
01. Formulate standardized and customized learning plan
As a mature educational institution with 12 campuses, the customized training mode needs to be established under a rational and standardized overall plan. In addition to teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, the Teaching Research Center also needs to make a unified plan for the teaching content and teaching level of the teaching team, the main force of teaching.
The Natural Light Teaching and Research Center is a comprehensive framework covering all departments. To achieve the success of student-centered teaching, it needs the linkage of all departments to build a perfect system, and the teaching curriculum also needs to develop a system.
At present, the teaching and research center has established senior staff covering 6 major departments and different disciplines Portfolio training A team dominated by tutors, and widely absorbing the professional opinions of university admissions officers/professors in the Natural Light Overseas Alliance, has developed a set of docking overseas art education models, covering all stages of the art curriculum in the whole process of art introduction, preparatory, undergraduate, graduate and even doctoral applications.
In addition to the content of professional courses, the teaching and research center will also regularly carry out seminars, online meetings, one-on-one communication, collect professional teachers in front-line teaching to regularly feedback the teaching content and output it to the teaching and research center, but this part focuses more on the details of teaching methods, teaching tools, and teaching atmosphere, After unified integration and research by the teaching and research team, it will be distributed to each teacher for sharing.
Because of the strong overall planning and substantial curriculum reserves of the teaching and research center, the natural light teaching team has a strong ability to resist risks and respond to emergencies. Under this sudden epidemic, the course progress of most of the students in Natural Light has not been substantially affected.
The teaching and research center also contacted each student and professional teacher at the first time, re planned the curriculum plan according to the student's curriculum progress and personal situation, and upgraded the curriculum services in a targeted way; At the same time, every tutor, especially those who are not experienced in online teaching, was trained to refine the use of each teaching tool and improve the details, which strictly guaranteed the classroom atmosphere and teaching quality.
02. Upgraded teaching research and development around product 4.0
In 2019, with the release of Natural Light Product 4.0, the National Teaching and Research Center was officially established. During the practice of this year, the teaching and research center closely centered on the core of Product 4.0, integrated the teaching and research advantages of "interdisciplinary" and "six major departments", comprehensively developed students' comprehensive artistic literacy, and provided students with an exploration space for independent thinking and broadening their thinking.
As the core department of natural light teaching practice, the teaching and research center, facing the different needs of each student at the application stage, not only cares about each student's single dimension professional ability, but also focuses on the future direction of students' artistic literacy and background improvement.
Focusing on ONE Basic Humanities and Technology, an important part of Product 4.0. This part of the course is equivalent to the "foundation building" stage of the whole learning process, which is an indispensable part for every student.
Every year, in the natural light, many students with domestic art learning experience and "art examinees" type will come to seek professional help. Usually, these students have a solid professional foundation, but the difficulty for them to create works for overseas colleges and universities is to break through the shackles of past experience and supplement critical learning thinking.
For example, successfully applied to LCC this year London School of Communication DIDI students, including photography major and other offers, are an art school student with many years of experience in domestic studio training. However, in the face of the application requirements that pay more attention to personalization and creativity, her foundation and ability have become a barrier. Finally, DIDI students have achieved a breakthrough through a series of ONE Basic humanities and technology courses developed by the teaching and research center.
DIDI classmate portfolio project
Just to meet the needs of students, the teaching and research center has developed different forms and types of courses for different stages of learning needs, including humanities and speculative series courses/lectures, creative sketching, ONE school humanities and speculative series, six major skill courses and other different series, to consolidate the foundation of students from the four dimensions of humanities, technology, practice, and thinking, Shaping students' comprehensive strength.
03. Multi audit mechanism guarantees learning achievements
In order to strictly control the teaching achievements, the Teaching and Research Center has also set up a multi-dimensional review system. Centering on students, the center monitors and reviews the teaching team and curriculum content at any time during the teaching process, and has set up a very rigorous internal screening system to provide teaching assistance to students on a selective basis, and set up an elimination mechanism to promote healthy competition among teachers, Maintain a high standard of teaching services.
It is also precisely because of the teaching research center's high requirements and high threshold requirements for teaching teams to be treated equally from entry to teaching process, every professional teacher of Natural Light has the degree of professionalism that determines the advantages in the industry, and both personal ability, industry experience and resource advantages have been double certified by the business market and the education field.
The natural light directly drives the starting point of teaching and training in the way of raising the level of the teaching team, and provides all-round support for students in terms of specialty, career planning, and college resources.
In addition to controlling the teaching level, the Natural Light Teaching and Research Center is also directly responsible for the review of students' works. According to students' goals, there are different standards for different levels, and the phased standards for each student are formulated by the team of the Teaching and Research Center.
According to the course cycle, knowledge points and elements of each project in the student's work collection, students and the tutor of the work collection will be informed of the review requirements and time nodes in advance. Because the requirements of each major are different, the overall evaluation will be conducted from the creativity, professionalism, integrity, expressiveness and other dimensions.
Once a certain dimension is unqualified, the Teaching and Research Center will give detailed suggestions for modification, and monitor the students' modification progress in real time. If necessary, it will adjust the curriculum arrangement and supplement necessary skills courses to help students to supplement their weaknesses and achieve their learning goals as soon as possible with the most accurate requirements.
In the later stage, the Teaching and Research Center will also work with the overseas admissions officer team to review students, control the staged presentation, portfolio review, simulated interview and other different forms, use the six dimensional review+teaching service system, link up with each other, directly meet the application requirements of colleges and universities, and obtain the dual school level guarantee in advance.
04. Department linkage maintenance backend service
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, 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.
Our goal is not only to successfully send students to Dream School, but also to return to the essence of "art education". With the overall development of students as the goal, we will extend the service front, from preliminary planning to professional teaching, college application to back-end services. The teaching and research center, as a comprehensive framework for coordinating all links, connects the interaction between different departments, It also builds bridges between students and parents.
Focusing on the core requirements of ONE CARE in product 4.0, we regard the natural light as a whole, increase the cooperation between each department, comprehensively understand the needs of students from multiple perspectives, integrate personal appeals and learning objectives, and the teaching and research center will also act as a coordinator and follower throughout the process to assist students in their application and course progress.
In addition to coordinating the teaching tasks, the teaching and research center irregularly carries out one-on-one continuous communication with parents to understand the needs of students and parents and their views on the curriculum at any time. So as to guide the work of teachers in all departments in a targeted way, ensure that students and teachers establish a good atmosphere of mutual trust, harmony and mutual assistance, and set up transparent and open communication channels with parents.
It is also for this reason that we have established a profound "revolutionary friendship" with many students and parents. In the face of the outbreak of the overseas epidemic, the British and American campuses of Natural Light give full play to local resources to provide some help within their power to the students of Natural Light who are stranded overseas, and also send concern and necessary information channels to parents who are always worried at home.
Natural light has always played the role of a companion, assistant and guide on the way of students' learning. The premise of leading students to progress is that we also need to maintain the ability to update and advance at all times. Therefore, "teaching and research" is the key to the integration of natural light into the whole operation concept and brand core. The National Teaching and Research Center of Natural Light is our power station. Every update and optimization of natural light is inseparable from our insistence on doing education, the supervision of students and parents' sense of responsibility, and our pursuit of high-quality art study abroad.
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