Ding Wen super quality development course
Dingwen School adheres to the concept of whole-person education, builds an ecosystem of quality development courses, and provides students with a wealth of development projects to stimulate students' enthusiasm and creativity, give play to students' personality and potential, and help students prepare for the rapidly changing era of artificial intelligence.
The integrated design of the 15-year continuous system is the integration and extension of school-based curriculum resources, which is developed from four dimensions: sports, STEM, creative and performing arts and expansion application, with more than 100 options. All kinds of courses are generally arranged after class, weekends, winter and summer vacations, and students can choose voluntarily according to their own interests.
Dingwen expands the curriculum system through spiraling quality, and maximizes the potential of students. In primary school, we help students to establish correct self-cognition and find their own interests and hobbies, and find the passion for learning through interest exploration; In the middle school stage, guide children into enthusiasm, connect classroom knowledge with real life, to prepare for college; In the high school stage, students explore potential topics according to their future college major and career path to improve their academic level and soft power.
The selection of teachers at Dingwen is extremely strict. Teachers and team coaches must be professionals in their field and have extensive teaching experience in bilingual/international schools. The quality development course is student-centered, strictly controls the number of courses, and the teacher-student ratio is no higher than 1:5. While ensuring the teaching quality, it also leaves room for cultivating students' teamwork ability and independent spirit.
Performing and creative arts
More than two thousand years ago, Confucius put forward the concept of "thriving in poetry, standing in ritual, and becoming in music", emphasizing the role of aesthetic education in personality cultivation.
Dingwen Super Quality Development Program provides students with a variety of performing and creative arts courses and competitions, including drama, musical, dance, choir, pottery, handicrafts, Chinese painting and Western painting, Chinese calligraphy, etc. The school has a special piano room, art room, dance room, pottery classroom, calligraphy room, kitchen classroom and other Spaces. The 400-square-meter black Box theater and lecture hall provide convenience for students' daily classes and rehearsals, and the theater is equipped with professional-grade audio-visual systems and stage equipment, which can accommodate nearly 800 people to sit and watch, meeting the needs of student associations and schools to hold large-scale events such as annual drama festivals and music festivals.
Ding Wen also provides students with LAMDA(London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Arts) drama, musical theatre, dance and other courses, where students
read classic plays in an immersive English environment, study performance
skills, and acquire transferable soft skills such as expression, creativity,
imagination, resilience and empathy. Upon completion of the course, students can
take the LAMDA Drama and Speech Level, which can be used for university
applications and is recognized by many universities around the world.
STEM
Dingwen provides first-year students with STEM initiation courses, which are gradually expanded and deepened according to the progress of school-based curriculum knowledge and students' actual abilities, guiding students to explore their interests and enthusiasm. The school has a woodworking workshop, robot workshop, science and innovation space, photo center, maker space and other professional classrooms, students can choose programming, robotics, drones, Lego engineering, game design, wood workshop and other different projects for interdisciplinary learning.
STEM programs at the high school level take the form of competitions that support students' applications for advancement and internships. Dingwen organized and led students to participate in the domestic intelligent robot competition, FTC International Robot Competition, iGEM(International Genetic Engineering Machine Competition), USAP Academic Competition, Future City International Competition, Physics Bowl and other competitions, and competed with outstanding teenagers around the world.
Physical education
Sports can not only strengthen the body, but also exercise the students' will to face challenges and perseverance, which is a very good character education. Sports require teamwork and a healthy sense of competition, and are an excellent space for children to deal with interpersonal relationships.
Dingwen has a wide range of indoor and outdoor sports venues, basketball court, tennis court, squash hall, fencing hall, golf driving range, horse racecourse, water sports dock, international standard swimming pool, etc., sufficient quantity and complete facilities. The school offers courses such as fencing, golf, equestrian, squash, canoeing, martial arts, Taekwondo, etc. At the same time, it can undertake international competitions to meet the needs of students' professional development.
For example, Dingwen golf course, the school is equipped with professional golf teachers, students practice basic skills in the bilingual immersion Dingwen golf driving range, while Dingwen invites professional coaches to guide and strengthen training for students. Dingwen School is located just one way away from Hangzhou Nine Bridges Golf Course, providing great convenience for children who want to pursue professional and competitive development. Students can skip the exhausting travel time and focus on preparing for golf tournaments at home and abroad.
Language and humanities
Dingwen Super Quality development course focuses on the integration of course resources, and provides students with a more in-depth learning experience, emphasizing the continuity and coherence of the course.
For example, in the speech and debate course, the first grade children need to practice basic expression skills and be able to tell a complete story at the end of the course; In second and third grade, they can be challenged to host tasks; The curriculum of the fourth and fifth grades takes debating as the main form, and encourages students to form debating clubs and other associations; In junior high school, the school introduces philosophy education and critical thinking courses in speech and debate, so that children can think globally and participate in thinking and discussing issues in the international community; At the same time, Dingwen supports students' professional development, and strengthens students' speech logic ability through the American debate Club, and quickly organizes language content and structure according to the debate topic. At the high school level, Dingwen has an American Debate NSDA(National Speech and Debate Alliance) preparation class to enhance the resume of students.
The Dingwen Super Quality Development Course is an extension of the school-based curriculum, focusing on connecting classroom knowledge with real life, so that students can continue to invest and challenge in the academic field and career path after leaving the Dingwen campus.
For example, finance and business, which is offered in Dingwen's Super Quality development course, is a popular major for Chinese students to study abroad. Dingwen offers business initiation courses for first-grade students to help children build risk awareness and exercise children's ability to predict and solve problems. With the deepening of the course, students will learn more professional knowledge of business and finance, and the school will invite parents and industry elites to participate in the co-construction of the course according to the needs of students and society.
Dingwen also offers business linkage programs for high school students. For example, hold an industry salon and invite industry leaders to participate. Students have the opportunity to have in-depth communication with industry elites, have a more detailed understanding of future university major selection and future career development, and make their own choice. At the same time, students can also take this as a starting point, combine research projects, in-depth exploration, and expand into papers or reports to enrich the application resume.
Characteristic expansion practice project -- taking "rewilding" as an example
There are about 35,000 square meters of green area in Dingwen Campus, and the plant community design is carried out according to the ecological distribution law of terrestrial vegetation including grassland, scrub, deciduous forest, mixed forest and evergreen forest. At the same time, taking into account biodiversity, landscape design and teaching needs, the campus has set up bee and butterfly gardens, small micro-wetlands, ecological woodland and organic farms and other functional Spaces.
Unique environmental advantages, so that Dingwen has a rich variety of biological and environmental resources, can carry out forest education and a series of teaching objectives combined with exploratory research topics, such as the diversity of insects in different environmental types, Research on the effect of spiders on crop pest control, the influence of different species of pollinators on crop seed setting rate and fruit quality, and the standardization of traditional Chinese medicine.
Dingwen insists on being the founder of the learning community and the builder of diverse communities to build a good education ecology. For some courses held on weekends, winter and summer vacations, such as Finance and business summer Camp, the school will give priority to meeting the needs of its own students and open some places for external students to participate.
Ding Wen respects the differences of children, each child is an independent individual, and provides high-quality teaching environment and education services to create an ecological field suitable for students' personalized development. Look forward to meeting you in the colorful Tripod Super Quality development course, in the process of exploring nature and society, to discover and realize themselves.