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Meilun International Education (hereinafter referred to as "Meilun International") was established in 2017, in the 2019-2020 application season, Meilun International graduates received 1 admission to Cornell University, 2 admission to Oxford University, and 1 pre-admission to Cambridge University. In 3 years, the school can achieve both British and American harvest results, which is very eye-catching among emerging international schools.
To this end, Yixiao interviewed Liang Ruijuan, the principal of Meilun International Education, and asked her how Meilun International found its own advantages and gave full play to the fierce competition in the international education market.
Principal of Meilun International Education Liang Ruijuan
As a "young" new school, Meilun International has no historical baggage, which is why the school has been trying to be more flexible and efficient in management, and constructing teaching models according to the individual characteristics of students.
Meilun International will prepare scholarships for particularly outstanding students, but it does not mean that it adopts a "pinching" model in terms of recruitment, but hopes to teach according to aptitude through international education. At present, Meilun International offers British A-level courses, British Columbia high school courses and American AP elective courses.
At present, many new international schools are mainly based on A-level courses, and Meilun International is also the same, offering 16 A-level courses for students. Principal Leung said that emerging international schools will choose to introduce a more mature international curriculum system at the beginning, and the British A-level curriculum is just in line with the British A-level curriculum, which belongs to Yangchang education, which can help students reach their maximum potential. At present, more and more families choose to study in the UK, because the development of the UK is relatively more stable and safe.
But students have different needs, and schools need to cater to every student as much as possible. Meilun International opened two Canadian classes in Grade 10 this year, and Meilun International is the first school in Guangdong Province to offer an offshore high school program in British Columbia, Canada. The Canadian curriculum rejects a lifelong examination, which is a formative evaluation system, which is conducive to cultivating the comprehensive quality of students, and the results of Canadian high schools can also be used to apply to universities in mainstream countries around the world. Many of the graduates of Meilun International's first Canadian class received university scholarships.
The student who was admitted to Cornell University actually majored in A-level courses, and she chose to take a few more AP electives at Meilun International, thereby enhancing her core competitiveness.
At present, Meilun International only has the high school stage, in order to allow students who received compulsory education before to adapt to the international curriculum as soon as possible, Meilun International will arrange 2-3 weeks of freshman experience camp before enrollment, so that they can transition and adapt to the pure English environment and original international high school curriculum in advance. After the start of school, Meilun International will give students one month to choose courses and audition, and only after one month will they decide to read 3-4 courses. Avoid students from misjudging because they are in too much haste.
Since the Canadian curriculum is taught by all foreign teachers, and the A-level course is only bilingual in the lower grades of science, the school provides free IELTS classes and regularly conducts language tests. For some students with weak language foundation or unable to keep up with individual subjects, Meilun International will provide separate tutoring classes. In addition, Meilun International also set up a tutor system, each teacher is responsible for 3-4 students, in addition to learning, while giving students humanistic care.
Meilun International has an independent college counseling team, which will carry out college counseling classes, college salons and one-on-one services every week. In teaching, teaching and research, Meilun often holds teaching seminars and teacher workshops. In addition, in order to promote teacher-student exchanges and improve teachers' classroom teaching level, Meilun conducts student-to-teacher evaluation activities twice a semester and implements the policy of pushing the door to listen to classes.
In terms of the management of students' behavioral norms, Meilun International has strict requirements for the use, grooming and behavior habits of electronic products. Students will also be selected through advanced executive classes, so that students can supervise and compare with each other. Principal Leung emphasized that this does not mean restricting students' freedom, but rather allows them to know how to put forward their own needs and form a self-respect, self-discipline and confident learning style. When students have legitimate needs, the school fully respects and cooperates. When students are not in class, they can also go to any venue to do their favorite things or participate in club activities.
Meilun International has always advocated that students experience and understand from practice.
In addition to learning, Meilun will also carry out a variety of activities for students to improve their comprehensive literacy in the activities. Every festival, the school will ask students to plan their own themed activities. The weekly flag-raising ceremony is also the responsibility of the class in turn, and there are no restrictions on the content and format. Let the students get cultural identity education and responsibility education in the process of hosting.
Usually, the school will often let students organize some volunteer activities and social practice activities to exercise students' self-management ability, leadership ability, cooperation ability and internal drive.
