A-level是什么？

　　A-Level（General Certificate of Education Advanced Level ），是英國普通中等教育證書考試高級水平課程，也是英國學(xué)生的大學(xué)入學(xué)考試課程。全球超過160個國家和地區(qū)11000多所學(xué)校的學(xué)生在學(xué)習(xí)A-Level國際課程，學(xué)生憑3門及以上A-Level課程的成績即可申報世界上絕大多數(shù)名牌大學(xué)，被譽為全球“金牌教育課程體系”。

　　What are A-Levels?

　　A-Level (General Certificate of Education Advanced Level) is a high school qualification ;ndash; advanced level- and it is also the university entrance examination course for British students. Students from more than 11,000 schools in more than 160 countries and regions around the world are presently studying A-level courses. Students can apply for most of the world’s top universities based on their scores of three or more A-level subjects. It is known as one of the best education systems in the world.

　　一、A-level的優(yōu)勢有哪些？

　　What are the advantages of A-level courses?

　　二、在我校讀A-level的優(yōu)勢有哪些？

　　What are the advantages of studying A-level courses at our school?

　　1.上海師大附二外是三大國際考試委員會授權(quán)學(xué)?！狤dexcel（英國愛德思國家職業(yè)學(xué)歷與學(xué)術(shù)考試機構(gòu)）、AQA（英國資格評估與認證聯(lián)合會）和CAIE（劍橋大學(xué)國際考試委員會）。學(xué)生可以多次參加這三種考試，取最高成績。

　　Our school has been authorized by three examination committees- Edexcel (Elders National Vocational Education and Academic Examinations), AQA (UK Qualification Assessment and Certification Federation) and CAIE (Cambridge Assessment International Education). Students are allowed to take these examinations multiple times in order to obtain the highest possible scores.

　　2.我校擁有課程組合優(yōu)勢，更符合學(xué)生個性化學(xué)習(xí)的特點，更有利于學(xué)生申請大學(xué)。

　　Our school has the advantage of combining curricula, which is more in line with the characteristics of individualized learning and is more conducive to students who are applying for university entrance.

　　各位家長通過我們先前的介紹，想必對A-level心馳神往。我作為劍橋高中部的負責(zé)人，非常誠意的邀請各位家長選擇我校A-level。

　　這樣，我們的學(xué)生的學(xué)習(xí)習(xí)慣可以得到延續(xù)，師生之間互相知根知底，能夠幫助學(xué)生有針對性的學(xué)習(xí)，我個人在幫助學(xué)生申請世界一流大學(xué)頗有經(jīng)驗。

　　比如，我曾經(jīng)帶領(lǐng)一位來自浙江省的黃同學(xué)進入劍橋大學(xué)。他的雅思只有6.5分，是當年唯一一個雅思6.5分竟然還能拿到劍橋大學(xué)offer的同學(xué)。當時，我?guī)椭l(fā)揮他的思維優(yōu)勢。他在面試之后，很勇敢的向教授表明：“教授，我這次沒有發(fā)揮好，是因為您沒有講好。理由有一、二、三.......。”劍橋教授收到他的信件后，很詫異，就跟學(xué)生回信，這樣一來二去，他善于思考、獨具視角的優(yōu)點被劍橋看中了。

　　這個故事說明，僅僅培養(yǎng)學(xué)業(yè)成績良好的學(xué)生是不夠的，因為劍橋并不缺分數(shù)高的學(xué)生，有自己獨特魅力或者一技之長的學(xué)生是任何一所一流大學(xué)都期待尋找的人。而把您的孩子培養(yǎng)成這樣的人才，正是我校教育從業(yè)者最擅長做的事。所以，歡迎大家來到我們高中部。

　　What is Vice Principal Liu Peng of the Cambridge High School’s view?

　　“Parents, through this introduction of our A-Level courses, I believe you will be impressed by A-levels. As the head of the High School in Cambridge, I would like to invite all parents to choose our A-level courses.

　　In this way, our students develop good learning habits. Teachers and students get to know each other well and teachers can help students to learn in a targeted way. I personally have had the experience of helping students to apply to world-class universities.

　　For example, I once helped a student from Zhejiang Province, Huang, to gain admission to Cambridge University. His IELTS score was only 6.5, and he was the only student that year who received an offer from Cambridge with a score of 6.5. I had helped him to develop his ability of independent thinking. It turned out that he was very diligent and careful. He was bold enough to send an email to the professor at the university to discuss a problem. His thoughtfulness and eagerness to study impressed Cambridge during the application process. His deep thinking and unique perspective was the main reason for his admission to Cambridge University.

　　The story shows that it is not enough to merely educate students to achieve a good academic performance, because Cambridge does not lack students with high scores. It is students with their own unique abilities or skills who are the kind of people that top university would be looking for. To help your child to be such a person, is exactly what our school’s educators are good at doing. So we welcome you to our high school hellip;

　　作為一名教育者，比起分數(shù)或者等級，我更看重對學(xué)生能力的培養(yǎng)。所以，我們在3月的科學(xué)月活動中讓學(xué)生體驗多元文化，鼓勵學(xué)生獨立思考，塑造學(xué)生積極主動的品格，培養(yǎng)時間管理的能力，在4月的游學(xué)活動中，我們讓學(xué)生脫離熟悉感，擺脫依賴感，在新環(huán)境中鍛煉自主生活的能力、口語交際能力、自我保護能力。這些能力是孩子幸福一生的基礎(chǔ)，而這種教育理念將會在我校高中部得到良好的延續(xù)。

　　What is Principal Liu Wang’s view?

　　“As an educator, I value the development of students’ abilities more than grades or scores. So in the Science Month in March, we allowed students to experience multiculturalism and encouraged them to think independently. In the study tours (field trips) in April, we let the students break away from the familiar, get rid of dependence, exercise the abilities of an independent life, oral communication and to take care of oneself in a new environment. Also allowing students the freedom to develop their own character and strengthen their time management skills- these abilities are the foundation of a child’s happy life, and this educational concept will be continued into our high school department.

　　在這次家長課堂上，來自八年級的李同學(xué)家長發(fā)來留言：聽了本次課堂，發(fā)現(xiàn)A-level有助于全方面的培養(yǎng)孩子。聽了兩位領(lǐng)導(dǎo)的演講，突然明白了教育必須一脈相承，一點一點的知識匯聚成文化；一點一點的文化凝聚成教育，反過來教育又貫穿學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)和生活的點點滴滴。總之，家長課堂開設(shè)的很贊，期待更多講座，家校合作，讓更多孩子變得越來越優(yōu)秀，讓我們家長也優(yōu)秀起來。

　　In this information lecture for parents, Li, a student from grade eight, had his parents send a message to school: “After listening to this class, found that A-level helps to cultivate all aspects of a child. After listening to the speeches of the two school leaders, I suddenly realized that education must follow a continuous pathway; knowledge must gradually converge into culture; little by little, culture condenses into education, which in turn permeates the student’s education and life. In a word, parent information sessions are very good. We anticipate more lectures, home-school cooperation, so that our students will improve more and more and our parents too!