Starting from 2021, ASJ provides high-quality international education for the children of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan overseas Chinese and foreign nationals for 15 years, focusing on cultivating young people with feelings of family and international vision in the new era, providing a teaching system dominated by the IB curriculum.
The IB programme is designed for students aged 3-19, while the PYP programme is designed for students aged 3-12 and covers kindergartens and primary schools in China. Drawing on the advantages of many international schools, it is widely recognized around the world and is recognized as a leader in international education.
Why start IB at an early age?
Starting the IB program at an early age can lay a solid foundation for children to learn and better connect them to the later stages of learning. From birth to the age of eight, is the most important period of a person's development. At this stage, ASJ advocates a "learning by play" approach to providing children with opportunities to learn and explore.
As the beginning of accepting group teaching, how to adapt and integrate is an issue that needs K1 children pay attention to. After entering the school's collective life, the children's awareness of rules and living habits have been greatly improved. Teachers will guide children to gradually understand the "collective" and learn to follow the rules.
K1 children enrolled in ASJ in September this year, after nearly 3 months of study and life, they have understood and complied with the rules of the school, also understand that negative behaviors may affect others, and have stronger empathy.
In ASJ's kindergarten classrooms, teaching is built around the needs of children because each child is unique. IB programs help families and teachers identify children's interests and strengths, and provide students with developmental opportunities that suit them.
The ASJ kindergarten curriculum is based on the IB PYP. The guide provides the basis for planning. We will outline learning objectives. Before setting up the course, we will discuss according to POI and select suitable themes for children for exploration. In the design of exploration activities UOI, we will focus on six interdisciplinary themes and explore and learn these meaningful issues through "inquiry unit". Each unit of inquiry addresses a "central idea" related to a specific supramental topic. According to the scope of the central idea of each unit, some inquiry clues are identified.
We develop activities based on central ideas and inquiry clues. Children explore around six inquiry steps, each of which is permeated with different skills and ten learner development goals. In daily social activities, children also showed good communication, respect for others and care for others. In the process of inquiry, children formed different learning methods, communication skills, self-management skills and research skills.
At ASJ, we respect the unique rhythm of each child, so teachers observe and record key events in each child's development. This helps us to understand each student's progress and plan the next step. Teachers also provide each student with a portfolio that reflects the child's development in different areas, regularly sharing the child's growth with parents.
We explore the development of children
At present, ASJ Kindergarten has 4 teachers, one English teacher, one Chinese teacher, one Chinese junior teacher, and one childminder, all of whom are qualified and have many years of experience. Teaching language is mainly English and Mandarin, teachers will choose the teaching language according to the students' acceptance level. In addition, as a member of the education system of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, Cantonese is the characteristic language of ASJ education and can be used in daily life.
What progress has been made by the kindergarten students who have been enrolled for 3 months?
1. There has been a marked improvement in the students' ability to inquire and the children now enjoy asking questions. At first, children were unable to answer questions such as, "What aspects of the subject do you want to know?" "What do you want to learn from this topic?" "Do you have any questions?" But now children can ask a lot of interesting questions, which means they are becoming more familiar with inquiry-based learning methods and developing inquiry-based thinking.
2. Children learn to help each other and the spirit of love. In the classroom, teachers instruct children to ask their classmates for help when they need it, or to ask their teachers if their friends can't help. One of IB's ten goals is caring. We teach our children to be kind and understanding.
3. Through the first unit, teacher also observed the development and progress of the child's other abilities. For example, in the first unit, when we set the training goal of a large class, we mainly focus on being good at thinking and being well-rounded. Most importantly, children will apply these learned skills to their daily activities.
"Let children form their own thinking" is an important part of early childhood teaching. ASJ aims to promote the development of children's thinking ability in an all-round way through IB PYP course.
Application for
ASJ 2023 Spring Term
is now Open
Time for Sign Up：
December 05-30, 2022
Please sign up for entrance examinations in advance.
