作为一所面向中国和国际学生的国际学校，OCIS非常重视“英文优先”的教学环境，鼓励我们所有的学生和老师将英语作为主要的交流方式。

As an international school catering for Chinese and International students, OCIS puts great emphasis on encouraging an atmosphere of ‘English first’, encouraging all of our students and teachers to use English as their primary means of communication.

尽管英语教学团队扮演着核心角色，但每位教师都应该在所有非中文科目中分担这一责任。在过去的一个月里，英文教学总监Kevin老师一直在对我们的国际和中国教师进行一系列的课堂观察，以确保我们都在合理的情况下充分应用英文教学，并探寻改进措施。

Although the English Language teaching team has a core role to play, each teacher is expected to share in this responsibilty across all non-Chinese subjects. Over the last month The Director of English, Mr Kevin Buchanan has been carrying out an ongoing series of classroom observations on our international and Chinese teachers to ensure that we are all applying this approach in its fullest whenever reasonable, as well as looking for possible areas to improve this practice.

通过沉浸式的语言环境，丰富的英语理解和实践机会，我们为学生提供了成长为有效和成功的国际学习者的最佳机会，能够应对世界各地高等教育环境的挑战。我们的职责不仅是让他们进入目标学校，而且要确保一旦他们到了那里，他们不仅能生存，还能茁壮成长。

By having an immersive language environment, rich in opportunities to understand and practice in English, we give our students the best opportunity to grow into effective and successful international learners, capable of facing the pressures of the higher education environments around the world. Our duty is not merely to get them into their target schools, but to ensure that once they get there they can not just survive, but thrive.

这些听课反馈使学校能够确定我们教职员工在使用最佳的教学方法，并与其他教师分享授课技巧。它使我们能够寻找更高效的关键技能和基础知识的领域，这些技能和知识可以应用于整个小学和中学。重要的是，它确保学校的每一位老师都能达到我们的高标准，为我们的学生带来最佳的授课效果。

These observations allow the school to identify the best practices used by our teaching staff and share those techniques with others. It allows us to seek out possible areas where can provide a deeper underpinning of key skills and knowledge which can be applied throughout primary school and high school and importantly it ensures that our high standards are being met by every teacher in the school for the ultimate benefit of our students.

无论他们是学习语言，还是用语言学习，我们的学生都应该得到最好的，通过小组和一对一的反馈，我们将确保OCIS的英语语言课程继续为英语学习提供最佳环境。

Whether they are learning the language, or learning in the language, our students deserve the very best and through feedback in groups and one-to-one, we will ensure that the English language provision in OCIS continues to provide the best possible environment for learning in English