Explorer 引光者 | College Counselling: 做好人生规划，铺就通往世界名校之路-国际教育网

Explorer 引光者 | College Counselling: 做好人生规划，铺就通往世界名校之路

ISA Liwan 爱莎荔湾

2022-07-18

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"Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance."

“教育是一个逐步发现自己无知的过程。”

——Will Durant

威尔·杜兰特

Every child is like a ray of light, and the teacher is the one who can lead the students and brighten their future. ISA Liwan now have launchedthe 'Explorer' column. In each issue of this column, we will invite an elite member of ISA Liwan top faculty team to share their educational ideas and life experience, and help you better understand the real ISA Liwan.

每一个孩子都像一道光，老师便是那引光的人，能够照耀学生，引领学生前行，帮助他们成就更好的自己。爱莎荔湾现已特别推出“引光者”专栏。每一期“引光者”，我们都将邀请爱莎荔湾顶级师资天团的一名菁英成员，分享自己的教育理念和人生经历，帮助正在阅读此文的您了解爱莎荔湾的教育精髓所在。

In the second edition of 'Explorer', we invite Ms Chen Chen, the College Counselling Coordinator of ISA Liwan, who has rich experience in guiding students to pursue further studies and apply to universities. She will share how ISA Liwan concept of "top-down curriculum" is put into practice in the college counselling centre, and help students know themselves and make plans of their personal growth, give them more possibilities in the universities application, provide personalised guidance for further studies, and help them enter the best institutions that suit them.

第二期“引光者”，我们邀请到陈晨老师，她不仅是爱莎荔湾的升学指导中心主任，也是爱莎国际学苑升学指导协调员，在指导学生升学和申请院校方面有着十分丰富的经验。她将会给我们分享升学指导中心如何将爱莎荔湾的“以终为始”理念落到实处，并在这个过程中帮助学生更好地了解自己，做好人生规划，给予学生更多的可能性，提供个性化的升学指导，并协助他们进入适合自己的最好的院校。

Profile 嘉宾介绍

Chen Chen 陈晨

College Counselling

Coordinator

升学中心主任

爱莎国际学苑升学

指导协调员

- With more than 16 years of professional experience in school counselor; she monitored graduation records, transcripts and classes for more than five hundred students as the first school counselor in a local reputable high school.

- Successfully guided students to be accepted by world top colleges, including Stanford University, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, Cambridge and Oxford etc.

- She is a key member of the IACAC and has been a certified school counselor in 2011 by Collegeborad.

- Entitled as Outstanding Educator (The University of Chicago, 2018-2020.

- 拥有十六年以上国际教育事业的升学指导专业经验；曾任知名学校国际部第一任升学指导，向海外院校输送学生超过500人；

- 指导大批学生成功升入世界顶尖大学，包括但不仅限于宾夕法尼亚大学、斯坦福大学、普林斯顿大学、耶鲁大学、哥伦比大学、芝加哥大学、牛津大学、剑桥大学等；

- 2011年获得美国大学理事会升学指导认证，是国际升学指导协会（IACAC）重要成员；

- 2018至2020年连续三年获得芝加哥大学“杰出教育工作者”称号。

Why does a school need to set up

college counselling centre?

一所学校为什么需要设立升学指导中心？

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升学指导中心是国际学校团队的重要组成部分，对日常的教育教学起着重要的引领作用。爱莎荔湾”以终为始“的办学理念就是对标各国大学的录取要求甚至就业市场对人才的需求来设计不同学段的课程。升学指导的工作重点是根据学生的不同个性特征、学术兴趣与能力引导学生设计一个多元化发展模式，让学生尝试不同的可能性。

优秀的升学指导老师能引导学生发现个性化的努力方向，适时调整自己在学业发展上出现的偏差，消除学生和家长因对国际升学未知而产生的焦虑，协助学生在自己能力条件下申请到合适自己未来发展的院校。

升学指导中心是学生的导航仪，相关老师执教的升学指导和生涯规划课也是让学生受益终身的课程。升学指的并不只是“大学申请过程”，而更重要的是包含了个人成长的长期规划。在个人成长方面，很多要素（也恰好是大学招生录取审核的要素）不是一蹴而就的，包括学术能力、语言能力、自制力、独立生活能力以及价值观等。这些要素的培养都需要经历一个全面长期的过程。升学指导中心会通过一系列完整的升学指导课堂和一对一的谈话等方式对学生所具备的能力做全面、清晰地分析从而给出合适的建议，引导学生如何去塑造这些能力，这些能力是可携转技能，可以转化到其他领域的学习中，这对学生个人的整体发展有不可估量的价值，也是能让学生获得名校青睐甚至社会认可的重点。

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The College Counselling Centre for further studies is an important part of the international school team, which plays an important role in promoting daily education and teaching. The curriculum concept of "top-down" that often mentioned in ISA Liwan comes from the admission requirements of the admission offices of target universities and even the demand of job market. The focus of the work of college couselling centre is to set up a diversified development model for students according to their different personality characteristics, academic interests and abilities, so that students can have more chances in their future studies.

Experienced school counselors in the centre can provide students with personalised assistance, timely adjust the deviations in students' academic development, and eliminate the anxiety of students and parents about the application of universities. Also, it can assist students to apply to the universities that suit the students best for their future development.

The college counselling centre is a navigator for students in international high school, and its courses of guidance and career planning also benefit the students in rest of their life. International college application not only refers to the "apply to universities", but more importantly, to their long-term planning of personal growth. In student's personal growth, many factors (which happen to be the elements that college admissions consider) are not achieved in a quick time, including academic ability, language ability, self-control, independent living ability and their values. The cultivation of these elements needs to go through a comprehensive and long-term process. The college couselling centre will make a comprehensive and clear analysis of student's abilities through a series of classes and one-on-one conversations, so as to give appropriate suggestions and guide students how to shape these abilities. These abilities are transferable skills, which can be used in other areas for learning. These will benefit overall development of students, and they are also the focus to enable students to be recognised by famous schools and even the society.

You have rich experience and excellent

achievements in the guidance of students

for further studies. What difficulties and

challenges do you think students will

encounter in the process of applying

for universities?

在学生升学指导方面您有着丰富的经验

和卓越的成绩，您认为学生在升学申请

的过程中会遇到哪些困难和挑战？

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每个学生遇到的困难和挑战都不一样，有些学生还会有自己的特殊情况，但最常见的还是对升学的片面理解导致的焦虑问题，甚至引发心理问题。在申请大学的时候，许多学生和家长会通过五花八门的渠道获取对大学申请要求和程序的碎片化解读，很多时候学生会把许多细节在申请中的作用夸大，期望自己以最完美的形象出现在大学招生官面前，从而造成国际升学的内卷，引发焦虑。

对国际升学的片面理解主要包括以下几方面：

1.成绩单不是全A就没有学校要了；

2.标化考试成绩高理应被好大学录取，考不好就没书读；

3.简历上的竞赛、活动越多越好；

4.社会名流的推荐信很重要，高中老师的推荐信无价值；

5.文书要请高手打造到“完美”；

6.要参观校园或者上过这个学校的夏校，才能表“衷心”；

7.某个活动的含金量大，我要参加它才能进名校；

8.人文社科一定比理工科好录取；

9.尽管不少大学采取test-optional政策，但我不交就是劣势；

10.对于需要optional video的学校，我一定要请专业的团队来帮忙拍。

但是在爱莎荔湾升学指导中心有经验的老师们的帮助下，这些困难和焦虑是能够迎刃而解的。

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Every student might encounter different obstacles and difficulties on their ways of applying to universites, and some students will have their own situations, but the most common ones are anxiety problems caused by one-sided understanding of the application process, which may even lead to mental problems. When applying to a university, many students and parents will get a fragmented interpretation of the application process through a variety of channels, and they will exaggerate the role of many details in the application. They will expect themselves to perform perfectly in front of the university admissions officer, thus causing the involution and anxiety among students and parents.

The one-sided understanding of application mainly includes the following aspects:
1. If a student cannot get full A, he or she will not be recognised by any university.
2. high scores in the standardised examination should be the key to a good university. If a student did not do well in the exam, he or she will not be recognised by any university.

3. The more competitions and activities on a student's resume, the better the student is.

4. Recommendations from celebrities are very important, while the recommendations from high school teachers are worthless.
5. The resume of student should be made by the so-called experts in the areas of application, and it has to be "perfect".
6. Student has to participate the summer programme of their target university to show his or her "loyalt".
7. If a acitivity is "worth" paritipating, student has to take part in it in order to be recognised by a good university.
8. Humanities and social sciences programmes must be easier to be admitted than science and engineering programmes.
9. Although many universities adopt test-optional policy, it is a disadvantage if a student does not submit the test.
10. For universities that need optional video, student must ask a professional team to help shoot the video.

Actually, with the help of experienced teachers from the college counselling centre in ISA Liwan, these difficulties and problems can be easily solved.

What are the advantages of college

counselling centre in ISA Liwan? How

can it help different types and levels

of students be enrolled in their

ideal universities?

爱莎荔湾的升学指导中心的优势有哪些？

它如何能够帮助不同类型，不同层次的学生

进入自己理想的院校呢？

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爱莎荔湾的升学指导中心是基于以学生为中心的理念设立的，旨在为学生及其家庭提供个性化的升学支持。我们致力于协助每一个孩子探索最合适的升学选择。我们的优势在于，团队成员都是有丰富的校内升学指导经验的老师，懂得如何与教学团队配合促进教学，会站在学生长期发展的角度来给学生提供升学及发展建议，会从长远出发打造爱莎国际教育集团与海外院校的人才输送渠道。在爱莎荔湾，升学指导中心的工作目标也绝非拿到某名牌大学的录取，而是在中学阶段如何帮助学生发展个性、探索学术兴趣、提供标准化考试策略、讨论全球大学选择，引导参与研究型课外活动、指导大学申请文书写作，最终协助完成大学申请全流程。学生的成长始终是我们实践的核心，我们重视每个学生个人目标的达成和成长。

我们会通过以下方式和途径指导每一位同学找到适合自己的院校甚至专业：

1. 系统化升学指导课，普及升学知识；

2. 与学生个性化面谈，量身定制升学方案；

3. 开设学生职业工作坊，让学生进一步了解自己，认知世界；

4. 指导海外升学全程，让学生掌握各类申请的写作、面试所需技能；

5. 开设家长课堂，与家长定期交流，减少家长的焦虑；

6. 邀请海外院校到访爱莎荔湾，面对面帮助学生了解大学、帮助大学招生官了解学生；

7. 通过参加海外院校提供的线上或线下的工作坊、大学展，与院校保持良好的沟通，获取院校招生录取的一手信息。

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The college couselling centre in ISA Liwan is based on the educational concept of ISA Education Group, which aims to provide personalised support for students and their families. We are committed to helping every child find the most suitable choice for their further study. The advantage is that we have many experienced teachers and tutors in the field of universities application, who know how to cooperate with the teaching team to promote teaching, and will provide students with suggestions for further studies from the perspective of students' long-term development, and it will build talent channels between ISA International Education Group and overseas universities from a long-term perspective. In ISA Liwan, the goal of the college counselling centre is not only help students be admitted to a good university, but to help students develop their personality, explore academic interests, provide strategies of standardised examination, discuss the choices of universities application, guide participation in research-oriented extracurricular activities as well as the personal statement writing, and ultimately assist in the university applications. The growth of students has always been the core of our practice, and we attach great importance to the personal goals and growth of each student.

We will guide different types of students to help them find a suitable universites for them in the following ways:
1. Systematize guidance coursex of further study and popularize the knowledge of international college applications.
2. Personalised interview with students and tailor-made programs for further studies.
3. Set up a student career workshop to make students know more about themselves and the world.
4. Guide the whole process of studying abroad, and help students master the writing and interview skills of all kinds of applications.
5. Set up parent workshops and communicate with parents regularly to reduce parents' anxiety.
6. Invite the teachers and admission officers from overseas universities to ISA Liwan, and help them to get to know the school and students face to face.
7. By participating in online or offline workshops and university exhibitions provided by overseas universities, we can maintain good communication with colleges and universities and obtain first-hand information on the enrollment of colleges and universities.

How can college couselling centre

benefit the students?

升学指导中心能够给学生们带来什么？

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优质的升学指导中心给学生带来的绝非仅仅是一纸录取通知，而是通过专业的升学规划系列活动让学生产生深刻的自我认知并能共同探索一条适合自己的升学道路、通过引导学生参加丰富的课外活动来拓宽视野，树立正确的价值观，提升自己在大学或未来立足社会所需的各项技能和能力，包括时间管理能力、沟通协调能力、写作技巧等。

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What a high-quality college counselling centre brings to students is not an offer from the unversity, but through professional planning for further studies, students can have a deeper self-awareness and explore a suitable way to pursue further studies, broaden their horizons and establish correct values by guiding them to participate in rich extracurricular activities, and improve the skills they need in university, society and even in the future, which includes time management skills, communication and coordination skills, writing skills and so on.

You worked in a famous international

high school before, so why you

choose ISA Liwan?

您之前在知名国际高中负责升学指导的工作，

为何会选择爱莎荔湾呢？

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首先，我是一个喜欢挑战的人。从2011年4月加入原来的学校从第一届AP学生带起，到今年三月离开的时候已经是十一年了。过去的十一年，我在那儿经历了从只有我一个AP项目升学指导到团队壮大，从日常零星咨询到升学指导课纳入日常课表、建立完善的升学指导体系，并且发展至每年团队升学成果硕果累累。回顾这十一年的过程，我想是时候再来一次挑战。

其次，我是一个感性的人。眼缘相合、兴趣相投、理念一致对我很重要。我原来的学校有很多吸引我的地方，它也毫无疑问给了我个人成长的平台，我很感激。但当我想再给自己一次挑战的时候，爱莎荔湾的团队就是那个“时间的无涯的荒野里，没有早一步，也没有晚一步，刚巧赶上了“的团队。

最后，有人在得知我要离开原学校的时候，来跟我说：“你在现在的学校里，遇见的一定都是优秀学生，能去到很好的大学，会有成就感。”到底什么是优秀呢？我见过成绩好的学生很多，但在我看来成绩好与优秀并不能划等号。我的成就感也不应该只来源于个别学生的升学成绩，而是每个学生的每一点进步。我对这个问题的思考得出的答案也就成了我上面提到的爱莎荔湾升学指导中心的特色：我们重视每个学生的个人目标和成长。

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First of all, I am a person who likes to challenge. It has been 11 years since I joined the previous school in April 2011 with my first group of AP students and left in March this year. In the past 11 years, I experienced the growth my AP project and my team, as it started from sporadic consultation and finally the guidance courses was put in students' daily schedule, established a guidance system for college applications and many fruitful outcomes. Looking back on the past 11 years, I think it is time for another challenge.

Secondly, when I want to do something, I always follow my own heart and thought. It is very important for me that the school share the same values, similar interests and the same ideas with me. There are many attractions in the previous school, and it undoubtedly gives me a platform for my personal growth and I am very grateful. But when I want to give myself another challenge, ISA Liwan is the right team at a right time.

Finally, when someone learned that I was leaving my previous school, he came to me and said, "what you met in your previous school must be excellent students, as they can go to good universities, and you must have a sense of achievement." What exactly is excellence? I have seen many people with good grades, but in my opinion, good grades are not really equal to excellence. My sense of achievement should not only come from the grades of students, but from every progress made by each student. The answer to my reflection on this question has become a feature of college counselling centre in ISA Liwan that I mentioned above: we attach importance to each student's personal goals and growth.

爱莎荔湾将于7月23日举办开放日，活动当天，我们将为学生提供10堂全年龄段沉浸式体验课。