【学术季】国际知名教育专家兰斯·金工作坊 | Lance King Workshops at Qibao Dwight

学术季

Lance King

导语

上个月，七宝德怀特有幸邀请到了国际知名教育专家兰斯·金，莅临我校开展了为期一周的工作坊，与七德师生共同探讨教育与学习的“秘诀”，所有人都受益匪浅。

Lance King

作为是国际公认的作家、教师和工作坊的推动者，在过去的23年里，Lance King与全球超过250,000名学生以及数千名教师和家长一起工作。他所开创的学习的艺术课程在34个国家300多所学校所传授，同时也是21世纪技能教学专家。在IBO国际文凭组织，他设计并开发了MYP和DP课程的学习方法（ATL）框架，该框架目前正在150个国家的4000多所IB学校中实施。著有6本教学相关著作，其中两本现已被翻译成中文，法文，越南文和西班牙文。

Lance King is an internationally recognized author, teacher and workshop facilitator who, in the last 23 years, has worked with over 250,000 students worldwide as well as thousands of teachers and parents. He is the creator of the Art of Learning programme taught in over 300 schools in 34 countries and is a specialist in the direct teaching of 21st Century Skills. Within the International Baccalaureate Organisation he designed and developed the Approaches to Learning (ATL) framework for both the MYP and DP programmes, which is currently being implemented in more than 4000 IB schools in 150 countries. He is a sought-after presenter for his workshops for teachers, students and parents and is also the author of six books on teaching and learning, two of which are now translated into Chinese, French, Vietnamese and Spanish.

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Kelen Leng 冷铭

Onthe morning of Feburary, G11 students at QDHS attended a workshop given by Lance King, the creator of the Art of Learning Program. During his visit, Mr. King introduced new learning concepts to students, such as “maximize effort” and “smart strategies”.

In In my opinion, the most important concept shared by Mr. King was that of "failing well," a concept that emphasizes learning through failure and focusing on “Resilience” and “Courage”. Imagine you're faced with the question “describe a time when you set a goal and didn’t achieve it. What was the cause of that? What did you do next?” During the workshop, I was asked to complete this question, and I filled in the first two blanks quickly, but got stuck on the third one.

This is how I realized that I’m "failing badly" instead of "failing well". The key features of failing badly included,blaming school/system, avoiding activities that could result in failure and avoid dealing with failure.

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Ally Dong 董容辰

The lecture by Mr. King was truly inspirational. We have touched upon the approaches to learning, which he talked about popular topics among IB students such as attention and time management. Because the massive amount of work in IB learning, how to manage our time and to focus on what we are doing is essential. “You can definitely do much more work when you are paying attention” Mr. King said. The skills that he taught us were simple but easily ignored. For example, we should always open “study mode” on our phone. Do we really have this “study mode” on our phones? How come we have never seen it before? “Please take your phone out and turn on airplane mode,” He smiled. We all laughed at once and understood that there are many things around us that we can utilize.

The most exciting part was learning how to juggle. I always wanted to learn how to juggle. I had tried several rounds at home before but failed to do so. “If you guys can follow my instructions, you can all know how to juggle in three steps.” He opened a small suitcase filled with juggling balls. The first step was to toss only one ball which was easy. Everybody in the classroom was able to do that. Then, add another ball into the process. Balls were dropping all over the classroom now. It was much more difficult for step two, but we could still handle it after several practicing rounds. However, when it came to juggling three balls at a time, we could not control where the ball was directed towards. The practice was not as successful as we thought, and nobody proved successful at juggling. “I have practiced nine hours of juggling. If you keep doing this for 9 hours after you are home, you will learn how to juggle just like me.” Mr. King said while tossing three balls in a smooth parabola orbit. Through experiencing the process of learning, we are testing out the unfamiliar theories and methods. I realized that newly-learned concepts can always be applied in daily life, which undergoing a real-life situation can give us a better understanding of the content.

We have not previously heard similar lectures. We study all the time without knowing how to study, or how to make our learning process more efficient. This is what is happening on most of the students now. The lecture is innovative because it shows us the broader concept of learning. Applying these skills and methods to our studying process, enables us to finish more work in less time with better quality. These are extremely important for us IB students because they help us to manage our time correctly as well as to quickly adapt to the pace of learning. As Mr. King said, we have discussed the approaches of learning with other students who did not listen to the lecture. We sincerely hope that there will be more opportunities for more students about the ATLs which is beneficial in many ways.

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Eleanor Shen 沈子维

A lesson with theories of life and being successful should have been exploited by the world——at least as I thought it was before. This lesson with Mr. King, however, was not very much so. The lesson is after all, very interesting and meaningful to the study life of a student. The activities are well-presented and every one is fulling involved in the games.

The idea of living in the present is thoughtful, it fits quite well with students in a sense of school life, the planning is interesting, the stories are inspiring. But I suppose that a student’s worst nightmare is the future, and hence some may struggle with depression. It is not only now that they worked and feared for, it is the future for most of times. That is why they (and sometimes I) choose to hide in another world. The relationship with others is what they yearned for, but they are also troubled by it, like a hedgehog protected as well as troubled by its thorns. I suppose what a young man (or women) should learn is how to face future. The truth is that the future lies within the reality, and the reality starts from the end of daydreams. We want guidance for living now as well as how to hope for the future. A passion is needed for that, but I know, somehow, we have lost our passion, thinking nothing of the future. We don’t need fortune telling and planning of our future, but a guidance of hope, to always be hopeful, because the former is nothing more than a slave of the past knowledge and experience.

A good lesson for success should not be ahead of students’ understanding, thus it may not lead; yet it should not fall behind, it may not follow; it should be combined with students’ life.