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要有好的学校,先要有好的教师。

来源:天津美达菲国际学校 时间:2019-01-28 16:31

  教师是一个学校的灵魂,“要有好的学校,先要有好的教师”。在上世纪20年代,教育家陶行知在创办晓庄师范时就提出了这一主张。有一个优秀、奋力进取、热爱教学的教师团队,学校发展才能蒸蒸日上。而在国际学校里面,外教的资质与流动性一直是家长关心的问题。

  美达菲学校 (MacDuffie School)作为一所具有128年历史的美国著名私立学校,也是美国马萨诸塞州最具悠久传统的学校,坚持为学生提供最优质的教师资源。在小班精品教育模式下,95%的毕业生被全美前100名综合性大学或区域性大学录取,42%的毕业生被全国前50名综合性大学或文理学校录取。

  百年名校美达菲学校首次进入中国,带来了美国学校百年来积累的学术成果和成就。同时作为美国学校直接管理的分校,也将在美达菲全球学术委员会统一管理下,以保证与美国同步的学术水平和学术资源提升,为北京及周边学子提供美国原汁原味的课程。

  为全球美达菲学校提供统一学术标准和质量保证

  传承美达菲基因,确保所有美达菲学校拥有纯正美达菲基因、使命和价值观

  研发、执行及加强全球学术及课程设计、以满足美国美达菲旗下每所学校学生的需求

  提供美国美达菲学校及各分校以周期性的学术支持、课程设计及质量把控

  除了拥有全球学术委员会的强力资源支持之外,美达菲学校北京校区的师资力量也不容小觑,可以说拥有北京国际学校外教的“最强阵容”。由于学校采用全英文授课的英语沉浸式教学模式,美达菲国际学校北京校区外教的资质全部具备以下三点基本条件:

  1>专业领域硕士学位;

  2> 至少五年学校教书经验;

  3> ESL英语非母语工作经验。

  而我们外教自己都说,美达菲学校的外教专业能力与职业素养在中国国际学校乃至美国中学里都是出类拔萃的。下面就带您认识一下美达菲国际学校北京校区的外教老师们吧!

  Nathaniel Westfall

  外方校长&科学老师

  Nathaniel Westfall is a research chemist, Heis working on his P.h.D. degree in Neurochemistry. He has taught chemistry and psychology at the university level for fouryears, general science at the middle school level for two year, and led research teams. Nate has a Master of Chemistrydegree, as well as degrees in abnormal/forensic psychology, Latin, and biochemistry/metallo-organic chemistry. He hasawards in singing, trombone performance, and musical composition, in addition to academic awards in science andmathematics. He has conversation skills in German, French, and Latin languages, with studies in Gaelic, Chinese, andHindi.

  He has been in China for almost three years.Nate brings the western style of scientific enquiry, free and critical thinking, and problemsolving with hands on experimental approaches to science.

  Nate(纳特)是一个化学研究学者。他曾在美国大学任教四年,教授化学与心理学;在美国高中教授科学课程一年,并带领过多个科学研究小组。Nate有化学硕士学位,以及多个本科学位,包括非正常心理学、拉丁文、生物化学与有机化学。Nate于三年前来到中国,他致力于将西方的科学式求问、自由与批判式思维融入课程,并且他也注重培养学生在实验中亲手解决问题的能力。

  小编补充:值得一提的是,Nate老师高中时有着用不完的精力,不仅是全A学生,更是参加了十几个社团,最后被哈佛大学、普林斯顿等学校录取,最后竟然因为离家太远学费太贵而没有去(中国小编表示美国人的逻辑我们实在搞不懂)。除了发表过各类科学论文之外,Nate老师也出版过一本书籍(可以在美国亚马逊买到哟),目前第二本书就快完成了。

  Mark Fudemberg

  文学老师

  Mr. Mark has a liberal arts degree in English and Master's in Education. He has been a high school English teacher for 32 years. For thefirst 25 years, Mark taught literature, writing, and Advanced Placement Language at a college prep high school in his hometown. Markarrived in China in 2012. He has taught TOEFL, IELTS, and literature. Mark teaches imaginative and critical reading using Socratic seminarsand literature circles.

  Mark(马克)老师本科期间在文理学院学习英国文学,并取得了教育学硕士学位。他教授英语及英国文学已有30年之久,积累了丰富的教学经验。其中有25年在美国本土高中教授文学、写作以及AP英文课程。他2012年来到中国,教授托福、雅思、以及英语文学。如今,Mark在美达菲北京校区采用的是苏格拉底式研讨会与文学座谈方法教授英国文学,借此方法来激发学生的想象力,培养批判式思维。

  Matthew Ryan

  艺术老师

  Matthew studied art at University for seven years. Additionally he studied and worked as a dental technician and has a goodunderstanding of human anatomy. For the first ten years of his career he worked for museums and galleries, most notably as the curator of the museum of childhoodin Sydney. Whilst doing his second masters degree, he went to central China in 2001 to become familiar with Chinese culture and art. Thiswas his first experience teaching ESL English. After finishing his dental and ESL studies, Matthew returned to teach in China in 2005. In2006, Matthew went to teach at a UNICEF project called English village. After a year in Korea, he returned to China and worked as a teamlead for technical writers in the German IT company SAP based in Shanghai and Chengdu. In 2007, Matthew went home to Australia andhas been the professional artist up until today.

  Mr. Matthew(马修)老师在大学以及研究院专业学习艺术有七年之久。此外他也学习过牙体技术师,并在该领域工作过,因此他对人体、骨骼、与解剖有较深的理解。

  在他工作的前十年,他主要在艺术博物馆以及画廊工作,因此熟知各派艺术作品,他曾担任悉尼儿童博物馆馆长。2001年他攻读第二个硕士学位时来到中国,开始了解中国文化与艺术,并开始教研如何将艺术与非母语的英语教学结合。从2005年开始,Mr.Matthew就开始在学校教书,06年时在UNICEF的英语村教学,对沉浸式语言教学很有经验。在此期间,他也一直保持职业艺术家的身份。

  Grace Chong

  数学老师

  Miss Grace graduated from the University of Washington with a Bachelor in Civil and Environmental Engineering. Shewas awarded a full scholarship from SingaporeMIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) to study Master ofEngineering at National University of Singapore. She conducted research regarding modeling of traffic simulation andtraffic emissions for her master thesis. As for her teaching experiences, she volunteered to teach Advanced Math in herhigh school for years, and she taught Calculus in her alma mater for 2 years. Grace is a Malaysian and she has been living abroad for 7 years in two countries: United States and Singapore. She isa music enthusiast and the diploma holder in Piano Recital from Trinity College London. She joined several choirs inUnited States and Singapore, as the Soprano singer. She thinks Math is fun because it is around us, in everything we doincluding shopping, eating, driving, baking, travelling, etc.

  Miss Grace 本科毕业于华盛顿大学,专业是土木与环境工程。研究生毕业于新加坡国立大学,并被新加坡麻省理工科技研究院(SMART)授予全额奖学金。她研究生的研究论文关于《微观交通模拟对机动车的PM2.5排放建模》。受家庭影响(母亲是学校校长),Miss Grace从小就在学校当志愿者老师,高中时期在自己的中学教高级数学,在大学时曾教授微积分两年。

  Miss Grace是马来西亚人,她在美国与新加坡生活了7年,同时也是英文中文双母语。除此之外,她热爱音乐,并在伦敦圣三一学校获得钢琴演奏专业文凭。在美国与新加坡期间,也多次担任合唱团女高音歌手。她认为数学非常有趣,因为数学与我们的生活息息相关,比如购物、吃饭、开车、烘焙、旅游等等,也希望她的学生们可以像她一样热爱数学。

  Adam Britner

  历史老师

  Mr. Adam is a History and Politics graduate from the University of Central Lancashire, U.K. He has enjoyed ten years experience workingbetween the University of Central Lancashire and Queen Mary University of London supporting the work of student services. He holds anESL teaching certificate. He has tutoring and previous teaching experience in a High School in Shanghai. He was a recipient of 孔子学院scholarship and last year graduated from Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

  Mr. Adam(亚当)毕业于英国中央兰开夏大学,专业是历史与政治。他在英国中央兰开夏大学与伦敦玛丽王后大学有十年的学生工作经验。同时,他也是一位经验丰富地非母语英语老师,有ESL教学资格证。在此之前,Mr. Adam在上海的国际学校教书。此外,他也是孔子学院奖学金的荣誉获得者,去年从上海财经大学毕业,过了汉语水平考试HSK5级,对中国文化与学生有很深的了解.

  Michael Gare

  数学老师

  Michael graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelors of Land Surveying and graduated with a Grad. Cert. of Educationfrom the University of Tasmania. Michael taught Surveying, Civil Engineering subjects and trade related subjects for 2 years at Burnie TAFE(Australian Poly-Technic College) before moving to South Korea to teach for 10 years at several International Schools, Universities andlanguage institutes. Michael has also taught IELTS in Vietnam for a year. Michael has taught IB Mathematics, AP Calculus, AP Statistics andCambridge AS Ph ysics, in China over a 5 year period. Michael has had a childhood fascination with electronics which was encouragedgreatly during his middle school years, as he belonged to a HAM radio club. This fascination with the mathematical side of physics taughthim how discovery learning can be a real delight. It is his belief that, this skill of looking for patterns and the seeking out of the reasonsfor these patterns, is the major driving force of new scientific and technological advances. It is his hope that these skills will not only beimplanted into his students, but they will value these skills and make use of them throughout their lives. He teaches math, calculus, andphysics at MacDuffie International School Beijing campus.

  Michael (迈克尔)在昆士兰大学取得了土地测量的学士学位,之后于塔斯马尼亚大学取得了教育学的硕士学位。Michael教学经历丰富,曾在澳洲的大学教授土地测量,城市工程,以及贸易相关的多个科目。也曾在韩国多所语言培训机构,国际学校,和大学教书。他也曾在越南教授过一年雅思。今年是他在中国的第六年,他教过IB数学,AP微积分,AP统计学和剑桥AS物理。Michael从小就对电子设备感兴趣,在中学阶段,他所在的业余无线电社团更激发了他的热情。这份对于数学物理的热爱让他发现了探索式学习的乐趣。他相信,这种寻找规律和解释规律的技术是推动科学技术发展的主要动力。他不但要把这些技能传授给他的学生,更希望他们认识到这些技能的价值,并终生受益。他目前在美达菲国际学校北京校区教授数学、微积分、与物理。

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