VBS News Net: VBS has launched teachers' development programme in summer 2020 since 21st August to allow sustainable development of VBS and to build a shared future between teachers and school. 

Followed Principal Yang's development plan in the past two years, VBS has gained recognition from society by its vision, cultivating goals, and curricula. A group of new teachers and students will join VBS at this upcoming semester. 

Principal Yang: Teach for the unknown, study for the future

Principal Yang delivered speech 'Let our children experience the future'. She brought out vast examples of challenges human society would face in light of AI development. Living in the future, students ought to have the ability to supersede AI. The curriculum had to be designed to tailor the future as both schools and teachers required transformation. But What was the knowledge that was worth learning by students? Hence VBS followed 'Teach for the unknown, study for the future' to cultivate Chinese citizens who possess sound personality, academic excellence international horizons, patriotism and the courage to create a better future as it aimed to build future-oriented first class school. 

Principal Yang explained VBS cultivating goals and emphasised to cultivate students' sound personality first. VBS strived to have featured characteristics - small-sized personalised teaching, immersive blingual teaching, globalised cooperation in education, world-leading VBS curriculum and IT-based learning space. 

VBS innovatively offered Life Planning, AI, Architecture, VBS Cloud Lesson and Drama, Music, Arts, Mathematics, Football taught by international teachers, which had significant results. Teaching was conducted based on Mac and iPad gadgets and VBS Cloud Lesson allowed students to experience the future - AI era. VBS planned comprehensive curriculum to improve leadership and study ability. VBS would continue student societies, elective and PBL which had received productive results.

Principal Yang emphasised that VBS opened up students' possibilities by abundant lessons and provided necessary elements for them to thrive. She hoped every student to possess grit, inclusiveness, optimism, excellent creativity and constant curiosity. Educators ought to view education from a new perspective to focus on both the unknown and the known. Hence they could predict the events in future from the future wisdom perspective to assist students to make sense of the knowledge learnt. We would create and foresee the future of students.

Assistant Principal Ms. Zheng: teachers ought to be intelligent leaders

Assistant Principal Ms. Zheng explained the values of teachers and students by speech 'New beginning'. She explained the unique properties of teachers using Law of Teachers to state that being teachers would choose certain lifestyle with moral code as their morality would be the first criterion of judgement. VBS teachers ought to love education and students when becoming lifelong learners. She used investigation materials to explain how opinions, thoughts, needs differed between students and teachers. She also demanded teachers to be fair before respect - respect difference with more encouragement, description and less judging or praise. Teachers ought to be intelligent leaders and thrive with students. 

Finally, she sent Vanke top ten sentences to teachers and wished them to thrive in new teams and work hard for letting our students experience the future. 

Ms. Gong: New staff should blend in quickly

Head of HR Ms. Gong led new staff to study staff manual carefully on all school regulations, including teachers' etiquette, attendence management, working hours and penalty schemes. She asked everyone to familiarise the procedures and blend in quickly. 

This training session has helped new staff to blend in quickly, assimilate school philosophies and specify objectives while improving teachers' professional skills. VBS will continue to organise multiple training workshops to faciliate students' growth by developing teachers and making the school a place where parents, students and teachers thrive.

Author/Photographer: Linda

Translated by DC Lai