VBS News Net: ‘Let’s run in the hopeful spring and struggle with love and diligence.’ In the early morning of February 18th, all teachers and staffs of VBS started a new semester with a fun run. VBS staff conference was held and The Academy for Teachers Professional Development launched a series of activities.

On the same day, under the leadership of Principal Yang, nearly 200 teachers and staffs participated in the fun running activity. Principal Yang took the lead and set an example as she hoped that all school staffs could love sports and set a good example for students, making them grow up healthily. There was a cheerful smile on every staffs' face.

VBS Staff Conference

Presented by Principal Yang

Key words: Love and Diligence.

At 11 am, VBS Staff Conference was held in the school theater. Principal Yang explained the school's three-year planning, school management methods and working plan for this semester, which included strengthening the construction of the teachers, building a teaching culture, improving Chinese and Western curriculum system, filling up the curriculum system of students’ growing resources and focusing on cultivating students' reading ability and sports spirit to ensure that each student can grow up healthily with the improvement of academic ability. VBS will provide innovative management so that every teacher can grow up like an expert and become the best teacher with love and diligence.

Lecture: Teachers can’t grow up without ‘writing’

Presented by Mr. Wu Hongwei

Key words: Writing and Growing up

At 2 pm, Mr. Wu Hongwei, an expert of continuing education，an education consultant for Hunan TV, an educational writing tutor at Beijing Normal University, who is also the deputy dean of the School Brand Research Institute was invited to give lectures to all teachers. With the theme that teachers couldn’t grow up without writing and his own growth experience as an example, he elaborated that writing was a catalyst for teachers’ growth and development and was the most effective way to enrich knowledge and enhance understanding. It was the most important mean for absorbing and summarizing experience as it provided in-depth and simple introductions on how to select writing materials, improve writing skills and submit manuscripts. He hoped that teachers would work diligently and make writing become their consciousness.

In the interactive session, teachers rushed to ask questions. Mr. Wu used his rich teaching experience to answer questions for the teachers and benefited them a lot.

VBS staff conference and the activities launched by The Academy for Teachers Professional Development which pointed out the direction for the school work in the new semester have clarified working and personal growth goals for teachers and provided them with ways to become expert teachers.

Author/Photographer: Linda

Translated by Reny Huang