太倉市華頓外國語學校致力于為孩子們營建一個創(chuàng)造性的、鼓勵性的以及思維開放性的學習環(huán)境。我們鼓勵孩子們成為終身學習者，幫助他們成為植根于本土文化和傳統(tǒng)，并能心懷世界的國際公民。我們努力將孩子們培育成為具備卓越的跨學科學術(shù)研究能力和跨文化適應能力的未來。

Taicang Walton Foreign Language School aims to provide a creative, courageous, and open- minded learning community that encourages students to be lifelong learners. Our school helps students to be responsible global citizens respecting both international and Chinese cultures and traditions. We strive to create a learning environment that's focused on the cultivation of tomorrow’s leaders while embodying educational excellence, interdisciplinary proficiencies and cross-cultural competencies.

學習方式：

繼承中國傳統(tǒng)教育精髓，引入西方現(xiàn)代教育理念，華頓外國語學校更加注重學生學習方式的變革，這一變革主要通過建構(gòu)三類課堂實現(xiàn)：

生本課堂：合作 互動 建構(gòu)(國家課程與部分奠基課程的學習)

人本學堂：自主 對話 體驗(部分奠基課程與發(fā)展課程的學習)

學子講堂：主體 多元 探究(部分發(fā)展課程與探究課程的學習)

華頓外國語學校認為：現(xiàn)代學校必須從注重“教師的教”，轉(zhuǎn)向更加關(guān)注“學生的學”;華頓外國語學校讓學生真正成為學習的主人，在自主學習中獲得知識，在自主探究中形成能力，在自主發(fā)展中養(yǎng)成性格、情操與人格境界。

THE NEW ACADEMIC METHODOLOGY – CHINESE ROOTS AND GLOBALIZED BRANCHES

Taking from the essence of Chinese traditional education, but introducing all the elements of the Modern Western educational philosophy is the differentiator for the Walton Foreign Language School. Our mission and implementation pays more attention to the changing of the Student Learning Mode, which is realized mainly through the construction of three distinct categories.

The Innovative Classroom: This is a cooperative and an multilateral construction which formulates the National Chinese Curriculum with Western and Socratic Methodologies.

The Human Oriented School : This is an Autonomous Conversation Experience where by students interact with Foreign Faculty and each other to enhance the linguistic capabilities of each student and implemented with some foundational and developmental courses.

The once dominant lecture based model has become courses with multiple explorations, innovative new technologies, and research based courses filled with critical thinking skills and analytic.

The Walton Foreign Language School believes that modern schools must focus on “Innovative Teachers Teaching” to students immersed in multiple and variable means of study, comprehension, retention, and learning. The Walton Foreign Languages School makes students become the master of their own learning, so as to obtain and retain knowledge in formation of self-study skills, self-exploration techniques, while simultaneously developing each student’s personality, emotion and critical thinking skills which lead to greater expression and deeper understanding of the material for lifelong application as well as lifelong learning .

The Campus Experience As Classroom: The Walton School provides student who work, study, and play together a unique, picturesque and multifaceted learning experience that we humbly refer to as our ONE GLOBAL CLASSROOM. We have boarding and dormitory students, primary school students – all the way through secondary school years and three distinct upper level tracks that serve to meet each individual student’s needs and learning strengths. This diverse group along, with the International Faculty, provides our students with a one of a king Global Experience with a definitive emphasis on English Language Learning populated throughout all our courses and events.

改革理念：

1、由知識與學業(yè)為本，到以人的全面發(fā)展為本;

2、由追求高分進而獲得較高能力，到首先培養(yǎng)高智能進而獲得高分;

3、由著眼知識的課程觀，到以育人為核心的課程觀;

4、由僅僅以教室為課堂，到以學校為課堂;

5、由只關(guān)注學生發(fā)展，到追求學生、教師和學校的全員全面發(fā)展。

華頓外國語學校認為：教育是較大的行善，因為教育的核心是人，是改變?nèi)?，是促成人的全面與終身發(fā)展，而不像修橋鋪路更多的是方便人;因而，華頓外國語學校打破傳統(tǒng)的學業(yè)觀、知識觀、分數(shù)觀，以學校為課堂，由學校的發(fā)展促進人的發(fā)展，進而提升知識能力與學業(yè)水準，從而奠定終身發(fā)展之基石。

我們致力于把太倉市華頓外國語學校創(chuàng)建成為培育國際精英的搖籃,通往的橋梁;致力于將學生培養(yǎng)成為會做人,會做事,熱愛生活,成為終身學習的精英人才。

Reforming the very idea of what Education should be:

1. We base student development on not only a superb curriculum but variable and variegated methodologies that will prepare our charges for the rigors of higher academics in not only the rooted Chinese System, but in Western Educational Disciplines with the Socratic skills to meet all life’s challenges.

2. Our focus is not on higher scores but on higher education. We concern ourselves with lasting success and not transient grades on a single assignment. We look at the end game of student success as far more than just a grade on a piece of paper. Lifelong skills developed for lifelong learning.

3. We work from the belief that a student who is prepared to pass a single test and nothing more will pass the test but fail the course of LIFE. We strive to make sure that a Walton student is prepared to be a great student, a great citizen, a great role model, and a great human being.

4.Our reinforcements of our methodologies and pedagogy occur in not only the things we do in the classrooms, but the very that we interact with our student body in every facet. Our mission and our implementation happen in the hallways, on the walkways, during events, right down to the smiles and discipline that our staff exudes as role models for our future generations that we are building on this campus.

5. With as much effort as we are placing on building our students, we are also building our faculty and administration. We are hiring the best people to do the toughest jobs and making sure that they have impeccable credentials and even more impeccable character and superior teaching abilities. We are investing in the best and training them to be even better.

The Walton Foreign Language School is shattering the traditional educational models in China, while still maintaining and enhancing the rigors and outcomes of the traditional Chinese System. We have taken those attributes of the Chinese System and mixed them with interdisciplinary tactics and cooperative learning. We have made students active participants in their own education. We are here to guide them and facilitate their best learning strategies while simultaneously helping them over the hurdles that can face any differentiated learner. We are committed to the aforementioned mission in the creation of The Walton Foreign Language School…

Walton-Taicang as the cradle of the cultivation of the international elite and the bridge to famous schools; it is committed to the nurturing of the students to be exceptional human beings, to do magnificent things, to love life, and to become the elite of life-long learning.

辦學思想

中西并重 文理兼長 全球視野 幸福成長

華頓外國語學校認為：現(xiàn)代教育要培育世界公民，不僅要給予學生豐厚的民族文化底蘊，還要讓學生放眼全球，擁有更寬廣的視野和更高的人生境界，在對多元文化的包容、理解、建構(gòu)中成長為國際化的棟梁人才。

The day to day operations of the school maintains the mission and directive of the Educational Philosophies that we have set forth. Everyone knows the ideology and teaches to the mission of creating the whole student – academically, emotionally, physically, linguistically, and morally so that they may represent our school and their families as they go out into the world.

Walton Foreign Language School believes that in order to cultivate citizens of the world that modern education should not only give students an abundant national culture, but also make students recognize the whole world in a unique view and a broader perspective right into their adult lives. The students will grow up to be international talents with the tolerance, understanding and appreciation of a multi-cultural and global society.

培養(yǎng)目標

華頓外國語學校實施“完人教育”，具體培養(yǎng)目標為：

真人：求真坦誠 堅毅樂觀 高尚理想 健全人格

全人：高雅氣質(zhì) 強健體魄 廣博學養(yǎng) 獨特興趣

新人：創(chuàng)新意識 世界眼光 高效思維 開拓精神

華頓外國語學校認為：未來社會要求基礎教育為學生的終身發(fā)展奠基。因而，華頓培養(yǎng)勤學好問、知識淵博、情感豐富、胸懷寬廣、富有愛心的紳士、博士、斗士，成為能夠擔當人生責任、始終走在時代前列的人。

Meeting All Objectives:

Walton Foreign Language School is here to educate and create “The Global Citizen with concrete objectives and sound policies for assessment:

The Sincere Human: seek truth and be honest, be persistent and optimistic, have noble ideals and a sound personality.

The Well-rounded Human: have elegant temperament, a strong body, a wide range of knowledge and uniquely diverse interests.

The New Human: have innovative awareness, a global view, efficient thinking and a pioneering spirit.

The Walton Foreign Language School believes that our future society requires a student’s lifelong development be based on a superior elementary education. Therefore, Walton is to cultivating inquisitive, knowledgeable, emotional, broad-minded, and caring students who are ready to be impactful and make themselves be the caretakers of our future whose responsibility it is to continue to make profound differences in all aspects of humanity.

教育追求

給每一位學生一段終身受益的難忘歲月;

給每一位學生一批人生旅途的良師益友;

給每一位學生一種積極健康的生活方式;

給每一位學生一條適合自身的成長路徑。

華頓外國語學校認為：今天的教育是以人為本的教育，今天的學校應該是多元文化的氛圍，校園內(nèi)應該充滿激情，學生的學習生活應該是快樂幸福的。

因而，學校的基本色調(diào)為“橙色”。橙是太陽色，寓意著“朝氣、活力、激情、溫暖”;

橙是富含營養(yǎng)的果實，寓意著“豐富、多元、全面、成熟”。

Educational Pursuits

These years at Walton will be the best years of their lives! They will have unforgettable memories and an uncompromising education to fuel their pursuits for higher education and great lifelong success. Their faculty over time will become like trusted friends and colleagues to whom they can return with questions, success stories, and tribulations needing guidance. A Walton Education is a commitment to being a part of the Walton Family forevermore and knowing that there is always a place that students and alumni can call home.

Our students are growing up in unique and unbelievable times, and we must prepare them equally uniquely and sincerely for the trials ahead. We must create multilingual, multicultural, multi-faceted students who understand the global perspective of and ever changing world. Our programs success will come in their maturity and progression toward all their greater goals. Over time the Walton Experience will prove it is truly the only way to create, educate, and enhance the model of the Global Citizen.