Caoyang school wins key award
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ON April 17, Shanghai Caoyang Middle School was named the city’s Characteristic High School by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. In the future, Caoyang Middle School can run based on the relevant policies and standards of experimental and demonstration senior high schools, covering enrollment, faculty, facilities and funding.
Officials from the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission gave high praise for Caoyang Middle School’s efforts to develop curriculum with distinctive features.
Yang Lin, headmaster of the school, demonstrated their achievements and gave a theme report on the ideas and measures of their work.
The Characteristic High School building and evaluation project was launched in 2011 in Shanghai.
To receive the title, high schools should conform to the city’s positioning role and function, the social and economic growth and student’s development. They should also have characteristic curriculum and implementation system to form its own distinctive and stable style of teaching.
Founded in 1953, Caoyang Middle School used to be one of three schools in Shanghai which specially enrolled children of returned overseas Chinese.
In 1959, it was listed one of the first batch of 26 key middle schools by the Shanghai Municipal Government. In 1978 it was named the district-level key middle school.
The cultivation of environmental literacy has been set to be the school’s characteristic. Experimental curriculum has been adopted to explore the relationships of environment and humanity, environment and technology, environment and psychology.
The school has received more than 50 honors, including the title of international eco-school, experimental school of the UNESCO Education for Sustainable Development and national environmental education demonstration school.
The Shanghai Municipal Education Commission also plans to develop characteristic high schools into a site of distinctive courses and a training center for high-quality teachers.
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