深度学习计划

5个常见问题.

• 伯克利大厅是否提倡成长型思维模式?

  一个多世纪以来，伯克利大厅一直在推广成长型思维模式. 这是什么意思? It means that every opportunity is taken at Berkeley Hall to teach students that their ability to learn is not a static nor a fixed thing. 随着时间的推移，坚持不懈的努力可以改变和提高学习能力. 因此, failure is temporary and is something that can be learned from – and is not a permanent condition that defines a student, but rather an opportunity for that student to expend more effort and to advocate for him or herself to learn something new.
  
  我们有严格的学术计划, 所以学生们在伯克利大厅接受挑战, but they are also made to feel comfortable enough to take intellectual risks and are taught to persist in the face of challenge [not to give up and say, “oh, 我想我不擅长数学.)(我们总是会插入“yet”这个词.一个孩子说:“我不擅长分数。.我们说，还没有!”]. Developing a growth mindset –along with a helping of good old-fashioned grit –is a cornerstone of a Berkeley Hall education.
  
  

  当我第一次来参观校园，见到学生们，看到教室, I was impressed with the presence of this growth mindset – students seemed simultaneously intellectually active and yet comfortable making mistakes and going through the learning process. 在我的教育生涯中, I’d never seen this occur in such an all-encompassing way within one school; I’d seen active thinking and learning, 但有一定的压力，可能会失败, 我在学校没有什么压力, 但是学生们并没有主动学习. 在我来到伯克利大厅之前，我很少在整个学校看到有压力的积极学习.
  
  

  现在, 这种成长心态的存在至少部分归因于伯克利大厅的历史, 哪一个既长又独特. 104年前，两姐妹创办了BHS, 顺便说一句，这使我们成为洛杉矶最古老的男女同校独立小学.
  
  现在, one of these sisters had been a much-beloved teacher at what was then Westlake School for Girls and a large group of the parents there asked her to start her own school. 于是，她和姐姐决定开办伯克利堂. They happened to be Christian Scientists (Christian Science is a Christian protestant religion started in the 1800’s in the US and is not at all like Scientology). 因为这两位创始人都是基督教科学家, it meant that their educational approach was grounded in their belief that every child has unlimited God-given potential to learn anything that child needs to learn, 所以他们建立了伯克利会堂，座右铭是“不设限”. 没有标签. 满满的爱.两位创始人希望与同样信奉成长型思维模式的人合作. So, 直到今天, 伯克利堂的教师和行政人员都是基督教科学家, 他们一致认为，每个孩子都具有上帝赋予的无限学习潜力. 有趣的是，伯克利堂是一所没有宗教信仰的学校. So, 我们不教我们的学生宗教，我们的扩展社区代表了广泛的宗教. 然而, we also are a community that honors each individual student's spiritual nature and we see each student as inherently good and unique.

• 为什么伯克利厅遵循学前班到八年级的模式?

  伯克利厅致力于学前教育到8年级的模式，为学生上高中做准备. 年轻的学生受益于校园里有年长的学生作为“伙伴”和我们的第六, 鼓励七年级和八年级学生在学校担任领导角色. These middle school years are a key time for students to deeply understand who they are and to learn to make mindful, good choices rather than looking to other kids – including the 15-18 year olds that they will find on a high school campus – to do it for them. When they leave us they are fully baked and they have a strong enough sense of who they are to select their high school friends rather than falling in with whatever crowd approaches them first.
  
  Our Junior High students are role models for the younger students here and work with their younger “buddies” on a regular basis as mentors. 和, 因为七年级和八年级的学生是学校里年龄最大的, they are protected for a few more precious years from the social pressures typically found on a high school campus. 除了, we get to know our students very well and we do a lot of hand-holding and individual prep work to get each of our 8th graders placed in the very best high school for that student.

• 从学术角度来说，伯克利会堂有何不同?

  好吧, 一个关键的区别是我们有一个比大多数独立学校更有凝聚力的教育计划. We are in our fifth year of an initiative that we call “Depth of Study” in which our teachers meet regularly in teams to come to a clear and common understanding of exactly what a student being at “年级水平” looks like from 8th grade all the way down to 托儿所.
  
  这项工作的结果是明确的, commonly shared professional understanding of what each of our students should understand and be able to do both academically and as conscientious citizens in order to be at, 或以上, 年级水平. 我们教室的门是, 打个比方, 在伯克利礼堂开幕, which means that every teacher of a particular subject matter or within a department sees student work from other classes and 年级水平s and is collaborating with other teachers to continuously improve classroom lessons to increase student learning – across our entire system. (不再需要“传递接力棒”.”)
  
  This professional collaboration among the teachers and administrators means that there is a clear articulation throughout the whole school – from 8th grade all the way down to 托儿所 – of where each child needs to be academically and as a citizen at each point in his or her school experience in order to be fully prepared when he or she leaves us.
  
  

  这种专业的清晰度也意味着您孩子在这里的教育经历是相对无缝的, since teachers across disciplines work together to create projects and to approach core concepts in a more unified way. So, 如果一个孩子在他或她的教室里学习西扩，然后去学习艺术, 这并不是完全不同的体验. 词汇和核心概念相互交织，艺术项目与社会研究课程相结合.

• 伯克利礼堂多样化吗?

  到目前为止，BHS是洛杉矶最多元化的独立学校之一，学生比例为54%. 我们是多元的种族, 宗教, 在文化上, 低, 甚至是国际学生(约5%的学生是国际学生). 然而，伯克利堂的家庭拥有相同的基本价值观. The parents who have brought their children here did so because there is a shared vision throughout our whole school community of the importance of the core values taught at BHS – respect, 责任, 诚实, 同情. 这些核心价值观在学校有具体的教学和整合. 1-8年级, 我们每周都有聚会，讨论如何在日常生活中表达这些核心价值观.

• 谁是伯克利学院的毕业生?

  每个年级的教育最终培养出全面发展的BHS毕业生. 当我们的毕业生离开高中时，他们在学术上已经做好了充分的准备, 但它们也有良好的道德和社会基础. We consistently hear from our receiving independent high schools that our graduates are academically well prepared, 是学校社区的重要贡献者吗, 他们真的很善良, 善于辞令的人.