国际教育的探界者——Surina校长专访

Surina女士是枫叶上海校区的国际项目负责人，自2018年起也担任集团数学教学系统协调者一职。Surina女士来自加拿大不列颠省哥伦比亚省温哥华市，她持有UBC课程和教育学硕士学位以及UBC数学学士和学士学位。此外，她也一直是枫叶世界学校课程团队的积极成员，也是ML数学课程的课程编写者。

Mrs.Surina is the International Program Principal in Maple Leaf Shanghai campus, and she is also the System Mathematics Coordinator since 2018. Mrs.Surina is from Vancouver, BC, Canada, and she holds a M.Ed. in Curriculum and Pedagogy from UBC, and B.Ed. and B.Sc. in Mathematics from UBC. She has been an active member of the Maple Leaf World School curriculum team and is a curriculum writer for the ML Math curriculum.

一位执着教育的“校长”

A principal who is committed to education

“我并没有自主的选择在枫叶学校当校长，而是枫叶给了我在领导岗位上成长和发展的前景和平台，最终带来了担任校长的机会。今年是我在枫叶工作的第七个年头，在今年成为校长之前，我担任过数学老师、课程开发员、部门主管、系统协调员、教育协调员和副校长。通过这些不同的角色和职位，我对枫叶学校以及学生和教师有了更全面的了解，这丰富了我对教育的理解，也塑造了我的一些教育信念和理念”。

 “I did not choose to be a principal at Maple Leaf. It is Maple Leaf that gives me the prospect and platform to grow and thrive in leadership, which eventually lead to the opportunity of principalship. This is my seventh year working in Maple Leaf, and before becoming a principal this year, I worked as a math teacher, a curriculum developer, a department head, a system coordinator, an educational coordinator, and a vice principal. I learned so much about the Maple Leaf school system and its students and teachers through these different roles and positions, which enriched my understanding of education and shaped some of my educational beliefs and philosophies.”

“枫叶教育集团通过开设枫叶世界学校课程，做出了勇敢的、具有前瞻性的行动。变化总是可怕的，这就是为什么人们不喜欢变化。但没有变化就没有进步，同样的逻辑也适用于课程和教育。我曾教过几年BC课程，它是一个伟大的课程，它以能力为基础，以学生为中心。然而BC课程也有一些缺点：首先，它的数学和科学课程对中国学生来说太容易了。其次，他们将许多人文课程的重点仅仅放在了BC省上。然而，随着枫叶的毕业生开始进入世界各地的大学，BC课程已经不能满足我们学生的需求。我们需要一个更加严谨的课程，并且更加关注世界，而不是某个地区。在枫叶，我们的目标是将学生培养成世界公民”。

“Maple Leaf is making a courageous and forward-thinking move by upgrading to the World School program. Changes are always scary, and this is why people don’t like changes. But with no change, there is no progress, and the same logic applies to curriculum and education. I taught the BC curriculum for a few years and it is a great curriculum, its competency based and student centered. However, the shortcomings of the BC curriculum is that for one, its Math and Science courses are too easy for Chinese students. And the second is that many of the humanities courses, such as geography, history, and social studies, they put too much focus on BC. However, as Maple Leaf graduates start to go to universities all around the world, the BC curriculum is no longer serving the needs of our students. We needed a curriculum that has more rigor, and focus more on the world instead of a particular region. In Maple Leaf, we are aiming to educate students becoming world citizens.”

A high-expectation math teacher