太仓市华顿外国语学校致力于为孩子们营建一个创造性的、鼓励性的以及思维开放性的学习环境。我们鼓励孩子们成为终身学习者，帮助他们成为植根于本土文化和传统，并能心怀世界的国际公民。我们努力将孩子们培育成为具备卓越的跨学科学术研究能力和跨文化适应能力的未来领袖。

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.

学习方式

     继承中国传统教育精髓，引入西方现代教育理念，华顿外国语学校更加注重学生学习方式的变革，这一变革主要通过建构三类课堂实现：

     生本课堂：合作  互动  建构（国家课程与部分奠基课程的学习）

     人本学堂：自主  对话  体验（部分奠基课程与发展课程的学习）

     学子讲堂：主体  多元  探究（部分发展课程与探究课程的学习）

华顿外国语学校认为：现代学校必须从注重“教师的教”，转向更加关注“学生的学”；华顿外国语学校让学生真正成为学习的主人，在自主学习中获得知识，在自主探究中形成能力，在自主发展中养成性格、情操与人格境界。

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、由知识与学业为本，到以人的全面发展为本；

    2、由追求高分进而获得较高能力，到首先培养高智能进而获得高分；

    3、由着眼知识的课程观，到以育人为核心的课程观；

    4、由仅仅以教室为课堂，到以学校为课堂；

    5、由只关注学生发展，到追求学生、教师和学校的全员全面发展。   

华顿外国语学校认为：教育是最大的行善，因为教育的核心是人，是改变人，是促成人的全面与终身发展，而不像修桥铺路更多的是方便人；因而，华顿外国语学校打破传统的学业观、知识观、分数观，以学校为课堂，由学校的发展促进人的发展，进而提升知识能力与学业水准，从而奠定终身发展之基石。

我们致力于把太仓市华顿外国语学校创建成为培育国际精英的摇篮,通往名校的桥梁;致力于将学生培养成为会做人,会做事,热爱生活,成为终身学习的精英人才。                        

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.

办学思想

    中西并重  文理兼长  全球视野   幸福成长

华顿外国语学校认为：现代教育要培育世界公民，不仅要给予学生丰厚的民族文化底蕴，还要让学生放眼全球，拥有更宽广的视野和更高的人生境界，在对多元文化的包容、理解、建构中成长为国际化的栋梁人才。

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.    

培养目标

    华顿外国语学校实施“完人教育”，具体培养目标为：

    真人：求真坦诚  坚毅乐观  高尚理想  健全人格    

    全人：高雅气质  强健体魄  广博学养  独特兴趣    

    新人：创新意识  世界眼光  高效思维  开拓精神    

华顿外国语学校认为：未来社会要求基础教育为学生的终身发展奠基。因而，华顿培养勤学好问、知识渊博、情感丰富、胸怀宽广、富有爱心的绅士、博士、斗士，成为能够担当人生责任、始终走在时代前列的人。

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

    给每一位学生一段终身受益的难忘岁月；

    给每一位学生一批人生旅途的良师益友；

    给每一位学生一种积极健康的生活方式；

    给每一位学生一条适合自身的成长路径。

华顿外国语学校认为：今天的教育是以人为本的教育，今天的学校应该是多元文化的氛围，校园内应该充满激情，学生的学习生活应该是快乐幸福的。

因而，学校的基本色调为“橙色”。橙是太阳色，寓意着“朝气、活力、激情、温暖”；

橙是富含营养的果实，寓意着“丰富、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.