Dr. Lang’s Chinese Bilingual School

A growing global economy leads to demands for bilingual talents. The arising China leads to a global craze for Chinese language learning. The American education crisis, the degrading of social morals, and the concerns of parents for the future of their children, all motivates Dr. Lang’s Chinese Bilingual School to provide a quality Chinese bilingual education starting with young children. Hence, Dr. Lang’s Chinese Bilingual School gladly upgrades its after school bilingual program into a full-day private bilingual educational service using the Accelerated Christian Education Curriculum.

Admission Requirements

We are now enrolling 5 years and older children, with no residence or nationality restrictions. Admission is based on the completion of application forms, submission of the child’s birth certificate and a current physical exam report. Each applicant must take the diagnostic tests of various subjects to determine his or her beginning level.

Educational Objectives

Using the biblical, individualized, self-instructional, mastery-based concepts of the Accelerated Christian Education as its core curriculum, and early academic immersion model for Chinese language acquisition, Dr. Lang’s Chinese Bilingual School aims to prepare your child for the world today and give him/her the bilingual tools necessary to succeed in the future.

A Chinese Bilingual Model

Dr. Lang’s Chinese Bilingual School provides a quality Chinese Bilingual Education where children can start learning Chinese a young age and are taught certain subjects such as math, art, music, and China studies, in Chinese. Two to three hours of school time each day are committed to Chinese learning. However, the purpose is not to teach new content in Chinese but to reinforce what’s already been taught to them in English while acquiring Chinese language skills.

郎艳霞双语学校

全球性的经济导致对双语人才的需求。中国经济的崛起掀起了全球汉语热。美国的教育危机，道德水准的低下，父母对孩子前途的忧虑，促使郎艳霞双语学校从原半日课后学校一跃推出以“捷速基督教育”为主科模式的全日制双语私立小学。

招生要求

全日学校招收5岁以上儿童。居住地及国籍不限。申请学生必须填写申请表，提交出生证明及健康证明。每个学生入学后须参加各科水平测试，以确定起始程度。

教育宗旨

以“捷速基督教育”的圣经为本、个体化学习、自学式、确保掌握的教学体系为主科课程大纲，以中文早教、中文授课为语言学习模式，为当今的世界及未来准备、培养德才兼备、中英双全的人才。

中英双语模式

郎艳霞双语学校提供高质量的中英双语教育，孩子可以尽早开始学习中文，除中文课外，数学、美术、音乐、社科等也将根据学生的年龄和接受能力用中文授课。每日两至三小时中文授课时间。但中文授课的主要目的并不是教授新知识，而是在理解用英文科目内容的基础上做巩固性练习，以此达到语言学习的一箭双雕的目的。

What is Accelerated Christian Education?

Although there are many choices in education today, A.C.E provides biblical principles with Scripture, academic excellence, character training, and spiritual growth. A.C.E curriculum reflects high standards and is built on a biblical foundation that will prepare your child for the world today and give him/her the tools necessary to succeed in the future.

A.C.E. was formed in 1970 not only to meet the academic needs of children but also to provide Godly character training. The result was a curriculum that helps parents and churches train young people academically and spiritually, an accelerated educational curriculum that focuses on God’s plan for each individual child to excel.

A.C.E.’s concepts are based on the following Five Basic Laws of Learning：

• A student must be at a level where he/she can perform
• He/She must have reasonable goals.
• His/Her leaning must be controlled, and he/she must be motivated.
• His/Her learning must be measurable.
• His/Her learning must be rewarded.

A.C.E. offers the following distinctives：

• It provides a foundation of Scripture, with Biblical principles, wisdom, and Godly character development.
• It stresses the God-given uniqueness of the individual and his abilities.
• It places the child at his exact academic ability level through diagnostic testing.
• It incorporates personal goal setting and character traits into the daily program.
• It teaches critical thinking skills that produce academic excellence.
• It utilizes multimedia and computer technology.
• It encourages parental involvement.

“捷速基督教育”是一种什么教育？

在当今琳琅满目的教育选择中，“捷速基督教育”以其完美的圣经教育原则、高标准的学习质量、高尚的品格情操教育，健康的精神成长而在全球教育领域独树一帜。“捷速基督教育” 课程的高标准、严要求，为当今的社会及将来的世界准备并培养品学兼优的人才。

“捷速基督教育”始于1970年，其宗旨不仅是要满足现今孩子的学习需要，而且培养其高尚的基督品性。因此而产生的课程以实现上帝为每一个孩子所设计的生活蓝图为目标，使父母及教会有效地培养出德才兼备的年轻一代。

“捷速基督教育”课程的教育理念遵循以下五个学习基本规律：

• 学生必须从其可学的水平起步。
• 学生必须有合理的目标
• 学生的学习必须要有控制、有动力。
• 学生的学习必须是可测量的。
• 学生的学习必须要得到奖励。

“捷速基督教育”有以下优点

• 使学生学到圣经经文所启示的原则、智慧，及属天品性的发展
• 强调天赐的、人人不同的个性及能力
• 通过诊断测试，每个学生能以其准确的实际能力水平开始学习
• 个人目标及品格培养体现在每日的学习日程中。
• 教授学生分析思考技能，有利于提高学习成绩
• 使用多媒体及电脑科技
• 鼓励父母对孩子学习的参与

What makes A.C.E. different from conventional schools?

1. Individualization

Individualization makes a child’s learning more effective and successful than that in a conventional schools, public or private. Compare:

A.C.E.	Conventional schools
Students · work as individuals · Learn at their own rate of learning, · Learn at their own level of performance. · Set their own goals · Learn to plan and meet goals · Learn to be responsible for their own actions · Tested when ready Results: · Slow students achieve at their own pace · Gifted students advance and accelerate	Students · are grouped by age · ignore individual’s differences in rate of learning and levels of performance · follows teacher’s lesson plans · Can’t control their own learning · tested at the same time, ready or not Results: Slow students fail Gifted students are held back.

2. Everyone achieves

A student entering the A.C.E. curriculum for the first time is given diagnostic tests to determine his precise performance level. These tests identify learning gaps. The student is then prescribed academic material to strengthen his/her specific weakness. He succeeds because he receives curriculum that meets his needs. Each child builds upon concepts he fully understands and progresses when he/she is academically prepared for the next step, his/her knowledge and skill retention improves. Mastery is foundational for future learning and leads to academic achievement.

捷速基督教育与一般学校有何不同？

1. 个体化学习理念

个体化学习使学习效果优于一般传统模式的全班一体化的教学效果。请比较：

捷速基督教育	传统模式教育
· 以个人为单位 · 按个人的速度学习。 · 按个人的水平起始 · 制定个人目标 · 学生为自己制定目标并努力达标。 · 学生为自己的行为负责 · 掌握学习内容后才考试 结果： · 慢生慢慢嚼 · 快生加速跑		· 以年龄分班 · 要求整体进度 · 课程的起始无视个人的实际水平。 · 教师预定每课计划 · 全班统一目标 · 规定统一考试时间，考试内容皆同 · 学生无法左右自己的学习 结果： · 慢生吃不了 · 快生吃不饱

2. 人人成绩优秀

开始每项科目前, 每个学生需做水平摸底测试, 诊断其对每个科目所要求各技巧的已知及未知程度. 此学生的课程安排计划则将以此而定。人人可取得优秀成绩的原因是，课程是根据每人的需要而定；每个学生在完全理解掌握每一项学习内容的基础上拾阶而进，步步登高，进而能够不断地学习并掌握新的知识和技巧。熟练的掌握是将来学习的基础，达到人人成绩优秀的理想效果。

3. Character Building Based on Biblical Principles

More important than academic success is character training that prepares students to meet challenges and opportunities in today’s world. A.C.E. embeds sixty character traits into the curriculum and presents role models who displays uphold high standards of personal character strength.

Biblical values and principle are unashamedly incorporated throughout curriculum. These time-honored values help students build a lifetime of meaningful and lasting relationships in accordance with Biblical principles.

A.C.E. Subjects and Textbooks

• Course work includes English, Math, Word Building (spelling / vocabulary), Literature, Creative Writing, Science, Social Science, Bible, Foreign Language (Spanish), Art, Music, Typing, Health, Speech and other electives.
• A.C.E. has taken the conventional textbook style and divided it into bite-sized, achievable work-texts called PACEs. Each PACE is more or less equivalent to a unit in a textbook.
• Each level consists of 12 PACEs in each subject. PACEs integrate Godly character-building lessons into the academic content and self-instructional activities are carefully designed to develop thinking skills and create mastery learning.
• Students begin their PACE work by noting their goals, the concepts they will learn, a Bible verse, and a corresponding character trait. From the beginning of each PACE, they know what is expected and they assume the responsibility for their own learning!
• Throughout the curriculum the introduction of new vocabulary words is computer controlled so that no new vocabulary is used without the student first leaning its meaning and pronunciation. Also, these words are repeated a certain number of times to ensure mastery.

3 以圣经原则为本，建立属天品性

学习优秀固然重要，但更重要的是品格教育，使学生能够迎接当今世界的挑战和时机。捷速基督教育把60个美德融入到课程中去，以人物榜样显示其所遵循的道德标准及崇高的个人品性。

圣经的价值观和原则贯穿于所有的课程。这些永久不衰的价值观念使学生终生受益，帮助他们建立一个与天相通的有意义的人生。

“捷速基督教育”课程及教材

• “捷速基督教育”课程包括数学、英文、词汇（拼写）、文学及创作、科学、社科、圣经、外语（西班牙语）、美术、音乐及打字、保健、演讲等各类选修科目。
• “捷速基督教育”采用传统课本形式，但课本被分成易懂、易学、易操作的学习册，叫做PACE。每一本PACE相当于课本的一单元。
• 每项科目的每一水平级有12本PACE。PACE把圣经的品格教育及做人原则融入各科的学习内容，自学练习活动旨在培养学生的思考能力，促使学习内容的完全掌握。
• 开始学习PACE前，学生先浏览学习目标、将要学习的概念、一句圣经经文和一个与经文相关的美德。学生自始至终都很清楚对他的要求，因而明白对所要学的内容负责。
• 整个课程中，新词汇的引进是由电脑来控制的，因此只有在学生学了新词汇的意思及字音后才会出现。另外，这些字词往往是多次重复，以保证学生能够正确掌握。

• Full-color explanations and illustrations add excitement to each lesson, and innovative learning activities reinforce the interesting text material.
• Each PACE contains Checkups, which are mini-tests covering a section of the PACE. If mastery in an area is not achieved, the Checkup will reveal that weak area. Students can then take the time necessary to review and learn those concepts before proceeding to the next.
• Upon completion of the activities and Checkups, students prepare to take the Self Test, a practice test. Here students evaluate themselves and a supervisor determines readiness for the final test. When the Self Test is successfully completed, the student turns in the PACE and take the final test the next school morning. The final test objectively measures student mastery of the material.

• 每一课彩色的解释及插图增强对孩子的吸引力；创意性的学习活动增添课本内容的趣味性。
• 每本PACE都有“检查站”，即对每部分内容的小测验。如果某部分没有掌握，“检查站”就会表明弱项。学生则可再花时间重学这些内容，直到学会，才可进行下一部分的学习。
• 完成学习活动和检查工作后，学生先准备做一个“自测题”，在此学生先做自我评估，然后由监督或辅导老师决定他是否可进行最后的考试。学生成功地完成自测题后，交上PACE，第二天早晨做终考题。终考可对所学内容的掌握程度做出准确的测量。