The First International Educational Forum was held on campus on April, 28^th. The guest speakers included Mr. Zou Hongyu, the General Manager of Vancouver Public Education Alliance (VPEA) and the principal of Weihai Experimental Foreign Language School, Ms. Lian Lijing, Global Career Development Facilitator, and Dr. Yu Hao, Deputy Director of IELTS test center in Melbourne as well as the Asian-Pacific region manager of Ozlinguo & Education Services Pty Ltd. Mr. Bai Fan, the principal of Luoyang No. 2 Foreign Language School and more than 200 teachers, students and parents attended this forum.

With internationalization becoming the essential trend of modern education, the demand of high-quality education resources of Chinese parents is growing rapidly. More and more parents seek to give advanced education concept and teaching style for their children. Therefore, this forum which gathered many experts and pioneers in education revolution came to the proper time and conditions. The theme of this forum was international education and education internationalization.

To start with, Mr. Bai Fan, the principal of Erwai, addressed the opening speech. He pointed out that education should absorb the advanced concepts and technology, should predict and research on social development, and should foster students’ innovation abilities. Our school has always been focusing on internationalization and opened international junior classes in 2011, and international senior high section in 2015.

Next, Mr. Zou Hongyu addressed a speech on key competence and lifelong education. What kind of people do you want your children to be? What kind of people do the children want to be? What kind of people does the education turning them to be? He led the audience to the frontier of international education by analyzing key competence of 21st century students and the attitude, abilities to be qualified international elite. Furthermore, he discussed how families, schools and teachers could do to support the students’ development in an all-around way.

The following speaker was Ms. Lian Jingli, who elaborated the reason why students choose to study in the U.S., the education system in the U.S. and the qualifications to U.S. schools. She gave answers to the most concerned questions of studying in the U.S. and the timetable of application.

As the last speaker, Dr. Yu Hao analyzed the advantage of learning English and secret method of preparing IELTS and how to get high points in this test.

In the Q&A part after these themed speeches, the speakers shared their inspiring experiences with some of the parents.