京领2022创新竞争力百强榜No.7 · 上海哈罗国际学校：关注个体，打造个性化教育

2022年1月18日，“京领2022中国国际学校创新竞争力百强榜”正式发布，今年是京领连续第四年发布中国国际学校系列榜单，旨在发掘一批办学上具有创新性的中国国际学校，促进中国国际学校办学理念的不断升级，推动国际化创新性人才培养。

9位来自哈佛大学、耶鲁大学、哥伦比亚大学、宾夕法尼亚大学、康奈尔大学等美国常青藤盟校、英国牛津大学、剑桥大学、美国麻省理工学院的终身正教授、院士对本年度京领榜单的发布进行致辞；

教授们表达了对京领以及京领国际学校榜单的价值、专业性和创新性的认可，并对上榜学校表示了祝贺。指出：京领国际学校榜单有利于帮助海外知名大学和学者更加了解中国国际学校。

美国哈佛、耶鲁、哥大、宾大、康奈尔教授致辞视频

英国剑桥大学、牛津大学教授、院士致辞视频

美国麻省理工学院首席科学家致辞视频

此次评估包括四个核心指标：认证竞争力、师资竞争力、社会影响力及专家评估。

在2022中国国际学校创新竞争力百强榜中

上海哈罗国际学校

位居全国第七名、上海第三名

获“4A”评级

学校凭借创新与活力，跻身行业尖端。

哈罗上海成立于2016年，是全球哈罗大家庭的一员。哈罗上海沿袭了英国哈罗公学数百年来的办学理念和特色，同时又将东西方历史、传统和文化精华完美沉淀交融。作为一所年轻的国际学校，哈罗上海有着大多数年轻学校都拥有的朝气与活力，除此之外，哈罗上海还吸收了哈罗大家庭中其他学校的优秀办学经验，并在哈罗传统价值理念的指引下勇于探索与变革，展现出了无限的创新力。

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自2019年以来，哈罗上海的3届毕业生全部被第一志愿大学录取，其中多为世界顶尖学府。诸如剑桥大学、帝国理工学院、伦敦大学学院、爱丁堡大学、英属哥伦比亚大学、香港科技大学等。毕业生们的优异成绩正是哈罗上海办学实力的最好证明，年轻的哈罗上海仅凭数年就达到了许多其他学校数十年乃至更久也未能达到的高度。但哈罗上海并未沉醉于当下所获得的赞美与荣誉，依旧在不断的探索与发展，努力跟上时代，跟紧时代，甚至超越时代！

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哈罗上海坐落于浦东北部的外高桥区域，地理位置优越，交通便利，无论乘坐汽车还是地铁，从浦东还是浦西，都能够轻松抵达。作为一所建成不久的新学校，哈罗上海为学生提供了最顶尖的教育设施，由专业人士量身打造，能满足学生在学术和课外活动中的一切需求。例如，幼儿园教室、幼儿游玩区域和公共空间都相对独立——这是上海其他国际学校所无可比拟的。而高中部和初中部则配备有最先进的教室、科学实验室、ICT（信息与通信技术）教室，艺术设计教室、学院活动室。此外，哈罗上海的体育设施更是首屈一指，双室内体育馆，可同时进行8项体育运动，还有多功能户外运动场、屋顶跑道、25米长室内游泳池，以及可提供夜间照明的足球场/橄榄球场，轻松满足学生的各项体育活动需求。

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在不断改进和优化课程方面，哈罗上海始终兼具前瞻性和创新性。哈罗上海相信课程设置的基础除了帮助学生取得优异成绩，更重要的在于传授知识。因此，哈罗上海的目标是，帮助学生不断超越，学会思考、欣赏和创造。

在教学上，哈罗上海一方面重视传统教学方法，通过技巧和教学热情将其运用于实践，但同时也相信，只有当学生积极投入思考、探索和理解时，才真正实现教学的价值，正所谓教学相长。因此，哈罗上海非常重视互动合作的教学模式，根据每一位学生的知识储备、能力和学习方式来量身设计课程。

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例如，在中文教学上，哈罗上海便采取了横向与纵向两个维度的个性化教育。横向上，为了照顾不同背景及语言水平的学生，哈罗上海根据是否以汉语为母语以及汉语水平进行分组，采取不同的中文教学模式。纵向上，不同年级的中文教学也存在较大不同：幼儿园小班到九年级的学生都必须学习中文。这些年级的学生每周会上三至四节中文课。十年级及以上，中文课为选修科目。中文为母语的学生可选择IGCSE中文（第一语言）课程，中等水平学生可选择中文（第二语言）课程，中文非母语学生可选择中文为外语课程。在十二、十三年级，学校会教授适合各种水平学生的AS Level和A Level中文。

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对于国际学校的孩子们而言，学好英语是一项必要的任务。而对于哈罗上海中的许多英语是非母语的学子而言，学好英语并非易事。对此，哈罗上海特别设立了面向英语非母语学生的语言辅导课程（EAL）。在EAL课程的帮助下，英语非母语学生能够顺利在学校学习，并融入英式校园生活。该课程致力于为学生创造宽松的环境，让他们按照自己的语言进度进行学习，并得到学术和人文关怀的支持。一旦具备了足够的语言水平并收获自信，他们就能够进入主流班级，自如地学习课程。因此，这是一款量身定制的教育，能够满足每位学生的个人需求。

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一直以来，哈罗始终怀有培养来自不同背景和潜能的学生终生的学习能力和领导力，积极奉献社会，成就精彩人生的美好愿景。在哈罗上海，为世界培育领袖力量的使命得以落实与践行。哈罗上海为学生精心规划的学习之旅，最核心的目标是培养他们的领导力潜质。每天，学生们都能接触到各类机会。无论在课堂内外，学生们都会在德、智、体和社交领域接受挑战、获得进步，哈罗上海见证他们的步步成长。

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为了给学生提供更多参与领导力与服务项目的机会，哈罗上海致力于全面培养学生的关键技能和领导能力。该项目从低年级展开，并随着学生年龄和意识的发展，逐步升级。到高中阶段，服务项目范围更广、目标更加明确，同时增加学生的主导参与。因为最终学生将会成为合格的世界公民，具备国际化视野，能清楚地认识到承诺和服务他人的价值。哈罗上海相信，具备“积极参与，奉献社会；心怀仁爱，善用才智；沟通协作，互助共进；善用创意，解决问题；公正公平，负责为先；坚毅向前，面对挑战”这六种领导力特质的人才才是未来世界最为渴求的，而哈罗上海便是致力于将学子培养成具备这些特质的人才，更好的面向未来。

校史虽短，未来仍长。对卓越的无止境的追求始终在驱使着哈罗上海不断进步。提供最优质的教育，培养最优质的的人才，为世界做出积极的改变。哈罗上海始终致力于践行这一使命，而创新也永远在路上。

京领作为高端国际化教育资源与服务平台，发布“中国国际学校创新竞争力百强榜”，从创新视角对国际学校进行研究，旨在为更多学校提供创新发展的经验与参考，助力中国国际学校进行创新实践，升级学校办学理念，助力学校国际化创新性人才培养。

京领将在2022年3月发布“2022中国国际学校竞争力排行榜”，2022年4月举办京领诺奖创新论坛——国际学校“奥斯卡颁奖典礼”，与诺奖得主、哈佛牛剑院士教授、知名国际学校校长齐聚一堂，共话创新人才培养！

On January 18th 2022, the 2022 International School Innovation Competitiveness Top 100 was officially released by KingLead. This is the 4th year that KingLead has released China International Schools Ranking Series. It aims to discover a number of innovative international schools in China, which will promote the continuous upgrading of these international schools’ educational philosophy and the cultivation of international innovative talents.

KingLead invited 9 full professors and academicians to deliver speeches on the release of this year's ranking. These scholars are from Ivy League schools including Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University, and MIT in the U.S., as well as professors from University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge in the UK.

The professors expressed their recognition of the value, professionalism and innovation of KingLead and the KingLead International Schools Rankings, and offered their congratulations to those listed schools. At the same time, they also helped well-known overseas universities and scholars to better understand Chinese international schools.

Professors at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, UPenn, and Cornell delivered speeches

Professors and academicians of the University of Cambridge and Oxford delivered speeches

Principal Research Scientist at the MIT delivered a speech

The assessment includes four indicators: International Certification Competitiveness, Faculty Competitiveness, Social Influence, and Expert Evaluation.

In 2022 China International School

Innovation Competitiveness Top 100, 

Harrow International School Shanghai

ranks 7th in China and 3rd in Shanghai,

rated as “4A”.

With innovation and dynamism, the school is at the forefront of the industry

Founded in 2016 as part of the Harrow Family of Schools, Harrow International School Shanghai is connected to 450 years of global excellence via the unique Harrow genetics which binds all schools together. A Harrow Shanghai education is based on the same ethos and identity that has characterised a Harrow education in the UK for centuries and here people will find a school where the best of Western and Eastern traditions, history and heritage are seamlessly fused. 

As a newly opened international school, Harrow Shanghai has the vibrancy that most new schools have. In addition, Harrow Shanghai has also absorbed the excellent school running experience of other schools in the Harrow family and has the courage to explore and change under the guidance of Harrow's traditional values, showing unlimited innovation.

Source: Harrow Shanghai Official Website

Since 2019, every one of pupils in Harrow Shanghai achieved the grades they needed to enter their first-choice university, with many going on to the most sought-after universities on the planet such as University of Cambridge, University College London, Imperial College London, University of Edinburgh, University of British Columbia to study demanding subjects such as Education Policy, Physics, and Computer Science.

The excellent results of the graduates are the best proof of Harrow Shanghai's school strength. In just a few years, the young Harrow Shanghai has reached heights that many other schools have not reached in decades or more. However, Harrow Shanghai is not intoxicated by the praise and honor it has received at the moment, and is still constantly exploring and developing, striving to keep up with the times and even surpass the times!

Source: Harrow Shanghai Official Website

Set in the northern part of Pudong, amidst the many and diverse facilities of the Waigaoqiao district, Harrow enjoys an enviable geographic location, with excellent accessibility, by both road and rail, from the rest of Pudong and Puxi.

Harrow offers the very best educational facilities for its pupils, purpose-built, and incorporating everything required for academic and extra-curricular excellence in 21st-century schooling. One of the great strengths of the campus is the coherence and integrity of the various schools that make up Harrow Shanghai. For instance, the Early Years classrooms, the children’s play areas and their general space, all in their own designated wing of the school, are the envy of other schools in Shanghai. 

Turning to the Senior and Prep Schools, there are state-of-the-art classrooms, science laboratories, ICT suites, and art studios. Pupils need time to relax and reflect. The sports facilities are second to none, with a double-sized sports hall accommodating eight different sports, a roof-top running track, a multi-purpose playground, a 25-meter swimming pool, and not forgetting floodlit football/rugby pitches.

In terms of health and safety, the measures taken by Harrow Shanghai are also first-class. In terms of hardware facilities, Harrow Shanghai has adopted the most effective health and safety measures, whether it is parking lots, school bus pick-up points, amusement areas, sports facilities, laboratories and studios, these meticulous designs reflect the importance of safety, and also reflect a strong humanistic care in management and service. All buses have one escort on-board to look after the children. Their pastoral care processes are carefully designed and reviewed regularly to provide support and care for all students. 

Harrow Shanghai has a designated Clinic in the school which can be accessed by students as needed for first aid treatment, and the support staff and selected academic staff all have regular first aid training. However, there is no bigger issue in Shanghai than the quality of the air we all breathe. At Harrow, they take the protection of all communities from adverse air quality very seriously indeed. They adhere very strictly to the school policies and procedures on air quality levels, and those policies reflect a very cautious, and safe, approach to activities outside the school buildings.

The school benefits from the incorporation of an effective air filtration system. This has been installed as a key feature in the overall air-conditioning system, which provides both cooling and heating to all the school. This involves a series of highly efficient filters, including the high-density filters, which extract the PM2.5 particles. The system is designed to reduce the AQI to a figure of under 30 in the school. On the other hand, Harrow Shanghai has a whole campus automatic public warning system which alerts the community whenever AQI reaches a reading of 180 or above. The School Clinic will also communicate with all staff whenever a level of 180 is reached to ensure all pupils and staff remain indoors. The entire school benefits from the air purification system so that the quality of air for all people on campus indoors is excellent. This has been modified to take into account the increased sensitivity to pollution in younger children.

Source: Harrow Shanghai Official Website

Harrow Shanghai has always been both forward-looking and innovative in its continuous improvement and optimization of its curriculum. In its curriculum development, always an on-going process, Harrow Shanghai is forward-thinking and innovative. They believe in a curriculum that has its foundations in intellectual content rather than assessment, important though that is. Harrow Shanghai aims to equip its students to think, appreciate and create while always having the opportunity to excel.

In teaching, Harrow Shanghai appreciates the value of many traditional teaching methods and employs them with skill and enthusiasm, but Harrow Shanghai also believes that lessons are best when students are actively involved in a dynamic process of thinking, discovering, and understanding things for themselves. The way students learn is just as important as the way teachers teach. Harrow Shanghai, therefore, emphasizes interactive and cooperative learning; devising lessons that draw on the different knowledge, aptitudes and learning styles of individual students.

Source: Harrow Shanghai Official Website

For example, in the teaching of Chinese, Harrow Shanghai has adopted a personalized education in both horizontal and vertical dimensions. Horizontally, students are divided into two groups based on whether or not they have native language background.

Vertically, to cater for students from various backgrounds and language levels; Mandarin at Harrow focuses on differentiation and individual progression. Mandarin is taught to all students from Pre-Nursery to Year 9. It is compulsory for students in these year levels to study the Chinese language and culture three to four times a week. From Year 10 in Upper School, Mandarin becomes an elective subject; the IGCSE First Language pathway is available to native speakers, Second Language is available to intermediate students and Mandarin Foreign Language is available to non-native speakers. AS and A-Level Chinese, suited to all language pathways are taught in Year 12 and 13.

Source: Harrow Shanghai Official Website

English Learning is a necessary task for children in international schools. For students who are not native speakers in Harrow Shanghai, learning English well is not an easy task. In response, Harrow Shanghai has set up a Language Tutoring Course (EAL) for non-native English speakers. The English as an Additional Language (EAL) Programme offers Non-native English language pupils, with little or no English, the opportunity to study in a British school and fully integrate into British school life. The programme is designed to allow students to work at their own pace of language development in a safe and supportive environment, where they receive a mixture of both academic and pastoral support. This helps enable them to access the curriculum and join mainstream classes once they have sufficient classroom language and have gained confidence. It is a bespoke education, catering to each child’s individual needs.

Source: Harrow Shanghai Official Website

Besides, Harrow Shanghai values diversity and understands that each student is unique and has different learning needs. The Learning Support Department at Harrow aims to support, through targeted and bespoke intervention, those students that have mild learning challenges and requires time-limited intervention to address specific gaps in learning to accelerate their progress.

Harrow School’s Purpose is to prepare students with diverse backgrounds and abilities for a life of learning, leadership, service and personal fulfillment. The motto: “Leadership for a better world” was also implemented and practiced in Harrow Shanghai. 

At Harrow Shanghai, cultivating and nurturing the leadership potential in every child is at the very heart of the journey we have designed for our pupils. By constantly exposing them, day by day, to opportunities which will challenge them intellectually, physically, emotionally and socially, both within and outside of the classroom, we watch them grow and flourish.

Source: Harrow Shanghai Official Website

In order to enhance leadership and service opportunities, Harrow Shanghai whole school programme develops key skills and leadership attributes. This programme begins in the Lower School, with incremental progression as pupils develop in age and awareness. In the Senior School, there is an expectation that the outreach and service programme is purposeful and increasingly pupil-led. Ultimately, pupils will be global citizens, possessing international mindedness, and a clear understanding of the value of commitment and service to others.

Harrow Shanghai believes that their pupils with six key Leadership Attributes including, contributing positively to the community, applying knowledge with compassion, solving problems collaboratively, solving problems creatively, making fair and just choices, and facing challenges with determination, which are the most desired by the future world, and Harrow Shanghai is committed to cultivating students with these qualities to face the future.

The endless pursuit of excellence has always driven Harrow Shanghai's continuous progress. Harrow Shanghai is committed to providing the highest quality education, cultivating the best quality talents, and making a positive difference for the world. Harrow Shanghai has always been committed to this mission, and innovation is always on the road.

As a high-end resource and service platform for international education, KingLead released the "China International School Innovation Competitiveness Top 100" through in-depth research of international schools from an innovative perspective, aiming to provide more schools with experience and reference for innovative development, help Chinese international schools to carry out the innovative practice, upgrade school-running concepts, and promote the cultivation of international innovative talents.

Kinglead will release the 2022  China International School Competitiveness Ranking in March. In April 2022, KingLead will hold the Nobel Prize Innovation Forum - The "Oscar Ceremony" of International Schools. Nobel Laureates, academicians and professors from Harvard University, University of Oxford, and University of Cambridge, as well as presidents of well-known international schools, will gather together to talk about the cultivation of innovative talents!