https://www.scmp.com/rss/328440/feed The Harbour School is a progressive Pre-K to G12 international school in Hong Kong with three campuses that aims to unlock the best in every student by taking a highly individual approach to teaching.  It follows a US curriculum with an emphasis on 21st century skills such as problem solving, teamwork, creativity, and innovation. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com [Sponsored Article] “Changing schools is like moving a graveyard… “ When Admiral Rickover wrote that in 1983, he was lamenting the fact that schools were already obsolete but resistant to change. Today, as Admiral Rickover observed, most teachers teach as they were taught, and most parents expect it will be so. Parents, teachers, and even children have a script that they apply to education that is based on their own childhood experience, film portrayals, and the expectations of many others... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/harbour-school/article/3003648/changing-script?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/harbour-school/article/3003648/changing-script?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Apr 2019 02:58:23 +0000 [Sponsored Article] As educators and parents, we spend a lot of time focused on our children’s academics, extracurriculars, and test results. I suspect that “What did you learn at school today?” is a much more common question than “How did you feel at school today?”, let alone something like, “What did you do to brighten someone else’s day today?”. Sadly, much less time, effort and value are given to developing empathy and related skills such as self-awareness, respect, perspective taking,... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/harbour-school/article/3003650/teaching-empathy-how?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/harbour-school/article/3003650/teaching-empathy-how?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Apr 2019 02:58:19 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Ask the average manager what they are looking for in a dream hire and the answer will likely involve traits such as resilience, flexibility, creativity, independence, the ability to collaborate - the list goes on. They want players on their teams who think for themselves, identify and tackle challenges without having to have every step of the process spelled out for them, think strategically about the organization’s needs as well as their own - people who can reflect on their... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/harbour-school/article/3003665/make-your-schooling?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/harbour-school/article/3003665/make-your-schooling?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Apr 2019 02:58:16 +0000 [Sponsored Article] I started working at The Harbour School a year and a half after it was established. I remember when it was an exclamation point (that’s putting it mildly) for people that I was perfectly happy for my children to learn in classrooms with other children who learned differently from them. Philosophically, my husband and I believed in signing our four children up for a wider range of experiences because school should mirror life. Over a decade later, I reflect on the shift in our... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/harbour-school/article/3003670/principals-conundrum?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/harbour-school/article/3003670/principals-conundrum?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 01 Apr 2019 02:58:11 +0000 [Sponsored Article] In an ideal world, all people of different ethnicity, culture, gender, language and intellectual background would be accepted, treated well and equally as individuals, and recognized for each of their contribution. For that is the ultimate goal of education. Education is not merely the pursuit of academic excellence but rather, the empowerment of people to think and to push human civilisation forward in areas of equity, equality and harmony. It is ironic then that many... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2181009/what-we-can-all-learn-each-other?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2181009/what-we-can-all-learn-each-other?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Jan 2019 01:36:49 +0000 [Sponsored Article] “Every citizen should enter the world with: A proud vision of self as a powerful life-long learner; A vibrant vision of a worthwhile life ahead; An optimistic vision of a society to be proud of and finally the skills and the ethic needed to follow these visions.” (Papert and Caperton, 1999) This information-drenched age...what is school really for? I found myself considering this question after speaking with parents of a profoundly gifted student. The child had just turned... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2181007/what-school-really?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2181007/what-school-really?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Jan 2019 01:36:44 +0000 [Sponsored Article] A popular quip across The Harbour School’s campuses is that being a student at THS is a bit like being a regular at Cheers - everybody knows your name. This reality is not only a product of being a small community with low student to teacher ratios, it is also indicative of the organization’s belief that the best educational programs engage students on an individual level. In a world where information is so readily accessible, the value proposition of brick and mortar schools... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2181001/developing-passion-and-purpose?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2181001/developing-passion-and-purpose?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Jan 2019 01:36:37 +0000 [Sponsored Article] It’s easy for us to forget how important schools are in forming character. We tend to ascribe this quality to family, to friendships, to certain “more strategic” life choices. In many countries, one simply attends the school conveniently nearby. Rare are the few who get to choose, and rarer especially are the ones who recognise the importance of culture when assessing what’s actually “good” about the place at which children spend the majority of their day. I’ve been giving... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2181000/establishing-growth-mindset-how?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2181000/establishing-growth-mindset-how?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Jan 2019 01:36:31 +0000 [Sponsored Article] As a student of literature and a high school English teacher, I have never once been asked by a university professor or one of my students to list the definitions of obscure literary devices from memory. If I am looking for a technical term long forgotten since the days of studying for Advanced Placement exams, I describe it to Google and it spits back options in seconds. Furthermore, by scrolling through the search results, I often learn a few additional terms that I had... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2170694/preparing-high-school-students?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2170694/preparing-high-school-students?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:12:22 +0000 [Sponsored Article] The story goes that Michelangelo was walking along the streets of Rome when he was approached by an admirer. “Michelangelo,” said the admirer, “your statue, David, is so beautiful! It is so perfect and awe-inspiring. What skill you must have! How do you imagine, how do you create, something as wonderful as David?” The artist stopped, and pondered for a moment. “It is easy,” he replied. “First you get a piece of marble, and you look at it very carefully, examining it from all... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2170689/finding-david?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2170689/finding-david?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:07:27 +0000 [Sponsored Article] The notion of “interdisciplinary learning” is not a novel one. It has long been acknowledged that in a real-world context the content of discrete subject areas such as History and Literature or Chemistry and Calculus necessarily collide. And one will hear many secondary school educators and administrators cite the virtues of teaching courses in which content authentically combines. For how complete can one’s analysis of Shakespeare be without cultivating an understanding of... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2170666/designing-courses-future-learning?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2170666/designing-courses-future-learning?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 31 Oct 2018 16:01:28 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Schools all over the world have been racing to include STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math) into the standard curriculum as a means to prepare students for 21st Century careers that have been increasingly more focused on technology; a response to meet this growing need of a future STEM-educated workforce. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics projected that, by the year 2020, employment in Science and Engineering occupations will grow by 18.7%, compared to... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2166329/unpacking-steam?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2166329/unpacking-steam?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Sep 2018 13:00:30 +0000 [Sponsored Article] The Harbour School is fortunate to have in its community the enthusiastic support of many like-minded families who believe in the important changes THS is making to education. Ours is a village filled with amazing students, their families and staff who understand the importance of diversity and being part of a supportive community.  As the school reached its first two major milestones last year - celebrating 10 years of providing progressive education in Hong Kong and... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2165490/5-years-ths-parent?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/topics/harbour-school/article/2165490/5-years-ths-parent?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Sep 2018 07:50:02 +0000 [Sponsored Article] By: Dr. Amoy Hugh-Pennie, PhD, BCBA-D, Director of Inclusive Education at The Harbour School When people hear the term differentiation in the context of education, they often think of it in connection to special education needs. Although this may be the case in some instances that is not the original intent. Differentiation is when academic and other forms of instruction are individualized to meet the needs of all students. In economics and marketing it is a way to... https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/harbour-school/article/2162525/meeting-every-child-where-they-are?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/harbour-school/article/2162525/meeting-every-child-where-they-are?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Sep 2018 06:01:37 +0000 [Sponsored Article] By Dr. Jadis Blurton, Founder and Head of School “Is it hard?” “Not if you have the right attitudes. It’s having the right attitudes that’s hard.” – Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance One of my favorite amusements recently has been watching people react to students at The Harbour School. There is that momentary startle, with the widening of the eyes and the slight lift of the eyebrows, then a bemused half smile, followed by a furtive glance at me with... https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/harbour-school/article/2161791/fostering-right-attitudes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/lifestyle/topics/harbour-school/article/2161791/fostering-right-attitudes?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Aug 2018 16:01:31 +0000