海上生明月，天涯共此时。2013年2月24日，正值元宵佳节，国际部中外教师于上午9点30分在图书馆一楼视听室举行了新学期伊始的工作定向会议。会议由国际部蒋红霞副校长主持。

   会议上，蒋校长首先向各位老师表达了浓浓的节日祝福，然后热烈欢迎了老教师的归来和新教师的加入。随后，结合学校及学部的发展思路，蒋校长就新学期的主要安排等进行了系统的介绍，并明确了新学期的工作要求。蒋校长指出，教师应不断发展、提高自己的专业技能；应坚定不移地按照学校的各项标准要求自己；应团结互助，在国际部这个团队中敞开心扉、交流分享；应积极主动，保持并提高已经达到的专业水准；更应认真负责，对学生负责，对职业负责，对自己负责。此外，有着资深教育教学经验的蒋校长还和教师们分享了一些极其有用的教学资源和教学方法，并在会后悉心解答了教师们提出的一些问题。

   本次会议提出的新学期目标规划和工作要求将成为全体教师的共识。会议圆满结束后，各位老师热情高涨，对新学期充满期待，力将开创新气象，实现新目标，创建新成果，取得新成绩！

International Department Convenes
Expatriate and Chinese Teachers Joint Meeting on February 24th, 2013

   At 9:30am on the 24th of February 2013, during the Lantern Festival, all international and some Chinese teachers of the International Department assembled in the audiovisual room on the first floor of the library to attend the new term orientation meeting organized by the school Vice Principal Jiang Hongxia.
At the meeting, Principal Jiang firstly expressed her warm wishes for the festival and welcomed both the return of old teachers and the arrival of new teachers. She then introduced the arrangements of regular workshops and demonstration classes during the coming term.

   As a member of Cambridge International Centre, Baicui has achieved great success in international education. Principal Jiang mentioned the benefits of being one of the CIE and introduced the related CIE examination arrangements in the new term. Having a long and accomplished experience in teaching herself, she shared some useful teaching resources and encouraged all the staff to develop their professional competence. Principal Jiang said, teachers should continuously develop themselves, improve their own professional abilities; should be committed and help one another, open their hearts to the whole international team and share ideas; should be autonomous and maintain professional standards.

   Furthermore, Principal Jiang emphasized teachers’ responsibilities and detailed the work requirements of the coming term. She pointed out the importance of teachers recording students’ daily performance and writing their final reports by school deadlines. She also specified the standards of daily class teaching, saying that there should be clear evidence showing teachers’ full preparation, the need for scientific and clear objectives, necessary revision and warming up and presentation of new knowledge. She stated the importance of sufficient activities to consolidate new knowledge and differentiated activities or assignments. Principal Jiang asked all the teachers to be punctual and patient, to cater to students' individual needs and to teach at various levels of student proficiency.

   After the meeting finished, all the teachers were eager to set high standards for the coming school term. Everyone is determined to accomplish new results and acquire even more brilliant achievements.