Skills necessary for high-quality talents

2/KLOC-Five Essential Elements for High-quality Talents in the 20th Century: Oral English, Computer, Driver's License and Law! Secondly, everyone in today's society must have the basic skills! Changshu Foreign Language School was founded in 1993. At the beginning, it was an old school building with poor social reputation in Changshu. At that time, the enrollment of ordinary high schools was the lowest, and it was the last one, so it was impossible to recruit good students. When the first foreign language special student class enrolled students, there were very few applicants, and the school finally selected 80 applicants from 108 applicants. But surprisingly, 1999, all 80 students in these extra-long classes were admitted to universities, and one of them became the top science student in Suzhou College Entrance Examination, and the second in Jiangsu Province. This year, among the 80 people, 8 have obtained graduate degrees (1 person has won master's and doctoral awards from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and 7 have obtained graduate degrees from domestic universities), 2 have gone abroad, and the remaining 70 have successfully found jobs because of their outstanding foreign languages and good comprehensive quality. This achievement is not accidental. This ordinary middle school has explained everything with a series of impressive achievements: in the last three years, the admission rate of college entrance examination has reached 100%, and the admission rate of undergraduate course has exceeded 9 1%, and it has been the top scholar in high flyers for years; It is the first batch of "National Foreign Language Experimental Schools" named by the governing unit of the National Foreign Language Characteristic School and the Foreign Language Education Research Center of the National Basic Education Experimental Center; The school is now undertaking the special research (funded project) of the national tenth five-year plan project "Research on the successful mechanism and measures of running a school with foreign language characteristics", and is moving towards the first-class experimental and demonstration foreign language school in China. Today, the number of classes has increased from 1 1 to 78, and the number of foreign language characteristic classes has increased from 2 to 4 1. The number of teaching staff has increased from 40 to 400, the number of students has increased from 400 to more than 4,000, and the assets have increased from 50,000 to net assets of nearly 1 100 million yuan. Due to the quality and reputation of the school, more than 3,000 applicants signed up in the last two years, and they competed for the school through various channels. It has only been 10 years since it was founded, and it is successful in general middle school education. Why have you achieved such results? President Wang of Changshu Foreign Language School said in an interview with reporters a few days ago that adhering to the characteristics of running a school is the key to the rapid development of Changshu Foreign Language School. Students can win in the competition of going abroad, taking postgraduate entrance examination and getting employment because of the unique talent training goal of the school-"all-round development and being good at foreign languages". If a school wants to achieve leap-forward development and integrate with international education as soon as possible, it must unswervingly take the internationalization road of running schools with characteristics. If a school has no characteristics, it will have no strong vitality and no comparative advantage. But where is the vitality of running a school with characteristics? President Wang said that the unique talent training objectives, effective talent training measures and six-year consistent system are the vitality of running a school with characteristics. According to the actual situation of the school's weak foundation, short school-building time and poor students, after many investigations, studies and surveys, President Wang and the school's "elders" believe that "the single mode of cultivating pure foreign language talents in other disciplines can no longer meet the needs of educational modernization in the 2/Kloc-0 century, because the knowledge economy needs all-rounders rather than partial talents; Moreover, foreign language has long been listed as one of the three main courses in ordinary middle schools, and it is no longer the patent of foreign language schools in the fifties and sixties. Under the background of China's accession to the WTO and the acceleration of internationalization, it is imperative to cultivate high-quality world talents. " Based on this understanding, the school changed the training objectives of foreign language schools, and changed the training of "foreign language talents" to "liberal arts generalists who are good at foreign languages"; Formulated the talent training goal of "facing modernization, facing the world and facing the future"-"all-round development and being good at foreign languages"; Pay equal attention to arts and sciences, and strengthen foreign languages as an important means to achieve this goal, as a breakthrough in comprehensively implementing quality education, as a foothold for running high-quality schools from a high starting point, and as a new countermeasure for talent training in the 2 1 century. Yang shen, a graduate with average grades in the first foreign language class, is one of only two college students among primary school students. I studied Chinese in college, and now I am a Chinese teacher in Changshu No.7 Middle School and a counselor in the English interest group of the school. She told reporters that when she was in primary school, she was just a very ordinary student and never thought that she could be the best among primary school students. At the beginning, the family sent her to this school mainly because it is a foreign language school, where she can learn more foreign languages and implement a six-year system without taking the senior high school entrance examination. Taking advantage of the opportunity of not taking the senior high school entrance examination, the school vigorously develops school-based courses and organizes various practical activities, so that students can really broaden their horizons in their studies and exercise their abilities in practice. Every education link is closely linked to the highest goal of "all-round development and being good at foreign languages", actively developing non-intellectual factors and implementing the most effective measures to train talents. President Wang told reporters that the specific measures are to take foreign languages as the breakthrough point, take the small-class teaching system of foreign languages as the leading factor to drive other disciplines, let students go to teachers with problems, and supplemented by modern multimedia teaching methods to make classroom teaching reform solid, in-depth and effective; The annual foreign language festival will promote the all-round development of the second classroom activities in the whole school and help students improve their comprehensive quality. The annual English summer camp can make students' English quality have a leap. At present, the colorful literature club and the Orsay interest group in the school are also very active and fruitful. In addition, the school also offers multilingual courses and tries bilingual teaching to train students into "excellent+special" talents.