Senior High School: "Express Train" to the World's Best Universities
Helping every student realize their best possibilities!
Senior High School: "Express Train" to the World's Best Universities
Helping every student realize their best possibilities!
Through a highly competitive international curriculum, one-stop study abroad counseling, every Century student is empowered to realize their dream at the world's most prestigious universities; through the rich activities of the curriculum, student clubs, and a variety of process evaluation, the development of each student's core qualities is facilitated.
Curriculum Design
Highly Competitive AP Program
Twenty-first Century School is one of the first schools in China to introduce AP courses. Our school offers more than 20 AP courses for students to choose from, and the school's philosophy is to contextualize and localize this international curriculum.
Teachers will carefully create lesson plans suitable for Chinese students and school-based resources tailored to students at different levels of understanding, so that the international curriculum can really be smoothly articulated. As a College Board-authorized school, all of our AP teachers are registered with the College Board and some of them have doctoral degrees. For eight consecutive years, our students' pass rate on the AP exams has been higher than the national and global rates. As of August 2023, our school has accumulated 358 AP Scholars, 215 AP Scholars with Honor, and 367 AP Scholars with Distinction. In addition, the Senior High School Department has introduced AP Capstone, the most difficult AP course, which is a reflection of students' stronger academic ability and can add weight to the COMMON college application system for students to gain more favor with colleges.
Multi-Level, Cross-Dimensional English Program
Basic English courses include: basic English, original reading, foreign teacher's English reading, foreign teacher's English listening, foreign teacher's English writing, English speech and debate, etc. Standardized training courses include: TOEFL, IELTS, SAT, ACT, etc.
English activities include: English Song Contest, English Dubbing Contest, English Speech Contest, English Debate Contest, English Drama Festival, etc.
During the summer vacation of the first year of high school, students go to Fairmont School, a partner senior high school in the United States, for study and social practice: U.S. teachers lead students to experience the original U.S.-style classroom, students stay with local families to improve cross-cultural communication skills, and students take part in community activities to comprehensively improve their ability to use English.
Competition Coaching Program
The department actively guides students to take part in international academic activities, and they have won gold and silver medals in highly competitive international academic activities, such as the Top Gold Award in the BPHO, the Gold Award in the U.S. National Chemistry Olympiad, the Global Gold Award in the British Physics Challenge, the Top Scores Award in the American Computer Science League (top 20%), the National Gold Award in the HOSA Future Health Professionals Workshop, and the Team Silver Award in the China Thinks Big, the National Gold Award in the United States Academic Decathlon National Gold Medal, etc. After years of accumulation, the senior high school has formed a systematic competition course, covering 32 kinds of competitions in 10 disciplines, helping students achieve twice the result with half the effort and gain excellent competition results.
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Highly Competitive AP Program
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Multi-Level, Cross-Dimensional English Program
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Competition Coaching Program
Features of Course Advantages
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Teaching Design for Chinese Students
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Individually Customized, One-Stop, Multi-Dimensional, "Seamless Connection"
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Focusing on Research Ability, Incubating High-End Talents
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Teaching Design for Chinese Students
Through the analysis of students' learning situation and in-depth teaching and research, the teachers of the Senior High School Department have skillfully integrated the essence of Chinese basic education (theoretical depth of thinking) with the advantages of the international curriculum (theoretical breadth of thinking), and have developed a teaching design suitable for Chinese students.
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Individually Customized, One-Stop, Multi-Dimensional, "Seamless Connection"
The curriculum is graded and layered to constantly motivate students to challenge themselves. The Senior High School Department provides one-stop, multi-dimensional academic support based on students' individual needs so that they can improve themselves as much as possible during their precious high school years.
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Focusing on Research Ability, Incubating High-End Talents
The Senior High School Department pays great attention to the development of students' research and innovation ability. All international courses utilize PEBL teaching, which guides students to apply academics to practice, solve practical problems, and cultivate a sense of social responsibility. Students conduct research on their own, and their papers are published in national and international academic journals. The Senior High School Department's international curriculum is designed to help students achieve excellent standardized results in higher education without being trapped in a "score-based" absolutism, and to prepare for the incubation of high-end talents.
Counseling for Study Abroad
Our school has a special study abroad consulting center, consisting of more than ten professional consultants with overseas education experiences, providing free, professional "one-stop" study abroad consulting and application services for our students during the whole journey.
Student Societies
In order to cultivate the comprehensive ability of students to meet the necessary application requirements of the world's most prestigious universities, the Senior High School Department emphasizes on students' social and practical activities, so that students can improve their qualities in activities. There are nearly 70 student societies in the department, including academic (CTB Competition, Decathlon, 21CS Business Society, Econ Economics, etc.), public welfare (Legend of the Embroidery, The Walking Man, Drawing a Globe, Big Bread MBTI, etc.), and arts (Drama Society, Chinese Dance Club, Ephemeral Band, CPD Dance Club, etc.).
