思想碰撞，舌尖爭鋒——來領略上海浦東新區(qū)民辦宏文學校學子辯論風采 WSC Style Debate
來源：國際學校招生網
時間：2022-01-27 20:57:52
上海浦東新區(qū)民辦宏文學校作為一所IBDP候選校，致力于培養(yǎng)學生們的溝通和思考能力，拓展他們的多元化思維和理解能力。
為了實現(xiàn)這一目標，本學期我們參加了“世界學者杯”(WSC)國際比賽，這場精彩賽事將為宏文學子提供一個與來自世界各地優(yōu)秀學生交流和競爭的機會。
“世界學者杯”比賽有三大板塊，分別是：辯論、合作寫作和知識競賽。所有內容都是基于2020年的課程主題——“新世界”，該課程涵蓋了六個學科領域：科學、社會研究、文學和媒體、歷史、藝術和音樂，此外還有一個特殊領域——錯失和彌補。學生們以三人一組的形式展開課程內容的學習和競賽。
Hongwen School is an IBDP candidate school. We are keen to take every opportunity to develop students’ communication and thinking skills, while promoting awareness and understanding of different perspectives.
In pursuit towards that goal, this semester we launched the World Scholars’ Cup (WSC), a fantastic competition in which our students will have the change to connect with and compete against students from all over the world.
There are three main elements to WSC: debating, collaborative writing and quizzes. All of these are connected to a curriculum based on the 2020 theme, “A world renewed”, which covers six subject areas: Science, Social Studies, Literature and Media, History, Art and Music and a Special Area, Mistakes and Recoveries. Students work in teams of three to learn the curriculum content, and compete.
作為宏文ECA的一門課程，我們的“世界學者杯”團隊(由Charlotte Stonehouse, Gavin Ross和April Li三位老師組成)一直在幫助學生編寫學習指南，并培養(yǎng)他們在競爭中獲得成功的必要技能。
我們尤其注重公開演講技巧的培養(yǎng)，通過展開各種游戲和活動鼓勵學生表達自己的觀點，或者具有建設性地回應他人的觀點。
通過陸續(xù)組織了一些小型辯論之后，我們決定是時候給宏文的學生們提見證一次真正的WSC風格的競賽了，因此我們在宏文學校舉辦了一場英語辯論比賽。
In our ECA sessions, the WSC team (Charlotte Stonehouse, Gavin Ross and April Li) have been supporting students in compiling study guides and developing the necessary skills to succeed in the competition.
We have focused particularly on effective public speaking skills, through games and activities to encourage students to express a point of view or respond to someone else’s constructively.
After some mini debates, we decided to give our students the opportunity to practice or witness a true WSC style debate and hosted one in-house.
這場英語辯論賽在7月3日星期五舉行，辯論的主題是一個關于社會研究課題的討論：“我們相信沒有時尚的世界會更好”。
代表正方的是8年級的學生Tony Zhu、Robin Ma和7年級的Eric Dong。他們的觀點主要詮釋了時尚給世界帶來的社會問題和環(huán)境影響。
而反方代表，來自九年級的學生Butemwe Chakaba, Yoyo Zhang和Lucas Chen則認為，時尚可以作為社會的均衡器，如果沒有了時尚的存在，世界也將失去色彩和文化的調和。
Our debate took place on Friday 3rd July and was based on a Social Studies related motion: This house believes that the world would be better off without fashion.
On the affirmative side, arguing for the motion were Grade 8 students Tony Zhu and Robin Ma and Grade 7 student Eric Dong. They explained the social and environmental problems that fashion causes to the world.
On the other hand, Grade 9 students, Butemwe Chakaba, Yoyo Zhang and Lucas Chen argued for the negative side against stab motion. They maintained that the world would lack colour and culture without fashion and that fashion can act as an equalizer in society.
我們很榮幸地請到了來自上海其他雙語學校的六位評委，他們都是參加過多年“世界學者杯”比賽的前輩同學。其中包括三位剛畢業(yè)于IB的學生：
將進入杜克大學學習心理學和計算機科學的Xixi Lei、將進入圣安德魯大學學習醫(yī)學的Nisthula Rajesh、以及將進入加州伯克利學院工程系的Jennifer Chen。
另外還有三位即將進入12年級的優(yōu)秀的IB學生：Katrina Lee, Michael Cui和Yu Hong Law。
幾位評委除了對此比賽中每位辯手的個人表現(xiàn)給了認真的評價反饋之外，還就辯論賽中如何團隊協(xié)作以及如何辯證思考關鍵詞的含義等方面提供了許多積極有效的建議。
We were honoured to welcome six guest judges from other Shanghai international schools, who had all participated in World Scholars’ Cup themselves for many years. Out judge panel included three recent IB graduates:
Xixi Lei going to study Psychology and Computer Science at Duke University, Nisthula Rajesh, soon to be a Medical student at St Andrew’s University and Jennifer Chen going to University of California Berkeley College to study Engineering.
We also welcomed three high achieving mid-IB students entering Grade 12: Katrina Lee, Michael Cui and Yu Hong Law.
The judges offered insightful guidance to students. As well as individual feedback, they gave useful advice in how to plan together as a team, and to unpack the motion considering critically what the key words mean.
辯論比賽結束后，評委們與宏文的學生和家長們分享了他們在高中和IB的學習經歷。這是一個很好的機會，讓我們的學生了解到包括高中課程選擇到升學擇校要求、甚至是IB學生的作息時間等方方面面的重要信息和經驗。
After the debate we had a very informative question and answer session with the judges sharing their own high school and IB experiences with our students and parents. This was an excellent opportunity for students to get insights on matters as varied as course choices, to university requirements to the time IB students go to sleep!
最后宣布比賽結果，雖然反方獲得了大多數(shù)觀眾的支持，但根據(jù)最后的綜合評分，正方仍以微弱優(yōu)勢獲得了勝利。
然而，正如我們的一位學生評委所說，過程比結果更重要。對我們宏文學生來說，比贏得比賽更重要的是與團隊一起協(xié)作的經歷，讓我們獲得了寶貴的經驗，在興趣和特長的培養(yǎng)中不斷進步與成長。
我們非常感謝每一個參與這次活動的人，并期待在未來通過更多的WSC活動來豐富宏文學生的學習和成長經歷。
Finally the winning team of the debate was announced and this narrowly went to the affirmative team, although the negative team won the audience’s vote.
However, as one of our student judges said, it is more about the process than the result. More importantly than winning students, worked together with their teams, gained speaking and debating experience and have hopefully grown in confidence and enthusiasm as a result.
We are very grateful to everyone involved in making this event a success and look forward to enriching students’ learning through more WSC activities in the future.
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