Five Areas
Eight Disciplinary Groups
Middle School-Curriculum System
Balance and Diversity ● Exploration and Collaboration ● Conception and Context
Balance and Diversity
On base of the national standard compulsory education curriculum, the Middle School of OTIA integrates the advanced education concept of the IBMYP curriculum from the International Baccalaureate Organization to build a curriculum that includes eight big subjects of Language and Literature (Chinese subject), Language acquisition (English), mathematics, individual and society, science, physical education and health. The curriculum offers 50 electives courses covering a wide range of categories such as rugby, ice hockey, squash, kayaking, FTC Robot, orchestra, math international competition, Japanese, equestrian, nature journal, STEM creation camp and astronomy etc., and conducts an independent extended community to provide a platform for students’ academic and personality development.
Exploration and Collaboration
Teachers and students engage in academic learning through “inquiry-based” thinking and dialog in the classroom, where the process of knowledge acquisition is full of novelty rather than stereotypical mechanics; students and their peers also explore academic issues in collaboration, discussion, and mutual evaluation to promote and enhance each other, and the academic atmosphere is rigorous, lively, and speculative.
Conception and Context
In the MYP class, “understanding” occurs in a “contextual” class, where students develop a solid grasp of academic knowledge and skills that they internalize and transfer to solve real-world problems that are relevant to the outside world. Learning for use is gradually rooted in students’ hearts and becomes an internal motivation for continuous learning.