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海德教育-Jennifer老师 2024-01-09 09:45:25

2024新年寄语 | 创新的起点

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Dear Parents,

It is hard for me to imagine that we are nearly at the end of 2023! It feels like just a few days ago I was visiting my students in the U.S. and preparing to celebrate the New Year with father and sons. It really is true that time flies, especially after we have children. Looking back on the past year and all that has happened near and far, I believe that the theme of the year ahead around the world and here at home is innovation.

All we need to do is take a quick look at the news of 2023 here in China and abroad to see the incredible speed of change happening in all sectors. It is clear to see that AI is changing the way we live. It is so exciting to see what developers Demi Guo and Chen Linmeng are doing with their start-up tool: Pika and even for me the changes in ChatGPT alone have had a tremendous impact on my life personally and professionally in the last year. For many of our children, their future careers have not even been created yet. The world is changing so fast that teaching our children how to be innovators is no longer optional, it is essential.

There is a great quote from a book called Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World by Tony Wagner that I have been thinking a lot about lately as I think about how to make 2024 our most innovative year yet:

How can we learn to tolerate failure? How can we learn to experiment and take calculated risks? How can we learn to persevere (even when others are not pushing us to do so)? These are questions I think about as a mother, as an educator, and as a consultant to help my children, my students, and my colleagues to become the innovators they need to be to face a brighter and more exciting future.

Truly, I believe innovation starts with support from home. We as parents are in an ideal position to provide our children with an environment in which they can experiment, take calculated risks, and fail.

how can we create innovators?

We can begin by not taking the easiest road - by giving our children time to try, by not solving their problems for them, by not communicating on their behalf, and by not making excuses for them when they fail to meet expectations.

At Hyde Education, I start by understanding our students – and helping them to understand themselves - through the four elements of C.A.S.E. I absolutely believe that what makes us unique is our commitment to strengthening our students’ ability to communicate for themselves. I encourage every child to take responsibility for his learning by asking questions when he doesn’t understand. Taking ownership of his learning and his ultimate success is crucial because I know that confident students are successful students. My colleagues and I are there for them every step of the way not to “catch them if they fall” but to give them a hand to stand back up and try again.

I remind myself each day as I remind you today: let us not take opportunities away from our children to speak and act for themselves because by doing so we take away their opportunity to become the young people we need to change the world.

Thank you as always for your faith in Hyde Education and for your hard work as parents. Warmest wishes for a healthy and happy New Year.

Jennifer Hyde Sachs

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尊敬的家长们

您好！

难以置信，2023年即将结束！仿佛几天前我还在美国拜访我的学生，并准备与父亲和儿子们一起庆祝新年一样。的确，自从我们有了孩子，时间就飞快地流逝。回顾过去一年全球的种种变化，我相信未来一年全球的主题都是创新。

只需快速浏览一下2023年国内外的新闻，就能看到各行各业正在发生的惊人变化。显而易见，人工智能正在改变我们的生活方式。看到开发者郭文景（Demi Guo）和Chenlin Meng用她们的创业工具Pika（AI视频生成）所做的事情，甚至单单是Chat GPT在过去一年里对我的个人生活和职业生涯的巨大影响，都让我感到非常激动。对许多孩子来说，他们未来的职业甚至还没有被创造出来。在这个快速变化的世界里，教导我们的孩子如何成为创新者不再是一个选择，而是必要。

我最近一直在思考哈佛教育专家的Tony Wagner在《创造创新者：塑造将改变世界的年轻人》（Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World）一书中的一句话，思考着如何让2024年成为我们迄今为止最具创新性的一年：

“如果没有创新者必备的品质，就无法想象任何形式的创新——例如坚持不懈、愿意尝试、敢于冒计算过的风险以及忍受失败……”

孩子如何学会接受失败？如何学会尝试和冒险？如何学会坚持（即使没有人逼迫他们这么做）？作为一名母亲、教育者和顾问，我一直在思考这些问题，努力帮助我的孩子、学生和同事们成为他们需要成为的创新者，以面对一个更加光明和激动人心的未来。

我真心相信，创新从家庭支持开始。作为父母，我们处于理想的位置，为孩子们提供一个可以尝试、冒险和失败的环境。

如何培养孩子们的创新性？

我们可以从不走捷径开始——给孩子们时间尝试，不为他们解决问题，不代表他们沟通，也不为他们在未达到期望时找借口。

在海德教育，我通过C.A.S.E.四个要素，从了解我们的学生开始，再到帮助他们了解自己。我坚信海德独特之处就在于我们致力于增强学生自己的沟通能力。我鼓励每个孩子通过提问来对自己的学习负责，尤其是在他们不理解的时候。掌握自己的学习和最终成功至关重要，因为我知道自信的学生就是成功的学生。我和我的同事们会在每一步都支持他们，不是为了“在他们跌倒时接住他们”，而是帮助他们重新站起来，再次尝试。

正如我每天提醒自己，今天我也提醒您：不要剥夺孩子们为自己发声和行动的机会，因为这样做，我们就剥夺了他们成为改变世界年轻人的机会。

感谢您一如既往地信任海德教育，感谢您作为父母的辛勤工作。祝您新年快乐，阖家安康。

Jennifer Hyde Sachs