California Prep International School
(โรงเรียนนานาชาติแคลิฟอร์เนียเพรพ)
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"The New Normal"
CPIS Bulletin
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California Prep International School (CPIS) will be adding a new challenge and service component to its management. Under the CPIS wings, the new Asia Cyber International School (ACIS) will begin its operation in full capacity in August 2020 employing the same academic calendar as CPIS.
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CPIS ON-THE-SPOT Poster/Slogan Contest
To bring out the creative expression of the students, CPIS held an on-the-spot Poster/Slogan Contest last Feb. 7, 2020. Students displayed their artistic skills through an array of posters with topics about gadget addiction, smoking, and AIDS.
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CPIS Stakeholders Reaffirm Its Mission and SLOs
During the general orientation of January 13, 2020 and the Board meeting of January 2020, the CPIS stakeholders had the opportunity to review and critique the crucial foundational statements and directions of CPIS.
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Dr. Phakdee Serves as Head of Accrediting Teams
California Prep director, Dr Phakdee Mangmiwatthana, served as head of the two accrediting teams for ONESQA which stands for the Office for National Education Standards and Quality Assessment (Thailand). For two weeks, he was off campus for accreditation purposes.
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California Prep International School (CPIS) has accelerated efforts to continue its pursuit to align the school programs and overall curriculum with the WASC criteria (organization for student learning/governance; curriculum; student support; and school culture and environment) and the ONESQA Thai subject standards as well as the MOE general requirements.
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Section Levels
Kindergarten
The best balanced and child-centered education that enhances self-confidence, creativity, problem solving skills and math.
Elementary
Holistic, student-learning centered and child-centered elementary education that enhances creative imagination and builds inquisitive mindset for joyful learning.
Middle School
Balanced and practical education with most challenging e-learning delivery modality in order to sharpen the problem-solving skills and develop a well-rounded personality.
High School
Challenging and rigorous academic preparation for higher education to ensure balanced development and relative success for all students.
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'Mastery Learning' Approach
To build up the self-esteem of every child, the school employs heavily the Mastery Learning Approach with student-centered learning. Mastery learning may imply that a particular student has mastered at least 80% of the course or subject standards or strands. This calls for a tall and demanding order from the teachers in the sense that they have to be more focused. In the language of experts, we say that teachers may few well-selected materials but the students will learn more.
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Competitive Assessments
Aside from our regular internal assessments, the school has been using two external assessment tools such as the IOWA and the MAC II tests to monitor and track the student academic performance. MAC II is for the English tracking while the IOWA is for the core subjects. Through these assessments, the students learning gaps or academic weaknesses will be identified. Once the student learning gaps will be identified, the school staff will then develop remedial interventions to close the gaps.
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e-Learning Modality
Being the 1st e-learning international school in Thailand, California Prep is on the road to speed up its full e-Learning venture with its netbooks/computers, e-Textbooks, e-Resources, intranet, interactive whiteboards, iPad, and a state of the art computer curriculum. The advantages of the e-Learning modality are multifarious. Some of which are as follows: speeds up learning; allows the students to grow with their own pace; supports visual & audio learning; develops creativity via podcast & video-cast; and a native speaker once the audio icon is clicked for accent neutralization and proper pronunciation of the words.
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English Speaking Emphasis
Learning English language pretty well may mean at least 5 years of solid English immersion. Even so-called native speakers struggle with their English grades. To increase the students' English proficiency level is a felt need. Undeniably, this is one of the most challenging academic mountains to surmount. The medium of instruction in an international school is English. Hence, there is no other option as far as the "classroom language" is concerned but English-English-English. Academic survival implies a solid grasp of the English language.
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Redemptive Discipline
In implementing the broad curriculum, the school and its personnel recognize that service is the bottom line. This perspective will have a trickle-down effect on the quality and cost. Any ambitious student is welcomed. In fact, the school has generous scholarships and discounts such as follows: Worthy Students' Scholarship; Corporate Discounts (5 students and above); Government Workers' Children Discount; Student Leaders' Scholarship; and ACE Talents Scholarship.
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Self-Discipline/Values
Studies in prestigious universities around the world have consistently supported that children with good self-control and/or self-discipline tend to have far greater chances of success and better lives than those who lack self-control or miserably dysfunctional. Moreover, those kids with right values appear to be better prepared to tackle life's realities. Right values are viewed from perspective of multiculturalism where we learn to accept, respect, and tolerate any human being regardless of color, religious affiliation, status, and etc.
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Talents Development
California Prep accepts ordinary and super kids. For the super kids, the school gives all-out support in any way imaginable to help the kids reach their dreams. For the ordinary kids, our school endeavors to create an environment that brings out their best talents and potentials. By honing and developing the talents or gifts, we can transform ordinary kids to extra-ordinary citizens with better economic future.
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Drug-free Campus
Our school intends to promote cultural values of various countries from time to time such as that of the host country like its cultural celebrations and the Thai "wai". However, the school does not regret in divulging its bias such as: Strictly NO to drugs, alcohol, and smoking. Thus, students and teachers who can't comply with this entry discipline have no place in the system.
