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Cogdel Education Group International Curriculum (Humanities) 2025 Fall Teaching Seminar Successfully Concluded

Date：2025-11-19 Times：280

On November 7th, the autumn sun shone brightly over the campus of Changsha Kangli Craig School. This school, featuring high-quality international education, hosted a cross-regional educational event — the 2025 Fall Semester Cogdel Education Group International Curriculum (Humanities) Teaching Seminar.

Psychology and economics teachers from nearly 10 campuses under the group gathered together with puzzles from teaching and enthusiasm for exploration. Amidst the collision of ideas and sharing of experiences, they jointly explored solutions to break through the bottlenecks in the teaching of humanities in international curricula.

Focus on Pain Points in Humanities Teaching

In the field of international curriculum teaching, although subjects such as psychology and economics bear the important mission of cultivating students' humanistic literacy and critical thinking skills, they often face many challenges due to their status as niche subjects.

The faculty scale of humanities subjects in many international schools is relatively limited. In daily teaching and research, teachers often encounter the dilemma of lacking resources and diverse perspectives in curriculum refinement.

What's more challenging is that the curriculum systems of different campuses vary: some focus on the IB curriculum, emphasizing inquiry-based learning; some prioritize the AP curriculum, focusing on academic depth; others highlight the A-level curriculum, requiring the completeness of knowledge systems. A single campus is difficult to accurately cover the differentiated requirements of all curriculum systems, leading to the difficulty in accumulating high-quality teaching experience, which has become a major obstacle restricting the development of the subjects.

Solutions: Cross-Campus Resource Integration

Cross-campus, cross-curriculum, and even interdisciplinary teaching and research are the keys to solving these problems, and they have irreplaceable value for teachers' personal growth.

As a national education group, Cogdel Education has unique advantages in promoting cross-campus teaching and research. Its campuses are located in major cities across the country, covering multiple international curriculum systems such as IB, AP, and A-level. It can integrate high-quality resources from different campuses and gather backbone teachers in various fields, providing a strong "think tank" and resource pool for interdisciplinary teaching and research. This allows teachers to absorb nutrients for growth through communication and accelerate the improvement of their professional capabilities.

Collision of Lesson Examples and Ideas

At this seminar, economics and psychology teachers presented their lessons one after another. The classroom designs closely focused on the cultivation of core academic literacy, not only showing the teaching characteristics of various curriculum systems but also skillfully integrating interdisciplinary thinking.

In the post-class teaching and research session, teachers expressed their opinions freely around common issues in teaching — from the accurate positioning of curriculum objectives and the innovative application of teaching methods to the diverse evaluation of students' learning effects. In an open and inclusive communication atmosphere, they exchanged ideas and built consensus, enabling every participant to gain new inspirations.

Strong Support from Two Host Schools

The successful holding of this seminar was inseparable from the strong support of the host schools — Changsha Kangli Craig School and the International Department of Yali High School.

As a benchmark campus of the group in Central China, Changsha Kangli Craig School, relying on its international teaching environment and complete supporting services, strived for perfection in every detail — from the careful arrangement of the seminar venue and the debugging of multimedia equipment to the catering and accommodation arrangements for participating teachers and the coordination of student volunteers — providing solid logistical support for the seminar.

As a well-known international education institution in Hunan and even the whole country, the International Department of Yali High School has been deeply engaged in international curriculum teaching for more than ten years. This time, it contributed many valuable suggestions on the direction of teaching and research display topics, the design of seminar processes, and resource connection. Its mature teaching and research experience benefited the participating teachers a lot.

With their profound international education heritage and rich practical experience, the two schools escorted the successful holding of the seminar and further demonstrated their leadership and influence in the field of international education.

Teaching and Research Linkage Empowers the Future of Education

"No evaluation, emphasis on communication; no standard answers, only joint exploration" — this is the consistent concept of this seminar. Although the one-day seminar has ended, teachers have gained not only the improvement of teaching skills and the accumulation of high-quality resources but more importantly, self-breakthrough and growth through interdisciplinary communication, and built a bridge for cross-campus teaching and research linkage.

In the future, Cogdel Education Group will continue to give play to its resource integration advantages. By regularly holding interdisciplinary teaching and research meetings, establishing a teachers' growth community within the group, and building an online resource sharing platform, it will continuously inject teaching and research vitality into various campuses and build a growth stage for teachers. This will enable teachers of various subjects in international curricula to improve their professional literacy through the collision of ideas and resource sharing, and jointly make the cause of international education shine more brightly!