{"id":5652,"date":"2013-10-17T15:16:31","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T19:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foa.wpengine.com\/?p=5652"},"modified":"2013-10-17T15:16:31","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T19:16:31","slug":"five-oaks-academy-makes-headlines-in-the-greenville-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/news\/five-oaks-academy-makes-headlines-in-the-greenville-news","title":{"rendered":"Five Oaks Academy Makes Headlines in the Greenville News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Zhao is pictured with FOA’s Director, Kathleen Trewhella Grant and Executive Coordinator, Jessica Greer, at a reception at the Hyatt prior to his speech.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Greenville News<\/i> recently\u00a0gave Five Oaks Academy recognition of our 10th Anniversary by saying, \u201cOne Upstate school is trying to change education, and not just in the way it teaches kids inside its own walls.\u201d One of Five Oaks Academy\u2019s missions is to improve education for all children and for this reason\u00a0we\u00a0invited\u00a0Dr. Yong Zhao to the Upstate to speak to the Greenville community.\u00a0Our goal was\u00a0to open\u00a0a community-wide\u00a0dialogue\u00a0on “how” we are educating our countries children.<\/p>\n

Dr. Zhao, an internationally known scholar, writer, and speaker, has studied education globally and presents a unique cross-cultural perspective on education.\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Zhao’s\u00a0examination of educational systems worldwide has\u00a0given\u00a0him insight\u00a0into\u00a0China’s educational struggles. On his recent visit to Greenville,\u00a0he\u00a0pointed out\u00a0that by\u00a0looking at the international test scores alone you would think that\u00a0American children are significantly behind their Chinese counterparts and by these reports should not be as successful as the Chinese students. However, if you look at that data and compare it to the amount of patent applications the Chinese have applied\u00a0for\u00a0versus\u00a0the American’s patent application for the same time period, then you can start to look at the significance of testing a little differently.\u00a0Americans actually\u00a0applied for significantly more patents than the\u00a0Chinese.\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Zhao\u00a0has examined why China has failed to produce the creative and entrepreneurial talents that have been found in the\u00a0United States and if the Chinese\u00a0students being spoon\u00a0fed\u00a0material has prohibited them from\u00a0learning how to learn.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Yong Zhao held a book signing at FOA during is recent visit to the Upstate.<\/p><\/div>\n

Dr. Zhao\u00a0cautions educators\u00a0against putting so much emphasis on\u00a0standardized testing\u00a0because of the narrow focus of these tests. He believes\u00a0that the standardized tests are not an accurate indication of a child’s success. Because of their narrow focus, they lack the ability to gauge the child’s creativity and\u00a0own personal strengths.\u00a0With the introduction of technology, the jobs and the\u00a0skill sets needed to\u00a0be successful\u00a0have become very different for the 21st century work force. Technology has replaced many of the jobs that have\u00a0traditionally employed\u00a0our middle class workers. Dr. Zhao believes that “To succeed in this ever-changing world, students need to be able to think like entrepreneurs: resourcefully, flexibly, creatively, and globally.” To read more on what Dr Yong Zhao has to say, you can pick up his latest books World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students<\/i> and Catching Up or Leading the Way<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Dr. Maria Montessori was far ahead of her time when she developed the Montessori method of learning. Her astute understanding of\u00a0 how children learn aided her scientific approach to designing the materials the children use. She developed a method that allows children to authentically learn how to problem solve, use critical thinking skills\u00a0and\u00a0to\u00a0think flexibly and creatively.\u00a0 The Montessori method also has the ability to address the needs of\u00a0each individual child and\u00a0can propel a child forward in areas in which they excel while giving additional support in areas in which they are weak.\u00a0For more information on the Montessori method, please contact us for a tour of Five Oaks Academy.<\/p>\n

To read the article in the Greenville News go to http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=2013309190006&nclick_check=1<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Greenville News recently\u00a0gave Five Oaks Academy recognition of our 10th Anniversary by saying, \u201cOne Upstate school is trying to change education, and not just in the way it teaches kids inside its own walls.\u201d One of Five Oaks Academy\u2019s missions is to improve education for all children and for this reason\u00a0we\u00a0invited\u00a0Dr. Yong Zhao to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":5659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/foastatic.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}