大咖继续陪聊国际学校认证（三）

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文章 John Royce / 翻译  龚琴 (Helen)

The visiting team produces a report, commending the school for the things it has done well and making recommendations for areas in which change and improvement is considered necessary. Much of the time, the school can reject recommendations, but if they do they must show why they reject them, why they think they do not need to follow through. The school has to respond within two years of the accreditation visit, report on what has been done since with regard to the recommendations. Some recommendations are mandatory, and accreditation may be withheld or withdrawn if they are not addressed: the school does not meet the standard in crucial areas.

认证团队会针对学校出具一份报告，表扬学校做的好的方面，并对觉得有需要改变或改进的地方提出建议。学校可以拒绝这些建议，但必须为此提供拒绝的理由，即为什么他们不需要遵循这些建议。在认证参观结束后的两年内，学校必须回应认证团队提供的建议部分，报告有哪些相关地方得到了改善。有些建议是强制性的，如果学校不予理睬，无法达到某些关键方面的标准，认证资格则有可能被扣留/否定或撤回。

There will be a follow-up visit, five years after the accreditation visit. This again is usually a two-person team. This team is checking on what has been done since the last visit and considering what might need to be done before the next visit. And then, two years before the next full visit, another team of two arrive for the preparatory visit, and the cycle continues.

随后，会有一个回访，通常在认证参观结束的五年后。和之前最初始申请认证后会有两人小组团队来参观一样，这次的回访同样通常是两人小组。他们主要看学校自从上次的认证考察后，都采取了哪些行动，并考虑在下次考察来临之前，学校是否还有额外的工作要做。在下次正式全面复审来临的两年前，又会有另外的两人小组到达，即俗称的复审阶段。这个过程不断循环往复。

Improvement is continual. no school is perfect, it can always be better, always do better.

学校的改进是一个持续的过程。没有任何学校是完美的，它永远可以变得更好，做得更好。

Accreditation is a good process for schools. It is a wonderful process for those who serve on visiting teams. Forget the glamour of travel. Those who serve on teams are typically busy from Saturday, the day they arrive, through to Friday, the day of departure. There might be time to fit in a quick tour of the city; there might not be. a typical day will be spent meeting with the committees responsible for various sections of the self-study report and visiting classrooms, talking with teachers and students and parents, looking through the documents provided by the school to support what they say they are doing, looking for evidence to support the documents. Each member of a team is likely to be responsible for chairing one section while supporting at least one and possibly two other section chairs. Each visiting team section chair is responsible for writing the team’s response to the self-study report on that section, with the support of the one or two section members. 

认证对于学校来讲是一个很好的过程，对于认证官自身来讲，也是一次绝妙的经历。旅行听起来是一件不错的事，但对认证官来讲，这与旅行观光完全沾不上边。认证官通常从他们到达学校的周六就开始忙碌起来，一直到接下来的周五，即他们离开学校的那天。偶尔也许会有那么一个短暂的空隙，成员们可以来个城市短暂游，但更多时候是没有这个时间的。认证官员们工作的典型一天是这样的：与负责自我学习的各委员小组成员会面，参观教室，与教师，学生，家长谈话，仔细阅读学校提供的报告文件，以尽可能找到支持学校在报告里所说的各种论据。每位认证官都很有可能需要主持一场针对报告中某部分的会议，并至少在报告中涉及的另一部分或两个部分协助其它认证官。主持某部分会议的认证官一般负责撰写回应学校自我学习小组对此部分报告的撰写，通常会有一位或两位其他成员协助其撰写。

Teamwork is essential, sharing relevant observations with the section members. During each day, several reports will be presented to the entire team, and there are opportunities for team members to support the statements made, or to disagree. Sometimes a section report will be accepted in the first reading, but sometimes team members so disagree that the chair will be asked to go back and find further evidence to support one view or the other. The reports presented in the first few days are especially subject to revision, since there is insufficient time to check everything in the first day or two.

团队合作是必须的，各成员需要与负责其它部分的成员们不断分享他们所观察到的事情。每天都有某些报告需要在全体认证官面前进行展示，所有成员有机会对此报告表示支持或不同意。有时有些报告在首次阅读时就能一次性通过，而有的则有可能产生争议，此时，负责该部分报告撰写的主要负责人则需要重新找寻进一步的证据以支持其观点并进行相应修改。通常最初几天报告的呈现需要不断修改，因为起初的一两天，并没有足够多的时间去保证报告的正确性。

All teams work differently. Some team chairs like to get all the team work done before the evening meal; others will have an earlier meal and reconvene after dinner. Once the team day is finished, section members may meet to discuss their reports, or retire to the team room at the hotel or to bedrooms to continue writing up their reports.

所有认证官都有不同的工作方式。有的喜欢在晚饭前将所有工作结束，有的则喜欢早点就餐，然后继续工作。一天繁忙的工作结束后，各部分报告撰写人有的会继续探讨报告内容，或回到酒店继续撰写报告。

Reports are usually discussed a second time before acceptance – and it is important that the section reports are accepted by the team. There are no individual section reports; the team is responsible for the full report. It is a grand exercise in teamwork. Team members may be complete strangers at the start of the week, but by the end they have shared a memorable experience and have become firm friends. Some team members stay in touch with each other for years afterwards.  The experience lives on.

报告一般都有至少两次的讨论，才能得到所有人的认可，这点是非常重要的。虽然报告各部分的撰写任务分摊到了各个成员身上，但报告最终呈现是以团队整体名义出具的，所有人都对报告中的任何一部分都负有责任，而非个人。 这是一次超棒的团队合作。认证开始时，所有成员可能都是完全陌生的人，但到最后，所有人不断分享各自的经验和观点，最终成为友谊深厚的朋友。有的成员会在很多年后一直保持联系，经验得以不断流传。

Serving on an accreditation team is also wonderful professional development. In addition to the experience of serving on a team, one learns so much about how other schools work. Team members almost always return to their own schools with three or four new ideas that they want to try, new ways of doing things. Given responsibility, one may be amazed by how much one can do, and be appreciated and respected for.

成为认证团队的一员同时也是一次绝佳的自我职业发展机会。除了拥有认证本身的经验外，各认证官还得以学习到其它学校是如何运作的。很多成员回到自己的学校后，很多都至少为自己学校带来三到四个新点子，新的做事情的方式等等。每个人一旦被赋予了相应的责任后，你可能会惊讶于他/她可以达成的力量，每个人都感谢并尊重你的工作。

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