Once in my chatting with some old friends, we talked about which industry was the most complex one: one person said that going up to the sky was the most difficult and changeable thing, that was why the infinite space had attracted the heroic figures just like American iron man to rein the Falcon rocket and carry out the immigrants plan to the Mars ; another person said that dark liquid flowing in the deep stratum, beneath the mysterious and unpredictable depth of the earth was known as the longest industrial chain of the world, which supported the great majority of the world's energy resources, so the most difficult thing should be submerging and drilling to take something out from the earth; I said, the hardest thing to do was to stand upright on one's two legs between heaven and earth, to be a hero of indomitable spirit; you need not only to release the dreams and desires of human beings, but also to do it steadily, educating people, integrating academy with human nature, teaching the students in accordance of their aptitudes.

Starting from the philosophies of Taoism and Buddhism saying of "Take the potential trend, the wise way, and the best technique", for thousands of years, going through the imperial examination system in agrarian age, and the standardization system of education in the industrial revolutions, and now we are expecting the blueprint of people-oriented personalized learning in the near future, we have realized the personalized education should depend on the top drive; namely, under the horizon of digital life, the future school should help the naturally talented children to learn and stimulate their inner drive from the view of humanistic design, optimize their thinking abilities and methods of study, and train them to be internationalized talents with innovation, comprehensive qualities, sound personalities, and problem solving skills.

As a first representative of international high school featured with elite education domestically, for the idea of the game, OCAmerica HS believes that the ultimate goal of education should not be to send the students to the top universities, but to have them acquire the ability to learn and to develop independently, to be able to adapt to the society quickly, to build a professional competitiveness, or to have the ability to start a business and fight for it. If the first choice is the right idea, then the way to go should be creative thinking. OCAmerica HS has always been thinking about how to keep the ideal, and how to create more wonderful values!

In this era, disputes between value and values are everywhere, the individualized learning is not the one day view of the fresh clothes, but a new mode reconstruction and innovation centered on the continuous improvement of learning experiences, which requires more attention to the training and exercise of the students' soft strengths, so as to solve the problems of talent growth through personalized learning, and meet the demands of the society to the new generation. It is a scientific, innovative, and time-sensitive effort that is being passed on to the society by OCAAmerica HS. It is a self-learning revitalization of the basic education, which stimulates the students' new revitalizing engine, so that they can retain smiles when they are confronted with difficulties. It is difficult to completely solve the pain point of education with technology only. If giving power to the machine is the social philosophy of block chain and artificial intelligence, then giving the growing rights to the students should also be a philosophy of personalized learning. The connotation of individualized learning is far more than the current label recognition of one to one teaching method, nor a technique to do exercises for instant success and quick profits. In other developed countries, particularly in the United States, it has been a long time for the country to practice and make improvements, and now the country has its own relatively complete objectives, strategies, and processing and evaluation framework. That is, with the help of the teachers, the students can produce their own toolkit for independent development, so as to realize a fully parallel growth in knowledge storage, skill practice and talents growing.

The P21 organization, led by the Federal Education Department of the United States, has joined Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, SAP, American Education Association and other science & technology and education tycoons to publish the Framework for 21st Century Learning focusing on the ability of critical thinking and problem-solving, the ability to communicate and collaborate, and creative and innovative ability, to build the core competence combination of the students in 21st century. And so, in 2013, the great enterprise, Altschool, founded in silicon valley, was the one that took the core of this spirit in the real world; with the idea of holistic education, combined with the education revolution, the big data and the advance education technologies, the new experimental schools have gained a great deal of successful experimental and explorative experience.

Along with the coordinate system of innovation and development formed in education informationization and internationalization, the personalized education modeled with students as the center has formally come to the front, which is being carried out in two channels: one is to carry out thinking optimization and upgrading combined with the integration of interdisciplinary innovation represented by STEAM education, to make the qualities of innovative talents more comprehensive; the other is to carry out multidimensional analysis and evaluations on the students' learning process and behaviors, by using the advanced technology, mining more education data, combining adaptive feedback with the philosophy educating them according to their aptitude, to gradually achieve a personalized learning model to promote their learning abilities. On the basis of the international forefront of education theory and practice, OCAmerica HS will blend the two channels at the level of teaching strategy and implementation process, with personalized learning system as a value proposition to support the pursuit of quality, to highlight the school characteristics of STEAM idea and PBL teaching.

The parents are paying more attention to the personalized development of their children these days. In the spirit of personalized education, based on the standards of American high end education system such as WASC or AdvanceED, etc., we are creating the personalized learning system of STEAM featured education from different aspects such as the school, the curriculum, the teaching management, the faculty, the qualifications of faculty members, the teaching assessment, etc. People's ultimate social behaviors are dominated by their cognitions, and the perceptions are associated with their upbringing environment and education experience. The origin of education starts from the personal experience. The significance of growth in the new era lies in the experiences and feelings of various learning experiences.
 
The life experience is a collection of numerous choices, and the growth of the mind is the superposition of countless experiences. The modern education has long been an existence of a pan-see-through scenario, in which the students have to participate in all physical and mental training activities, giving constant feedback and experiencing deeply the process of interaction and self-initiated activities are the way of king. Adopting the essence of P21 Skills System, combining the students' career with needs of professional development, through the systematic design of learning motivation and learning process and nodes, give scientific intervention and guidance, we can strengthen their key nodes of learning effects. Let's work from some key sections such as teaching system, teaching methods, learning path, and high quality education resources supply, supplemented by the school, students and family, which will truly help the children achieve the unity of knowledge and actions, and finally improve their autonomous learning and problem-solving abilities.

In terms of teaching system, the first step is to design the curriculum from the construction of knowledge system and international synchronization, with an emphasis on the balance of knowledge structure and the cultivation of academic capabilities. In the form of academic + non-academic, compulsory + optional, course + activity, core knowledge map including international general academic courses + mainstream intensive English course (including college entrance exam tutoring) + moral and physical growth course + international college admission planning + comprehensive quality training system of other courses, we've creatively designed the three-dimensional scheme of extracurricular expansion learning content and related participation of communities organized by the School of Arts, Academy of Sciences and Business School, and with information flow and stream of consciousness as the main body, we've also established multi-dimensional experience of the detailed process , which will truly bring the training idea of “basic skills + comprehensive skills + growth potential” into reality.
 
From the perspective of teaching methods, OCAmerica HS adopts the methods that emphasize PBL teaching and inquiry learning. We not only adopt the advanced PBL teaching mode as the main curriculum, but also emphasize "learning from doing", cultivating positive learning attitude and improving creativity. Also in groups after class, the students will participate in various projects, design particular topics or problem solving plan in the fields they're interested. On the basis of active learning, they can deepen their understanding of the knowledge and apply it properly, so as to develop their keen awareness of the world, and experience the full process of transforming the knowledge into skills. At the same time, gradually change the relationship of examination community between teachers and students, into a cooperative community in learning process, and finally realize the new partnership of creative community.

From the perspective of evaluation, OCAmerica HS is not a delivery service of "College Application Only" for studying abroad. Instead, it adopts the integration of basic education and higher education academic system, pays attention to the acquisition and mastery of knowledge and skills, correctly uses the scientific and effective learning methods, with the multi-dimensional capability framework as the main body, taking into account the opening, quantitative and multiple evaluation system of knowledge, and prepares the students fully for the future college admission and career development.

In terms of the optimization of learning path of the students, through the self-development of dozens of assessment tools and dimensions such as subject potential, learning style, learning strategy, learning burnout, mental toughness, self-control, etc., and hundreds of evaluation indexes, we've carried out a comprehensive data collection and analysis. By using the known models and methods, we can interpret the psychological and behavioral characteristics of the learners, provide adaptive feedback, and conduct timely and targeted counseling and interventions according to their specific learning modes, so as to find out the key points to stimulate their intrinsic learning motivation and efficiency, and gradually accumulate the comparative advantages of their abilities while adjusting their growth targets accordingly from time to time.

High-quality education resource supply is a combination of breadth and depth, leading to our design of a number of high-quality international research projects and teaching products, such as Harvard University innovation leadership program, Stanford university research innovation project, micro overseas study program of California Golden Medal Blue-belt High Schools, American Britannica STEAM Education online resources, etc., which has truly helped the students to learn from the knowledge, to gain insight from real situations, to accelerate the process of thinking and cognition, and to acquire the deep experience to connect with the world, after all, the vision and pattern are the important words to truly survive in the future.

Through the teaching system with thinking and ability as the core, the sense of belonging and feeling of competence that the experiential learning represented by PBL learning can produce, strong sense of breakthrough and feeling of surprise and sense of ritual from the actual teaching situation with an emphasis on the optimization of personalized learning path, with all kinds of deep experiences mixed together and the capabilities continuously updating, we can realize the strong 1 + 1 > 2 crossover synergistic effect between the experiences, and can really help the students enrich and systematize the learning experience, to enable them to learn more useful knowledge and skills. This shows fully the distinct value in the design of logic and diversified ideas of OCAmerica HS, which means to gradually get out of the knowledge standardization and the simple subject teaching mode, to deepen the evolution of the core competence framework focusing on personalized learning, and to make the students success eventually and realize their dreams and inner desires.