That Day It Was Bring Your Parents To School Day 那一天，我帶爸媽去上學

How did parents feel when told to leave their bags, board the bus, and watch their children fumble and struggle to store them in the luggage hold themselves? “They weren’t comfortable with it at all,” said Mr. Craig Tafel, Director of Menwai Programming at Shanghai American School. “You could tell they had to physically hold themselves back from shouting out instructions or jumping in to help. It sounds like an easy exercise, but was actually incredibly difficult for them.”

當被告知“放下包，上車吧”，然后看著孩子們一晃三搖地拎起包，摸摸索索地把它們塞入行李艙里，家長此時是什么感受？上海美國學校的“門外”項目主任Craig Tafel說，“看得出來，他們一點也不自在，真的要很費才能憋回嘴邊的叮囑，忍住上前為孩子搭把手的想法。管住自己說來簡單，但是此時此刻，對作為父母的他們來說，真是一點也不容易。”

This was the first challenge waiting for the students and parents the moment they touched down in Dali, right there in the parking lot of the airport. The students (four from our Pudong campus, and four from Puxi) and their parents were on their way to an eight-day educational trip to Xizhou, Yunnan Province, as part of the school’s first ever Microcampus 5 program.

這是學生和家長在飛機著陸大理時，于機場停車場里遇到的第一個挑戰。我們的學生（四名來自浦東校區，四名來自浦西校區）和家長們前往云南喜洲參加為期八天的學習體驗之旅，這是學校的首個Microcampus 5教學項目。

An extension of SAS’s award-winning Signature Program, “Microcampus”, Microcampus 5 involves groups of fifth grade students, and their families, immersing themselves in a village in Yunnan, with an emphasis of building student independence and responsibility. “Like its predecessor, Microcampus 5 is designed through the lens of SAS’ Menwai pillars,” Mr. Tafel explained. “The pillars are: Expanding Intercultural Understanding, Working Through Challenges, Awareness of Impact, and Personal Growth.”

作為上海美國學校曾獲過獎的特色教學拓展項目，“Microcampus”項目把五年級學生及其家長進行分組，前往云南的一個村莊進行沉浸式體驗學習，旨在培養學生的獨立性和責任感。Tafel老師說道：“Microcampus 5項目是基于上海美國學校“門外”項目的基礎理念設計的，理念內容是“增進跨文化理解，在挑戰中工作，樹立影響意識，實現個人成長。”

Unlike the original Microcampus program though, parents join in on this trip – but not to act as caretakers or chaperones. “They’re there to learn and grow alongside their children,” said Mr. Tafel. As students head out to interact with experts in their host village of Xizhou, work through interesting challenges and expand their understanding of other communities, their parents take part in parents-focused exercises, designed to help them learn to parent more effectively and efficiently. “As these students learned confidence, independence and how to embrace challenges, their parents learned how to allow their children to absorb these lessons without intervening, taking over or undermining them.”

與一開始的Microcampus項目不同的是，這次家長們也參與到這趟學習體驗之旅中來，但他們可不是來照顧孩子的。Tafel老師說：“他們要和自己的孩子一起學習成長。”在學生們去和在喜洲某個村莊的專家匯合的時候，在學生們要解決許多有趣的挑戰并拓展自己對其他社區的理解的時候，家長們則要完成自己的任務，學習如何更加有效且高效地擔任家長的身份。“在學生們樹立自信心，培養獨立性，了解如何迎接挑戰的同時，家長們也學會了如何讓孩子自由學習成長，不再過分干預孩子，全盤掌控孩子，不去動搖孩子的想法。”

“It was tough for the parents in the beginning, but there was a noticeable difference by the end,” said Mr. Tafel. “The best example being when we were getting ready to head back to the airport. With no instructions from me or the teachers, the parents casually set their bags by the bus, hopped on board without a word, and left their children to take care of things. And I could see that as these children were approaching the bus, they were already mentally calculating and discussing amongst themselves what the best ways were to efficiently store these bags in the hold. The trust these parents had learned to give to their children, and the enthusiasm and eagerness the children displayed in the face of a challenge – to me, this really captured what Microcampus 5 was about.”

Tafel老師說：“一開始，這對家長來說很難，但是最后的成效顯著。最好的例子就是當我們準備返回機場的時候，我和其他老師一句話沒說，家長已經懂得把包隨便放在班車邊上，自己安安靜靜坐上車，把剩下的事情都交給孩子去做。如何才能快速有效地把包放進行李艙里呢？我看到孩子們走向班車，不但心里開始盤算，嘴上還就這個問題相互討論起來。家長學會信任孩子，孩子也在迎接挑戰的過程中展現出熱情與渴望——對我來說，這才是Microcampus 5的真正意義所在。”

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Founded in 1912, Shanghai American School (SAS) is the largest and most established international school in China. In short, it's the kind of school you wish you would've attended when you were a kid.

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