Our cultivates success
What is it that makes Youth Primer International Schools an environment that cultivates success? We would tell you that it is the values that we hold so strongly to and incorporate into every area of our program.
Our philosophy is that every student deserves the chance to be educated and have a chance to compete in the global economy. We want to use goodwill to overcome systemic circumstance, and provide world-class education to children who may not otherwise have a chance to get educated.
Anyone can start a school with the right paperwork and background, but a great school comes from an understanding on what it takes for students to succeed in life. Our team is made up of experts who have thrived in a variety of higher office positions. From all our experience, we have come up with four core values that we believe attribute to genuine success, and empower students to do their best and achieve their full potential.
Our core values
These are the values that we strongly believe lead to an individual’s future success. Together, our lessons and principles form the curriculum, a path to prepare a child for the world ahead of them.
Teamwork
Responsibility
Commitment
Honesty
Teamwork
All the greatest achievements in human history were made possible because of teamwork. Even an invention like the lightbulb – that was invented primarily by one person – took teams of experts to manufacture, market, and sell. That is the power of teamwork. By working together to achieve a goal, we can accomplish larger projects that we would never be able to do on our own.
There are no two people who have the same set of experiences.
These different experiences are what allow us to think about problems in different ways and find solutions that others might not be able to see. Everyone has something special and unique that they bring to a group project, and this is what makes working as a team such a powerful tool. If everyone can bring different knowledge and expertise to a project to help complete it, then there is so much more the group as a whole can accomplish.
However, the success of a team is dependent on how well everyone can work together. Being able to cooperate is a skill, it is something that needs to be taught and practiced to master. We want to be sure that students understand what it is like to work together as a team. We do this by teaching our students how to effectively communicate with others, and how to divide work to the people who are best suited for the task. We try to practice teamwork as often as we can, and make sure our students understand the value of working together.
Responsibility
Responsibility is one of the most straightforward of our core values– it is being able to get a required task done in a timely manner. But it is the simplicity of this value that often makes it misunderstood. There is so much more to responsibility than the thought of getting something done. Responsibility is additionally having the skills and knowledge that it takes to get something done in the most effective way possible.
Many students are under the impression that responsibility is getting whatever is in front of them at the moment done. This is a misconception we want our students to break. Responsibility is taking the time to look over everything that needs to be done, prioritize the things that matter the most, and find reasonable ways to get everything done as effectively as possible.
What we want our students to take away from this value is that many tasks are much easier to do than they might first appear to be. By using responsibility to look at the task as a whole and to manage it, it will be a surprisingly more conquerable task to complete. Students who plan out a project and do a little bit every day will have a much easier time than the students who wait until the last minute to do everything. Responsibility is the principle we want our students to carry with them in life, the ability to create a plan to turn mountains of work into smaller, easier hills for them to climb. What we want our students to take away from this value is that tasks are often more manageable than we may think.
Commitment
Nothing comes easily to us. It takes time, energy, and practice to become truly talented at anything. All skill and talent comes from commitment, the will to do something repeatedly until we can master it. This is the core principle behind learning. If you do something once, you have completed a task. If you do something over and over again, and work hard to make it a part of who it become a part of you. That thing is now a skill that you can then use to overcome obstacles in the future.
All our other core values can be done a few times and never make an impact. There are people who work as a team a few times because they have to, but never really learn the value of cooperation. There are people who row up and are honest only when it benefits them. And there are people who only make the effort to be responsible on rare occasions. These are values you can do without making them a part of who you are. In that case, they are not core values anymore, they are mild suggestions. Commitment is the value that ties everything together, and turns them into principles. If you can work as a team, be honest, and are responsible on a regular basis, that is when they can become lifelong skills. That can carry you to success.
Honesty
Honesty is the core principle that is most essential to having a successful learning environment. Education requires trust between the teacher and the student. A teacher needs to be assured that a student will always turn in their own work. Honesty is about maintaining the trust that a student will always put in the genuine effort to learn. Even if a student fails an assignment, it is their own work and their own mistake that we can help them learn from.
Honesty is the easiest of our core values to maintain, requiring nothing more than for our students to be transparent with us. But it is also the principle that is most easily broken and hardest to recover from. The most detrimental thing that can happen in the learning process is for this trust to be broken. While the other three principles are things that can be easily worked on, honesty is something that needs to be maintained throughout. Once the trust between the educator and the student is broken, it is lost. It will be challenging for the educator to know if the student is putting in their own work on all future assignments. This broken trust makes education impossible, which is why we put so much emphasis on honesty. We teach our students about this principal earl on, helping them understand why it is so valuable and necessary. As long as a student is honest about the work they do, they will be able to achieve as much as they can, and reach their fullest potential.