罗斯玛丽•波特女士现任英国特色学校促进会副主任。曾任英国诺丁汉贾诺格利中学校长。在她的主持下，贾诺格利中学于上世纪90年代引入了汉语课程，并开设了中心，与中国开展合作交流。她担任校长期间，与英国文化教育委员会在立陶宛、俄罗斯、莫桑比克、牙买加、南非等合作开展了多个项目。
罗斯玛丽•波特女士与中国学校的交往十分密切，多次为中国的英语教师组织英语教学研讨班，并组织英国教师访问中国。
Rosemary Potter
Associate Director of Specialist Schools and Academies Trust
Rosemary Potter is an associate Director of the Specialist Schools & Academies Trust, and works for them mostly in connection with iNet China. Before semi-retirement, she was principal at Djanogly City Academy (formerly CTC), an independent state school in Nottingham, where she introduced Mandarin language teaching in the mid 90s. Working with a Chinese business manager, she set up the East Midlands China Centre in the school, to arrange contracts and contacts for local firms.
Djanogly City Academy has IT as its specialism, and has great success with students from the deprived inner city area of Nottingham.
She has visited China many times, and has worked in many Chinese schools and universities, often delivering workshops for Chinese teachers of English in China. She also arranges study tours on behalf of the Trust for teachers and head teachers,and student placements in China.
As principal, she worked extensively with the British Council on projects in Lithuania, Russia, Jamaica, Mozambique and South Africa; however, her main interest and focus has been work in China for many years.
She is an English specialist, and also contributes to the English teaching materials for the Trust’s iNet China website; she is writing a text book for teaching English to Chinese learners.
She is married to a civil engineer, and has three children and a grandson.
[演讲提纲]
国际课程对学生及教职人员的促进作用
本演讲以Edith Rosemary Potter的亲身经历为案例，阐述了开展国际项目的有效方式和它所产生的积极意义。演讲者认为，尽管国际课程必须在本国课程标准的框架下发展，无论英国还是中国，都应积极发展国际课程，以拓宽学生和教职人员的知识及其对世界的理解和认知。
[Abstract]
The International Curriculum and How It Develops Students and Staff
This Speech will covers ways of making any curriculum international, even when the school and the education authority have to comply with a prescriptive national curriculum, as is the case in both England and China. The material will also comment, as it goes along, on the ways such an international dimension can develop the potential, and performance, of both staff and students. Educators have a responsibility to involve both the students and the staff in meaningful international projects, which enhance understanding and deepen knowledge. In particular, all schools in the West should be making links with China, and increasing understanding and the possibilities of working together for the future.
