About Ascend
Ascend is an English Language Education Centre providing professional communication skill courses for working adults and preparatory skills courses for the IELTS test since 2004. We provide both public scheduled courses as well as private individual classes. We also provide customised training solutions for companies.
Vision, Education Mission and PRIDE Values
Our Vision
To be a Centre of Excellence for English Language Education
Our Education Mission
Inspiring our Learners to Communicate with Confidence
Our PRIDE Values @ Ascend
In Singapore, the lion city, we take PRIDE in our five shared values.
Our PRIDE Values @ Ascend
Professionalism and Respect are the founding values upon which we build our Centre’s education mission.
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Professional
Being Professional is the execution of competency and reliability. We value professionalism because we believe in doing the right thing for our learners.
R
Respectful
Being Respectful is treating others as you would like to be treated. We value respect as our success ultimately depends on the quality of our relationships with our students, staff and stakeholders
Our positive energy comes from our ability to inspire and be dynamic in what we do as educators, and this drives us towards realizing our mission and vision.
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Inspiring
Inspiring trust comes from our ability to motivate our learners to succeed and become independent learners in achieving their communication goals.
D
Dynamic
Being Dynamic is demonstrating a can-do attitude in our daily work activities and directing our learners towards achieving their communication goals.
At the apex of these four values is our fifth value of Excellence which propels our vision and mission as educators.
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Excellence
Building Excellence is the habit of continual improvement. As educators, we value excellence as we are committed to learning and to continually improving our courses and services to give our learners more choices.
Why learn at Ascend?
- Ascend teachers INSPIRE
Professionally qualified, respectful and dynamic teaching team from Canada, Ireland, Japan, the UK, the USA and Singapore. - So, you can ACQUIRE the skills
In interactive classes with a maximum of 12 students in a class where you have the time and space to learn and speak. - To communicate with CONFIDENCE
Learn to communicate with confidence at Ascend with lots of practice matched to clear learning outcomes. - & achieve SUCCEESS
This way you can become more independent in your learning
How you Acquire Skills: The Ascend Way
Your class time is divided into Lead in time, work time, share time and wrap up time
- Lead in Time is where the teacher introduces and provides you with core feature of pronunciation, vocabulary and grammar that you need in different situations. The teacher will present key points regarding a communication process using audio and visual material through demonstration and invite you to reflect and share your own experiences, focusing on similar situations you have faced when using these features in your daily life.
- Work Time is when you are reading, writing and speaking in directly applying the points you just engaged with. Cooperative problem-solving is emphasised and the teachers will conduct small group and individual conferences with you to monitor and review the acquisition and application of the skill you need.
- Share Time is when you have the opportunity to share with the rest of the class how you can use the skill just learned through mini-presentations.
- Wrap up Time is when the teacher will reflect on what has been delivered and what has been achieved and identify areas for continual improvement.
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