The school adopts textbooks co-edited by the National Foreign Language School and other pronunciation and intonation textbooks. Small class teaching is implemented in foreign languages, emphasizing the cultivation of students' oral and written communication skills in foreign languages, employing foreign experts and equipped with advanced audio-visual teaching equipment. In terms of foreign language teaching method, by learning and absorbing the advantages of various foreign schools and combining with China's national conditions, the traditional translation method and pure grammar teaching method have been changed, and a set of "heuristic situational teaching method" has been formed, which focuses on training students' pronunciation and intonation and listening and speaking ability, making classroom teaching lively and effective. Besides, "read more, speak more and write more" in Chinese subjects, "card teaching method" and "discussion method teaching method" in political subjects and "role participation teaching method" recently implemented, attach importance to the cultivation of abilities such as "double basics", pay attention to calculation, logical thinking and reading reference books in science teaching, popularize audio-visual teaching, increase experimental operation and enhance practical ability, and gradually try out English classes.

The school emphasizes the cultivation of practical application ability in teaching: for example, in foreign language teaching, in addition to emphasizing the cultivation of students' ability in various practical activities, it also adopts the way of "going out, please come in". "Going out" means sending a certain number of students to Sakura Merrill Lynch College in Japan and Christian College in Hamburg, Germany for inter-school exchange every year. "Please come in" means that hundreds of students receive visiting foreign government delegations, foreign students and foreign journalists every year. The outstanding performance of the school in the large class of foreign affairs activities has won unanimous praise from relevant people at home and abroad. In order to broaden students' knowledge, the second class is set up, and the second foreign language and foreign language elective courses (such as newspaper reading, foreign literature, history, general situation of countries, etc.) are set up. ), in order to strengthen knowledge and skills training, to adapt to international exchanges. At the same time, the school has also set up various elective trees and interest groups, such as: international financial knowledge, public relations, scientific English, world customs, computer, foreign language typing; Selected readings of ancient patriotic poems, selected readings of Tang poems, lectures on a dream of red mansions, civilized etiquette classes, etc. Teach and cultivate students' various knowledge and abilities.

Deng Xiaoping Theory seminar, amateur party school, student press corps, Qingqingcao Literature Society, Model United Nations Society, Music and Drama Society, Comics Society, Computer Society, Drama Society, Film Review Group, Calligraphy Group, Sketching Group, Wind Band, Chorus, Piano Group, Food Sculpture Group, Handicraft Group, etc.

International Culture Week is held in the first semester and soul of china Week is held in the second semester. The former is a grand occasion for foreign language display, while the latter is a stage for traditional culture, and the two complement each other. Among them, the International Culture Week's "Foreign Language Short Play Performance" and soul of china's activities "Our Classics" and "Creative Change" became classics. At present, these two activities have been successfully held for more than 20 years.

Since its establishment, there have been two important activities, soul of china and International Culture Week, every year, which give students a stage to display their talents.

Through team organization, the school organizes students to carry out reading activities, and the youth league branch of high school sets up a mobile bookstore. Now, 50% of the classes have implemented this activity.

The school has set up a national foreign language school foreign language teaching and research cooperation group to exchange scientific research results through the annual meeting.

There are various forms of running a school, and an "international department" has been set up to train middle-level foreign-related talents for the international community. According to the situation that Shanghai is in urgent need of a large number of foreign language reserve talents in the reform and opening up, the school also carries out amateur foreign language teaching for children, and the total number of students is more than five times that of students at school.

The school has played a positive role in foreign language education such as "demonstration", "radiation" and "participation" for the country and society, and has made due contributions to the current reform and opening up and increasingly going global. At present, there are forty or fifty elective courses and activity courses in our school. Recently, three new student societies (comic book club, computer club and drama club) have been established. The content of the course covers a wide range, among which the developmental course is the most distinctive. Since its establishment, the school has always insisted that students must take a second foreign language from the third grade. In addition to the compulsory courses of the second foreign language, the school also offers elective courses in six languages. Those who have excellent English scores in Grade One can take "two foreign languages" (one to two classes a week), and those who have excellent English scores and "two foreign languages" can take "three foreign languages". Many students can communicate in a second foreign language in China Fair, World Middle School Games and various foreign affairs activities, and some students take the college entrance examination in a second foreign language and get high marks. This school has the largest number of foreign language schools in China. Since 2007, bilingual classes have been offered to the top 50 students in placement examinations. The bilingual class is divided into four small classes (German, French, Russian and Japanese). Different from "second foreign language", students in bilingual classes majored in small languages from the beginning (eight classes a week), and English classes had three fewer classes a week than other classes.

In order to meet the needs of the development of modern science and technology, the school has set up courses such as English for Science and Technology and English newspaper reading. The school invested 654.38+10,000 yuan to set up science interest classes, train top scientists, and strive to cultivate compound foreign language talents who are proficient in foreign languages and strong in science.

The double improvement of social and economic benefits of running a school supports and guarantees the full implementation of quality education, improves the level of running a school, expands the enrollment scale and meets the social needs; In the past three years, it has been used for disaster relief, Project Hope, subsidizing poor students, helping seriously ill students, and reducing or exempting funds for public students. Run a school through chain cooperation, export the mode of running a school, and enhance the radiation of running a school demonstration. The International Department, which is currently operating, strives to build a school-running brand in the world and occupy a place in the world education market.

The reform of school-running mechanism makes the school full of vitality, and all the undertakings of the school show an accelerated development trend. The school's self-development and initiative of running schools independently have been greatly improved, so that all the conditions needed for quality education are constantly met and guaranteed.