2016-06-29 | 小编:长安 | 1 |
你曾为雅思写作烦恼吗?绞尽脑汁去想如何去贴近主题,语法正确?跟小编来看下环球教育(原环球教育)南通学校老师的这篇文章吧,你觉得如何?
Education
Technology kept people connected instantly, making the world seems smaller and communicates in one language"English".
While I am putting this essay together, many wonderful memories have been revived. Looking back at my old school days in SA and UK, I am filled with an immense sense of joy and gratitude to the style of British education.
I always find myself asking,"How did I do it? What if I was in China?" I really would like to express my deepest gratitude to my parents for taking me abroad.
Throughout the years, I am often asked,"How can I help the Chinese student to learn English language naturally and efficiently?"
I would not have been able to predict what I could achieve in teaching English, but I would be the best that I could be for all my students.
What I have heard is that Chinese education is more about authority, discipline and ruthless competition.
Now class begins.
Stand up.
Good afternoon, Miss Chen.
Good afternoon everyone.
Sit down, please.
Chinese teacher has high expectations on students to reach the goal of getting A or even A+ in almost every subject. In China, the teacher's authority is absolute. But in Britain I always questioning teachers, challenging teachers in many ways.
The Chinese school day is a 12 hour marathon. When it is the time for British school students to head home to their families, the Chinese school students are having another afternoon meal before heading back to the classroom. After such a long day of lessons, students are expected to knuckle down to two hours of self-study and review what they have learned during the day. They spend most of their time and effort on study. Even if they are not at school, they are on their way to school, which means that they seldom have time for their hobbies. Their life is mostly school life.
In Britain, PE is often a chance to relax and have some fun. But Chinese schools, things are a bit different. If you can not pass PE, you can not go to good high school or a good university. Now, PE is part of the national Zhongkao exam. That's what we called ruthless competitions and Stephen Hawking wouldn't do very well too.
In Britain, what we do in PE is that we encourage students to just compete against themselves, do their best, but I think in China when you put students in a setting like a competition and they have got certain times to achieve, I think the pressure builds, they do start comparing themselves to others and that's where the tears came from.
In Chinese schools, the lessons are just teacher stand at the front saying" repeat this" which is OK, but it's not really going to enthuse. Students are mostly just given notes which they are expected to copy and memorize. Just going to absorb all the information teacher gives us, walk away and get straight As. We don't really learn by just copying off a board.
In British schools, they take a more progressive view. Kids are separated into classes of different abilities. Pupils are encouraged to ask questions and discuss their work. So we can teach to their ability. We don't tend to show them the practical methods, usually. Because for a scientist, it's all about trying to find out the method yourself and even though we give them some instructions, they still get it wrong anyway, and that's what science is all about, getting it wrong and then correcting it, and finding the way to do it.
Einstein said that, "Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school."