It's not strange for me to talk about this topic as a teacher alomst 19 years.
First of all，I'd like to introduce the school educational system in China.
In China, children begin to go to school at the age of seven. It takes six years for them to finish elementary school. In this stage, they are taught basic knowledge in Chinese language(Mandarin) and science, english, mathematics, arts, P.E., music, which lays the foundation for their further education. The students frequently are asked for taking some examinations. The pressure of learning for students will be gradually revealed.
After elementary school, they go to junior middle school. It lasts for three years, during which the children learn all of all and chysics and chemistry. The Students compete in learning more and more intensely, the entire educational environment which schools and parents are excessive pursuit of scores.
When the junior middle school education comes to end, the students are screened by exams in two ways. those who expect to go to university or college may choose to enter high school and those who want to work attend professional secondary schools, The high school education takes 3 years and the professional secondary school takes 2 to 3 years.
The high school graduates have to take all kinds of intensive competitive exams before they enter university or college. The education in university or college lasts 4 to 6 years for a bachelor degree after the students finished four year course and passed the defense of thier theses. The students have another two years of study and research work for master degree, and are given their degree after the defense of their theses related their professional major.
Education is compulsory during elementary school to high school for nine years. Such is the education system in schools of China.
Therefore, I think most Chinese students are in the context of China under examination-oriented education, are also experiencing some positive or negative impact of this education system. I once said ,whether you admit, if you are Chinese, then your bones and blood will certainly be filled with strong traditional Chinese culture for thousands of years and the various effects of China's exam-oriented education, whether this influence is good or bad, positive or negative, at least, this effect is deeply carved in our bones, It is difficult to change in our life.
Indeed, EQ is more important than IQ. Under the influence of Chinese traditional test mode, the appreciation of education and learning inspiration of Chinese students have long time been ignored, leading to overall quality of students towards poor.
With the majority of students in Canada comparison, Chinese students skills, communication skills and teamwork relative lack of some, this is due to the different cultural background and education system caused.
The students' ability and potential have been greatly restricted under the exam-oriented education for a long time, they can't give the rein to their imagination and creation. The students have no idea how to study independent and how to think independently, and others how to make most effectively communicate .The school's style of study is relatively impulsive, boring, students widespread rebellion.
Most teachers methods are aged, these are the lack of interaction and rapport style indoctrination communicable way between teachers and students, and the lack of practical operation and teamwork. As teaching knowledge of aging, especially compulsory education, teaching contents and form of the current politics and policy are separated lacking of thinking to guide and discuss how can they learn from innovative and comprehensive utilization.
Most teachers just have an only single professional field of knowledge reserves obviously, they can't qualify with comprehensive skills and creative mind, rather than teachers will teach multiple contents not only single subject. Single field knowledge directly limits the mastery of classroom teaching as well as interesting and interdisciplinary, and in this single field of teaching, its teachers the depth of research and teaching depth of knowledge is not very high, a direct result of difficult to improve the overall quality of students. The interest of teaching is very low. It is difficult to apply their knowledge among the various disciplines, and gradually formed a kind of vicious circle. So, This is the reason why I have been willing to put my all enthusiasm into my 19 years teaching career to explore intensively a unique teaching style with more artistic and innovative comprehensive teaching methods, I really eager to devote myself to study effective teaching ways to improve students' interest of learning, and to make my efforts in this obsessive teaching career.
By contrast, I have ever asked some students came from China about what feeling do they have after comparing, Most students are used to a very noisy classroom in Canada. Compared with this,the atmosphere of Chinese school classroom is dull in some students opinion. Although most students in North America are out of control, noisy, but they learned something creatively from school much more than in Chines schools .
Chinese students under examination-oriented education system have to recite all day and do more exercises every day. Their entire education pattern is to remember everything and they try their best to appear them in the entrance examination of universities or colleges. This is understandable,because Chinese public school and university admissions totally focus on scores. And students who want to enter the top schools have to face the drastic competition .
In fact, Chinese students' homework with demandingis more than all North American students' . The situation in cities is particularly more serious than the country's. The pressure on students is higher than most of North America students exceeding imagination. My niece in China has to finish all kinds of homeworks till 2:00am even later almost everyday although she just is 14 years old. thus, she is always in sickly condition at such young age.
Moreover, the students in North America concern about discussion thinking on the lessons and topics related society , but the homework of Chinese students looks like boring and overly constrained.
The teacher in Canada encourage the students try to increase extracurricular reading history or other books to broaden their outlook, but classes in China are aimed at students within the least possible time to instill as much knowledge as entirely to prepare for entrance exams. Lack of opportunities for students to discuss and digest what they have learned, and even fewer students participate in extracurricular political discussion. The students in Canada are seen as being an integral part of education policy-making and careful consideration, the Chinese high school students almost no experience for this aspect. China's school has many strengths, but they do not train politician philosopher.
To a foreigner's point of view China's education is probably the most fair enough. "Their whole education is something to remember everything possible to appear in the exam." This is a Chinese American students in chinese educational sentence summary. We can see the text on the screen. For North America students, the Chinese education is old-fashioned, empty, meticulous, just to prepare for the exam and how to get more scores. Some students from China I surveyed thought that China's classroom is always so boring, so they took the class as an example Well, really very few people raise their hands to speak. In contrast, the North America classroom, may not be disciplined at all, of course, there is no need discipline members of the bar. But the kind of activity that can not be reflected on the Chinese classroom. Even the open class, is also false to scary. Some teachers almost arranged in advance, the students merely reporting on performance only. Well, get on. Oriented education, in the end what kind of a system do?
In summary, How effective this topic to explore, in a way, it is very necessary. but the education system is a very serious, very complex and difficult to explore the topic with consistency, because under this topic, too many chinese students are so frustration and helplessness like my own niece, this is no longer a simple category system, and more of our lives have become a deep-rooted culture, culture is difficult to change. But today, Chinese education has been trying to reform and develop although it is still in a difficult stage that there are many problems and disadvantages. I recalled the Prime Minister of China Wen Jiabao said such words," the Chinese national needs to have some people who often look up at the starry sky, they can think and struggle more for the country, for the future of our nation. " Due to Occupational habit, I attentioned that he also said that " If the education will not be universalized and improved, the state can not be strong." I plan to say that education is still far away from perfect aim combining the most comprehensive and most scientific factors regardless in the eastern or western world. So we still have a long way to go although this path with full of difficulties and handicaps in human educationcal history. I expect that education can be greater achievements to let the children benefit from it through lifetime. I also wish the essence of human knowledge and wisdom can be passed down from generation to generation.
Although I'm just an ordinary educator, I can't make significant contribution to this whole world except children I love, but I would also like to sincerely appeal to that "The education needs such as people who often look up at the starry sky."
Looking up at the starlit sky, God has given us, not just bright eyes like twinkle stars , there is that persist in eternal fervent heart.
Chinese calligraphy means:Looking up at the starlit sky
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