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Explanation:
What is your school like? Are your classes more focused on memorization, studying and standardized testing?
Or do they emphasize exploration, independent thinking and creativity?
Is your school competitive or collaborative? Are you encouraged to learn about yourself and explore your own interests in elective classes? Do you feel under pressure to perform well in school?
In your opinion, is the way your school teaches effective? Why or why not?
In “Will the Next Steve Jobs Be From China?,” Lenora Chu writes:
The traditional Chinese approach to education is outdated. Domineering teachers discourage open questioning. An emphasis on standardized testing keeps children studying rather than exploring. Collectivism promotes conformity. External rewards are prioritized over a love of learning. Academic pressure creates undue psychological burdens.
But the Chinese leadership is intent on improving the system. “There is nothing that should remain unchanged when it comes to reform of our educational institutions,” Wang Feng, a director in the Ministry of Education’s National Research Center, told me in 2015. Government policy, along with willing administrators and teachers, is beginning to produce positive results.
The typical Chinese classroom is generally centered around the teacher, with children sitting in rows, the higher performers at the front of the classroom. The curriculums in the early years focus on math and the Chinese language, with full literacy — defined as the memorization of 3,500 distinct characters — expected in middle school.
In later years, students spend eight hours a day in school, and hours on homework or after-school test prep. (American students generally spend 90 minutes fewer in school each day and tackle eight fewer hours of homework a week than students in Shanghai, for example.)
The system is highly competitive. Of the nine million students who take the national college entrance exam, about two to three million will fail to advance into college. A focus on passing tests can kill a student’s natural interests and prevent opportunities to explore and be creative.
But the 10-year education reform plan released in 2010 declared that schools must foster a “fine environment for independent thinking.” The government is beginning to allow some schools to dictate up to 20 percent of their curriculum, according to Yang Xiaowei, a professor at East China Normal University. Some principals have chosen to introduce science- and math-based creativity classes or experiential learning projects, while one Shanghai administrator simply lets out school early a day a week to encourage kids to “explore.”
Students: Read the entire article, then tell us:
— What do you think about the Chinese leaders’ decision to reform their education system? Are they heading in the “right direction,” as the author claims? Why or why not?
— In your opinion, what kind of education system do you think is best: one that is highly competitive with a focus on academic achievement? Or one that encourages experiential learning, personality development and other nonacademic pursuits? A combination of the two? What does the evidence presented in the article show is best?
— If you were to design your own school, how would you structure the learning environment? Would it look more like the former Chinese education system or the American one? Would it be a mix of both, or something else entirely? Why would you format it this way?
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