Great Power Reclamation

Chapter 1079
Ye Feng has just entered the second grade this year, both teachers and classmates have a very good impression of him, mainly because this child is very polite to everyone.

He went to a private school, the so-called aristocratic school.He is also the only person in the Ye family who goes to a noble school.It can be seen how much Meihua loves this grandson.

The various facilities in the school are of professional level.Even lunch has reached the standard of a star hotel.No way, how could the tuition fee of [-] US dollars a year reflect its superiority?
After arriving at the school, Ye Feng talked about insurance with a few close friends.As a result, the little guys didn't care, and just paid him to be the host. As for the pets?Tell him to fill in whatever he wants.

Naturally, what Ye Feng wanted was not such a result. After thinking for a while, he went to the teacher.This class is a reading class, and the teacher is drinking coffee on the podium.

Many Chinese people don’t know much about American elementary schools. They think that there are few courses in elementary schools in the United States. In fact, they are really wrong. Although it is just an elementary school, the curriculum content is very rich, and it pays attention to cultivating students’ practical creativity.

Primary schools mainly learn some basic courses, including English reading, writing and comprehension, mathematics, humanities and social sciences, science, music, art, physical education, etc.

The teacher will not stare at the students' grades, but also examine the children's participation in class, their usual practical ability and service spirit.

The biggest difference between American elementary schools and elementary schools in the system is the emphasis on reading in schools.Children are encouraged to read a lot of books of all types, including fiction, non-fiction, and biographies of famous people.

This kind of extensive reading is very helpful for children to develop critical thinking in the future, and to develop the habit of reading from an early age.

Generally, students will read a new book every week. In class, the teacher will explain the content, ask everyone's impressions and start a group discussion.

Students need to read for 20-40 minutes every day when they go home, and write their own reading reports.Persistence in reading is very helpful to improve critical thinking ability, not only improving Chinese level, but also improving thinking ability in other subjects.

American elementary schools have requirements for the types of books to be read.According to the CCSS syllabus of the Common Core State Standard, the proportion of reading categories in elementary schools is divided into half of non-story books and half of story books. As the grade increases, the proportion of non-story (popular science, information) books will increase.

Most of what they cultivate in elementary school is children's interest in reading, but as they grow older, teachers will ask students to read some less interesting documentary books, which is also a training and improvement of children's thinking.

Elementary schools have at least two writing sessions with a fixed theme every week. The teacher will spend half of the class time introducing grammar, and the other half time allowing students to create independently.

The topics of the writing course are varied and rich, which may be imaginative essays or factual essays.The teacher will not grade the students' content, but only look at their grammar, and make corrections and notes for mistakes.

Generally speaking, the first and second grades of American elementary schools focus on accumulating words. Students should learn to write fluent sentences that use punctuation marks correctly, and then practice writing in some scenes in life to lay a solid foundation. Primary school students above grade 1 need to practice writing on different questions.Including narratives, expository essays, argumentative essays, fables, poems, etc.

Mathematics in elementary schools in the United States is relatively simpler than that in China, because their elementary schools pay more attention to the cultivation of children's interests and the development of independent thinking.In addition to the regular four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, the course also includes integer fractions and decimals, weights and measures, probability and statistics.

Students need to complete homework after class, but generally the amount of homework is not large, only one page, the main function is to allow children to review and consolidate the knowledge learned today.

Their social science courses are also very rich, but they are all relatively basic courses, which guide students to find their own learning interests.

Humanities and social science courses cover American history, world history, American geography, world geography, economics, civic literacy, etc.; science courses cover earth science, life science, physical science, etc.In addition, there are some interest courses such as computer, speech and so on.

Courses such as humanities and social sciences and sciences present a spiral structure, that is, each grade will cover these courses, but as the grade increases, the knowledge will expand and become more difficult.This course learning structure allows students to learn the course content from shallow to deep, and firmly grasp the basic knowledge.

In addition to academic study, American elementary schools also arrange sports, music and fine arts.After class, students of Miguo Elementary School can participate in sports activities such as basketball, baseball, and football to enrich their after-school life.

Primary school classes do not have the concept of a class teacher. Each class has only one general subject teacher who teaches almost all courses.

This is different from the way teachers in the system teach single-subject courses.Primary school students are usually dismissed from school at 3pm, so they have plenty of time for extra-curricular activities.

Many elementary school parents in the United States will send their children to extracurricular classes, ranging from after-school tutoring to sports and art. The tutors will supervise the children to complete homework and carry out interest courses.The Chinese of the American curriculum cultivates critical thinking through extensive reading.

After reading an article, the teacher likes to leave open questions, and students will often think critically based on their own experience, rather than thinking about what the author's intention is.

The curriculum system pays more attention to students' ability to analyze and solve problems in life.Many people think that elementary school mathematics in the United States is easier than that in the system, which is actually true.

Their computing ability is indeed inferior to that of Chinese students, but they have improved their logical reasoning ability in the observation, comparison, guessing, analysis, and synthesis training they received during their studies, which is what many Chinese students lack.

In fact, there is another biggest difference in the teaching of the two countries, and that is calculation.Chinese students are not allowed to use calculators, while American students are required to take the exam.

What is the author unable to judge in this regard?Because everyone has their own point of view, but according to their logic that is:
"Since I have already researched this thing, why do I have to ask students to do calculations in writing or in their heads? Isn't that a waste of time?"

The teacher is a young girl in her 20s, very pretty.Mainly because of her easy-going personality, the children all like her very much.

Seeing Ye Feng approaching, the teacher immediately smiled and asked: "Our little cutie is here, let me guess, have you finished the puzzle?"

Ye Feng nodded. To be honest, this puzzle is a bit simple for him, and it is something that can be completed with only eyes and no brain.But he was very happy to be praised by the teacher.

"Very good, my little boy is amazing! Everyone can take a look at Ye Feng's work." The teacher raised his voice.

(End of this chapter)