The difference between American high school and Chinese high school lecture style

The traditional Chinese classroom teacher s way of writing notes on the board no longer exists in the United States, not absolutely, but almost extinct. Because...

Sep 02,2021 | Frieda

The traditional Chinese classroom teacher's way of writing notes on the board no longer exists in the United States, not absolutely, but almost extinct. Because American schools are all about high technology, everything has to rely on computers. Even the teacher class notes also use the computer instead of the blackboard. There are many American high school teachers' class notes are in the form of Powerpoint (PPT) slide presentation program, even some simple drawings, as long as the computer slide projector screen just a little, will come out very standard graphics. In addition to giving lectures to students, teachers sometimes show movies in class to relax students. Whether it is related to the content of the class or not, it is used as a form of school entertainment to regulate the atmosphere of the class.

The Chinese middle school classroom is basically a lecture-style teaching, although sometimes there are some discussions or some experiments, but they do not take up much time, and the students do not participate much. The atmosphere in the classroom is more serious, and students have to stand up when answering questions, so they are more nervous. The atmosphere in American high schools is more active, with more experiments, more discussions, and students can ask all kinds of questions at will. However, the classroom density is lower and the discipline is not very good. There are objective reasons for these differences, such as the large class size in China, which is usually about 60 students, and the fact that there are usually only about 20 students in American high schools. In Chinese classrooms, tables are neatly lined up, making discussion inconvenient, while in the United States they are more randomly lined up, with some sitting around the table or around the classroom, depending on the teacher's needs, in a variety of ways, even with the teacher sometimes sitting on the lecture table.

Physics laboratory classes in China are usually like this: the students in the laboratory class pre-study in advance; during the class the teacher has to talk about the requirements of the experiment again, and then the students read the board on the blackboard and the teacher's explanation while conducting the experiment, and the teacher also gives individual instruction to students who have problems from time to time. This kind of laboratory class obviously ignores the creativity of students, students do not need to use their brains too much, as long as they follow the experimental steps on the line.

In the U.S. high school mathematics and chemistry is very focused on experiments, mathematics and chemistry class is basically based on experiments, we take the U.S. physics class in the independent experimental class as an example, we visited the physics laboratory class student participation is high, the time is two hours, respectively, made the physics of electricity problems, force problems, and an open-ended, exercise students creative thinking problems, each group of students issued two sheets of paper, a few crank pins, to see which group can use these tools to build a bridge, to see which group to build the bridge to bear the weight of the larger.