Many students told Mr. Ah Xuan in the background that after they studied abroad, they found that such a rush for quick success and quick profit had a fatal hard wound in the foreign education system.
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One test is set for life
As far as the university stage in Western countries is concerned, learning is extremely challenging and the elimination rate is very high, especially at the beginning of the language barrier, the learning pressure of students is very high, and the curriculum is also very intensive.
For example, Seneca College, a college in Toronto, has language courses divided into 5 levels, and the cost of each level is 2800 Canadian dollars, equivalent to 15000 yuan, which can be said to be very expensive.
Each level is a cycle of seven weeks, with four hours of class time per day and four hours of homework. But this can not be calculated simply by time, if you want to learn well, the energy invested is far more than this time.
Learning is a persistent process, and pre-exam surprises are not advisable.
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For example, the Ontario curriculum offered by international schools focuses more on evaluating the overall learning process of students, rather than the final learning outcome, which is different from traditional test-oriented education.
The school does not examine the test scores, but the students' daily attendance, homework completion and class participation. The Ontario curriculum attaches great importance to presentations, which require academic presentations to teachers and classmates, which are converted into components and given in the final score in combination with the test.
At Langara College, a passing grade in a language course averages 70%, and a failed exam at one level can be repeated for the first time, but the fee needs to be paid again. If you don't pass the second time, you should quit school.
Language lessons are challenging and the difficulty increases with the level. In the classroom, through a large number of academic listening training, as well as note-taking, writing thesis training, to complete the basic training of students' academic learning, in order to meet the requirements of being able to really start the study of professional courses.
Language learning
Persistence is paramount
Most people have a misunderstanding about language learning, thinking that as long as there is a good English language environment, English will naturally improve.
But this is only more applicable to kindergarten or lower grade students, and will be heard in daily learning and life. But for international students, what needs to be solved is not how to ask for directions, buy things, and other basic life sessions.
When students enter high school or college, academic learning requires a strong language foundation, the school will not be open because you are an international student, and the school's measurement standards are consistent with local children.
Each level has a bottleneck period, there will be difficulties, but as long as you enter the state, the results will improve little by little. But the words are not absolute, students can also get good scores through their own controllable links, such as homework, classroom monetization, etc. to increase the average score.
A few exams will not completely determine everyone's fate, remember the heavens to reward hard work.
Cramming education
Destruction of the "digestive system"
For local children in the West, the above learning methods begin in middle school, but basically require students to discuss, understand and eat thoroughly, which requires strong self-learning ability.
Although China's cramming teaching and exams train students' acumen in the face of standardized test questions, they also ignore the improvement of students' self-digestion ability, or lead to the degradation of students' entire "digestive system".
When Chinese students go abroad, they will find that foreign teachers talk less, assign more tasks, and arrange more than a dozen pages or even half of a book for you to read, and then complete the writing of various large and small papers. This process is the process of self-chewing, self-digestion, and self-absorption of students.
The child, who is accustomed to waiting for the teacher's standard answer, is really confused when he wants him to play freely and put forward his own point of view.
Under the training of black and white, non-right and wrong thinking and judgment mode, it is difficult to find light in various gray areas, jump out of the perspective that makes the teacher's eyes light up, and then obtain an ideal result.
Then, if the child has the ability to digest themselves, so that going abroad to study can adapt to the rhythm of Western education, attending an international school is a good choice.
Many international schools will provide accompanying guidance for children as soon as they enter school, these instructors have very sufficient experience, and have studied abroad experience, know well the things of studying abroad, and can provide children with more targeted personality guidance.
It creates an immersive language environment, which is committed to helping students improve their language performance and practical application ability while consolidating their academic foundation, so that students can become Chinese and Western talents who can better stand on the international stage.
At the same time, the teaching methods of Chinese and Western foreign teachers are also a major advantage. Chinese teachers help students adapt to the curriculum, while foreign teachers convey to students different learning styles and classroom atmospheres, and students can adapt to the open classroom in advance and integrate into it as soon as possible.