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China Middle School Students Attending Extra English Lessons Surprised By Western Visitor.
Middle schools with different teaching styles appear to encourage middle school students to attend extra lessons for additional tuition in English and in Mathematics, at least that is what we found during visits. The classrooms we visited in three different middle schools all had students showing an interest in the lessons being given by the teachers, to whom they showed a great deal of respect.
Whatever teaching styles were being followed in these middle schools surely contributed to the relationship between the teachers and the students. In one school in particular, this relationship of respect and friendliness was clearly evident even between the pupils and the Headmistress of the middle school. In such an environment, school time for both the teaching staff and the students, is not fraught with stress nor frustration, so the Chinese schools benefit and provide the service for which they were intended.
A student attends school, primary school, middle school, or high school, to learn during a time of physical development,
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and for the student, these early years of learning should be happy ones, whichever teaching methods are applied.
If we ask ourselves from which teachers in the middle schools we attended did we learn the most, we are more likely than not to say they were the teachers who made the lessons interesting, and the teachers for whom we had a great deal of respect.
One maths teacher had a reputation for having a bad temper, bawling his head off, and rushing through the term's syllabus, irrespective of whether or not any of the students had understood what he was talking about, or had learnt anything during the lesson period. Half way through the term he would have a raging fit, with dusters, books, satchels, football boots, or anything else he could lay his hands upon, being thrown at the students, with the comments that they were all stupid and ignorant, and that they would have to re-start the term's syllabus from the beginning again!
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Different Teachers Get Different Results And Respect From Students.
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When this particular middle school teacher had to prepare the school pupils assembled in the school hall at the beginning of the schoolday, to be addressed by the head master, there was always chaos. His attitude towards the students was one of iron-fisted control, 'Do as I say, NOW!', which achieved little attention and little respect. Another english teacher, when he was on morning assembly duty, would simply walk to the front of
the stage and just look
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around at all the assembled students, without saying a word. There was a calmness about his attitude to the students, and they held him in high respect. Within a few minutes of him standing at the front of the stage, the assembly hall would be quiet and peaceful, ready for the entrance of the headmaster. If there is trouble and strife in a school classroom, who is to blame?
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Students In China Middle Schools Attend Extra English And Mathematics Lessons In Summer.
Middle School Students Get Lesson Break During Visit Of Westerner.
For more information about schools, you may wish to use the 'Wikipedia' link below.
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School sizes and structures:
The size and scope of schools varies depending on the resources and goals of the communities that provide for them. A school might be simply an outdoor meeting spot where one teacher comes to instruct a few students, or, alternatively, a large campus consisting of hundreds of buildings and tens of thousands of students and educators. The basic unit of a school building is the classroom, where the act of instruction takes place. Every school will use space in a different way depending upon the design of the building and the needs of the school and the children.
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