In many people's eyes, American education focuses on training students' ability, process and methods of emphasizing teaching, sometimes a lecture is very simple, but will spend lots of time after class learning; teachers and students do not attach much importance to achievement, happy learning is very important, the scores are extremely weak in the part of school life. At present, China's education in the exam, compulsory education phase of the school has not organized a large range of tests, and prohibit the ranking of schools or students. Recently, I learned from the different perspectives that American education was paying attention to grades in the study of John Glenn school in the desert School District of the California river.
School responsibility report pays attention to achievement
Turning to the John Glenn school responsibility report, packed data tells us that in the United States, exams and grades are important, whether it's school or student. Each year, students must take part in the examination of the unified organization of the States, and the States will rank and analyze the results of each school. Comparison and ranking system is very complex, reflecting the quality of school teaching from various aspects, such as the school and the state average, school and district, and three years before the comparison of the results, and the same school between different groups, such as boys and girls, Asian students, Latin ethnic students, English is second language, family difficulties and physical disabilities. The quality analysis report designed by the education department aims to guide schools to pay attention to the teaching achievements of disadvantaged groups and to strengthen education equity.
In the United States, school records are open to the public. All States will have a unified examination site, the public can query and understand the school at any time, including historical, national and statewide data, dynamic understanding of school academic achievement level. Moreover, each student has an account number, which is accessible to both my parents and myself.
Of course, for John Glenn school, the pursuit of excellence in academic achievement is also an important part of school education. The students did very well. For example, before a statewide measurement system of the academic year, the John Glenn school grade one students' English scores well above grade 67%, school achievement data is 55%, while California's data is 54%; 66% for mathematics, school district is 51%, the state is 49%; social science is 61%, the school district was 47%. The state is 48%. As a result, schools and students are very proud of these data on the school's responsibility reports, Yearbook and web sites, because it is their efforts and achievements.
Individual counseling improves academic performance
At the John Glenn school, students Academic counselling (All Student Academic Preparation) is to improve the students' Academic performance and level of "secret weapon", specifically in the face of below-average grades or dine students, are often poor test scores (good at basic level above, below). They are often important groups of school teaching achievement, which directly affect the evaluation and level of the school's unified testing in the state.
Therefore, the school specially developed and designed the tutoring and management system for this purpose. The school establishes a procedural report for all students, aggregates the scores of their different tests every three weeks, and evaluates once to determine which students must attend academic counselling. The tutorial time is usually fixed at noon, and usually three classes are arranged in a week. This time, do not need to attend academic tutoring students can participate in activities a variety of elective courses, such as speech, learning methods, such as dance, sometimes students will organize various activities, enrich their school life, so as to achieve the effect of their aptitude, let the student to obtain the suitable development.
After three weeks, the teachers will evaluate students' grades again, if one student performance reach the qualified level, he don't need to attend training courses, if progress is not big, also need to attend. This creates an incentive mechanism, a positive flow.
During my study, I attended the meeting of eighth-grade academic tutors. They every three weeks to organize a meeting like that devoted to academic guidance for the past three weeks, students test results and the condition of job completion situation, also decided the next three weeks which students need individual counseling. At the conference, grade group leader will all three weeks before the test result is not qualified student list summary display on the whiteboard, then we discuss two problems: one is the cause of poor student performance? Is the homework unfinished or does the class listen without paying attention or other reasons? In this school, homework is an important process evaluation standard. If the student does not finish his homework, it will directly affect his performance. When some students are faced with two or three disciplines need counseling teachers often discuss which course should be coaching, or how to allocate the next three weeks to different disciplines, very specific subject coordination and communication between teachers and makes teachers fully understand the problems that exist in the students' learning, and effectively improved the students' grades.
The examination questions are reanalysed
The week we visited was the time for the desert school district to organize mock exams, and teachers in elementary, middle and high schools were organizing mock exams. The mock exams often have four or five games, have a plenty of historical questions, have a plenty of new topic, in preparation for the exam at the end of the state departments, it and Shanghai before the tests, the entrance examination of similar simulation test. However, their questions were not very large, and the eighth grade math was just nine questions, and English was 12 questions, and they were mostly multiple-choice questions. But the math teacher asked the students write their thinking on the draft paper, after the examination will be all draft paper closed up, the teacher told us that he will be based on students' answers, analysis the students master the situation, to understand their problem solving process, especially the wrong topic, what reason? What is the crux of the problem? How to provide academic help and support to students?
Both simulated test and unified test, schools, teachers and students are very seriously, will discipline group teacher of grade analysis scores and reason together, discuss remedial measures and adjusting method.
In a grade seven English examination analysis meeting, an English teacher made a analysis of the test paper every subject, such as the intention of test questions and examination, complement and other teachers to discuss, forming teaching advice.
When the fifth question was analyzed, the teachers spent a lot of time discussing it, asking the students to read five sentences in an experiment report and choosing the answers that were similar. The main purpose of the examination is to make students analyze the author's tone and emotion in reading. Students may answer not ideal, the teachers in the classroom from the network to find the first of the relevant material, also watching the video vocabulary about different attitudes or mood, tone and emotional vocabulary to collect works. During the discussion, we also observed a teacher who took notes while discussing. After the meeting, I inquired that he was writing a review and practice of the subject and writing different sentences for students to identify, make mistakes and revise.
If John Glenn school academic counselling is geared to the needs of medium and the following students will be selected topic, so for learning difficult students, and maths and English weekly senders. On wednesdays or Thursdays, students who failed in their grades would stay behind after school to attend remedial counseling, and we often saw a teacher tutoring students in the classroom after school. Not many students, not more than 10. It fills the vacancy of poor is voluntary, to obtain the consent of the guardian, because this is the time after school, the school has no right to force the students, their school day of the students have a clear rules and requirements.
Therefore, in the John Glenn school, the importance and refinement of the examination are no less than those of our schools. Actually for any other country in the world, it is impossible to avoid the topic of examination, evaluation and testing students' learning and the important means of achievement, the question is how to evaluate the leverage effect, to be used for testing and evaluation of teaching and learning, rather than to test and test, not for personal face or feel for the exam.
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