What are some educational strategies and initiatives that could have a positive impact on students in the United States?
Points to ponder...
Points to ponder...
- Students focus on analyzing and problem solving and are encouraged to debate. Consider using the phrase, "What do you think?" before asking "How do you feel?"
- Writing skills and penmanship are valued.
- Cell phones are not used in school by students.
- High expectations are in place, "The better you learn, the better you succeed."
- Public schools are supplied with materials and do not fund raise for further support.
- Lunch is one and a half hours long and is used to eat, relax, and unwind. (Note: Teachers do not eat at their desks.)
- Students attend three hours of school in the morning, have a one and a half hour break, and return for three more hours of school on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
- Extracurricular activities are held after school. The school day is academically-based.
- Teachers are required to have a master's degree.
- Children begin school at age 3.
- Twenty-six hours of instruction is required each week and students attend about 162 school days a year.