Sunday, November 29, 2009

Reflection # 20

There are many ways U.S. high schools differ from European high schools. For example, European high schools do not have extracurricular activities like our U.S. high school praise. U.S. high schools are usually known for their cheerful school spirit and dashing sports team. On the other hand, European high schools have no sports team going on in their school. The only way you can be able to join a team, which is mostly soccer, is when high schools students themselves join a public association around their community.
Furthermore, since European high schools do not have any extracurricular activities their size in school is rather smaller than U.S. high schools are today. European high schools do not consist of having football fields, gymnasiums, swimming pools, tennis courts, or basketball courts. Also, European high schools do not have any lockers. So as you can see U.S. high schools are rather huge compared to European high schools.
Moreover, European high school students switch classes less often than U.S. high school students would. Usually European students would remain in one classroom and have the teacher be the one to revolve to a different room. The only time European students would switch classes would be for their science class, if that.
Also, it is said to be that European high schools are more academically challenging that U.S. high schools are. In European schools their are no multiple choice tests; just written ones. It is also said to be that teachers in U.S. high schools are more motivating and involved with students, than European teachers are. U.S high school teachers are not only teachers but can also be the leader for lots of extracurricular activities, which makes them involved with getting to know the student in and out of class.
So as you can clearly see, education in European high schools are a lot different from U.S. high schools. It has its good and its bad but as long as education keeps evolving, things could only go up from there on.