I don’t believe a child should be compared to another’s child development. Every child develops in different speeds and in different ways. For example; I am a teacher in an infant room and I have two children the same age (11 months) and one walks all over the room and the other is now barely taking two steps. I have another baby that at the age of 5 months could not turn over by himself or hold his head up for long periods of time.
I found an article about education in China that gives a little background of how education was viewed many years ago and how it is viewed in today’s society. With the founding of New China, numerous tasks had to be undertaken. In order to overcome the poverty and ignorance inherited from old China and gradually improve the standards of the material and cultural life of the people, the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government attached great importance to the restoration and development of education.
In the article that I found there was also this table that explains the Chinese education and assessment process and procedures.
Elementary Education(Compulsory Education) | Secondary Education | ||
Primary Schooling | Junior High Schooling | Senior High Schooling | |
Entrance System | Children aged over 6 years in general or over 7 years in some places without qualified facility eligible for admission of primary school. | Compulsory Education Law stipulates that primary school graduates enter the junior high school nearby without any examination. | Senior high schools select the junior high school graduates based on the examinations organized by local educational administrative departments. |
Schooling Years | 6 years in general; 5 years in some experimental districts | 3 years in general; 4 years in some experimental districts | 3 years |
Checks & Examinations | term-end tests year-end tests primary school graduation examinations (Chinese and mathematics are test subjects, others are checking subjects) | term-end tests year-end tests graduation examination and examination for entering higher school, such as junior high school Local province (municipality directly under the Central Government) stipulates test subjects of junior high school graduate and entering high school examination in the graduation culture disciplines range regulated by the nation. | term-end tests year-end tests senior high school graduation examination (organized by local province or municipality directly under the Central Government) the national university entrance examination (generally implemented the test reform scheme of 3+X subjects at present) (charged by university student department in Ministry of Education) |
Assessment | Term-end tests, year-end tests and primary school graduation examination are devised to examine pupils’ qualified levels. | Term-end tests, year-end tests and junior high school graduation examination are devised to examine junior high school graduates’ qualified levels. Scientific assessment for examinations of graduating and entering are organized, and the assessment system of test question are set up progressively. | Term-end tests, year-end tests and senior high school graduation examination are devised to examine senior high school graduates’ qualified levels. By national university entrance examination, the proportion of students entering higher schools are regarded as the important reference of the educational quality of one teacher and one school. |
I thought that the Chinese education was rigorous, studying all day without having a child life. But after looking at this chart and reading the article I come to see that the education area is really similar to the United States.
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