蒙大英語國家-美國概況教案04 American Education

1、Lecture Four American Education Warm-UpWhat are the features of American Education?1.1.education as a solution to various social problems 1.2.more years of schooling for a larger percentage of he population than other countries 1.3.educational institutions primarily governed by local authorities rat

2、her than by federal ones What is the Ivy League?Language Studyslam: 關緊大門 tuition:學費 babysitter: 為人臨時照看孩子的人 academy: 學院 intercollegiate: 院校之間的 alumni: 校友 league: 聯(lián)賽 Four levels of education in America1.Early Childhood Education1.1Kindergarten1.2Nursery schools1.3Daycare center2.Elementary Education 3

3、.Secondary Educationtwo basic types of high school:1.one with more academic curriculum, preparing students for admission to college2.the other offering primarily vocational education(training in a skill or trade)Elementary education & Secondary educationtwo ways of division for school systems:(1) el

4、ementary school (grade1-grade8) high school (grade9-grade12)(2) elementary school （小學） junior high school （初中） senior high school（高中）4. Higher EducationThere are about 3,000 colleges and universities, both private and public in the U.S.They are all independentoffering their own choice of studies, se

5、tting their own admission standardsdeciding which students meet those standards.4.1 What does college mean? College is used to refer to all undergraduate education.College of Arts and Sciences state college (州立學院）Independent CollegeWhat does university mean?University means undergraduate and postgra

6、duate educational institutionthe Ivy league (常春藤聯(lián)盟）Ivy League: eight long-established colleges and universities in the United States with prestigious academic and social reputations.Members of Ivy League:Harvard University Yale UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaPrinceton University Columbia Univer

7、sityBrown University Dartmouth College（達特矛斯學院）Cornell University（康奈爾大學）Ivy league is the leading main stream of the US Higher Education (founded in 1956).All the universities in Ivy League are in the northeast of the U.S. And all of them are private universities5. What are valued highly in American schools?critical thinking skills & social and interpersonal skills6. How are the values