School System in China
Yao Ye
Comenius University
Faculty of Arts
Department of Education
Student's Daily Life
- learning system
Assessment
- Children study more than ten hours a day.
- Generally from primary school: The lesson begins at 7:30 in the morning and ends up at 15-16 in the afternoon.
- 6 lessons daily at least + almost 2 hours lunch break(school or home).
- Students also have classes with lecturers, sports or musical clubs over the weekend.
- The education system is based on the learning of the material. Children in schools receive an amount of the text that they have to learn to recite from memory. Teacher often cares about if students can recite the text or not, they do not care if students do not understand the text
- Status reports are given twice a year.
- Assessment(tests) during the year and also the big test at end of semester.
- 4 Grades on reports: perfect, good, sufficient, insufficient
Students
have to attend these activities:
Types of Education
Flag Raising Ceremony
- Pre-school education
- Basic education (primary)
- Secondary education - lower, higher
- Higher education
9 years of compulsory school attendance
(basic and lower secondary education)