1) the change of learning style: from "accumulating knowledge points" to "inquiry learning"
Our traditional education pays more attention to the accumulation of knowledge itself. As we all know, most students in China have a comprehensive grasp of knowledge points.
If an ordinary senior high school student from China takes the SAT2 or AP math test, he will find it very simple, because compared with children from other countries, we have mastered math knowledge earlier and more comprehensively, which is the advantage of knowledge accumulation learning.
But international education pays more attention to inquiry learning. What is inquiry learning? Let's take a math exam as an example:
Once, students told me that all their classmates who went to the United States for exchange and study failed the first math exam.
Why can't China students go to the United States to study mathematics?
It turned out that their math teacher who graduated from Harvard was very strange. The papers given to children are blank except for a few mathematical concepts.
The content of the exam is: let the children write a problem by themselves according to the above mathematical concepts, and then write out the process of solving the problem.
On my students' test paper, the teacher wrote an English word, more, next to each problem-solving step. I hope the children can write more about the problem-solving process.
As can be seen from the above examples, even the mathematics that children in China have the most advantages, many children are at a loss when we switch to inquiry learning.
Some people may ask, why should we advocate inquiry learning?
Because in this era, no matter children or adults, as long as they use mobile phones to search, most questions have answers. As a result, the value of the answer itself is getting lower and lower, and the ability to find and solve problems can reflect the value. And international education, from the beginning of designing courses, is to encourage children to find problems and solve them.
2) Changes in the relationship between students and their surroundings: Children become more independent.
When it comes to traditional exam-oriented education, we always say one word: cramming education. In the requirements of international education, both school education and family education encourage and respect human independence.
When a child has the ability of independent thinking and decision-making, knows what he is, what he should do and what he can do, he can better perceive his relationship with parents, classmates, teachers and other people around him as an independent individual, which also helps to better understand this society.
3) Changes in talent selection criteria: from scoring to comprehensive evaluation.
In the traditional exam-oriented education, the selection standard of talents is very simple, that is, examination results. In international education, especially in North America (the United States and Canada), they choose talents on the basis of comprehensive evaluation, also known as comprehensive evaluation method.