Just as Taiwan Province Province has been arguing about the effectiveness of education reform in recent years, the course of education reform in the United States is even more bloody and tearful. And the complexity of the problems involved behind, I'm afraid Taiwan Province Province is not the only one. The background structure involved in The Future of Preparatory Education not only reflects the reflection of American education reform in the past twenty years, but also provides valuable experience.

Bill Gates recommended compulsory reading, which is a teaching revolution, not emphasizing grades, but creating a enrollment rate of 99%. The poor effect of American public primary and secondary schools has always been one of the painful feet of American education. 20 10 years, by the famous Hollywood documentary director Davis? Davis Guggenheim's documentary Waiting for Superman? It exposes the disturbing and heartbreaking situation of American primary and secondary education: a large number of dropouts leave school every year. Nearly 40% of the 2,000 schools in the United States, known as drop-out factories, can't graduate and can't get a high school diploma. Take Pennsylvania for example. 68% of the prisoners in this prison are high school dropouts. Compared with the $33,000 invested by the state in the education budget for crime prevention and correction, the expenses spent by each prisoner in four years are enough to pay for a student's private tuition from kindergarten to high school, and there is still room to pay for the other two years' college expenses. The absurdity of its resource dislocation can be seen in general.

These lost young people not only caused serious social problems, but also fell into the worrying power. The weaker the weak, the Matthew effect. Not only is life difficult to extricate oneself, but children are also difficult to extricate themselves from the quagmire of poverty, crime and problem families. In this predicament, the only way for these young people to hope to turn over is education. Going to college has become their only salvation!

And that's why Diane Taverner, the author of this book, will start the next chapter of this book from Isabella, a student who wants to go to college, and ask her for help. Isabella's situation at the beginning of the book is not a special case in America. If it is not saved by education, Isabella will probably become one of the above-mentioned dropouts, leaving her in endless difficulties in her later life. For people in Taiwan Province Province, almost everyone can go to college. If it is not explained in this context, it is probably difficult to understand why President Taverna keeps mentioning the college admission rate of Summit High School. Because in the United States, the ratio of high school students' grades to four-year college entrance standards is only? 40%, the proportion of Dante Bong High School is 100%. To some extent, they think that going to college is enough to change the course of life. In Taiwan Province Province, we may have different views and disputes because of different situations.

In view of the predicament of American education, successive American presidents have mentioned various policies and solutions. In 200 1 year, US President Bush introduced the well-known No Child Left Behind? (not one less)? The education reform plan will further increase the budget to promote the so-called race to the top policy when Obama took office? Schools with excellent students will be rewarded, while schools with poor students may face the consequences of closure. In addition to improving the level of basic education, improving the evaluation of students' grades, and safeguarding the basic values of education publicity and social justice, the United States also has the consideration of national strength competition triggered by the wave of globalization. When the United States has failed to improve the teaching quality of public schools by various means, another kind of thinking that it is difficult to break through the framework of public schools, when the reform is abandoned for a long time, it is better to start a new stove. Various charter schools have become new hopes.

Charter School is a public and private school established in the United States under the permission of American states since 1990s. Unlike ordinary public schools in the United States, charter schools are not bound by general educational administrative regulations. In addition, Austrian aid with * * * funds can maintain low tuition fees, so charter schools have always been regarded as one of the solutions to loosen the rigid education system. In recent years, charter schools that advocate different educational ideas and flaunt educational progressivism have sprung up in the United States. The empirical case in this book is the preparation of charter high school in the peak period of the school, which belongs to a kind of public and private charter schools in the United States.

Taverna, the founder and principal of samit Preparatory Charter High School, had a frustrating or heartbreaking teaching experience. In traditional teaching methods, she has seen that even hard-working children seem to lack sincere interest in learning. There are many huge cracks everywhere in the educational scene, which makes her realize that they are losing children from all walks of life, not only those struggling on the poverty line, but also those with rich families. This made her think deeply, how to help these children who are caught in the educational gap prepare for the future? When she had the opportunity to open a brand-new high school, all these ideas were reduced to a seemingly prosaic goal: to ensure that every student who graduated from Ding Feng High School could enter a four-year university.

Going to college is actually just a means and path to prepare children for a successful life in the future. Unlike the goal of improving students' performance that was being implemented in the United States at that time, President Taverna hoped that the study of Ding Feng high school students would be closer to the real world. Therefore, despite the difficulties, Ding Feng senior high schools are carrying out research-based project learning method, also known as project-based learning (PBL), which is very popular among innovative education circles at present. ?

Strictly speaking, the research project learning method is not a new concept, but even in the United States, only a few schools can implement it, and even regard it as the focus of enrollment promotion. The important observation pointed out by President Taverna in his book is that the attitudes and practices of most schools towards this teaching method often become decorative desserts rather than main courses. This observation and description is really vivid and appropriate. As an experimental educator, I know how difficult it is to implement PBL teaching.

In this book, President Taverna spent a lot of time talking about how to practice the project-based learning method and talked about the blind spots encountered in the process. For example, how can schools establish and accumulate high-quality scientific research projects, so that when students start a scientific research project, the instructors can clearly understand what skills the students have developed. Such reminders and observations are really valuable reminders for teachers who want to practice project-based learning methods.

In addition to studying the experience sharing of project-based learning, President Taverna also wrote a lot about how to help students build autonomous learning skills. For the application of various strategies between teaching and learning, the school's governance and decision-making methods and the corresponding skills that can be applied, President Taverna can also convey the focus and spirit of strategy application through various vivid cases and stories. We can see the profound experience behind the speaker's seriousness.

After Taiwan Province Province adopted the "Three Laws of Experimental Education" in 20 14, various educational ideas have sprung up in recent years, and quite a hundred flowers have blossomed. Although we are not used to using the name of charter school, we are also different from the development of charter schools in the United States. However, by learning from the successful development of American charter schools, every educational expeditioner may have more confidence and courage and embark on a more socially meaningful educational practice route.

* This article is excerpted from the recommended preface of the publication The Future of Preparatory Education. Please do not reprint without permission.

Blog │ parent-child shopping │ Eslite │ Jinshitang │ Reading? │momo

Bill Gates recommended compulsory reading, which is a teaching revolution, not emphasizing grades, but creating a enrollment rate of 99%.