How many people used to think that Australian students don't have to make up classes? Homework is too little, every day happy to fly!
But that's not the case!
In Australia, if you want to go to a top school, you still face great pressure and competition. Make-up classes or something!
Even the media have reported that "Australian students are more stressed than students from most other countries in the world"!
According to a report released by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, half of boys and 3/4 of girls in Australia are under pressure to learn in their schools. The report analyzed 540,000 students in 72 countries, including Australia.
Daily Telegraph reports also points out:
Sixty-two percent of Australian students worry about exams and 65 percent worry about poor grades. Nearly 90 percent of Australia's 15-year-olds want the highest score among most participants, with 61 percent requiring an average of 4.5 hours of extra-curricular counseling a week.
Although this extra-curricular time is only a fraction of the number of children in the country, it is already a lot more than in other countries.
Under such pressure, however, the school in Sydney didn't have to make up for it. What kind of school is this?
It's Sydney's St Ives North Public School, the top five public schools in Sydney. Located in Sydney's Upper North District of St Lves, a low-profile wealthy area.
In theory, such a strong school should pay more attention to learning, and top schools should be more competitive pressure, should not encourage children to go to extra-curricular tutoring. The most incredible thing is that these children who don't have to make up classes are being robbed by famous schools.
This year, six students attended the top high school in New South Wales with a high score above the admission score line.
James Ruse High School
James Ruse High School
Top1 High School in New South Wales, known for its academic excellence, ranked first in all high schools in New South Wales for 27 consecutive years since 1991 and No. 1 in Australia's National government NAPLAN examination since its inception!
Those who can get close to this high school are also elite among the elite!
In addition, most students even get full scholarships to top private high schools!
There is a special course in this school. It's called Gt program,. It's called Gifted and Talented Unit.. That is, the legendary genius class. Starting in the third grade, this course specialises in the selection of gifted children. And there are only thirty places a year!
Jann Sinclair, the program's director, said she did not encourage parents to use unilateral feeding education, or traditional tutoring, because they "stifled children's creativity." Even those exams are useless to these children!
So, what kind of course does this course really look like, neither tutorial nor exam?
Next, the introduction of this responsible person is really bright in front of the eyes.
Take the extracurricular activities of children in this genius class. The project manager took the time of the forest fire in Sydney as a case in point. She asked children to design the best way to help local residents escape in the event of a forest fire.
After collecting and analyzing information about local residents, the children found that it would take at least two and a half hours to evacuate the entire population, so that many people would be burned to death on the run.
So they programmed the area into sixteen squares, designing different escape routes for each square. As a result, the residents' escape rate has been greatly improved!
In addition, the "teacher" of this genius class is also very promising.
They are professionals, such as doctors, engineers, pilots, calligraphers, mathematicians, robotics, actors, etc.
These children can choose their favorite fields to work with experts in these fields for 12 weeks of guidance. In these 12 weeks, they will face different challenges and will develop their interests deeper.
If a child chooses an actor, he will really need to spend time working with stage professionals. Even go back to Sydney's theatre to learn and learn in depth, not just on paper.
For these talented children, the test is too simple, and the real development of their interests, is really good. And combine their own into the real life to smoke, is not the real test?
Of course, the genius class is only an appearance, what is really worth noting is that perhaps for different students, aptitude teaching is the correct solution. Of course, in addition to the traditional theoretical knowledge, only combine them with practice. Children can get better development.