The organization has been successful in not only helping its students to assimilate both at home with international instructors and abroad but Ameson also works hard to help its teaching staff to succeed in its multicultural, global setting by training its staff in cross-cultural awareness and tactful adjustment to Chinese workplace culture (McMurtrie, 2012). This does not mean that Ameson does not face multiple challenges in its efforts to prepare Chinese students for study in America.
Ameson 's Educational and Cultural Challenges
One important challenge for Ameson is that the local Chinese High Schools usually want to hold on onto unproductive students who find it hard to grapple with the international curriculum. As in all school systems,
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Because the Chinese schools, Chinese international school leaders and parents have the opinion that passage of TOEFL and SAT equals success, the Chinese school administrators allow their students to participate in outside private schools that prepare them to pass the university entrance exams. This greatly decreases students ' time that they actually spend in class for more important courses like American Studies, History, Literature and the sciences. Senior 3 students typically spend the initial first two to three months of the school year in outside schools in TOEFL and SAT prep. This causes a severe interruption in AP classes that are fundamental to success in an American university.
These kinds of Chinese operational negative factors cause limitations in how much Ameson can achieve through its educational program. Ameson leadership knows that success in TOEFL and SAT does not equal success but merely the beginning of a student 's educational career. Perhaps, this is one of Ameson 's greatest failures is that instead of seeking to change these bad practices on the part of Chinese high school leaders, the organization tends to work around such problems and not rectify such thinking and practices that are an immense detriment to Chinese international
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All in all, the organization, training, staff and operational mission of Ameson should be regarded as an international success in the current educational globalization environment. The organization has all the support, skills, staff and systems needed to help their students gain excelent skills before flying from China to their destination for study abroad. Ameson faces constant challenges and has had to adapt to the current practices within local Chinese schools, but is doing its best to quietly and diplomatically change the personalities and practices of the local schools in which they serve and
(TS) In the article “Zhan Haite and the Case for Change” by Katherine Majewski, Zhan Haite had to work through many hard times. (C) However, one day Zhan was told she could not go to the school she wanted to do to the system of education. (E) Even though this was her only option, she decided she should be able to go to any school she wanted to. She tried so hard. She even got newspapers interested in her story. She did not give up even though people called her names like,”Locust or a pest and implying that she was greedy for seeking the right to continue schooling in Shanghai ” (Majewski 1). Zhans family was also punished because they wanted better schooling for their daughter. One day their
1.) Mr. Ames is a 67-year-old man who recently had his right leg amputated just below the knee following a serious infection. Mr. Ames suffers from a number of comorbidities that make his treatment extremely complex. During his time in the hospital Mr. Ames did not follow medical advice and opted into an amputation that was much lower on his leg than the medical team advice. After a 10-day recovery in the hospital, Mr. Ames was transferred to a rehabilitation center for further health improvement. His ultimate treatment goal is to be able to stay at home while his wife continues to work nights, and to be able to perform necessary ADLs. He hopes to not add any additional burdens to his wife’s life. The treatment team at the rehabilitation
The book was originally meant overlook the metaphorical clash between Chinese and Western parenting styles, but instead, refers to Chua's experience with raising her daughters. Chua clearly describes the “strict” rules that she established early on for her two daughters, Sophia and Louisa. The rules primarily address forbidden activities such as attending sleepovers, getting less than an A in classes, and being involved in school plays. The author admits that while her standards might seem rather stringent to most, they are common among Chinese mothers. On the 3rd paragraph in an excerpt, Chua mentioned, “In one study of 50 Western American mothers and 48 Chinese immigrant mothers, almost 70% of the Western mothers said either that ‘stressing academic success is not good for children’ or that ‘parents need to foster the idea that learning is fun.’ By contrast, roughly 0% of the Chinese mothers felt the same way. Instead, the vast majority of the Chinese mothers said that they believe their children can be "the best" students, that "academic achievement reflects successful parenting". Obviously, Chinese parents believe that academic success is primary, and that if one achieves well academically, that means the parents have done well. Statistically proven, the Chinese tend to do better on state exams and college admissions. So, Chua managed to keep her children’s grades high, allow for her
I think first and the most important challenge bring to mind is the education, which worries all the students in China. In order to enter the college, every student must take the gaokao test. This
Schooling has a lot of problems that need a lot of solutions. Many of these problems stem from the fact that the American school system is notorious for wasting the time of students and teachers. Students rarely get the chances to learn and experience topics that not only interest them but are also topics that have the potential for being important in their future careers. Time is also wasted during standardized tests that do not give American students an accurate representation of their intelligence compared to the intelligence of others worldwide.
According to Chapter 9 of Outliers, “Marita’s Bargain,” Gladwell introduces a public school called KIPP Academy. Students are chosen by lottery. Half the students are African Americans, the rest are Hispanic. However, in KIPP, their teaching methods are different from other US schools. KIPP students spend almost every second to study. Their students are spending fifty to sixty percent more time learning than the traditional public school student. This is the reason why poor kids can also be as clever as rich kids at KIPP. According to Gladwell, the reason that Asian students are more intelligent in math is because they do not have such long summer vacations. Asia’s culture believes “the route to success lies in rising before dawn 260 days a year are scarcely going to give their children, three straight months off in the summer” (260). Therefore, Asia’s school year is almost 243 days long. They believe people have the time to learn everything they need rather than just stay there and unlearn it. However, under the US education system, students have 180 days long summer vacation. Gladwell believes the length of time of students studying is why Asian students are successful in math. In my opinion, increasing the study hours is the fastest way to open a gap between students studying. In Stand and Deliver, in order to improve students’ math skills in a short time, Escalante spends extra time tutoring students all the
Leef, George. “A Key Reason Why American Student’s Do Poorly.” Forbes Website. Forbes Magazine. 24 October 2013. Web.
Despite the fact Asian Americans have been in the United States Higher Education system for decades, there is still a struggle to research and understand this student populationp (Museus & Chang, 2009). Asian American populations are people whose origins are from the Far East, Southeast Asia and Indian subcontinent. The Asian American label also includes Pacific Islanders, meaning people having origins in Hawaii, Guam, and the pacific islands. It’s very important to keep in this label encompasses vastly different ethnicities, cultures and language groups. So general trends that are covered in this review may and will not apply to all groups or people who are may identify as Asian American (2014, NO AUTHOR, Asian Americans in Higher Education:
This puts them three years of schooling ahead compared to the OECD average. Shanghai-China also performed exceptional in regards to their reading abilities with a mean score of 570, hence it has the largest proportion of top performers. The performance of Shanghainese in regards to science were also impressive. With a mean score of 580 they are way ahead compared to the rest of the world. One could argue and say that doing good in school is not necessary an indicator of how well you will be able to adapt to the real world, but this test is indeed a good indicator in regards how those young adults will turn out. From the math scores one could derive and estimate the probability in regards to the future outcome and their expected future earnings. The differences between the best and worst performer in math is the equivalent of six years of schooling. But another major aspect to point out is that the separation of education level within a country is even greater, with a difference of 300 in the mean score it is an equivalent of seven years of schooling that separates the best and worst and thus represents a formidable challenge for all countries to overcome. Since China is such a big country this differences can’t be eliminated overnight. The fact that the scores of Shanghainese students improved compared to the previous test, for instance
Chinese children entered school at age six and stayed for six years. They would study the Chinese language, math and other basic subjects. After going to an elementary school children would enter a middle school. The subjects the Chinese taught were particularly important for the advancement of the country. During the Ming dynasty Chinese novels became very popular. There were many poems and collections of short stories. The Ming also established free schools for the public hoping to expand education in china.
The largest educational system is in china there is a law that makes it mandatory that all Chinese students have nine year of education experience this law was passed in 1986. The importance of having an education is the key to success to be comfortable and abl...
The education system in China is very different than the U.S. China withholds a higher academic standard than the U.S. For example, China’s national standards in math, require students to learn 10 specific topics in grades 1-3, in areas such as numbers, operations, and geometry. Similar requirements are in place at upper-grade levels, too (Cavanagh). Children are feeling immense academic pressure at a young age in a society that does not tolerate failure. It was a little difficult to fully comprehend the education system in China. In the states, it is unheard of to leave a child behind if they are having trouble understanding a lesson or subject. In the U.S., there are tutors, after school programs, and plenty of extra aid. In China, however, the children are being abused, studying excruciatingly, and left at the back of the classroom if they are behind academically. At the after school we were aiding, my team and I decided to use music to our advantage. Music was a great outlet for these kids. It was amazing that even with a language barrier, the children could catch on to a melody and eventually the English words. We even translated some children’s Bible songs into Mandarin. The children enjoyed it so much they wanted to sing and share their songs with us. It was an incredibly joyous moment shared through the art of music. I realized
In today’s society, the fixed model for ordinary Chinese student is working hard on their study since very young to be admitted by better primary school, middle school and high school and then, they would get high marks in Gaokao, which is a kind of exam like ACT, to enter some best universities to get a well-paid job in the future. As the fierce competition in China, parents ask their children to put 100% energy in study and they usually think working part-time would decrease school success because of less study time. Gwen (2012) notes most of Chinese parents are more strict in study than American parents. They push their children to study, practice more and get achievement and give children enough financial support. Furthermore, many Chinese students think doing extra part-time job would make them feel more stressful because most of them are forced to go institutions to have extra classes at the weekend. As a result, many Chinese people do not have positive attitudes toward students working
solidarity and stability (Macionis, 2011). Education serves as different functions. The first function is to equip citizens with different skills so that they can apply these learnt skills to function as gear of the society. In Hong Kong, students need to learn Chinese, English and Mathematics in primary school. These three subjects serve as basic tools in communication and arithmetic in daily life. When students mov...
Education is the process of learning and acquiring knowledge at school from a teacher, receiving knowledge at home from a parent, a family member, and even friend. Education is a key that allows people to move up in the world, seek better jobs, and succeed in life. Education is one factor that affects job positions people hold, advance in their further career, the income they make, and the title they hold. The more educated a person is, the more prestige and power that person holds. Education improves the quality of life, reduces ignorance, and exposes frontiers and opportunities not previously handled. Education also focuses on the values, attitudes and behaviors that enable individuals to learn to live together in a world characterized by diversity and pluralism. Countries with a higher educated population will undoubtedly succeed in their economy, welfare, and trade, etc. China has the world’s largest education system. Many people in today’s generation believe that the world’s most intelligent individuals reside in China. With its growing population competition within China and internationally has become very apparent. Chinese children aged 6 through 15 are required to attend school. China’s education proves to be the strongest system in the world, not only in modern day, but also in the past. The education system of China unmistakably varies in comparison with the United States.