[HPFGU-OTChatter] British School System

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  From: linlou43 
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  Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 4:42 PM
  Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] British School System




  Hi all!

      First, is it the normal practice in a British school to keep the 
  same instructor for a given subject until you have progressed through 
  the first testing level? 


  In a smaller school, very much so. 
  Remember, classes are combined, so that two houses are in the same lesson. So, seeing as it seems like each subject only has one session of contact time, they would only have 14 or so classes a week to teach. This is feasible. 

     I live in the state of Massachusetts and as of the 2002/2003 
  school year the passing of a standardized test is a graduation 
  requirement. I have also heard of this being instituted in other 
  parts of the country. I am wondering if anyone in Britain has heard 
  about this developement in American public education and if anyone 
  has any thoughts on how it might be compared to the testing system 
  employed there.

  Depends how it will work. Our system work on the basis that you do cousework and exams every year from 16 to 18 - three years. Each set of exams counts as a separate layer of qualification. You can leave school at 16,17 or 18, depending how much study you want to do or are capapble of. Up until 16, you have to study a broad range of subjects with a core curriculum depending on where you live. But after 16, you take maybe five or six subjects and then maybe four at the most in your final year. 

  If you could explain how the US system is changing, then we could start comparing....

  Michelle


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