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1、Lecture Four American Education Warm-Up1. What are the features of American Education?1.1.education as a solution to various social problems 1.2.more years of schooling for a larger percentage of he population than other countries 1.3.educational institutions primarily governed by local authorities
2、rather than by federal ones 2. What is the Ivy League?Language Studyslam: 关紧大门 tuition:学费 babysitter: 为人临时照看孩子的人 academy: 学院 intercollegiate: 院校之间的 alumni: 校友 league: 联赛 Four levels of education in America1.Early Childhood Education1.1Kindergarten1.2Nursery schools1.3Daycare center2.Elementary Educa
3、tion 3.Secondary Educationv two basic types of high school:1.one with more academic curriculum, preparing students for admission to college2.the other offering primarily vocational education(training in a skill or trade)Elementary education & Secondary educationv two ways of division for school syst
4、ems:(1) elementary school (grade1-grade8) high school (grade9-grade12)(2) elementary school （小学） junior high school （初中） senior high school（高中）4. Higher Educationv There are about 3,000 colleges and universities, both private and public in the U.S.v They are all independentv offering their own choic
5、e of studies, v setting their own admission standardsv deciding which students meet those standards.4.1 What does college mean? College is used to refer to all undergraduate education.College of Arts and Sciences state college (州立学院）Independent College4.2 What does university mean?University means u
6、ndergraduate and postgraduate educational institution4.3 the Ivy league (常春藤联盟）Ivy League: eight long-established colleges and universities in the United States with prestigious academic and social reputations.Members of Ivy League:Harvard University Yale UniversityUniversity of PennsylvaniaPrinceto
7、n University Columbia UniversityBrown University Dartmouth College（达特矛斯学院）Cornell University（康奈尔大学）4.3.1 Ivy league is the leading main stream of the US Higher Education (founded in 1956).4.3.2 All the universities in Ivy League are in the northeast of the U.S. And all of them are private universities5. What are valued highly in American schools?critical thinking skills & social and interpersonal skills6. How are the values reflected through education?by encouraging students to express their own opinions in class and think for themselves
