USA: No winter vacation homework, but pay attention to reading.
In the eyes of American parents, children aged 1 to 12 can learn little, but they must learn how to communicate with others and how to distinguish right from wrong. Holiday parties and parties are good opportunities for training and interacting with others. Therefore, in the United States, students generally do not have the habit of attending extracurricular training courses, and winter vacation life for primary and secondary school students is very rich. There are mainly the following types of activities:
Go to various clubs to play. Children will form their own clubs, such as baseball clubs, softball clubs and rugby clubs. They will invite some coaches and go out to play together. Every community in America will have a community library. During the winter vacation, the library will organize parents and children to carry out some parent-child reading activities to enhance the feelings of parents and children. In families with financial conditions, parents will take their children to play around.
The winter camp activities in the United States are particularly diverse, complex and detailed in division of labor. There are tennis, swimming, field survival, small reporters, farm winter camps and so on. For example, the winter camp on the farm is to go to the farm, live in farmers' homes and help them do manual labor. These winter camp activities are particularly interesting and meaningful. For American primary school students, vacation is the most relaxing time, with no burden and no scruples, as long as they have fun there. And this kind of play just exercises the comprehensive quality of children.
There is no winter vacation homework, but American students pay great attention to reading.
It is their habit to ensure a certain time to study every day. Teachers will also assign some reading-oriented homework. For example, let students write Tibetan poems, make book envelopes, send postcards to teachers, read aloud to parents, introduce the life of favorite writers and so on. When assigning reading assignments, teachers also guide students to develop good habits. For example, the homework may be: "Don't play computer or watch TV tonight, read books or play games with your family."
For junior students, the school also holds prize-winning reading activities. At the beginning of the holiday, give the children a reading schedule and ask them to read for half an hour every day or listen to adults for half an hour. By the time school starts, the children's timers are full and they can get a lovely prize.
Britain: Participate in family gatherings and work internships.
Curriculum cram schools are not particularly common in Britain, and parents generally do not force students to go to cram schools. Moreover, because it is expensive to get a tutor, the average family will not get a tutor for their children. Moreover, rich families give cram schools to their children, mostly art courses such as music and fine arts. Only some students who are particularly difficult to learn and can't keep up with the progress of the school will go to cram schools during the winter vacation. Therefore, students in Britain usually attend family gatherings and go out to play. During the winter vacation, British children may also exchange residences with urban families in other European countries, live in each other's homes, travel to the local area, integrate their children into local life, and learn local languages and customs.
In particular, British students usually use their holidays to work or practice. These holiday jobs can not only bring some income to students, but more importantly, they can greatly improve their ability to live independently, increase their work experience and improve their chances of finding a job after graduation. Pupils' holiday work is mainly simple housework and service work, including helping parents wash their cars, helping neighbors mow the lawn, delivering newspapers in the community and so on. Although I don't earn much money, I have the opportunity to face the society and deal with problems independently. Middle school students can be seen everywhere in gas stations, fast food restaurants and supermarkets. After a holiday, they can not only earn hundreds of pounds, but also become confident and sophisticated in specific jobs. British schools also attach great importance to reading, so during the winter vacation, they will assign certain reading assignments (which vary according to the age of children) and ask students to write thousands of words of reading reports after reading.
France: Festivals are sacred.
In France, parents and educators all believe that teachers must teach students in class and can't finish teaching tasks by leaving homework for students. Therefore, for French students, parents and teachers, holidays are holidays and are sacred and inviolable. French schools and parents attach great importance to students' holiday life and play, and tourism is an important project of students' holiday life.
So there are no parents in France who are worried about their children's further education? Not really, but the principle of parents is "cram when it's time to cram." French parents think that their children's grades are very good, they have the determination to enter a prestigious school or their grades are too poor. They are not willing to arrange for their children to make up classes even if they can't get into an ordinary university.
Germany: Go to the farm to get close to nature.
Germany can be called the "champion" of holiday in western countries. Students have more holidays, and German students enjoy about 150 days (including winter vacation) every year. Students' holidays are also dominated by "tourism", and the main activity is to go to the farm to get close to nature.
One-day tour is a kind of tourism activity in which German primary and secondary school students participate more. Most of these activities are based on the theme of getting close to nature, and the location is generally chosen in nature parks, pastures, farms or scenic spots. Many teachers are sent by the school to organize such activities. In addition to class teachers and professional teachers in related disciplines, there are also specialized doctors to ensure the safety of teachers and students. Traveling abroad and getting close to nature not only make German students feel happy and relaxed, but also broaden their horizons.
Canada: Keep a diary every day&; Complete the theme
Canadian teachers will send diaries to students before the holidays, and students will record the most impressive things in the diary every day. Students don't have to record in words, but they can also keep a diary in the form of cartoons. The completion of the holiday "project" requires students to read books or consult materials online. This "project" may belong to the category of natural science or humanities and social sciences. The "project" is arranged and organized by students themselves, which can cultivate students' ability to pay attention to society, consult and sort out materials. In addition, before most primary and secondary schools have a holiday, teachers will also recommend books to students for parents to choose, subscribe and buy.
New Zealand: Doing projects and volunteering.
Primary and secondary schools in New Zealand have four semesters each academic year, each semester 10 week. Usually there is no homework except Christmas holiday. In the other three short holidays, the teacher has reserved experiments or projects for children in grades 10 to 12 as holiday homework. During the holidays, the school will cooperate with the local government or enterprises to run some holiday projects. For example, at 8 am, parents send their children to the corresponding institutions and pick them up at 6 pm. Holiday programs are tailor-made for students, and many high school students will come here to volunteer.
Some sports clubs will open sports facilities for interested children to use for free or at low prices. Many families will arrange their important activities during Christmas, such as family trips abroad, camping or visiting relatives' farms.
Malaysia: Join various uniform groups.
"Uniform groups" include boy scouts, juvenile policemen, juvenile soldiers and so on. Both boys and girls can participate, voluntarily, and learn skills such as mountain climbing, field survival and first aid. Joining a "uniform group" is a holiday activity, which can affect the further study and employment of Malaysian students. "Uniform Group" is a very important organization in Malaysia. If your academic performance is not very good, you can give yourself extra points by completing the skill test specified by the "Uniform Group". If you do well in the "uniform group", many universities will rob you.
China: Homework! Homework! Homework!
In addition to homework or homework! I was worried that the students would forget to study after playing for a month, so I arranged a lot of homework. What's the effect? What to play, what to forget or what to forget, just let students learn to cram and coquetry (let brothers and sisters help). . . Mozi thinks this is very, very undesirable, and it's time for improvement. what do you think?