Take your daughter to study abroad for a year and feel the American education. ...

When my daughter was in the first grade, I needed to work in the United States for a year because of my work. So after two months of preparation, I got my daughter's and my visa, went through the formalities of asking for leave at a domestic school, and took her to the United States after a 13 hour flight.

Before that, I didn't have any experience abroad. Although I passed CET-6 in college and always used English at work, I never said a word face to face with foreigners.

My daughter didn't have any English enlightenment before, and the only English reserve came from the very limited content taught by kindergarten teachers.

Arriving in America for the first time

When the plane landed at Dulles International Airport in Washington, I still felt unreal. It was not until I passed the customs, got out of the airport and saw the American sky that I obviously felt so bold that I went to a completely strange land with my daughter alone!

Fortunately, there is a colleague at my destination. She drove to the airport to meet us. Along the way, we saw the outside world through the window. The road signs were all in English, which made us feel nervous and surprised.

My daughter and I spent our first night in America on the sofa in the living room rented by our colleagues. After a long journey, jet lag and the children's yearning for their father, we woke up at three in the middle of the night and kept our eyes open until dawn.

The next day, I arranged my daughter in a day care center near my colleague's house and started renting a house and buying a car by myself. For me, I really spoke too much English on this day; For my daughter, this day she also began the real English enlightenment.

When I picked her up in the afternoon, the teacher said that her daughter was well integrated and could not speak English, but she was willing to communicate with the teacher through gestures and with other American children through games. Although she doesn't know the language, she seems to feel good.

America is characterized by dirty cities and beautiful countryside. The place where I work is the economic center city of a state. The crime rate in this city is high and the primary schools are poor. According to the scores of American schools, they are basically 1, which is the lowest score.

In order to give my daughter a good living and learning environment, I rented a house in a small county town 40 kilometers away from my work unit. This place has a beautiful living environment and a relatively high family income in the United States. Public schools are better than private schools!

The United States is a school district, and the house is rented. The primary school to which we rented the house belongs has the highest national score of 10. Although it takes 40 minutes to drive to and from work every day, I can finally create good conditions for my daughter. After renting a house and buying a car, we moved into our home.

If you have a lease, you can make an appointment with the Education Bureau for children's English assessment and placement. In the Education Bureau, after evaluation, the staff think that children need esol courses, that is, intensive English courses provided by the United States for children from non-English-speaking countries.

Of course, my heart is happy. I can strengthen my English for free. Of course! After several shots of vaccine, my daughter successfully entered the first-grade transfer class of American primary school. Since all primary schools in the United States finish school after 3 pm, I have no time to pick her up after work. While contacting the school, arrange for school to end. The teacher will pick her up after school. I just need to pick her up before 6: 30.

In class, we study hard.

During her one-year life in America, her daughter's English is improving every day. When she first entered school, she should be completely incomprehensible. I asked her how to take classes, and she said that she would follow others.

Mr. Esso is an American. Every day when other children in the class have language lessons, her daughter will learn English with teacher esol. The exam is not long before my daughter enters school. Her language is 1%, which means that 99% people are better than her. In mathematics, 70%, that is, 30% people are better than her, because she can only do arithmetic problems and can't read application problems.

After the exam, the school held a parent-teacher meeting and arranged 15 minutes for each parent to talk with the teacher. I talked with my daughter's head teacher, math teacher and esol teacher about her children.

As we all know, I have enjoyed the parent-teacher conference mode praised by American teachers!

The class teacher said that the child adapted quickly, and she believed that the child would catch up soon.

The math teacher affirmed the child's math ability, but he couldn't apply it because he couldn't understand the problem. He gave a learning website where he could study more at home.

Teacher Esso said that her daughter has made great progress. She didn't answer anything before, but now she will say sorry, I don't know. ...

I don't know what to say about this evaluation! Knowing that my daughter has no foundation, I am not in a hurry, let her adapt slowly. However, I also gave some help in her small progress.

Watch cartoons and movies.

According to the suggestion of the class teacher, we connected the closed-circuit television, which was always on the children's desks. As long as it is on, there are cartoons playing. At the same time, English subtitles can be called up. Children can learn while watching.

At first she just watched the plot and didn't understand it at all. However, as time went on, she gradually understood more and more. Sometimes I listen to TV while playing and look up from time to time. Just like watching Chinese cartoons in China.

In addition, as long as there are new children's films, we will go to see them together. American movies have no subtitles, which is very good for children's hearing!

2. Increase reading.

My daughter has a library class every week at school. Children in grade one can borrow one book, children in grade two can borrow two books, and then borrow them after the second week. In addition, there are many books in our county library, all of which are very new.

Renters can get a library card. We can borrow 40 books at a time, so we can borrow the simplest picture book and read it with our parents every night.

3. Create a pure English environment

My daughter doesn't have a China child in the class at school, but after school, she has a domestic baby. They always play together. Later, in order to improve her English, she changed to an extracurricular school without children from China, and often spoke English after returning to China.

4. Contact with different things.

There is a very good science center in our district and a children's museum called Discovery Harbor, which is my daughter's favorite. As long as I have no travel plans for the weekend, I will go.

The Science Center and Discovery Harbor have different activities every week. Children can experience many interesting things and meet many different adults and children.

During the holiday, we had a good time.

Primary schools in the United States are divided into three periods a year, including winter vacation, spring vacation and summer vacation. Not long after we arrived in America, the children had their winter vacation, that is, ten days from Christmas to New Year's Day. Because I just went there and didn't arrange any activities, I took my children to play near my home!

Spring break for one week, plus two weekends for nine days, take the children to the east to play. Children especially like Niagara Falls and Harvard University, especially new york, because they think new york is too noisy.

The summer vacation is very long, similar to that in China. In the exam before the summer vacation, my daughter's Chinese is 30% and math is 88%, which means that English is almost the same as that of children with poor learning in the United States, and they can basically understand the questions in math, so their grades have also improved!

Because of work, I sent her to a summer camp during the summer vacation. Both teachers and students are locals, so the children improved their English faster in that month and a half. Before the summer vacation ended, we went to Macy's. Children like Disney and San Francisco best.

Some Experiences on American Education

1. The curriculum and teacher allocation are different from those in China.

American elementary school curriculum includes language, mathematics, science, computer, music, physical education, art and library. The head teacher of each class takes Chinese, mathematics and nature, while other classes usually have one teacher in one grade. After the third grade, every child must choose a musical instrument to study at school for free.

2. The legendary simple mathematics of American children is not completely correct.

My daughter's school mathematics teaching is very strong, and their mathematics is taught in different grades. The head teacher of each class takes all classes, but the math class is divided into classes, and the children in the same class have to go to different classes in math class.

Take the second grade as an example. Students who are good at math are in the same class, and they study math in grade two or three. In school, study second-grade mathematics; Those who study poorly study math in Grade Two and Grade One.

3. The learning environment is relaxed, but children must achieve 3R.

The so-called 3r means respect, responsibility and reliability. Children can lie prone on the ground and recline in their seats in class, but there must be rules.

4. Pay attention to the spirit of cooperation

Desks in the lower grades of primary schools are usually placed in groups of three or four people. In-class or extracurricular tasks assigned by teachers often need to be completed in groups and evaluated. Children need to discuss how to do their best together.

5. Give children a chance to fully show themselves.

The teacher will give the school homemade dollars according to the child's performance. Performance is not only learning, but also helping others and eating fast. The money can be exchanged from teachers for toys and school equipment, and can also be used for various activities.

You can change it to lunch brunch, and you can have lunch with the class teacher or principal with this voucher.

If you exchange presentations and stories, you can bring your favorite things to school and introduce them to your classmates.

You can change your class helper and serve your classmates as a monitor.

These are all opportunities for children to show themselves.

6. Children have a strong sense of participation.

I remember that in the American general election, the teacher would introduce the rules of the election to the children and let them discuss which candidate they supported and why. If I am the host of homework, I must write a short essay. Let children know about society and rules from an early age.

7. Patriotism education is very in-depth

In my daughter's school, every morning before the first class, all students need to stand in front of the national flag, touch their hearts with their right hands and take an oath, and read the oath. My daughter recited the oath of allegiance to the United States a long time ago. But she said that she was from China and could not be loyal to the United States, so she always covered her lungs with her left hand instead of her heart with her right hand. Ha ha.

In the last exam before returning to China, her daughter's language reached 60% and math reached 98%, which means her language reached the lower-middle level of her peers in the United States, and math was already top-notch. Her math class in grade two is the content of grade three!

This year, we have gained a lot and overcome many difficulties. Some people say that to make a person patriotic, let him go abroad. In this year abroad, we have experienced many developed and convenient places in the United States, but we have also seen many advantages of our country.

This year, my daughter's English ability has made a qualitative leap, but we are still willing to return to this fiercely competitive motherland.