how American AP science courses concentrate on students, seeking truth from experiments.
On September 20th, Haimen Zhongnan Dongzhou International High School started a mobilization of looking for drikold. The reason was the science teacher Kim Adams needed the drikold to do experiment for the students. All the teachers involved in, even General principal Zhang Binghua and vice principal Geng Qingxi drove cars in downtown for the drikold, finally we found it in Ganso.
During the process, principal Zhang and principal Geng found in Haimen city there’s no drikold in most high schools, according to the school science teachers’s reflection, the school pay more attention to the chemistry and physics curriculum theory learning and knowledge memorization, therefore the laboratory equipment has been shelved, the lack of more surprising experimental items. Looking drikold is a small thing, but reflects the emphasis on difference between China and US science teaching model and assessment, compared to the "examination oriented education", "cramming education", the United States AP science courses in the implementation process, pay more attention to seek the truth in the experiment of practical spirit, and student services, the pursuit of rigorous and pragmatic "teaching. The number of open science courses on physical and chemical AP is offering two courses most American AP curriculum in our school, and our school opened two kinds of courses at the same time. In the teaching process, it can be found that there exists very much difference of American AP physics and chemistry and China ordinary high school physics and chemistry, mainly concentrated in the curriculum idea, curriculum goal, the teachers and students requirements, teaching content, teaching strategies, using textbooks, reference books, examination form, evaluation of knowledge the scope of the exam questions, questions, characteristics, methods and achievements of philosophy and other aspects of the entrance examination, this episode for dry ice reflects American Physics and chemistry in the same teaching content on different implementation methods and value pursuit. Compared with the Chinese curriculum in senior high school, physics and chemistry curriculum in the United States AP based faithful to the teaching syllabus, textbooks and reference books, pay more attention to the training of students' practical ability through the experiment to give students a sensory experience, the chemical and physical science courses into life, into practice in. At the same time, the United States AP physics, chemistry teachers and the students hands-on experiment and the experimental process of a serious and pragmatic attitude is worth our ordinary high school science teachers for reference and learning.
Our school set the United States AP physics, chemistry and other science courses aimed at high school students to cultivate scientific literacy, training with critical and innovative thinking of scientific research personnel. The United States AP physical and chemical curriculum philosophy "is to promote the physical and chemical core concepts of deep and lasting understanding", in order to achieve the teaching goal, the student services, rigorous and pragmatic "teaching attitude and teaching pursuit is essential in the process of curriculum implementation is faithful to the theory of teaching but also to stimulate students' practice ability and creative thinking, the real physical and chemical into life.
