蒙大英语国家-美国概况课件04 American Education

1、Lecture Four American EducationContentsWarm-Up 1Language Study2Detailed Study 3Extension4Warm-Up Discuss the Following QuestionsWhat are the features of American Education?What is the Ivy League? slam: 关紧大门 Language Study 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

2、赛 tuition:学费 Four levels of education in Americaearly childhood educationElementary educationsecondary educationhigher educationEarly Childhood EducationKindergartenNursery schoolsDaycare center幼儿园托儿所托儿中心Elementary Education Secondary Educationtwo basic types of high school:1.one with more academic

3、curriculum, preparing students for admission to college2.the other offering primarily vocational education(training in a skill or trade)Elementary education & Secondary educationtwo ways of division for school systems:(1) elementary school (grade1-grade8) high school (grade9-grade12)(2) elementary s

4、chool （小学） junior high school （初中） senior high school（高中）Higher EducationThere are about 3,000 colleges and universities, both private and public in the U.S.They are alll independentoffering their own choice of studies, setting their own admission standardsdeciding which students meet those standard

5、s.Higher EducationWhat does college mean? How about university?CollegeCollege is used to refer to all undergraduate education. College of Arts and Sciences state college (州立学院）Independent CollegeUniversityundergraduate and postgraduate educational institutionColleges(学院）Graduate Schools （研究生院）Profes

6、sional Schools（专业学院）Higher EducationDo you know the Ivy league? 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 UniversityYale UniversityPennsylvania University Princeton

7、 University Columbia University Brown University Dartmouth College Cornell University Harvard University Harvard University in Cambridge,Massachusetts,established in 1636;Harvard University is the oldest and one of the most esteemed institutions of higher learning in the United StatesYale University

8、Yale University in New Haven,Connecticut, established in 1702;University of PennsylvaniaUniversity of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, establish in 1740宾夕法尼亚大学Princeton University Princeton University in Princeton,New Jersey, established in 1746;Columbia UniversityColumbia University in New York City,

9、established in 1754;Brown University Brown University in Providence,Rhode Island, established in 1764; Dartmouth College（达特矛斯学院）Dartmouth College in Hanover,New Hampshire, established in 1769;Cornell University（康奈尔大学）Cornell University in Ithaca,New York, established in 1853.Ivy league is the leading main stream of the US Higher Education (founded in 1956).All the universities in Ivy League are in the northeast of the U.S. And all of them are private universitiesWhat are valued highly in American schools?critical thinking skillssocial and interpersonal skillsHow are