Culture through English B: Foreign educational systems・国際教育制度

Hello!

How are you? We'll keep going with our theme of education. 

I have three (3) short videos for you about educational systems in three different countries - Finland, India, and South Korea. 

Let's watch one of the videos in class - as a class, you choose which one. Let's answer these questions after you watch:

1. Do you see anything like your own educational experiences in the country's system you watched?
2. Is it anything like your experience? If so - how is it the same? If not - how is it different? 

Here are the videos. The first one is about education in Finland: 

This next one below is about India.

This last one is about South Korea.

Homework
Watch the other two videos we did not see in class and make some notes about your impressions. Now answer these two questions:

3. Which educational system is the most different from your experience?
4. If you could bring some things together from all three (3) of these countries into a single educational system, which parts would you take from each country? Which do you think are the best parts? 

Post your impressions as comments to this blogpost if you can. I'll be interested to read what you have to say and will value it greatly.

Now here are the board notes for our class on 11/6:

See you next week!

Image: By Laboratorio de Escritura - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18242352

All videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to these videos. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom purposes only.

Culture through English B: Foreign educational systems・国際教育制度

Hello!

How are you? We'll keep going with our theme of education. 

I have three (3) short videos for you about educational systems in three different countries - Finland, India, and South Korea. 

Let's watch one of the videos in class - as a class, you choose which one. Let's answer these questions after you watch:

1. Do you see anything like your own educational experiences in the country's system you watched?
2. Is it anything like your experience? If so - how is it the same? If not - how is it different? 

Here are the videos. The first one is about education in Finland: 

This next one below is about India.

This last one is about South Korea.

Homework
Watch the other two videos we did not see in class and make some notes about your impressions. Now answer these two questions:

3. Which educational system is the most different from your experience?
4. If you could bring some things together from all three (3) of these countries into a single educational system, which parts would you take from each country? Which do you think are the best parts? 

Post your impressions as comments to this blogpost if you can. I'll be interested to read what you have to say and will value it greatly.

Now here are the board notes for our class on 11/6:

See you next week!

Image: By Laboratorio de Escritura - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18242352

All videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to these videos. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom purposes only.

Culture through English 2B: Foreign educational systems・国際教育制度

Hello!

How are you? We'll keep going with our theme of education. 

I have three short videos for you about educational systems in three different countries - Finland, India, and South Korea. 

Let's watch one of the videos in class - as a class, you choose which one. Let's answer these questions after you watch:

1. Do you see anything like your own educational experiences in the country's system you watched?
2. Is it anything like your experience? If so - how is it the same? If not - how is it different? 

Here are the videos. The first one is about education in Finland: 

This next one below is about India.

This last one is about South Korea.

Homework
Watch the other two videos we did not see in class and make some notes about your impressions. Now answer these two questions:

3. Which educational system is the most different from your experience?
4. If you could bring some things together from all three (3) of these countries into a single educational system, which parts would you take from each country? Which do you think are the best parts? 

Post your impressions as comments to this blogpost. I'll be interested to read what you have to say and will value it greatly.

See you next week!

Image: By Laboratorio de Escritura - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=18242352

All videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to these videos. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom purposes only.

Writing English 1B: Foreign education systems・外国教育のシステム

Hello!

How are you? The picture above is of a classroom in Russia. I decided to show this as an example of what is on this blogpost, because I have three short videos for you about educational systems in three different countries - Finland, India, and South Korea. 

This will go with the 4th writing assignment (作文4) I will give you on comparing and contrasting educational systems between Japan and other countries. 

Special note: I'm very sorry that I have the problems I have with the display of the videos on this post. It will be better for you to watch these videos on a computer, and then go directly to YouTube to watch them - if you need Japanese subtitles (字幕), you can get them there.   

Pre-task preparation (for 作文4) 
Watch these videos outside of class. Answer these questions after you watch:

1. Do you recognize anything of your educational experiences in any of these?
2. Which one of these is most like your experience?
3. Which one is the least like your experience?
4. How would you compare and contrast any one of these systems to Japanese education? 

Here are the videos. The first one is about education in Finland, and the video is called Inside Finland's education system: 

This next one below is about India. It's called Education in India: Profile of a Poor Public School: 

This last one is about South Korea. The video is titled The South Korean Education System:

Watch these videos as many times as you want or need. I'll be interested to read what you have to say and will value it greatly.

See you next week!

Image: Top – by eropdfklcvnm - My own foto, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4871126

All videos uploaded from YouTube. I do not own the rights to these videos. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). Uploaded for classroom purposes only.