Unit III: Schools :different & alike (Algeria)

3. Welcome …….
 The following presentation Education
in Japan will give you a general idea
about the education development in
Japan and its current situation.

4. Education in Japan is well-known:
well-maintained educational system
and excellent achievement.
 Japanese children consistently rank at
or near the top in successive
international tests of most
mathematics.

5. Who is in charge of education?
 Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,
Science and Technology (MEXT) is
responsible for comprehensive
educational administration of Japan.
MEXT is led by a minister, who is a
member of the Cabinet and is chosen
by the Prime Minister.
 Take a look at MEXT!

6. Diagram of Education Phases
 Kindergarten and Nursery school
 Elementary school
 Junior high school
 High school
 Universities and colleges

7. Education involves in family,
society and the world!
 Early childhood education begins at
home
 Numerous books and TV shows help
mothers to preschool children to
educate their children, and to
"parenting" more effectively.

8. Who are children’s first and forever
teachers?
 Much of the home training is devoted
to teaching manners, proper social
behavior, and structured game, verbal
and number skills are also popular
themes.
 Parents are strongly committed to
early education and frequently enroll
their children in preschools.

9. Who teaches and runs preschools?
 Preschools (yochien 幼稚園),
predominantly staffed by young
female junior college graduates,
 are supervised by the Ministry of
Education, but are not part of the
official education system.
 The majority of preschools are private.

10. Elementary school
 More than 99% of children are
enrolled in elementary school.
 All children enter first grade at age
six, and starting school is considered
a very important event in a child's
life.
 6-year education for elementary
school.

11. Where to go for elementary?
 Virtually all elementary education
takes place in public schools;
 About 1% of the schools are private,
which are costly.

12. Do they just think about
elementary in the period?
 Some private elementary schools are
prestigious,
 they serve as a first step to higher-
level private schools with which they
are affiliated, and thence to a
university.

13. Junior high school
 A typical classroom
in Japanese junior
high school

14. General information
 Three-year education from grade
seven, eight, to ninth grede.
 ages of roughly 12 and 15
 focus on academic studies
 it would not be easy to find jobs, so
most of the students will continue
after this phase even though the
compulsory education is ended.

15. Go to public or private?
 Majority of Junior High School are
public school,
 but there are still very few
private schools, which can be
very expensive, maybe 4 or 5
times more than public.

16. Exam for High School entrance
for 2008-09 in a city, Japan.
 Planned to Recruit: 280(Boy: 180;
Girl: 100)
 Actual Examinee: 3509(Boy: 2341;
Girl: 1168)
 Qualified People: 1345(Boy: 951;
Girl: 394)

17. Teachers and students:
 Junior High School teachers
usually teach the subjects based
on their major;
 Most of them are four-year
college graduates;
 35 students per class on average;
 A homeroom teacher is assigned
to each class, and he will serve as
a counselor as well.

18. Do you like to move or stay?
 The teacher, rather than the
students, moves to a new room
for each fifty-minute period.
 Different teachers for different
subjects, which means students
would have a different teacher
each class by staying in the same
classroom.

19. About classes:
 Computers become common
teaching facilities;
 Classroom organization is usually
based on small work groups.
 Some new courses, like foreign
languages, will start officially at
7th grade.

20. What to learn:
 The curriculum covers Japanese
language, social studies, mathematics,
science, music, fine arts, health, and
physical education.
 Moral education and special activities
continue to receive attention.
 After-school sport clubs or classes are
popular among many of students.

21. High school:
 It is not compulsory in Japan;
 Most of students will go to high school
anyway;
 High schools are not free, family may spend
3000 USD for a child each year;
 The number of private high schools is much
bigger than private Junior High Schools, it
usually costs twice as high as a public high
school.

22. High School classroom:

23. Courses Offered:
 academic courses for students preparing for
higher education
 technical and vocational courses for
students expecting to find employment
after graduation.
 Vocational-technical programs includes
several hundred specialized courses,
 information processing, navigation, fish
farming, business English, and ceramics.

24. What would you do in Japan?
 Business and industrial courses are
very popular, and accounting is one of
top courses as well.
 Some basic academic courses are
strictly required:
 Japanese language, English,
mathematics, and science.

25. What is the way you like best to
learn?
 Teachers are university graduates;
 Teach in major fields they specialized;
 Teaching depends largely on the
lecture system, with the main goal of
covering the very demanding
curriculum in the time allotted.
 Approach and subject coverage tends
to be uniform, especially in the public
schools.

26. Special education is always an
important part:
 Training of handicapped students,
 Emphasizing vocational education
to enable students to be as
independent as possible in the
society.

27. Universities and colleges:
 There are about 600 popular
universities and colleges;
 Four-year learning to earn bachelor’s
degree;
 Pubilc universities are comprised of
national universities and local
universities;
 Half of the universities are private.

28. What would you do for your
university life?
 business, law, accounting, engineering,
humanities, and education are popular fields
in universities;
 The average costs (tuition, fees, and living
expenses) for a year of higher education in
Japan is very high.
 Part-time jobs, loans, schalorship, nonprofit
corporation and other institutions could be
some choices for students.
 University of Tokyo, Kyoto University, Waseda
University are among the very popular ones.

29. English Education in Japan:
 It reflects the development of Japan
just like a mirror.
 A Strategic Consideration on English
Education in Japan in the 21st
Century expects to boost its
development furthermore.

30. An English Classroom in Japan

31. Situation of English Education:
 English is very popular among the
people;
 Both school and society take it
seriously;
 Ability of communication is still not
ideal;
 Reading and writing are much better
than spoken English.

32. How would you like to learn a
foreign language?
 Individual tutoring, school study and
training class after school are popular ways
of learning English since preschool.
 English as one of the major courses starts
since Junior High School, up to High school,
6 years in total as a required core course.
 English is still a popular and important
course in universities, some of the
universities require 3 more years to
continue studying English.

33. Thanks!