High school classes and college classes

The function of high school classes is to provide the students with the essential knowledge and perceptions towards our surrounding material world while the function of college classes is to help the students build professional skills and the ability of creation. So, they are quite different in many aspects.

First of all, it’s the content of classes. In high school, what students have is just a textbook and some exercise materials. Teachers explain the concepts and solutions to some problems, students passively receive them. That’s all. While in high school classes, the teachers provide the students with a wild range of learning sources. That includes basic textbooks, some extra reading materials as long as some video pieces for the students to think and discuss.

What’s more, they differ in the way teachers construct their classes. In high school classes, the teacher’s role is always a lecturer who dispenses the facts and theories to the peers and the receivers take notes quickly and try to absorb them at the same time. However, in college classes, the teacher’s role changes in to an instructor. Mostly, teachers poses a question for students to think and discuss and after analysis, argument, insight in their group, the students reach a conclusion or a solution all on their own. They also do presentations to speak out their own opinions.

Lastly, the requirements between high school and college classes are also different. In high school, a good student is always the one who has better ability to absorb and memorize. Because of this, students in high school usually need to spend lots of time to remember what they have learned, trying to be as proficient as possible in the limited knowledge. In the meanwhile, college seems to focus more on the students’ ability to think and create. So besides learning lots of basic rules, they are also demanded to write endless thesis and dong lots of presentations to show

their thoughts and strengthen their talking ability. That kind of work asks for long-time collection, analyze and synthesize.

Although the high school classes and college classes are quite different, but ultimately, the meaning of their existence is to help the young be well prepared for their work and their whole life.