TOPIC: ISSUE5 - "A nation should require all its students to study the same national curriculum until they enter college rather than allow schools in different parts of the nation to determine which academic courses to offer." WORDS: 457
TIME: 0:45:00
DATE: 2009-8-23
Curriculum in the high school plays an extraordinarily important role in helping students establish their own value and learn knowledge and skills. Whether all students in nation should study the same national curriculum is always discussed both on and off campus. Although to take the same courses could facilitate to some extent the college and the high school, I am not fully convinced that the curriculum should be served as a same mode. In my observation, some of curriculum decided by local educational systems would benefits students and nation as a whole.
It is true that by regulating the same curriculum all over the nation the colleges could design their courses more easily according to the similar demands of the high schools. If every high school had its own teaching contents, in order to further study relative lessons when students go into their own colleges, they would have to respectively choose some extra lessons, which have not be related in their high schools. Moreover, the same curriculum designed by authority would save the time and energy of each local education system, which would not have to collect related resource, check materials, and publish their own textbooks. Thus, they can concentrate more attentions on other important agendas, such as teaching students, enhancing the managements of campus, improving the quality of students' living and eating, and the like.
However, choosing their own curriculum can provides local high education opportunity of showing some technology at which they are good. It is undeniable that not all the students would continue to study in university. Those who would find job after their high school expect to learn some useful skills which is helpful for them to obtain some related experiences. Some local educations can have taught those skills according to the conditions of their local market. Usually they can find some information about some career more easily than other states when this career is more popular in their own area since they are more resources.
In addition, local curriculums are necessary for students to recognize some information about their own regions. It is indispensable to exhibit some history and natural science about the areas of the students for identity and loyalty, which are favorable for them to establish their own characters and moral values. So difficult for nation is to regulate all the historic courses about every state that nation has to allocate this power to the local educational systems if they hope more accurate and detailed historic and natural local information learned by students. In fact, to their own history and other related environments the local organizations have more experiences and information. With this impulse local educations can revise their own textbooks better and better.
Through what has been discussed above, we may make the conclusion that local educational systems should be encouraged to regulate some their own curriculum so that students can learn some useful skills and realize more easily knowledge about their hometown. Meanwhile, some common curriculum regulated by nation can benefit local educational systems. Perhaps a combining curriculum from both national and local education systems is more effective and beneficial.