Ai don't get what they're saying. Anything you teach someone is just beyond what they know how to do now. Is it because one way show ases the incremental effort to learn and the other tries to present a 'whole to part ' lesson that they show off the end results and fill in the gaps? (or) Are they trying to say tht Japan raises the bar higher than we do?
sounds like another verse of nclb. i googled
Absolutely nothing. The teacher teaches at the middle level of the class in a mixed level class as Japan considers itself an egalitarian society and everyone is kept in the same class regardless of ability (in public schools) and treated equally. Slower kids might go to juku to keep up with classes and gifted kids might find their classes too boring or slow, and take extra classes or attend juku to keep stimulated. If classes are too easy for them its possible they will drop out or stop attending classes.
Paul will know more about this than I due to the amount of time spent in Japan, but kids will go to a certain high school based on their academic ability (or lack thereof). That seems to be about as far as it goes.
and their system is not flexible enough to acomidate kids who could do something better with their time
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google + What does Japan do with their gifted students?
http://forum.gaijinpot.com/archive/index.php/t-16778.html
