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Chinese students try to have more say in course planning
ZHENGZHOU, October1(Xinhua)-- Once addicted in playing Internet martial games, Wang Xiao, had been a longtime underachiever in school until he entered a special supermarket for curriculum and got his favorite-the course on weapon history. After two years of study, Wang Xiao, a second-year high school boy from the No.6 Railway High School in central China's Zhengzhou city,acquired not only a lot of military knowledge but also the growing interest in study. As scores rise, the longtime underachiever becomes history. In fact,Wang Xiao is just one of the Chinese secondary school students who are seeing a reform of selective system and getting more say in study The curriculum supermarket was first introduced in the school two years ago as a new teaching attempt to reform the traditional state-planned curriculum system and inspire the students' potential by offering them knowledge they really need,according to Su Fang,the headmaster of the No6 Railway Secondary School of Zhengzhou,capital of Henan Province China has carried out a state-planned school teaching system in secondary education.Courses like Chinese,mathematics,and English have been made compulsory nationwide. The Ministry of Education advocated a reform on curriculum-planning in 2001.According to the curriculum reform,the old state-planned curriculum system is to be replaced by the three-layer management which grants the local government and school the power to make curriculum plans In the No6 Railway Secondary School,the curriculum supermarket runs in this
way.First,teachers makes investigations on the study interests of the
students.Then,the reference courses are decided.Finally,teachers will compete
for opening the new courses.The list of courses and candidate teachers will be
put on the campus network to let the students select their favorite.A course can
be opened as long as there are 20 sign-ups.
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