1. US university classrooms are diverse due to varying teaching methods, curriculums, and differences between undergraduate, graduate, private, and state-funded schools.
2. Active participation is encouraged through classroom discussions guided by teachers, student questioning, and student-led seminar presentations and discussions.
3. The teacher-student relationship is multifaceted, with teachers taking on roles as counselors, friends, and authority figures who expect deadlines to be met, while students must adapt their behavior appropriately.
3. Diversity in Education
there is considerable variety in university classrooms in US.
These caused by the diverse teaching methods and non-
standardized curricula, and also no two courses are identical.
Undergraduate courses ≠ graduate courses.
Private universities ≠ state-funded universities.
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4. Active Participation
Classroom
discussion
• Teachers control and guide the class
without dominating it.
Student
question
• Teachers encourage students to question
and challenge their ideas.
Seminar
(graduate)
•Students make presentations and lead
discussions.
•The students do the actual teaching in these
seminars.
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6. The Teacher-Student Relationship
Teachers have several roles in relation to
students; they may be counselors and
friends as well as teachers.
Students must realize that when a
teacher’s role changes, they must
appropriately adapt their behavior and
attitude.
A professor or a teacher may have coffe
one day with students but the next day
expect them to meet a deadline for
submission of a paper.
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7. Independent Learning
In US, the professors have other duties
besides teaching. Often they are
responsible for administrative work within
their departments.
If a grade is not given, the student is
responsible for learning the material
assigned. The professors expects the
students to take initiative and to complete
the assignment with minimal guidance,
and they hope that students, partidulary
graduate students to be able to exhaust
the reference sources in the library.
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8. The Honor System
The “honor system “imposed by the
teacher and the university, demands
that the student be honest in all areas
of school work.
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10. Competition
There are many reasons for the presence of competition
between students in US :
A high grade point average is needed for entrance to
superior graduate schools.
Their grade point average and faculty
recommendations is needed for facing a competitive
job market or any other jobs.
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