Japanese Education Vs American Education

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There are some similarities and differences between Japanese and United State culture. The points that I will address today are education structure, expectation of teachers, and exam entrance from both countries.
Educations in Japan are so much different from United State. Although after World War II, the Japanese leader tried to reshape the education system based on the U.S system model, but Japanese has its own guideline. According to (“NCEE”, 2015), Japan’s education system is 6-3-3 grade structure.
Table. 1. Illustrate the school system in Japan Source: http://www.ncee.org/programs-affiliates/center-on-international-education-benchmarking/top-performing-countries/japan-overview/

In Japan, children who are born on the 6th birthday on …show more content…

However, they have the opportunities to take part of the leadership role in volunteering. Student’s responsibilities are to come to school and learned then go home. They do not have to monitor or rotate the responsibility such as taking roll call, organizing the classes, or making announcements over the course of the year. These jobs are the teacher responsibilities. Moreover, students can wear anything they want as long as it’s appropriate.
In the U.S, there are buses available for students and responsible for taking them to go school and return home. Most students are able to take the buses in whatever site they lived in. However, for private school is not available. Most parents drive them to school, and pick them up when class is done. Some students walk to school if they live close enough in the …show more content…

The advisors will sit down and talk to them about their classes to make sure is correct or change needed to make on the first week of school. As for the homeroom teachers, they go over the syllabus on the first day of school. After that, teachers begin teaching according to the syllabus. In the U.S school system begins in August and ending in June. Students do not have to go to school in the summer or holiday. However, if students want to go to summer school they are free to sign up for classes. Last but not least, on holiday most students get to stay home. If the students performed over the academic requirements, they are not able to skip a grade, but can take advance classes for the next