Today we had a guest speaker!
It was my professor Maria's aunt. She's an english teacher in Greek schools!
She explained a lot about the unique forms of Greek education! I was really interested to learn that it is required for Greek students to take English and one other foreign language! In the states we only have to take 1 and in some schools that is not even required for all years!
It was also interesting to learn that the majority of schools in Crete are public. There are very few private schools!
She also told us that most people do not use outside resources such as tutoring for difficult subjects. teh schools provide this extra help free of charge. Only very wealthy families will use outside tutoring, however, even then its not common.
In Greece the English class levels are A B and C. C class denotes a high level of proficiency in the language... C is the highest level.
She handed out example papers of what the students will need to complete as an exercise. It was your everyday vocabulary, reading, and reading comprehension exercise; but it was very cool to see an exercise that is actually used in the classroom!
Overall her presentation was very educational and very interesting! I find educational systems and differences in classrooms around the world very cool!
Today was one of my favorite classes!
~ αγαπώ ~
It was my professor Maria's aunt. She's an english teacher in Greek schools!
She explained a lot about the unique forms of Greek education! I was really interested to learn that it is required for Greek students to take English and one other foreign language! In the states we only have to take 1 and in some schools that is not even required for all years!
It was also interesting to learn that the majority of schools in Crete are public. There are very few private schools!
She also told us that most people do not use outside resources such as tutoring for difficult subjects. teh schools provide this extra help free of charge. Only very wealthy families will use outside tutoring, however, even then its not common.
In Greece the English class levels are A B and C. C class denotes a high level of proficiency in the language... C is the highest level.
She handed out example papers of what the students will need to complete as an exercise. It was your everyday vocabulary, reading, and reading comprehension exercise; but it was very cool to see an exercise that is actually used in the classroom!
Overall her presentation was very educational and very interesting! I find educational systems and differences in classrooms around the world very cool!
Today was one of my favorite classes!
~ αγαπώ ~
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