Thursday, June 10, 2010

Jackie's topic

I am going to talk about a young teacher whose name is Zheng and who has been teaching Chinese in high school in Oklahoma.
Zheng is learning a few things herself about America culture. I think she has been experiencing a lot of culture shock. One thing that took her aback is that in China if you teach the students and they don't get it, you teach it again. She can see that the culture of America school is different. For instance, here students lead more interesting lives, partly because they are more involved in athletic, choir and other activities. In China, they study and study and study. She sees too that in America the teachers get little respect,becouse the students disrupted classes by speaking then the whole class laughs.Another difference from china is that this country doesn't value teachers. Teachers don't earn much in china either, but there it's very honorable career.
In conclude Zheng think this country is so different from her own.She can teach a lot and really get to know this country and culture well.

1 Comments:

Blogger the blog said...

Your impression of Ms. Zheng is itself impressive. Your yourself have seen and experienced the difficulties of adjusting to a different culture. That change is hard but it benefits both the individual and the community.

Tue Jun 15, 02:14:00 PM  

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