Secondary Education in America

Secondary Education in America

Over the education of four distinct phases as follows:

1. School as Latin: and it was Designed to prepare students to serve in the service of the country and the Church, and was limited in teaching the children of the aristocracy. And the curriculum is a Latin language and religion

2. high school academic: focused on teaching science, mathematics and allowed the girls to accept to work in.

3. free public high school: contributed to the free education support

4. high school extended vertically: and include two types of lower secondary and upper secondary Madars-

5. Comprehensive Secondary: and it is a modern image for high school and follow her most high school students in America and there are other types of schools, such as vocational schools and sectarian schools

Curriculum in high school ...

• sophisticated American curriculum and many changes, and this is a sign of strength.

• Students learn a variety of materials compulsory and optional

• the teacher the freedom to determine how to teach the curriculum, and in cooperation with parents and in line with the characteristics of students

Teacher preparation in America ..

Teacher preparation is considered one of the most educational problems separately, States have their own system and different from the other in terms of acceptance and train teachers and scientific qualifications and methods of appointment, levels and salaries. There are several types of colleges to prepare teachers in America including:

1. Alnormal schools: It is the oldest teacher training institutes, and it has historical significance in the development of teacher education in America. The first school of this kind has been established in Vermont in 1823, the first General Normal School was established after the year 1839. The schools accept Alnormal pupils from primary schools and prepare them to teach a period ranging from a few weeks to two years.

2. Teachers Colleges: It prepares teachers of primary and secondary education, some teachers prepare for colleges and universities. And grant master's and doctoral degrees. It was the first college established by this name is the Teachers College, Michigan in 1903 and a period of study at a four-year post-secondary education.

3. Education departments university colleges: There are colleges of Arts in some universities or departments of education in the colleges of Social Sciences. The University of Iowa's first university established a chair of education by the year 1873, followed by the University of Michigan in 1879 and then Harvard.

4. education colleges: These colleges and be a public or private universities, and different from the teachers' colleges and departments of education in private colleges they usually accept students after their first university degree in one of the disciplines to study educational materials alone for a year.