Saturday, March 5, 2011

United States of America Educational System

Capitol University
Cagayan de Oro City
Comparative Studies
Educational System U.S.
( by Linda  D. Saab )
Date assigned: Feb.26,2011

Dear Dr. Olga,

               I would like to express my gratitude for the many things I learned from you and in our class which I am hopeful to translate my knowledge and skills to others. At first I am really hesitant to enroll this course for many reasonable reasons but along the way I am inspired and felt the need to learn more not only for my personal goal but to be of help  in  educational system in the Philippines.
 It cannot be denied that once we were under the United States Educational System during the American Regime. Some of our  forefathers were fluent in speaking English because their teachers were the Thomasites. I felt proud being a Filipino. I can understand what American people say but only few Americans can understand our dialect, the Tagalog and Bisaya.
I learned that U.S. Educational System is successful because it is their mother tongue and the implementers have been  striving for excellence and greatness. The government of United States cater from “womb to tomb”.  The educational system has three types; pre-school, junior High School, secondary High School and University  . The pre-school are aged 3-5.  The school day begins at 9:00 and finishes at 3:00 pm that includes morning break, lunch break and afternoon break. The elementary years lasts for 6 years. The junior High school is two years. These years guarantees the student basic learning in Mathematics, history, music, and geography. Even the language is their mother tongue they are still into developing basic writing skill  and reading. In secondary school, it is expanded and deepened into science, civic education, foreign language and values. Students have four years in senior high school and must pass the public Scholastic Assessment Test to qualify for college and one has to study four years in college to get a degree in the universities. They have many prestigious universities which produced great men such as University in Belkely in Los Angeles, Harvard University in Cambridge , Massachusettes of which President Barack Obama graduated, Yale University, Princeton University in New jersey and many others. The U.S. government  has accreditation bodies to look into sustained excellence to all the universities.
As school administrator and doctoral student in the Philippines ,I realized I still have a long way to go to level up the standard in United States.  I need to continue to learn, to embrace the lifelong learning; the learning how to learn that is  developing my intelligences , and  to have positive personal attributes so that I may become an instrument to inspire and influence others to make a difference… a better Filipinos.

Very truly yours,
Linda