Comparing the Taiwan and Canada High School Systems

The Taiwan high school system is completely different from Canada high school system. In Taiwan high school system, it has entrance examination before students choose school. In the other word, go to good school or bad school depend on entrance examination . If you get nice score, it means you choose schools. However, if you get bad score, it means schools choose you. Under the Taiwan high school system, all of the subjects arrangement decided by school. Since 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. every day except for weekends, each student follows the school timetable to attend classes. Especially we do not have to change classroom. Just only teachers change their classroom, and we sit one classroom. whole day. Wearing the uniform, most Taiwanese high school order students must to wear uniform. It is one of the school rules. Each school has different uniform, so people always could know which schools are you study from your uniform. The teaching style is more different in Taiwan. We do not have a lot of interaction between teacher and student. For example, teacher always teaches a lot of point to students, so student need to take a lot of notes and read it at home. It is not common to discuss the topic during the class.


However, in Canadian high school system, before students go to the high school, they do not have entrance examination. Unlike Taiwanese students, Canadian students depend on where students live. Then they according to their address to decide which high school are they go. The subject arrangement in Canada is different from Taiwan subject arrangement. The students arrange their school timetable by themselves. Also, they have counsellor to plan their schedule which is totally different from Taiwan. For this reason, Canadian students need to exchange classroom on each course. In Canadian high school, students do not have to wear uniform. Canadian students can dress what they want to wear, for some view is great because students can choose what they want to wear. However, in my personal opinion, it was less some memories for school life. Under the Canadian high school system, teaching style prefer interaction between student and teacher. Teacher always to give some topic to discuss with students and mention some key word let students to find information by themselves for homework. It just not learn from teacher, it learn how to figure out problem by themselves. Although these two high school systems are completely different, they are both have advantage and disadvantage.