One of my first days here at college, one of my teachers said that college learning is completely different than high school learning. She said that high school is backwards in the way that they teach, and when students come to college they have to learn how to make the transition between learning styles.
She said that in high school you were given the answers, and that students found the way to get to that answer. Now in college its the other way around. Which means in a similar matter, if we learned everything in the way we learned math, then students would be more prepared for college.
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Not really. If you want to be happy with your grades, then you have to know what kind of answers your professors are looking for. That means we're still not learning for ourselves but to satisfy the professors.
It doesn't have anything to do with grades, it has to deal with the learning styles. What I mean, and I have noticed this too, is in high school they give you the answers and then you find the way to get to the answer. In college on the other hand, they teach you how to get to the answers and then you have to get the answers on your own.
I am currently in high school ( my junior year) and taking courses at our local college and i agree that they are two different types of learning. in high school your given the notes, sometimes the answers and tachers still treat you like a child asking you to make up work and retake tests. In college everything is pretty much "backwards" as you say. So all in all i agree.
Another difference between High School and College is that in High School, you're instructed to call your teacher by their last name followed by Mr., Mrs., or Ms; for example, Mr. Doe. But in college, you can call your teacher by their first name and they won't get offended by it.
It all depends on your manners. I was raised to call people older than me by their last name because it showed respect.
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high schools already do a good job in preparing students for college with AP classes and extra curricular activites, but i think it's true that what lacks from high schools is that students aren't given the chance to come up witht the answers. Critical thinking should be developed as early as possible if a student really wants to be prepared for college and high schools are lagging it.
Teachers might get annoyed waiting maybe half an hour to get answers from their students, but that's what their there for. To help them learn something new even if it takes time because it's reallly important.
I took an AP class, then immediately that summer took a community college class. Two totally different things -- especially with less emphasis placed on tests, more emphasis based on learning and less on taking notes and homework every single week.
It's like the teachers in college actually wanted you to learn... my gosh, lol.
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the purpose of learning math is definitely to get you thinking in a different way. a lot of people argue that anything above algebra is pointless, but taking all the math that i have has expanded the way i perceive things.
Yeah..that's true. In high school, the teachers wasted so much time disciplining people that it distracted from the actual learning process lol. High school was more of a time of "discovery" and social time for me..whereas in college, you are on your own and have to make the wisest of wise choices to succeed..at least, that's what I've gathered from it.
I agree.
College is more about individual thinking and finding the reasoning behind the answer and why the question was proposed in the first place.
High school is just simply memorization, not understanding concepts.
Yea I heard that the transition from high school to college is a difficult one because the learning style is different. Hopefully I'm ready for the transition since I was warned about a year in advance, it won't scare me too much. I can atleast be prepared for the transition that lies ahead.
College and high schools are different in their teaching approach. The article provided here is very good and informative.